Monday: Around the political blogosphere

Turning Point: Couric Rips Obama

From Newsmax.com

Katie Couric may be best known for her unflattering interview with Sarah Palin. But her nightly news broadcast this past Monday night may be an indicator that the big liberal media are now turning their guns on Obama.

Couric said on “CBS Evening News” that Americans are growing “disenchanted” with Obama and are openly questioning his credibility.

“Is the honeymoon over?” anchor Couric said at the beginning of her correspondent’s report.

“Although President Obama has been in office less than a year, many Americans are growing disenchanted with his handling of the enormous problems he and the country are facing, from healthcare to unemployment to Afghanistan.

“His poll numbers are sliding, and at least one poll shows his job approval rating has fallen, for the first time, below 50 percent.”

Correspondent Chris Reid chimed in: “The president is getting battered on everything from the economy to foreign policy. Some polls show Americans are increasingly questioning his credibility.”

The report asserted that while Obama talks about dealing with unemployment, which is over 10 percent and expected to rise, he has developed “no new ideas” for dealing with the problem.

CBS also cited a poll showing that only 14 percent of Americans believe Obama’s claim that healthcare reform won’t add to the budget deficit, and only 7 percent believe that the stimulus has created any jobs at all.

The report also criticized the president for being “indecisive” on Afghanistan, and for returning from his recent Asian trip “with little to show for it.”

An expert was quoted as describing his trip as the “amateur hour,” as he did not line up agreements with foreign countries before venturing abroad.

So much for the theory that Obama always gets a free pass from the liberal media. Will we see Obama whining like Palin that the press is always picking on him?

Frankly, he should be scrutinized as any other politician or government employee. And then, give me the assessment and results free from bias, propaganda, and conservative or liberal agendas and slants.

Frankly, I am becoming disenchanted with him too, primarily with his handling of the Wall Street Bailout, WTO and foreign policy that undercuts American workers and industry.

I am still willing to give him a chance, simply because any human would have a hell of a mess to clean up after Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Little Bush and the idiots in Congress have run this country into the ground with deregulation and corporate ass-kissing.

But if Obama is just another status quo big bank ass kisser, I will spare no political effort to see that he is a one-termer.

Then we wouldn't have this guy in office right now.

Now they'll go after him now that it's too late.

What true facts should the media have reported about Obama that would have swayed the election in your opinion, dan?

and please, no "birther" stuff.

Please do tell us what evil Reagan did to destroy our nation and the Free World?

By the way, I made it abundantly clear once before that I thought the birther conspiracy had no legs. If it had, Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff would have been all over it.

Dan, is this a serious question?

Please do tell us what evil Reagan did to destroy our nation and the Free World?

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OK, destroy is a little strong, but please explain why the Reagan administration was trading guns with a country Bush II called part of the axis of evil.

Why did we "invade" Grenada? What had happened two weeks before? And, what were those troops doing in Lebanon in the first place?

What did the Reagan Administration do to stop the genocide in Guatemala?

On the home front, the Reagan administration only rivals the Nixon Administration in the number of high-ranking Presidential nominees indicted and convicted for corruption in office.

And, let's not forget it was the Reagan
Administration that created huge budget deficits with tax cuts for the rich. It took Clinton to finally end them.

This says more about the quality of Palin's ghostwriter, which, of course, reflects on Palin's (in)ability to pick qualified people.

The following can be found here.

In Going Rogue, there is an interesting quotation from John Wooden.

Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with their lives.

However, it was John Wooden Legs, a Native American activist. Here is the actual quote:

Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it--with their life. My people and the Sioux defeated General Custer at the Little Big Horn.

The Huffington Post writer notes Palin's crack set of incompetent writers got the false quote from here. Scoll 4/5s of the way down the page.

. . . the way libs spend half their time insisting Palin is a nobody, and the other half scrutinizing her every word.

Reminds me of the table groupings in a middle school lunch room.

bb,
Your killing me.
"Reminds me of the table groupings in a middle school lunch room."

That is just funny stuff.

hey, i love the guy.