An ineffective and gutless presidency’s legacy is failure

Salon ^ | July 20, 2014 | THOMAS FRANK, yes that Thomas Frank

[TomGuy]

I am offended at that!

Outhouses serve a purpose.
Obama Libary serves propaganda.

[RipSawyer]

I’ll bet there are some REALLY crazy rats in that thing!

[RipSawyer]

...faculty lounge of a third rate university passing itself off as an ivy league school.”
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“Current evidence would seem to indicate that our ivy league schools ARE “third rate” universities now. Where would one go to find a genuine first rate university?

[Mears]

bfl

[driftless2]

You ought to read his book “What’s The Matter With Kansas?” like I did to discover incomprehensible. Basically, in this screed/article, Frank, like many radical leftists, laments that Obama is not Marxist enough for commies like Frank.

[NorthMountain]

Salon is wrong. As usual.

Barry Hussein is not “ineffective”, though “gutless” is probably correct. In any case, Barry Hussein is evil and destructive, and has been very effective in damaging America. All according to plan.

[Dr.Deth]

The author is upset that BO merely set the country on fire instead of blowing it to bits.

[Terry L Smith]

I agree.

[rdcbn]

You ought to read his book “What’s The Matter With Kansas?” like I did to discover incomprehensible. Basically, in this screed/article, Frank, like many radical leftists, laments that Obama is not Marxist enough for commies like Frank.

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It kind of ranks up there with Michelle Obama’s Princeton senior thesis which Christopher Hitchens commented on in Slate magazine

“I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be “read” at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language. “

[tet68]

So the Hard Left is about to unleash it’s fury on Barack Obama because he was the only one who could have saved Communism and he blew it?

there, fixed it for ya.

Really, that is what this article is saying...

[MHGinTN]

It is bull feces too, since the L4B regime is accomplishing just what it was installed to do, destroy the We The People Republic so that it will not hinder the globalist agenda ever again.

[EQAndyBuzz]

““Current evidence would seem to indicate that our ivy league schools ARE “third rate” universities now. Where would one go to find a genuine first rate university?”

Do it online. It costs less, there are no ideological machinations by the factulty and in the end, it’s an accredited degree.

[driftless2]

If you've read Frank's book, then you know what I'm talking about. He became (in)famous from that book. All his major arguments were refuted by a number of people including his statement that most Kansas conservatives vote for Republicans on social issues. Of course social issues are part of the reason, but the major reason the very religious, socially conservative, Kansas Republicans voted that way is on economic issues something Frank refuses to believe.

I don't know if he's the originator of the common leftist trope about people "voting against their own economic interests," but the idea that many Americans reject the suggestion to rely on the government for making their lives is something Frank just cannot comprehend.