Quit being a party guy, President Obama, says … Evan Thomas?
posted at 4:00 pm on July 3, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
So much for being “sort of God.” In this week’s press conference, Barack Obama blamed eeeeeeeeeeevil corporate jet owners and oil companies for the federal budget deficit in an attempt to play class-warfare games to fire up the base. Former High Priest of ObamaMania Evan Thomas (who also sidelines as a Newsweek editor) became an apostate by noting that demagoguery wastes time and makes it harder to find solutions. Thomas “applaud[s] the energy,” but wonders when Obama will start presidenting instead of being a party hack:
On “Inside Washington,” host Gordon Peterson asked his panel to suggest a way to overcome the current impasse and get Congress and the White House moving on a budget deal. Thomas offered up a solution, but also expressed his frustration with Obama.
“Yeah, because it’s happened before – Obama has got to be President of the United States,” Thomas said. “He has to be two things. He has to make a public case of how bad is this, because he is not doing that. He’s not being honest about just how bad this is going to be — no, he was partisan. He was God [bleep] Democrat! He was just, you know – being a party guy. I applaud the energy but it wasn’t getting me anywhere. He has got to rise above that and then in private, in private – he’s got to make a deal.”
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer’s sentiments fell in line with Thomas’s.
“Instead of saying, as a president ought to say, is that we have a problem — it is a serious problem, it’s a growing problem, it’s a structural problem and we have to do something, he says, as in the sound bite you showed, it is a choice between helping the elderly on Medicare and corporate jets and oil tax breaks,” Krauthammer added. “That is pure demagoguery and that is not leadership.”
When acolytes start tossing criticisms instead of hosannas, I’d say we have consensus. Barack Obama … uniter?
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United StatesLiberal Democrats.portlandon on July 3, 2011 at 4:02 PM
Actually, Professor O’Barry is sort of the Antichrist hovering over the world and ushering in the 7 years of tribulation.
NickDeringer on July 3, 2011 at 4:03 PM
Never heard of this Evan Thomas dude until this thread…
OmahaConservative on July 3, 2011 at 4:05 PM
Well, Evan, that’s how you roll when you stand above the world like a god. Why should a “god” feel accountable or care about substance when he “serve[s] as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.“
Django on July 3, 2011 at 4:05 PM
Obama is a thuggish power-hungry, uncaring fool.
Read this for the 4th of July. Obama is vacationing, in mind, body and soul, all the time. But, eh, he lives, eternally, like a billionaire, based on charlatanry, or nada.
Good on Messrs Halperin and Thomas. They told the truth, once.
Schadenfreude on July 3, 2011 at 4:05 PM
right letters, wrong word…
equanimous on July 3, 2011 at 4:08 PM
The community organizer who would be king.
The carnival moves on. The pimp keeps driving it.
Schadenfreude on July 3, 2011 at 4:08 PM
The media/left created this titanic fraud and some of these geniuses are just beginning to figure out exactly what they created. Amazing.
Django on July 3, 2011 at 4:09 PM
That liberal female beast from NPR, her attempts at frantically trying to shut up Thomas and Krauthammer “gentlemen, gentlemen” was histerical.
Schadenfreude on July 3, 2011 at 4:10 PM
Well here’s a little July 4th cheer…turns out that banks are forgiving mortgage debt even without foreclosure.
The mortgage lending bubble has ended very badly, especially for those who tend to save instead of borrow. Savers have to suffer zirp for years and years to “repair” the banks balance sheet (i.e. make the banks whole again). Yes, that is the only game in town. No haircut for the banks…but yes for higher taxes and zero interest rates for the next five or ten years. I’m sure the banks will reward barry well in 2012
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/banks-commence-wholesale-unsolicited-mortgage-forgiveness
r keller on July 3, 2011 at 4:10 PM
Presidenting is hard work and necessitates thinking.
Obama is simply a leftie impertinent power thug.
Schadenfreude on July 3, 2011 at 4:11 PM
I think it’s pretty obvious that Obama has been campaigning for president since 2004*, and hasn’t stopped since.
*(He’s been laying the groundwork since 1979, of course, but actively campaining since 2004.)
Tuning Spork on July 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM
Accusing Obozo of being a party guy is a little unfair. He’s also a golf guy at least half the time.
Cicero43 on July 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM
Boy have you got that right.
You can’t be something you ain’t and Obama ain’t no president … and never will be.
Rod on July 3, 2011 at 4:17 PM
ELEVENTY!!!!!
