Gloom, despair and agony on thee….
Scott Johnson, at the conservative blog Powerline, confesses to depression:
“I feel utterly powerless to do anything about the fellow in the Oval Office who combines infantile leftism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures. It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people. I can’t keep up and I can’t stand to pay attention.
His aim seems to be to reduce us to government dependents. His inattention to rehabilitation of the financial system in lieu of vastly expanding the size and scope of the government is a dead giveaway, as is his lack of concern over the vast destruction of wealth his policies are working (and will continue to work).
Perhaps most depressing to me is the manifestation of his adolescent grandiosity in his stewardship of foreign policy and national security. He doesn’t understand that the government of Iran is intent on acquiring nuclear weapons it can put to evil purposes. He thinks he can sweet-talk them out of achieving this objective….
I am depressed because the president of the United States is a fool who will immiserate us, render us wards of the state and lose us our life and liberty to those who understand what they are about.”
Many on the left certainly got to such a point of despair about President Bush. But for most it didn’t reach a crescendo until after the unnecessary invasion and hapless occupation of Iraq, after the callous incompetence of Katrina, after the use of torture became publicly known, after a whole string of problems. As a result, by late 2005 or 2006, you could find many examples of left-wing frustration of a depth similar to that expressed today by Johnson and other conservatives.
But that was several years into the Bush presidency, after a significant track record had been compiled. The right has attained abject despair less than 60 days into Obama’s 1,460-day first term. In fact, a video leaked from a backroom conservative strategy session documents just how bad things have gotten for our friends and fellow Americans:
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Cherokee
March 23rd, 2009
7:58 am
Love it!
kitty
March 23rd, 2009
7:59 am
What a bunch of chicken little whiners the conservatives are. Their biggest reason for whining is they are not in power and able to ruin the country some more. Thank goodness.
TW
March 23rd, 2009
8:06 am
Wow. I believe Rush calls this a ’sickness.’
Bwa.
Ken
March 23rd, 2009
8:08 am
The middle class will be gone in the next 3 yrs and 9 months. We will be another third world country ; rich and poor. ( maybe that 13 dollars a week will make me rich, LOL )
G
March 23rd, 2009
8:12 am
Good one, Jay, but Taxpayer beat you to it over the weekend.
Brad Steel
March 23rd, 2009
8:12 am
The masses are wising up to inane pundit-babble like: “… infantile leftism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures. It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people.”
Other than the tired demand of tax cuts, the right is offering no solutions and manufacturing phony attacks. It’s not working and it is not helping. The right needs some new dogma…. something… anything. The boat is leaking.
How about doing something other than complaining and hoping for failure?
Mrs. Godzilla
March 23rd, 2009
8:14 am
How sad to have no hope!
Taxpayer
March 23rd, 2009
8:16 am
I love your choice of theme song. Hee! Hee Hee. Haw! Haw Hawwww. I used it to describe Sarah and her followers. The words just seemed to fit so well.
It is as though these conservatives (Republicans, et al) believe that we were on the right path all the way up to til inauguration and that everything was going along just fine and there was not a problem in sight. WOW! Did they all pull their collective heads out of that dark, dank place at the same time — all 25% of them.
Mike
March 23rd, 2009
8:16 am
I think one difference is that Bush’s plans at 60 days did not result in the CBO projecting budget deficits of $9.3 trillion over ten years. The truth is that at 60 days, there was nothing really controversial about Bush. Perhaps if he had announced his plans for the next eight years, liberals would have been concerned sooner. Of course, Jay would not have been calling liberals whiners, because only people who don’t share his narrow views are whiners. Liberals who gripe about conservatives are “speaking truth to power” because “dissent is patriotic”.
BTW: what exactly are Obama’s plans for New Orleans? Does his utter lack of attention to NO point to “callous” indifference or is this just that latest in Jay’s endless string of double standards.
Mike
March 23rd, 2009
8:21 am
Taxpayer -
Actually your 25% conservative # is as wrong as most of your assertions. The number is more like 34% conservative and 22% liberals:
“This year, 22 percent of voters said they are liberal on most political matters, 44 percent called themselves moderates, 34 percent conservatives”
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2008/11/ideological_shift_or_just_comp.html
But hey, when do facts ever figure into your commentary?
