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correction is THE Iraq

Edited July 8, 2009 by TävôLuDô

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This is very true.

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One last image to remind the fuckheads who won last November. Our man won. The agenda will be our agenda, not yours. Good luck with your ditz Palin in 2012.

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Why We Love Obama: He’s Just Like Reagan?!

(Has this been posted yet?)

Barack Obama has problems. So why doesn’t America fault him for them?

It’s really hard to imagine a more nettlesome first five months in office than what Obama has faced. There are the problems he inherited, like the Great Recession, the great mess in Afghanistan, and the insolvency of Chrysler and General Motors. Then there are those that have festered more recently, like Kim Jong-il’s decision to stop taking his meds and Iran’s mathematically challenged election. Add to that a seemingly unwinnable legislative portfolio—just ask Hillary how much fun it is to overhaul America’s healthcare system—and you’ve got one big heaping mess for the White House to sort out.

Yet here’s the strange thing: When pollsters come calling, we can’t help but shower praise on our president.

Frank Newport, the editor in chief of the Gallup Poll, says we should not be too surprised. The bottom line: Even if we’re not so sure he isn’t driving G.M. into the ground or daring North Korea to launch a missile at Waikiki Beach, that doesn’t mean we can’t still really, really like Barack Obama.

“The public is able to differentiate between the president as a person and the president’s performance on specific issues,” Newport says. “You may look at a C.E.O. and say ‘He's a great guy, we really like him, but the company's losing money, so we don't think he's doing a very good job.’ I think it's the same thing with the president.”

In Gallup’s most recent poll, 67 percent of respondents said they view Obama favorably. But when pressed on the president’s handling of specific issues—including the economy, the threat of terrorism, and the situation with North Korea, to name just a few—they were invariably much less impressed. A New York Times/CBS News poll last week found a similar gulf between voters’ approval of Obama’s handling of the issues and their view of Obama himself. While 63 percent approved of Obama, only 44 percent approved of his efforts when it came to health care; regarding the problems facing the auto industry, only 41 percent approved, compared to 46 percent who disapproved.

In short, it seems we don’t love what Obama is doing in the Oval Office—but we’re still glad he’s there for us to swoon over.

In a way, the poll numbers could be bent to lend credence to a criticism often heard from the right during the presidential campaign—that is, voters were so caught up in Obama’s aura of “change” (or that will.i.am YouTube video) that they didn’t really care to look beneath the surface at the nitty-gritty details of what that might actually entail.

Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive who was a top adviser to the McCain campaign, made that argument when we spoke at the Democratic National Convention in August. “Obama is an exciting and impressive figure … and I understand how intoxicating that is to many people,” she told me. I asked her if she thought McCain had any shot. Yes, she said—as long as voters “examine the facts and not let their emotions run away with them.”

So are Americans letting their emotions—their desire for Obama to be all that he was made out to be—cloud their perception of the job he is doing in office? That’s certainly appears to be part of it; there is no denying the Obama “cult of personality,” as V.F. contributing editor Michael Wolff argued last week. Among voters, “It does suggest Obama has a reservoir of good will,” Newport told me. “They like the guy.”

At the same time, the White House is doing an artful job allowing the president to remain presidential and not get bogged down in the technical unpleasantries of bailing out Wall Street, saving the auto industry, and searching for bin Laden (or at least David Rohde) in the mountains of Pakistan. The logic goes that, by exposing Tim Geithner and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Obama can remain above the fray.

It’s effective, and not unprecedented. Ronald Reagan was known as the Teflon president because, as former Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder said in 1983, “nothing sticks to him.” Why? “Americans are optimistic by nature, and they loved that Reagan believed to his core in the American Dream,” Schroeder later wrote.

The same rings true with Obama. Just as Democrats did of Reagan, Republicans argue today that Obama is essentially getting a free pass—that voters, and perhaps the media, are so taken by his fly-swatting, Five Guys-devouring charm that no one is thinking critically about the messy details of taking over a car company or sending Navy destroyers to tail North Korean ships. But we may not be worse off for it. Whereas ####### Cheney used his pulpit to scare the bejeezus out of us, Obama has argued, time and time again, that not all is lost. Perhaps that’s what has made him so “intoxicating” to so many people: He’s positive. And to a country facing an awful lot of problems, that’s probably not a bad thing for a president to be.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/politics/...ike-reagan.html

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I thought you were a Repo AJ?? now you want to be with the winning side???

f'k no!

Sour grapes sour grapes to all the Repos but but Bush was soooo cool, he landed on a fighter jet when he was President

Edited July 8, 2009 by TävôLuDô

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:rofl: too true!

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