ProudPalinFan on July 3, 2011 at 4:18 PM
Same dude who publicly said with a straight face that his Democrat media would go totally in the tank for Thurston Howell the 8th and Silky Edwards in 2004.
Del Dolemonte on July 3, 2011 at 4:19 PM
More proof that he QUIT his “job” as a U.S. Senator.
But of course, “quitting” a government job is only bad when Sarah Palin does it.
Del Dolemonte on July 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM
The President is a layabout and bon vivant. Even Thomas has his finger on the pulse a American bon vivants everywhere.
SlaveDog on July 3, 2011 at 4:33 PM
All Barack Obama needs is a powdered wig and a throne.
We are “led” by an aristocrat who believes he is above everyone and who needs to answer to know one.
And at least the King’s subjects had an excuse. They didn’t get to vote for the corrupt incompetents who were running their country into the ground.
We get to vote and the piece of absolute sewage known as Barack Obama will likely win re-election.
NoDonkey on July 3, 2011 at 4:41 PM
Prima Donna. Obama, that is.
BacaDog on July 3, 2011 at 4:42 PM
Ignore the critics, Barack.
Party like it’s 1929 …
RedPepper on July 3, 2011 at 4:49 PM
The talking heads are not placing America’s interest above ObaMao’s reelection or “legacy.” Their words are shallow.
onlineanalyst on July 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM
I’d say it’s more of an acolyte admitting they f’d up when they endorsed this dimbulb, and this is just their way of saying it, without actually saying it.
capejasmine on July 3, 2011 at 4:51 PM
It is not totally clear whom is the most repulsive . . . Obama, or the fools that elected him.
rplat on July 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM
ObaMao and the Dems fancy themselves masters of the false choice and strawment, but the American public, watching moths fly out of their empty wallets, are becoming much more skeptical.
onlineanalyst on July 3, 2011 at 4:53 PM
We must vote and not sit home and complain! Give whomever a conservative congress to hold feet to the fire!
Bambi on July 3, 2011 at 4:56 PM
r keller: Read George Will’s column-review of the housing collapse and how our “compassionate” government created the fiasco while rewarding those who contributed to it.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/burning-down-the-house/2011/06/30/AGeRSGuH_story.html
Bubba Clinton created this mess, and now he has the nerve to offer advice about the debt ceiling?
We have a crime syndicate operant in the Dem party and in this administration, starting with the capo ensconced in the WH. His court jester is stirring up the unions while his AG hatchet man is turning the law inside out.
onlineanalyst on July 3, 2011 at 5:02 PM
Can This Presidency Be Saved?
By Walter Russell Mead (who voted for Obama).
petefrt on July 3, 2011 at 5:05 PM
ObaMao is less concerned about the party than he is in transforming the nation into his vision of taking down America a peg or two and of establishing worldwide “social justice” under the aegis of the Muslim definition of “charity.”
onlineanalyst on July 3, 2011 at 5:07 PM
What’s the matter, Evan? You don’t want the great god Obama “standing above the country, above the world” anymore? Thanks for shoving this guy down our throats, tool.
SukieTawdry on July 3, 2011 at 5:13 PM
Follow up question;
When will water stop being wet?
oldleprechaun on July 3, 2011 at 5:16 PM
ObaMao simply rode into office under the banner of the Dem party. He has no allegiance to it or its members. He sees them as pawns. Early in his “career” as an opportunist, asn’t he part of the New Party in Chicago, a group that was part of the New Left, which was going to push “progressive,” collectivist governance on the country?
Listen to the idiotic rhetoric that O’s spouse is spouting during this campaign. That magazine cover that satirized the O’s as terrorists wasn’t too far off the mark. Their terrorism is a corruption from within. They are displacing families with government are aribiters of authority; they are flaunting living large while the working taxpayers are struggling; they are opening doors of deciding policy to the Muslim Brotherhood; they are stealing away rights and freedoms whiie trashing the Constitution and the law.
onlineanalyst on July 3, 2011 at 5:21 PM
oh good ….now we have a political hacker and a golfing hacker!
grapeknutz on July 3, 2011 at 5:22 PM
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Just move the ‘i’ to get the answer…
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http://www.anncoulter.com/
RalphyBoy on July 3, 2011 at 5:29 PM
Obama is over his head, unqualified for the office…and the people who voted him in were fools.
albill on July 3, 2011 at 5:32 PM
ET hasn’t sold the kneepads and blue dress, just put them in the closet for a while.