G
March 23rd, 2009
8:28 am
The right continues to complain that President Obama is going too far left, while the left continues to complain that he is going too far right and isn’t far left enough.
As the saying goes, “All good things come in moderation.” President Obama never ran as a far left candidate, although that was a baseless accusation of the right, claiming he was the most liberal senator.
President Obama never promised to get the 8 year crisis solved in 60 days, yet the MSM is more or less expecting and demanding he do so, which explains the NYT hammering him, yet they gave Bush a pass and helped him spread his Iraq WMD lie. These pundits care about nothing more than ratings, and more importantly, their paychecks. Most of them do not speak for the average American citizen, yet people continue to fall for their BS time and time again.
Geithner’s plan may not be perfect, but who else out there has a better plan? I’ve not seen one plan from these Geithner critics that is better than his. All I’ve seen is the same finger pointing and baseless accusations that he’s a crook and needs to resign.
AmVet
March 23rd, 2009
8:29 am
Perhaps Obama will be the worst US President since…………..well…………….let’s see………………how about……………….oh yeah…….The Hero of the Texas ANG!
It seems exceptionally unlikely, but time will tell.
It is undeniable that the vast majority of the voters in this nation now have little, if any trust whatsoever that the duped Republiconneds are able to correctly evaluate ANYbody, ANY event or ANY policy, anywhere, anytime.
That they think this HeadRush-led primrose path — attacking all things non neo-con and offering no viable, even reasonable alternatives — is their road to salvation and the way to get them out of the hellacious mess they and they alone have gotten themselves in, is only great spectacle and comedy for the rest of us.
It is also irrefutable that they are roundly derided from coast to coast, which is a result of not just a dearth of basic competence (after the past eight years can anyone even argue this?) or an ability to grasp that new solutions are required for new problems or an amazing penchant to become ostriches in denial when things go bad, as they so often have for them, but of being ill-educated and ill-tempered fear mongers and chickenhawks.
Other than that, I like their chances in the upcoming years…
Sam
March 23rd, 2009
8:34 am
Open letter to Mr. Scott Johnson:
Do not despair Mr. Johnson. Hope springs eternal. America is at a precipice. No greater contrast to Obama’s collectivism than American individualism. It is actually a good thing that in America’s grand leftist experiment, the country elected the MOST liberal senator. As he promulgates his ambitious and nefarious agenda, the disastrous results will shake us back to our self-reliant core. It would have been alot tougher had the country elected a moderate Democrat ala Baucus, Bayh.
Everything is cyclical, let them enjoy the day, and as the economy sinks deeper into the abyss and this becomes Obama’s recession/depression, a new conservative (hopefully Independant/Libertarian) voice will emerge to lead us out of this morass.
BTW: all who are interested…”Brothers at War” and incredible film about the Iraq War involving 2 brothers in Iraq and a third brother who decides to film their experiences b/c none of the good news was being reported by the media—an incredible experience.
Mike
March 23rd, 2009
8:35 am
AmVet said:
“That they think this HeadRush-led primrose path — attacking all things non neo-con and offering no viable, even reasonable alternatives”
And this is different from the partisan mindset of liberals on this blog? Please spare us the hypocrisy.
Shawny
March 23rd, 2009
8:40 am
I would have to agree with this Scott Johnson. Lefties say they lost rights with Bush, righties are saying that they are loosing rights with Obama. I think both are right. Seems to be ripe for a Libertarian tea party.
Ray
March 23rd, 2009
8:43 am
This clown and his tax evading staff are in way over their heads. The campaign is over, Bozo. It’s time to govern.
williebkind
March 23rd, 2009
8:44 am
Obama lied! Obama lied! Obama lied!
LOLO
March 23rd, 2009
8:50 am
Bush’s first few months in office were not marred by staggering statist decisions of ballooning debt and economic micromanagement fueled by the hot winds of corporate-hating populism.
Instead, if you remember, Bush came into office bringing a great deal of bipartisianship by collaborating on his (terrible) education reform with Sen. Kennedy and company.
Based on Bush’s first few months in office, books were written describing him as one of the greatest bipartisian presidents ever. President Obama has further polarized the nation in his quest for creating government dependency by overriding the Consitution with the backing of Congress to extoll benefits ($13 and government-regulated & mandated stimulus funds) to the masses (mostly people who already don’t pay income tax).
