Posted on 08/17/2011 1:40:48 PM PDT by markomalley
Charlie Spiering of the Beltway Confidential blog for the Washington Examiner yesterday noted how President Obama is pining for the days of monolithic media, when Americans all watched, and trusted, liberal anchor Walter Cronkite [video follows page break]:
While President Obama was in Iowa, he was asked about the heated rhetoric and unwillingness to compromise. The President compared himself to Lincoln, as highlighted by Byron York, then he compared Washington politics to his marriage,("I let Michelle have her way 90% of the time") and finally blamed the changed media landscape for the rise in partisan politics.
"It used to be that everybody was sitting there watching Walter Cronkite, now everybody is on their own little blog or on their own separate news forum. If you're a Democrat you're reading the New York Times, if you're a Republican, you're watching Fox News. . . people don't listen to each other much."
Well, at least he admitted the obvious: the New York Times is gospel to the Left.
“I let Michelle have her way 90% of the time”
That explains his Mom Jeans. They are really Mom genes.
Obvious "kind and gentle" ping to the blogger overlord.
Excuse me, but I distinctly remember Liberal Dems getting all lathered up over Reagan, and unless I miss my guess Algore had not yet ‘invented’ the internet. 0 is just spouting his usual line of BS.
And America pines for the day when you will be removed from the White House.
. . . and came up way short.
". . . and they don't listen to each other as much."
Yeah.
November next year, guess who's going to get to listen to the U.S.?
And 0 -- we've been listening to you more than you'd like for us to.
“It used to be that everybody was sitting there watching Walter Cronkite...”
Yeah, you know, the good old days when the press could crucify anyone or lose a war because that’s what they wanted.
his resemblance to lincoln is undeniable...
“26% approval on economy”
Makes you sort of wonder where that 26% is getting THEIR news from: exclusively from the White House blog?
". . . it is no child's play to save the principles of Jefferson from total overthrow in this nation. . . . The Principles of Jefferson are the definiations and axioms of free society . . . . And yet, they are denied, and evaded, with no small show of success . . . . All honor to Jefferson - to the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a . . . revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that today, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression."
Lincoln was speaking, of course, of our Declaration of Independence, authored by Jefferson.
We should remember that Jefferson and America's Founders saw government's spending of "the People's" money through deficit, debt, and printing of paper money as evils to be avoided, in order to protect individual liberty.
"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39
"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322
"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
These and other pertinent quotations come from here.
So-called "progressives" rely on what they believe to be the ignorance of American citizens when they make their claims. Technology has made it possible to make a more realistic evaluation of this particular claim, and the results definitely do not support it.
Any resemblance between the problems Lincoln dealt with and what Obama has to be concerned with is purely coincidental. Pitying himself in this way is so very childish and reveals that he is, indeed, if anyone ever doubted otherwise, unfit to be the leader of this great Nation.
Hey, unemployment for 99 weeks with more to come, EBT card refilled every month, what else needs to happen...economy is just fine, thank you! ..../ssss
“people don’t listen to each other much”
Sounds like a good description of the Dems in Congress who enacted a health bill over persistent and undeniable public opposition to it.
Prove YOU’RE listening to the public, Mr. President. Since late May, those favoring repeal of Obamacare have outnumbered those who oppose repeal by double-digit percentages IN EVERY SINGLE POLL CONDUCTED. Prove you’re listening by telling the Democratic leadership in the Senate to enact the repeal bill that has already passed the House.
whatever great problems lincoln had were of his own making and he saw them as opportunities, not problems.
they are like peas of the same pod...
It’s so sad that a party that claims Jefferson as their own has strayed SO far from his beliefs and principles.
“I let Michelle have her way 90 per cent of the time”.
Is it just me...or doesn’t that make him...submissive?
Paging Byron, paging Byron.
“I let Michelle have her way 90 per cent of the time”.
Is it just me...or doesn’t that make him...submissive?
Paging Byron, paging Byron.
Besides which, the internet is a much more efficient use of time for news gathering. Despite the complaint recently in a dinosaur media outlet that the art of composition is in decline due to the increase in visual communications, it is the opposite that has happened. A small constellation of talented writers have made their mark in the blogosphere. These are voices that would not have been heard in the Jurassic period of dinosaur media rule.
Many people make the mistake of calling everything on the internet a “blog”.
It’s not so.
Blogs are crappy little pages of poorly crafted and misspelled
garbage “written” by porn aficionados who eat pizza rolls and
need plastic mattress liners.
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