Bruno Strozek on July 3, 2011 at 5:45 PM
Say what what you will about Obama. His rhetoric worked. The GOP has caved, per Drudge.
Republicans would accept a “mini” deal with the Obama administration on raising the debt limit, Senator John Cornyn of Texas, a Republican leader, said.
Cornyn said today on “Fox News Sunday” that while Republicans would prefer a long-term settlement, they would accept a shorter-term agreement if that’s all they could get done. The U.S. Treasury Department has projected that on Aug. 2 the U.S. will no longer be able to meet obligations if the legal debt ceiling isn’t raised.
I thought they’d at least pretend to have a backbone for another week or two before folding.
angryed on July 3, 2011 at 5:49 PM
I suspect that Thomas is being diplomatic, and ‘demagoguery’ is elite talk for ‘being a d!ck’.
Don’t worry, Thomas will be straightened out at the next liberal elite cocktail party.
slickwillie2001 on July 3, 2011 at 5:51 PM
Be sure to read all of the comments by the brain-dead Leftist Howler Monkeys at the WaPo link. In their warped parallel universe, Clinton and the Democrats are absolutely blameless for the Fannie Mae debacle.
Del Dolemonte on July 3, 2011 at 6:05 PM
Must be bad when an Obamabot like Evans realized that his Empty Suit President has feet of clay.
Wonder if he now feels like apologizing to all those who pointed this out FOR THE LAST 2 1/2 YEARS?
Just another “elite East-coast liberal” having a come-to-Jesus moment.
And there will be more to come.
GarandFan on July 3, 2011 at 6:09 PM
Fine article, and one of my favorite movies.
slickwillie2001 on July 3, 2011 at 6:12 PM
Wow, Obama is a shameless demagogue and a partisan hack? Who knew?
Gee, Evan, if only there’d been some clue that Obama wasn’t the post-partisan, post-racial, super-competent executive with the marvelous temperament that all you MSM types assured the voters he was back in 2008. You know, something like his entire life history.
Obama was never anything more than a partisan hack during his years in both the Illinois Senate and in the U.S. Senate. The only time Obama was ever in anything remotely like an executive role — when he was giving away other peoples’ money as head of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge — resulted in a total failure to achieve any of the objectives of the fund. And in his personal life, Obama spent more than 20 years as an acolyte of the racist demagogue Jeremiah Wright (“God damn Amerikkkka! White man’s greed runs a world in need! It’s all whitey’s fault!”).
But anybody who tried to point these things out in 2008 was slandered as a racist and/or a fool by people like Evan Thomas. Must suck to have to admit now that the bitter clingers were right about Obama all along, eh Evan?
AZCoyote on July 3, 2011 at 6:19 PM
Up in Cocoa Beach on a few cases. Sat under the pier with Uncle Al and his nephew.
There was a wanna be flash mob. Did NOT work out.
Police were instantly on site.
Uncle Al and I sat beneath the pier and schooled Nephew. He disbursed the flash mob with the click of a cell phone.
Key West Reader on July 3, 2011 at 6:23 PM
Could be a few of these media elites are beginning to see if Teh One actually does succeed in destroying the economy that the very last thing anybody will be be buying is newspapers and magazines.
Circulation has been in the shi**er for years because of their liberal slants, but wait until they see how disposable their publications are when everyone, yes, even liberals are broke.
Tim Zank on July 3, 2011 at 6:29 PM
So,lets review,one of the MSM Cheerleaders threw down
his pom poms,amd exclaimed,”Obama is a Little Male Brain”,
then another,states,he’s a Gawd..D*mned Democrat,and sadly,
I was root’n for a Socialist phrase,it would of been,more
spot on,anywho…..
the frustration level,disgust,over the top Demonizing is be
coming nauseating,and every other descriptive wording,is sl
owy making its way through Leftys Lips,as if the KOOL_AID is
losing its hold on these Zombiefied Pundits!
Ya know,if Conservative Nominees,turned their cannons out
ward,towards Team Hopey,and *collectively fired(sorry,I know
that is a *Commie Pinko word),that as well would rattle Team
Obama,and begin to drive home,the urgency,and replacement,of
this NeverEnding Community Organizational Scare Mongering/
Over the Top UnCivil Rhetric/Sh*t-Stirring/Crock Mixing/Ag
itational Nudging,and a lot more words out of your handy po
cket Thesaurus!!
Cutting to the chase,
Whats needed is a Uniter,and not a Divider!!
