Posted on 12/30/2011 1:25:43 PM PST by thecodont
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And yet, here we are at the end of 2011, with Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and discussion boards still teeming with intemperate quick takes. President Obama has taken considerable heat this year, but isn't it too soon to accuse him of being an ineffectual leader? Isn't that one lesson from the Tucson incident?
On a Christmas Day episode of "GPS" on CNN, Fareed Zakaria interviewed Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough, who reminded us that it's too early to cast Obama's legacy in stone. Here's an excerpt from their interview:
I admire him very much, and I think that his -- his time in office presented him with problems such as very few presidents have ever had to address. And given the complexity and the gravity of those problems, I think he's handled himself very well. My -- my hat goes off to him, my heart goes out to him. […]
All of our -- all of our best presidents, without exception, have had a sense of history, and I don't think that's coincidental. And one of the things that a sense of history gives to a person is not just an appreciation, an understanding of what happened before we came along, but the realization that we, too, are a part of history and we, too, are going to be judged by history. […]
And that's extremely important. Today's polls, today's -- tomorrow's headlines, are not going to matter.
Zakaria agreed: "[W]e cannot really tell the quality of a leader judged from the noise of the present. We need time and perspective."
(Excerpt) Read more at opinion.latimes.com ...
A 25 year old bar fly?
Why does the LAT think anyone would give a damn what she her opinion is?
Or perhaps “lounge lizard” would be the correct appellation.
Ann Barnhardt calls him Mrs Reggie Love. That’s funny.
Why does the LAT think anyone would give a damn what she her opinion is?
It's that all-important youth vote. BO's campaign mgrs. fear that the "youth" who helped him into office in '08 will be staying home this time around.
No, it’s not too late - the first thing he did was to eliminate all Christian symbols from his world, eliminate the National Day of Prayer and replace it with post Ramadon breakfast for the muslim world, bow to all islamic leaders, insult British leaders/people, insult - to the extreme - the Jewish leader and world.
I think it’s high time we recognize that HE is an insult.
Sometimes in the context of history, mistakes/disasters are obvious.
Well, he DID argue for the continuance of the “Bush Tax Cuts” last winter. That’s 1% approval of his administration for me. Credit where credit is due.
I’m the 99%.
No, not too soon! All I can remember is his standing, calling for all Democrats to vote for that awlful health insurance bill that the majority did not want. It has been 2 years since that bill passed, but, because of how it was programmed, most will not feel the effects until after the election to come.
The Democrats made it that way so as to get re-elected. They figure most will forget how they ram-rodded it down our throats by 2012. Then, when the tax increases come after the election, they figure most will forget by 2016. What they are not counting on is the memory of people like me, who will remember the unanimous vote for that horrible bill. Who will remember Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid working with Obama to cram that down our gullets. We remember and will not forget for a simple election. The news is pushing Obama, just like they were in 2010. They have a bigger surprise coming this time.
knuckle dragging
Nope. . .describes me to a T.
Some barf alerts are self-evident.
You know you have a lemon while you are driving that lemon.
He is right in some regards. For instance: there was a time that I thought Jimmy Carter was the worst President that could ever be. I am finding, that belief, tempered with time and perspective may have been wrong.
Is it too soon to send him to Leavenworth?
There’s no end to the lies and their deliberate stupidity. He’s cut America’s throat, we’re lying there bleeding to death, and they’re saying he did us a favor. And it’s Bush’s fault, anyway. They’re insane.
If this is a double post, I apologize. (It’s hard to see when you’re foaming at the mouth.) My point was that Fox this morning couldn’t find enough excuses for an idiot president who does nothing but golf and vacation while the country suffers. And if you complain, like Romney, you’re mean. They did mention Christie’s comments, but characterized that as ‘street talk’. Hello? When does plain speaking and telling the truth add up to vulgar behavior? I think they’re all afraid of being called racists for calling a fool a fool. They ought to call him a muslim as well.
Thank you for the additions. I always leave out granny-killing.
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