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NY Times: Obama Just Too 'Complex' a 'Pragmatist' for Voters to Understand
Newsbusters ^ | 2/3/10 | Clay Waters

Posted on 2/3/2010, 6:27:43 PM by pissant

Is Barack Obama just too complex for voters to figure out? That was the premise behind the New York Times's Sunday Week in Review lead story by Richard Stevenson,“The Muddled Selling of the President.”

Stevenson denied Obama was a liberal (despite his push for government-supervised health care and $787 billion in “economic stimulus” spending), suggesting he was too “complex” for such a label. Further, he wondered if Obama's recent political struggles means it's no longer “possible to embrace complexity in a political and media culture that demands simple themes and promotes conflict?”

On this much, President Obama’s friends and foes could agree: He eludes simple labels.

Yes, he’s a liberal, except when he’s not. He’s antiwar, except for the one he’s escalating. He’s for bailouts, but wants to rein in the banks. He’s concentrating ever-more power in the West Wing, except when he’s being overly deferential to Congress. He’s cool, except when he’s fighting-hot.

In a world that presents so many fast-moving and intractable problems, nuance, flexibility, pragmatism -- even a full range of human emotions -- are no doubt good things. But as Mr. Obama wrapped up his State of the Union address on Wednesday night with an appeal to transcend partisan gamesmanship, he was plaintively testing a broader proposition: Is it possible to embrace complexity in a political and media culture that demands simple themes and promotes conflict?

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Yes, I've always considered rank marxists to be complex pragmatists....
1 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:27:43 PM by pissant
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To: pissant

I don’t get it.


2 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:28:28 PM by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: pissant

Them damn dumbass “voters” again..


3 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:29:17 PM by US Navy Vet
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To: Man50D

John F’n Kerry will come explain the nuance for you.


4 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:29:36 PM by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: pissant
This seems like a version of "It's a black thing -- you wouldn't understand."

Personally, I think I'm smart enough to understand the guy. He's a BS artist. Pure and simple.

5 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:29:40 PM by ClearCase_guy (I was born in America, but now I live in Declinistan.)
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To: pissant
Just like John Kerry was "too nuanced" for the average dummy to relate to.

These people are so arrogant and certain of their superiority they'll go to any lengths of stupidity to come with excuses for their failures.

6 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:30:17 PM by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: pissant
No, I know a practiced liar when I see one.
7 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:30:32 PM by Domangart (editor and publisher)
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To: pissant

i am getting really tired of the lame stream media telling we the people that we are too stupid to understand oblabo and his plans. they want us to shut up and sit down and do whatever we are told by those “smart people” in d.c. and i for one am sick of it.


8 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:30:45 PM by madamemayhem (defeat isn't getting knocked down, it's not getting back up)
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To: ClearCase_guy

If you need to spin someone’s personality in politics its because he IS clearly understood.

End of story.


9 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:31:11 PM by PittsburghAfterDark
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To: pissant

we have him figured out, totaaly


10 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:31:14 PM by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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That's right...we Massachusetts hicks who cling to our guns and religion...somehow managed to give him 63% of the vote in Nov 2008.But last month we only gave him 47% of the vote.We've obviously lost our way!
11 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:31:19 PM by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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Whenever the explaination is: “It’s just too complicated for you to understand.” That pegs the BS meter and bends the needle, (yeah, mine is still analog).

It reminds me when gas prices started to go crazy at the beginning of the last oil bubble. Freepers would come here and say: “Oil pricing is just too complicated for you to understand.” Which really meant: “Speculation is picking your pocket.”


12 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:31:32 PM by brownsfan (The average American: Uninformed, and unconcerned.)
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To: pissant
What is so pragmatist to disagree with a communist, socialist, America Hating, guy born in Mombassa.
13 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:32:00 PM by dancusa (Political Correctness is a firewall to the truth.)
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To: pissant

The higher the media places Obama on the pedestal, the much harder the fall will be and like humpty-dumpty, NO ONE will be able to put him back together.


14 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:32:58 PM by Le Chien Rouge
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To: pissant

Wow. I just threw up in my mouth a little.

So just to clarify... the NY Slimes is suggesting that the reason I see PO__S as an inexperienced, incompetent, floundering, marxist dictator wannabe, is due to his “complex pragmatism.”

What color is the sky in these people’s world?


15 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:33:54 PM by Common Sense 101
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“Is Barack Obama just too complex for voters to figure out?”

No, the American voter has simply figure out, they cannot fix stupid.


16 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:35:37 PM by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: pissant

“LIAR” about sums it up nicely.


17 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:35:59 PM by Redleg Duke
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To: pissant

Of all the adjectives they used to cover Obama’s abject incompetence, had they said Obama is “special”, that I would agree.


18 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:37:29 PM by 240B (he is doing everything he said he would'nt and not doing what he said he would)
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To: pissant

Too simple an ideologue is 0bummer, methinks.


19 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:38:54 PM by Uncle Miltie (Liberal Massachussetts says: "FUBO!")
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To: pissant

Chauncy Gardner Syndrome


20 posted on 2/3/2010, 6:40:17 PM by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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