To paraphrase a famous quote, “a government benefit once bestowed cannot eaily be removed.”
We’re going to have a hell of a time changing course should the current policies prove to fail us.
rightofcenter
March 23rd, 2009
8:50 am
Amvet, taking some wild drugs again this morning? Undeniable that a vast majority of the voters…..(uh, 52% constitutes vast majority? Nice math.) Attacking all things non neo-con….(please, do a little reading and learn the differences between neo-con and conservative). Irrefutable that they are roundly derided from coast to coast….(I guess since the late night talk shows originate on both coasts, that makes it irrefutable to you). Ill-educated and ill-tempered? Look in a mirror.
The Corporal
March 23rd, 2009
8:50 am
Jay: I know you love your country as I do. I respect your opinion but with your knowledge and intelligence I find it incredulous that you fail to see the forrest for the trees and that you almost never point out bad ideas, policies or actions in your own party/President.
I would vote for Bush again any day over Obama but I would still strongly voice my disagreement with him when I felt he was wrong.
In my opinion, that’s the main difference between just loving your country and loving it enough to save it.
I fear there will come a day when you will have to eat your words.
Eddy
March 23rd, 2009
8:53 am
What do the teleprompter say about all of this? Without a script, O just steps in it over and over again….hello….brain to mouth…is anyone there….did I hear an echo?
G
March 23rd, 2009
8:53 am
Could all this have been avoided if we’d given Raygun the Oscar for Kings Row?
I guess we’ll never know.
Your moment of Zen.
You’re welcome.
@@
March 23rd, 2009
8:56 am
Oh puhleeze, jay. My hope is in the American people and a handful of blue dog Democrats to hold back the incompetent Obama surge.
Yes we can and will!!!!!!!
Obama is in over his head. It’s becoming more obvious with each passing day.
Those words that he so valued, are gonna do him in.
G
March 23rd, 2009
8:59 am
To Whom It May Concern:
The previous “president” took more vacations than any other president in history. During a time of a war of choice, no less.
Unlike our previous “president”, our current President is one hell of a multi-tasker and burning the candle at both ends.
Get an inflatable teleprompter to keep you and your fantasies company.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 23rd, 2009
9:01 am
Here’s a piece from the website of the great orange satan….
“Geithner’s plans may be already working”
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/22/711527/-Geithners-plans-may-be-already-working
Highlights…..
…With that said, here is some recent good news on the economy that indicates the economy may be improving.
(1) A surprising 22% surge in February housing starts to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 583,000 units.
(2) A back-to-back jump in retail sales ex autos, in both January and February.
(3) A return to profitability at several major banks, including Citigroup, Bank of America and JPMorgan.
(4) A doubling in the obscure but important Baltic Dry Index, a key indicator of global trade flows.
(5) An upwardly sloping yield curve, which Fed research suggests all but ensures a rebound by year-end. (link)
(6) A Housing Affordability Index that has hit an all-time high.
(7) A two-month improvement in wholesale used-car prices, measured by the Manheim Index. (link)
(8) A rise in Monster’s Employment Index in February, suggesting a turn in the job market may be around the corner.
(9) A sharp increase in the money supply, as measured by M2 and M1. Weekly M2 growth has averaged 10.1% year-over-year since the start of 2009, while M1 has grown at a 14.6% rate. link
(10) A two-month rally in the Index of Leading Indicators.
(11) Airline traffic is better than expected.(link)
(12) Consumer confidence is ticking up. (link)
AmVet
March 23rd, 2009
9:04 am
Did I hear a prolonged howl from a couple of the lost and very troubled hound dogs trying to find their way home?
I thought I heard something in great distress.
Oh well…
I recently saw where the neo-conned faithful were gnashing their gums violently about The Uppity One being on Leno, etc…?
It’s always difficult to understand the emotionally deranged, but I gather the thinking was that he should have been busy 24/7 on fixing the multiple clusterf&cks left to him and us.
No time off for you, Uppity One! And no soup for a month!
Yet BotchCo set all sorts of records by taking extended vacations early and often in his less-than-stellar career. (One of my favorite pictures is of him and his dad catching a bass while floating in the flooded streets of NO and the caption reading, “How I spent my vacation”.)
That The War Time President did not work either smart OR hard was, of course, of no concern to these fake conservative lapdogs and shuckers and grinners on the far right-wing.
