Three-Week Checkup
Toby Harnden at UK Telegraph, cuttingly: “He’s a novice and it shows.” Cruel Hillary campaign allusion. Unkind observation of grassroots withering.
OK, everyone’s making the patient say “ah” this morning. Commentary shopping produces conflicting opinions. Sometimes in the same commentary:
E.J. Dionne, suckupally: In three weeks, the real Obama … a conciliator and a fighter! Different sides not contradictory (great news, because so far, there’s nothing but different sides and they keep coming).
KC Star’s Arturo Mora, admonishingly: Judge a president in three weeks!?! It’s Congress’ fault. Big points for admitting a screwup …
McClathy’s Steve Thomma, charitably: Governing style’s a work in progress. Shifting tactics.
AP analysis: Rookie mistakes, rough couple of weeks of legislative learning for one-term Senate wonder. Handing his econ plan to Congress, what a bad idea. But he’s headed for a win!
WPost: Out of defeat, victory … long term, for the GOP!
Barnes: When the feel-good thing is the right thing … for the rest of the GOP, not McCain.
Krugman, disgustedly: Throw more money at Dem agenda items, you wimp!
Washington Times analysis: “Doom” talk scores as “not presidential.” Hang out, that wasn’t doom talk. It was panic encouragement.
Topics: Obama
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:37 am Comments (9) on Monday, February 9, 2009
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February 9th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Man, I’m sick to death of my president yelling at me on the television…
Wait, it’s only been a couple of weeks! Barely longer than his activity time as a Senator!
Hard to believe we’re missing the gentlemanly, polite, civil, accomodating Bush already, this much.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
It only seems like years.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
If you have only six months left to live, then now’s a good time to spend it, because every second of the Obama presidency seems like an eternity.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I thought this guy was supposed to be so smart. Allowing yourself to become a willing tool of one of the most unpopular Congresses in history? Not smart.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Jimmy Carter was a breath of fresh air after President Nixon II (Ford) and his Whip Inflation Now campaign. Of course, Jimmy the Peanut Farmer ‘KNEW’ he knew what this country needed and drove it into the ground.
President Barack Alinsky-Marx was supposed to be a breath of fresh air after President Bush’s ‘mistakes’. He’s only shown his total lack of concern in his tendency to acquire and hold the reins of control (see NSC, Census, Chief of Staff, etc.). Using the spectacularly disastrous ‘Stimulus’ as cover, he is quietly positioning himself as a One Man Rule a’la Hugo Chavez through the use of Executive Order.
While I firmly concur with Tim, I don’t think we have as long as 6 months.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.”
Edmund Burke
February 9th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Is anyone selling 1/20/13 bumper stickers yet?
February 9th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
To mwl-
My brother got an Obama T-shirt for Christmas from our University of Chicago professor brother-in-law.
We’re having T-shirts made up that say::
“1-20-13
SARAH!”
We’ll let you know how they turn out. After President Pelosi’s final eight months, these shirts won’t last long in stock anywhere across what’s left of the free world.
February 9th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Heh,
“From the Book of Sarah, 1-20-13″
“And the word went forth throughout the land, and the peoples in their multitudes did rejoice, that the day of their deliverance from servitude was at hand!”
I made that all up, but it sounds good to me :)