Remember the Obama Progressive Socialist Battle-Cry,
TO FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE of every little aspect of America,
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and,that means,and don’t let it fool you,YOUR TRADITIONS,
YOUR HISTORY,EVERY THING THAT MAKES YOU A PROUD OF LOVING
YOUR COUNTRY,he wants to alter!
IF YOU WANT A EXPERIMENTAL EXPERIENCE,TO ALTER YOUR COUNTRY,the Re-Elect President Obama for 4 more years,
as he will then,even at a 50.01% of the vote,think its CLEAR
MANDATE!!
Then,KISS YOUR AMERICA GOOD BYE AS YOU KNOW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on July 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM
I thought he was about to call Obama a “Dick” for a second there.
Kjeil on July 3, 2011 at 6:30 PM
Obama’s era is over. Americans of all stripes e uniting against him. Women utterly hate. HATE ickshelle Obama.
oh, it is BAD on the ground.
They sort of liked barack but they arf.. hate” oh, they hate michelle Obama. It’s bad. REALLY bad. I feel sorry for her.
Key West Reader on July 3, 2011 at 6:37 PM
2012 is do or die alright. If this yutz has four more years without ever having to worry about re-election he will in fact put the remaining nails in our collective coffin.
Tim Zank on July 3, 2011 at 6:45 PM
Presidentin is hard. Presentin is easy.
antisocial on July 3, 2011 at 6:58 PM
Obama has pissed these folks off; I personally don’t think it’s a “come to Jesus” moment for them, something has happened. They’re being cut off from “inside” information, snubbed by the administration, not invited to cocktail parties, something along those lines. They support his socialist policies, but they’ve got their panties in a wad about something else, and I think it’s a personal grudge against Obama. They’re just using the “party hack” line as an excuse to rail against him. They know he’s a party hack and they’ve known it all along. They have no problem with it.
citrus on July 3, 2011 at 7:04 PM
this!
cmsinaz on July 3, 2011 at 7:05 PM
Evan Bayh.
Watch
Key West Reader on July 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM
Didn’t seem very civil for a former Obama worshiper.
MeatHeadinCA on July 3, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Evan Thomas simply does not understand that Obama does not give a damn what he thinks. Thomas is a merely a dupe to this left wing, incompetent thug. They share nothing in common in spite of Thomas’ conviction otherwise.
pat on July 3, 2011 at 7:32 PM
Obama does not know how to lead nor does he want to lead. He refused to lead in 2009 when notified by Medicare Trustees that there was a projected shortfall in Social Security. By law, he is required to present a proposal for Social Security solvency when a shortfall is reported. He chose not to lead on this. The following year he failed to respond to the same trustee report, and this year, 2011, he again failed to present a proposal as required by law. Three years in a row on an essential program for seniors, and the President failed to act. This one example shows a gross deficiency in leadership. Only the Republicans, through Paul Ryan and the House of Representatives, have presented a proposal to keep Social Security solvent. Obama hasn’t even voted present on this issue. For more than 390 days now, the Obamacrat led Senate has failed to pass a budget as required by law. The President has presented a budget this year that no one considered to be serious. It received zero votes in the Senate. Obama is a joke of a leader, a joke of a President and a joke of a candidate for reelection.
stefano1 on July 3, 2011 at 7:35 PM
I’m sort of with you, but I don’t think it’s the cocktail parties per se. Obama was supposed to be cool, rational, intelligent, smooth, &c and he’s coming off as a real fool. Maybe there’s a want to distance oneself from him to preserve the true meaning of socialism or something. I don’t know.
MeatHeadinCA on July 3, 2011 at 7:36 PM
Evan Thomas?……. wasn’t his Dad a Marxist Progressive icon years ago?
Evan is just trolling for attention with the veneer that he actually uses his noggin instead of his kneepads (for worship).
You better snap out of it Mr. Thomas you’ll be getting a “Chicago” call from Axelrod or Emmanuel.
PappyD61 on July 3, 2011 at 7:45 PM
I don’t think that he is a party hack for the Dems though. He has not had their backs on a lot of issues and has been discarding those who do not serve his purposes. ObaMao is self-serving, and the only “party” that he serves is a brand of communism, whether Marxist or Maoist, it is hard to tell. His buddy Ayers claimed to champion Maoist philosophy. The Left has allied itself with Islam, so ObaMao’s foreign policy is becoming clearer each day.
onlineanalyst on July 3, 2011 at 7:47 PM
If this is TRUE?!
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Why are Democrats so angry with Obama?