Emasculated and irrelevant – The New Republican Party.
Cherokee
March 23rd, 2009
9:06 am
Thansk Mrs. G
Paul
March 23rd, 2009
9:06 am
Jay
Interesting article providing insight on a point of view that seems to be (after I’d read a bit about Powerline) more prevalent than I’d expected. Some are going to view your Hee Haw clip not in the spirit of the song, but an attempt to caricature conservatives. Then I realized what it really showed – given the breaks where the cast talks to the music – Rap music has its genesis in Hee Haw. Wow. Strange cultural alliance, that.
I wondered if Scott Johnson was one of these 25-year-old whiz kids with lots of poli sci theory and little practical experience. He’s not – but I suppose ideological fervor doesn’t dim with age. What’s amazing, also, is how much of his rhetoric sounds so much of what the Left said about Pres Bush.
“he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people.” Well, he left out the jackboot and dictator references, but it’s the same idea. Disagree with my political philosophy and you’re assaulting freedom. That’s weak, and I’d ask, just how does the economic meltdown and trillions in lost wealth relate to ‘well being’? This morning we heard about the plan involving private investors in the toxic asset program. I’ll wager that after all the talk about ‘loss of freedom” and ‘gov’t takeover’ and ‘let the markets work’ that when the Administration talks of having private investors come forth… the critics will still complain. No gov’t intervention. No private involvement. What do they want?
[[His inattention to rehabilitation of the financial system in lieu of vastly expanding the size and scope of the government is a dead giveaway, as is his lack of concern over the vast destruction of wealth his policies are working]]
I guess ‘rehab’ counts only if it’s the rehab technique you want. Personally, I’d say using gov’t to enact laws and regulations to prevent people from doing what no laws were in place to prevent is a good start. And he’s being thoughtful – just this morning I read Pres Obama opposes the House bill on bonus taxation. Take that! Spkr Pelosi and most House Democrats and Republicans!
As far as ‘his policies causing destruction of wealth’ – haven’t heard any alternatives on what to do that weren’t essentially modifications of Pres Obama’s original proposals.
My favorite quote from Dreamland, though, was “He doesn’t understand that the government of Iran is intent on acquiring nuclear weapons it can put to evil purposes. He thinks he can sweet-talk them out of achieving this objective….”
Maybe Johnson’s more of a Rip Van Winkle, sleeping through the years then coming awake. Did he not listen to repeated pronouncements by Pres Obama and the other candidate who’s now SecState regarding ‘the unacceptability’ of Iran’s nuclear pursuits, the fact they would both do ‘anything’ to keep Iran from obtaining nukes and the myriad other pronouncements that ‘a nuclear Iran would be the greatest threat to…”?
Why I liked it so much is, how similar his reaction to these statements is to what we hear from so many on the FarLeft – ignore it, discount it, deny it – but never, ever consider the implications of taking the President at his word.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 23rd, 2009
9:09 am
There’s no place like home…..
From Think Progress:
On Friday, “[t]wo dozen black lawmakers angrily stalked out of the Georgia House…amid assertions that a decision by white Republican leaders to delay passage of a resolution honoring President Obama had racist overtones.” Republican lawmakers objected to the resolution’s wording which said Obama has an “unimpeachable reputation for integrity, vision and passion for public service.”
Lovely.
The Corporal
March 23rd, 2009
9:12 am
HEADLINE: ‘Are You Punch-Drunk?’
‘60 Minutes’ reporter presses Obama for laughing, smiling while discussing ailing economy …
I feel sorry for this reporter. His career is done …….
Mrs. Godzilla
March 23rd, 2009
9:15 am
From Steve Benen at Washington Monthly:
HE’S NOT ‘PUNCH DRUNK’…. For a while, the lead story from Politico last night was the idea that President Obama chuckled a little too much during his interview with Steve Kroft ….
But then I saw the interview and realized the Politico’s piece didn’t exactly capture the context……
About half-way through, Kroft brings up aid to the auto industry, and public opposition to additional government investment. The two share a laugh at the one-sided polling numbers, which led to Kroft’s question about “laughing.” As Steve M. explained, “[I]t’s obvious — the chuckling is mutual as they agree about the extraordinary unpopularity of bailing out the auto industry.”
When you see reports today about the president laughing at economic hardship, keep this in mind.
