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Media doesn't hold back on President Obama
Politico ^ | Sept 16, 2013 | By DYLAN BYERS

Posted on 09/16/2013 8:55:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson

President Barack Obama is damaging his presidency, weakening America’s standing in the world, and displaying “inexplicable” incompetence.

The media figure making those accusations isn’t Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh, Charles Krauthammer or Glenn Beck. The critic doesn’t host a right-wing talk show, anchor a Fox News program, or write for the pages of the Weekly Standard. In fact, he’s not even a conservative.

It’s Joe Klein, the Time Magazine political columnist. “Obama has lost some serious altitude: In the world, with the Congress, and most importantly with the American people,” Klein, a veteran journalist and political moderate, told POLITICO.

Klein isn’t alone: In recent months, and especially since the start of the Syria mess, Obama has been enduring some of the toughest and most widespread press criticism of his four-and-a-half years as president. It isn’t just coming from the usual suspects on the right. Increasingly, the skepticism is coming from the center and even from the left — from White House reporters, progressive editorial boards, foreign policy experts and MSNBC hosts.

And Obama has mostly himself to blame for the recent wave of media negativity (although the Republicans have been glad to lend a hand). To hear the press tell it, his handling of the Syria crisis has been confusing and contradictory at best, making him appear weak on the international stage. His administration’s persecution of whistleblowers and surveillance of the press are at odds with the promises he made as a candidate. His inability to push a progressive agenda through congress makes him appear ineffective.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epicfail; obama
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To: Jim Robinson

Isn’t Klein Hebrew for “Slow learner”?


21 posted on 09/16/2013 9:25:07 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Ignorance is not bliss. It is the road to serfdom.)
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To: Jim Robinson

It’s as if the left has stuck their foot in a big pile of steaming dog shit and waited for 5 years to start trying to wipe it off.


22 posted on 09/16/2013 9:29:06 PM PDT by Bullish (Psalm 46)
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To: Jim Robinson

I wouldn’t take Klein’s nasty statements about Obama too seriously. He’ll still vote for him over any Republican. Klein is the dope who thinks Republicans voted for Reagan to get back at black people. You can’t get more stupid than that.


23 posted on 09/16/2013 9:29:37 PM PDT by driftless2
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To: Jim Robinson

They did the same thing with Krinton - at some point in Krinton’s second term there was all this angst about “missed opportunities” and “squandered political capital” and such. I guess once the libs realize that the sea levels aren’t going down and the children of the world aren’t joining hands and singing Kumbaya or It’s a small world buyer’s remorse eventually and inevitable sets in. Just part of the natural cycle of things due to the inherent contradictions present in “liberalism”.


24 posted on 09/16/2013 9:37:34 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Jim Robinson

Blue Lips is vermin. Scum. Deserving of extermination — he and all those he brought into his sphere of influence.

To believe otherwise is to believe in the demise of America.


25 posted on 09/16/2013 9:38:40 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Back when this guy first came on the scene several people would say to me “Obama made a great speech.” I ask them what he said and they’d give me this blank stare.


26 posted on 09/16/2013 9:42:15 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: 3Fingas
...and be in full “rah-rah” mode for Hillary when she is running.

mrs. bill? really? You actually believe that moochele will not cast her name out there as the next "greatest" president when she has so 'obviously' been the rock upon which obamba has based his political career upon? Of course she will run against mrs bill -and win!

What, you lot don't think anyone will vote for moochele? You raycyst!

(/sarc) (*grin*)

27 posted on 09/16/2013 10:19:26 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: Dick Bachert

(psst! Not so loud, mate! Don’t you know he’s one of the ‘Flying Meshuganovs’?


28 posted on 09/16/2013 10:22:15 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mooslimbs trying to kill them-)
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To: 3Fingas
Klein used to be a theater critic for the NY Slimes.
29 posted on 09/16/2013 10:23:21 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Now that they’ve re-elected him, they can pretend objectivity.


30 posted on 09/16/2013 10:36:44 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Klein is better off remaining Anonymous.

-PJ

31 posted on 09/16/2013 10:40:38 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Jim Robinson

“...displaying “inexplicable” incompetence.”

It’s completely explicable: morons elected a community organizer! Who did they think they were getting, Winston Churchill???

Idiots!


32 posted on 09/16/2013 10:58:47 PM PDT by Stingray (Stand for the truth or you'll fall for anything.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Be careful. NEVER trust the socialist-liberal media.


33 posted on 09/16/2013 11:41:29 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

excellent response!


34 posted on 09/16/2013 11:52:49 PM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: Jim Robinson

Now that the media is taking a hard look at Obama, his staff will have to keep him hidden in the White House attic, like a crazy uncle.


35 posted on 09/16/2013 11:54:26 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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>> The critic doesn’t host a right-wing talk show, anchor a Fox News program... It’s Vladimir Putin, err... Joe Klein

So only then the criticism is legitimate...


36 posted on 09/16/2013 11:57:17 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: haroldeveryman
Now that the media is taking a hard look at Obama,

You're not really falling for this, are you?

37 posted on 09/17/2013 12:00:20 AM PDT by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: jmacusa
wrong Klein I think..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Klein

There was a Stewart Klein that was a movie critic,

http://www.celbcelb.com/bio/Stewart-Klein.html

38 posted on 09/17/2013 12:04:08 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: jmacusa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Klein

http://www.celbcelb.com/bio/Stewart-Klein.html


39 posted on 09/17/2013 12:05:05 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85)
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To: kevao

Any time that the Washington Press Corps isn’t slithering on the floor, squeeling as they fight for a chance to lick Barry’s shoes, I can bring myself to credit them with having taken “a hard look at Obama.”


40 posted on 09/17/2013 12:34:22 AM PDT by haroldeveryman
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