June 9 2011
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Is it because Obama hung them all out to dry when they needed him the most?
The following was written by one of Obama’s staffers:
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“We were led to believe this man was one thing, but everything I have seen, heard, and understand, points to the indisputable fact he is not what we hoped for. Not what we were promised. Maybe he might have been. Maybe a full term or two in the Senate and he would have had the experience and maturity to handle the job of President of the United States. But right now – the man is simply not up to the task, and yet it is loyal Democrats who are paying the price for his incompetence and incoherence. The health care bill? Do you know I was told he has never read the bill? Not one part of it? NOT ONE. Sounds like something you would hear on one of the talk radio shows, right? And I wouldn’t normally consider such a possibility, but this came directly from one of those good Democrats who might now see their political careers ended because they supported that bill and now its being used against them like some political sledgehammer. How is that supposed to make someone who put their career on the line feel? Betrayed. A whole lot of us are feeling betrayed these days and it just pisses me off.”
“There were some who voiced concerns. Some who pushed for a more clear economic agenda. Apparently Obama wanted none of it – he was obsessed, absolutely obsessed with getting some kind of healthcare legislation. And the ones who did voice concerns…they are, or will be, among the first to go. And it’s coming sooner rather than later.”
“Democrats need to rise up within the party and say enough is enough. We have allowed ourselves to be carried far too far to the left of the mainstream. You know what word I cannot stand? Progressive. Enough with this “progressive” crap. Shut up about it. We are Democrats. Anyone who wants to call themselves a Progressive I say show them the door – they are doing nothing but killing the Democratic Party. And regardless of whether or not we survive the November midterms with a majority, Nancy Pelosi must step down or be removed as Speaker. That is an absolute must – I cannot emphasize that point enough. She is political poison on the national level. Second, President Obama must fully engage himself with the requirements of the job. He must surround himself with people who understand the tone and temperament of the country because he clearly does not. And if he can’t or won’t do this, he needs to not run for reelection in 2012.
“…if he [Obama] does not fully engage in the job of president. If he does not even begin to live up to his own potential…Democrats must take measures to provide an alternative in 2012. The country simply cannot afford another second Obama term like these first two years. It is simply too difficult a time for America to have the Democratic Party act so irresponsibly.”
“My ties to the 2008 Obama campaign feel more and more these days like a dishonorable victory.”
“All kinds of news is going to be coming surrounding the Obama White House and the Democrat leadership. Watch for Pelosi in particular. That will be the key when you know the door is getting kicked open and the truth of just how chaotic things have become gets out into the open. I will say it again – Pelosi is the key. It is going to be ugly for Democrats, but people need to keep the faith. The party will emerge from this – and hopefully in time for 2012.”
Nancy Pelosi is the key…
http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2010/09/23/obama-presidency-democrats-in-crisis-says-deepthroat2/
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http://plantosurvive2012.com/why-are-democrats-so-angry-with-obama/
canopfor on July 3, 2011 at 7:49 PM
Me thinks,as I have said before,the Liberal Democrats need to take their party back from the Progressive Socialists!
The Progressives have hi-jacked the Libs/Dems,and so,the
Ultra-LeftWing Fringe Kooks are calling the shots,and as
the Linky above states,maybe,thats whats going on!!
canopfor on July 3, 2011 at 7:53 PM
onlineanalyst on July 3, 2011 at 5:02 PM
Actually the whole thing is too sad. I heard an NPR interview about Reckless Endangerment and the author named so many D names that the interviewer finally said something like well…there were some Rs involved too…right?? (She said yeah). And, of course, she was sort of right. Try W. Loved to tout the homeownership levels for minorities.
But none compared to Bill. The moral hazard that Bill introduced was huge…starting with the Peso Crisis (from Wikipedia):
There were others, and so the banks began to expect a bailout. And they have never been disappointed.
r keller on July 3, 2011 at 7:59 PM
Evil Follower 1 to Evil Follower 2:
“Are you sure this is the Antichrist?” “I was expecting more.” “This guy seems kinda like a … dick.”
justltl on July 3, 2011 at 8:05 PM
that’s where i grew up :)
cmsinaz on July 3, 2011 at 8:27 PM
Where is Robert Rubin these days? He is still relatively young…
Micah on July 3, 2011 at 8:33 PM
Just thinking about what is happening to the koolade soaked left…
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They have got to be disheartened that even with all the cover they gave Barry (and they absolutely do know that they made criticizing him nearly impossible for the past 3 years), his efforts to lead are going insanely bad.