Read it here:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_03/017402.php
Fact Checker
March 23rd, 2009
9:16 am
Obama met AmVet and that is when Obama decided to make vets pay for their own coverage. Obama hates the miliatry and loves that crazy nutjub in Iran. Obama wants gov’t involved in every aspect of my life. No thanks. Obama should stick to making fun of retards.
P.S. Do you think that Obama uses the teleprompter when he talks dirty to his wife?
Joey
March 23rd, 2009
9:17 am
Scott Johnson speaks for all Conservatives?
And Jay Bookman speaks for all Progressives and Liberals?
Jay initiated his Bush is bad articles during the 2000 campaign, before the Republican Convention. He increased the attacks on Bush immediately after the Conventiona and ratcheted them up after the 2000 election. He slowed slightly after 9/11/01, but reignited the fullblown Bush Derangement attacks as soon as he was able.
Now 4.5 months after the 2008 election Jay has almost ended his war against Bush. Almost. But like today’s post, he is quick to inject Bush or Cheney into the mix when he needs a diversion.
Paul
March 23rd, 2009
9:20 am
Fact Checker
[[. Obama hates the military]]
Pres Obama’s head of Veteran’s Affairs is General Eric Shinseki (USA-ret). He was present at the discussions and briefings regarding the fiasco on ’saving’ half a billion by having vets and their insurance companies pay for service-related injury rehab.
Given it’s staff, not the president, who come up with the details of “how to make it happen,” are you saying Gen Shinseki hates the military?
Taxpayer
March 23rd, 2009
9:24 am
…Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of the budget deficit that the Republicans are now complaining about is directly attributable to President Bush’s policies. The additional deficit for 2009 that it is attributable to President Obama’s efforts to fix the disastrous economy that he was handed by President Bush is trivial in comparison, as can be clearly seen. (The projections are taken from CBO)… — Dean Baker
Taken from the CBO you say. Well. Who would have ever known.
Fact Checker
March 23rd, 2009
9:26 am
So, Obama has nothing to do with the policies that he and his administration propose. Lemme guess it is Bush’s fault that Obama hates the military. Right?
Wyld Byll Hyltnyr
March 23rd, 2009
9:26 am
Jay, Jay, Jay, guess I gotta wet nurse you through the process once more.
You see, with President Bush, a truly great American, he mad some decisions that did not go well, but he had a process. He reviewed facts and acted courageously in line with his stated principals. Sure there were things like Rummy’s strategery in Iraq that could have been done differently and better, bu we had a professional quality guy making profession decesions. Like it or not everyone, apart from Jesus, is wriong at one point our another.
Now when it comes to President Obama, we have a guy who is disorganized, runs a poor process, and most of all, does not appear to be too bright. Which see, today’s AJC headline – which confirms that PRESIDENT OBAMA was FOR Barney Franks confiscatory, targeted tax BEFORE HE WAS AGAINST IT. We have an administration who thinks nothing of demonsizing private citizens (which see Limbaugh & AIG professionals) who disagree with them. We have an AIG bailout that is dependant on the value of the AIG companies and President Obama runs down the vaklue of AIG practically every time he opens his trap. When have an adminsitration that is half composed of tax cheats – primarily because the other half couldn’t get confirmed. We have a porkulus package and bloated budget proferred by President Obama that even the Congressional Budeting Office says will permanetly destabilize our country. And on and on, all in 60 days.
In short there is a difference between a thoughtful and reasoned man (President Bush) who gathers the best available information and makes a develops a few strategies that don’t turn out well or might have revised sooner, and an incompetent crackpot who doesn’t appear to be very bright – President Obama.
PS – Scotty is another proud wearer of the Green from ol’ Wyld Byll’s beloved Dahtmouth.
The Corporal
March 23rd, 2009
9:27 am
“Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.”
Ayn Rand
Truth
March 23rd, 2009
9:28 am
Katrina??? Give me a break!
getalife
March 23rd, 2009
9:32 am
Triple digit gains in the Dow today.
Economy saved.
Thank you President Obama.
Fact Checker
March 23rd, 2009
9:34 am
If Obama cames off less than smart it is becuase the teleprompter tell him stupid things to say. What that teleprompter did to Obama on The Tonight Show is unforgiveable.
bdatlanta
March 23rd, 2009
9:35 am
Same thing after vlinton won. They wig out and before you know it they’re blowing up abortion clinics.