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Some of them, the ones who never really had ‘tingles’ over him but rather thought his presidency could bring a solid surge to the left for the country, and then a recovery of sorts… they have got to be realizing that they’ve been had. They have got to be wakening to the fact that with Barry… It‘s all about Barry, and eventually… that Barry does not like America… AT ALL.
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Even though the class “A” holes that I’m referring to want a surge to the left, most of them want some semblance of a recovered America to be there when we arrive… Barry does not. He is the destroyer… His mission has but a single goal; to ruin America’s greatness.
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As the once faithful begin calling him out… it will not be for the real reasons he should be call out. It will be for lame ass things like being a party guy. Well duh… They will not dare say what I have stated here… They will not admit that he obviously does not care about America’s plight.
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Even as they begin to suspect it, even as they find themselves losing sleep over the loss of our country to president who never should have been elected… to the least qualified man to ever be president…they will wimp out in how they say it.
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Calling him a ‘dick’ when the 7 second delay is supposed provide cover is not stepping up to the truth. It is wussing out and attempting to lie by omission.
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Unless they also add a statement to the effect that Barry is killing this country… their little whining confessions only have value in that they expose the left’s willingness to be bullied by Barry and his zombie gangsters.
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RalphyBoy on July 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM
On second thought, I agree with both of y’all. So I guess all that’s left of my previous post is “I don’t think it’s a “come to Jesus” moment for them.” :D
citrus on July 3, 2011 at 8:38 PM
HAA! +10
citrus on July 3, 2011 at 8:39 PM
Evan Thomas is a Prog/Socialist through and through…I don’t trust him when he says something like this. He probably thinks Dear Leader should be jailing the dissidents…
d1carter on July 3, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Obama’s presidency is turning out to be just like the movie “Being There”. Obama is Chauncey Gardener! In the movie all the elite and the media, they are not the same group, made every mistake he uttered to be some kind of genius comment and every flub of speech a sign that he is so smart that his brain is too fast for his mouth (This was actually stated by a lefty commentator). When GWB was president everything he did or said was derided by these same two groups as a sign of how stupid he was even though many of his acts were sincere and effective. Compare that era with the present and you will see how absurd these people truly are.
inspectorudy on July 4, 2011 at 12:39 AM
I just watched the entire episode at the Inside Washington site and this entire scene is missing. I wanted to hear Nina Totenberg’s response and guess what, it doesn’t exist at all.
Renwaa on July 4, 2011 at 4:12 AM
Not exactly Marxist, not exactly Maoist. Trotskyite is a more precise assignment.
Obama can only be called a “party” man insomuch as he demonizes the opposition party. He carries no water for the Democrat party, only himself and his personal philosophy, which is power through dependency and division. While that has always been the logical end of most liberal stances on issues, I give many the benefit of the doubt on it being their goal. Most are just ignorant enough to think it the more noble path to utopia. Obama knows what he’s after, and how he plans to get there, and bus treads over the back of anyone from either aisle who doesn’t climb aboard.
Freelancer on July 4, 2011 at 5:07 AM
Evan Thomas is also a red-diaper baby. Third-generation socialist or something. His grandfather was on the Socialist ticket as VP nominee, I think.
Funny how that never gets mentioned in public.
tsj017 on July 4, 2011 at 12:40 PM
Forget Obama changing his colors. He’s the nation’s first BLUE President. He can no more change his color from blue than he can change his skin color.
What is clearly needed is a Congress, (Courts) and President who are equally Red (main street employers and employees), White (Seniors), and Blue (union workerbees & companies). And scale back on the excessive green crapola so it’s an appropriately sized fringe edging that doesn’t dominate everything Red, White and Blue….
Sadly, most of the GOP Losership doesn’t know how to consistently and repeatedly articulate this sort of simple message… There are some GOP Presidential Candidates who can perhaps make this case, and others who can’t…
drfredc on July 4, 2011 at 12:57 PM
All polls show the congress in such a poor light it is hard to tell how toxic Nancy Pelosi is.
Back when I had some friends gaming this mess, the prediction was that Reid and Pelosi would kill The One and this was before all the stimulus and healthcare. I posited a disconnect between their MO and goals and his campaign’s blue skies. My friends weren’t that polished.
They just saw a pile of very hungry hacks and a lazy, inexperienced leader.
IlikedAUH2O on July 4, 2011 at 4:03 PM
Hosannus? Holy thesaurus Batman!
Daemonocracy on July 4, 2011 at 7:25 PM