Middle East terrorists got nothing on right wing conservative terrorists.
Davo
March 23rd, 2009
9:40 am
I guess re-hashing Bush administration failures and poking fun at rednecks is the only requirement Bookman uses to fabricate his blog. Well, good luck with that. In the coming years when this whole bailout nonsense blows up in our face your gonna need something more than Bush-bashing, sycophantic Obama worship and pilfered Youtube videos to explain yourself.
The Corporal
March 23rd, 2009
9:40 am
Since we’re talking about HEE HAW here, I can’t wait until January 20, 2013 …..
“…. and Pfft you were gone!”
Disgusted
March 23rd, 2009
9:44 am
Dang! The stock market’s going through the roof. As a loyal Republican, I’d rather see the entire national economy go into the tank than to see Obama get credit for anything.
Mrs. Godzilla
March 23rd, 2009
9:44 am
“The Last Person On Earth To Turn To Now Is Ayn Rand”
Article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-last-person-on-earth_b_173535.html
Highlights:
Rand’s extremism is often indistinguishable from parody. In an episode of The Simpsons, baby Maggie is despatched to the Ayn Rand School For Tots, motto: Crying is Futile. The headmistress explains that babies are not allowed bottles because “When a baby reaches for a bottle, she is saying ‘I am a leech!’ Our aim here is to develop the bottle within.” But is this more comic than the actual decision of the Ayn Rand Institute to picket Bill Clinton’s summit discussing how to increase volunteerism in the United States, on the grounds that unpaid voluntary work is an “unforgivable act of altruism”? Is it more ludicrous than that fact that when Rand died in 1982, her body was laid out beside a six-foot tall floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign?
AmVet
March 23rd, 2009
9:45 am
Joey, did you watch GWB campaign in 2000?
OMG, what a train wreck.
Clearly he was in WAY, WAY, WAY over his head! And yet the ultra-gullible elected him! Twice! (Maybe god told them to do it.)
But the good news is the empirical evidence is obvious that not only did a huge number ultimately regret their choice, they’ve sworn off the entire repudiated fake conservative, neo-con ideology.
And unless and until an actual, real conservative movement rises from the flames of the Republiconned GOP, they are once again looking at becoming the minority party for another forty year stretch.
Take it to the bank, the Credibility-free Party of Dixie’s enormous problems are only going to get worse. Likely much worse.
To wit, Wyld Byll Hytlyr writes, “You see, with President Bush, a truly great American, he mad [sic} some decisions that did not go well, but he had a process. He reviewed facts…”.
And then summarily dismissed them if they didn’t dovetail with what he had already decided. (Being the Decider and all.)
And “DID NOT GO WELL”????????????
Yeah, I guess that’s one way to look at it. If you’re an ostrich.
And yet you fools keep giving lip service to the unmitigated disasters called Bush/Cheney.
Paul, I was thinking the same thing. Apparently only never-served, never-will neo-cons do not hate the military.
Maroons…
OK, duty calls. Off to pay for more corporate welfare. And the occupation. And you free loaders.
Pray for rain…
Mike
March 23rd, 2009
9:46 am
Mrs. Godzilla –
Thanks for the good news. We need it!
G
March 23rd, 2009
9:47 am
Re: President Obama’s 60 Minutes interview:
Here’s what I know. I’m so freaking glad that President Obama has decided to be everywhere from Leno to 60 minutes to town halls. He has carved out a plan to speak for himself. Lord knows, if he didn’t the MSM would be more than happy to speak for him.
I don’t agree with everything President Obama says or does, but I’ll tell you one thing, I had a crash course in the last 8 years that taught me just how bad it can get.
I still pinch myself every time I listen to President Obama’s intelligent discourse.
And I would be willing to bet, despite so many attempts to bring him down in his first 60 days, that he would win by a greater margin today than he did on November 4th. It’s a pretty safe bet.
Jay
March 23rd, 2009
9:49 am
Joey, you are inventing facts out of thin air to support your thesis.
Prior to, during and after the 2000 elections, I had left the editorial board and was writing science and technology pieces for the AJC.
I did not return to the edit board and column writing until after Sept. 11, and did so because the editors thought I could be more useful there. So your claim about what I had been writing about Bush in that time frame is purely in your imagination.