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It's time for Obama to take off the kid gloves
Los Angeles Times ^ | 9-24-09 | Michael Hiltzik

Posted on 09/25/2009 5:30:08 AM PDT by radioone

Obama seems to believe that if he explains his positions slowly and clearly enough, their fundamental logic will inevitably win the day without the need for arm-twisting.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: cracked; enemedia; liberalmedia; lsm; mediabias; obama; obamedia; politics
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Okay, I read the article TWICE. The 2nd time SLOWLY. I still don't get it.
1 posted on 09/25/2009 5:30:09 AM PDT by radioone
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To: radioone

It’s time for Alfred E. Newman to take off the Obama mask.


2 posted on 09/25/2009 5:32:50 AM PDT by MortMan (Stubbing one's toes is a valid (if painful) way of locating furniture in the dark.)
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To: radioone

I just threw up in my mouth a little


3 posted on 09/25/2009 5:33:26 AM PDT by The_Sword_of_Groo (Dum spiramus tuebimur - "While We Have Breath, We Will Defend")
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To: radioone
Then you're gonna just loooove this...

Michael Hiltzik

From the link...

Mr. Hiltzik and Times Staff Writer Chuck Philips received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for their articles exposing corruption in the entertainment industry, particularly in the recorded music business.

Ironic, eh?

4 posted on 09/25/2009 5:36:16 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: radioone
He think so far obama has been a nice guy. Too cerebral.

He subscribes to the Senator Susan Collins School of Intellectual Debate. Speak s-l-o-w-l-y and your audience will think you're smart

Maybe the LA Times thinks it's time for Dear Leader to send SEIU purple people beaters into those crowds of evil mongering seniors. And maybe even to attack Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh and FOX News.

Oh wait...

5 posted on 09/25/2009 5:37:28 AM PDT by silverleaf (If we are astroturf, why are the democrats trying to mow us?)
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To: radioone
There is a huge amount wrong with this piece. But this is my favorite:

The president's coolness in the face of the right wing's relentlessly anti-intellectual assault on his policies has been impressive as a display of character.

This is basically a lead-in to the author's point -- The folks who want to go slowly and actually discuss the merits of the plan are "anti-intellectuals". The proper approach, the more thoughtful approach, is to bring the hammer down, ram it through Congress, and go nuclear if that's what it takes.

I think it's appropriate to point out that it was a hallmark of the fascists that they despised debate -- don't talk about things -- do things! Action! Action! Action! Effeminate intellectuals discuss policy! We implement policy!

6 posted on 09/25/2009 5:37:58 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: mewzilla
Meanwhile....

New ACORN Scandal:Illegal use of Funds

7 posted on 09/25/2009 5:38:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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He calls everyone who exposed his constant LIES as liars. He tells people who oppose him to shut up and stay on the side lines so he can enacts his socialist agenda. He send his goons and the media to destroy any opposition to him, they call those who protest his socialism and appeasement as Nazis, mob, un-American, etc... and yet this left wing lunatic journalists think that Obama did not take his gloves yet?

He not only took his gloves but he has bloodied the political scenes in America in a Chicago style thuggery that no other President has done it before or even came close to do it.

8 posted on 09/25/2009 5:38:20 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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Dear, merciful God in heaven, how many times have I seen local Democrats fail to get elected or else have their pet issues fail to pass on election day, with this same tired response?

It is never, "By the laws of a democratic society, our ideas were voted out as being inferior by the electorate. We will try to identify new ideas more in line with what the people want." It is always, "We failed to get our message out. Surely, if we had, you local idiots who are barely capable of signing your own name to vote would have certainly been awed by the power and majesty of the new opressive, limiting, strangling, weighty laws we have in our divine wisdom ordained for you. What a damn pity we have to go through this charade of acting like we care about your opinion every election day in order to get our police state in place where it should be."

9 posted on 09/25/2009 5:38:27 AM PDT by 50sDad (The Left cannot understand life is not in a test tube. Raise taxes, & jobs go away.)
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To: radioone
He calls everyone who exposed his constant LIES as liars. He tells people who oppose him to shut up and stay on the side lines so he can enact his socialist agenda. He sends his goons and the media to destroy any opposition to him, they call those who protest his socialism and appeasement as Nazis, mob, un-American, etc... and yet this left wing lunatic journalist thinks that Obama has not taken his gloves yet?

He not only took his gloves but he has bloodied the political scenes in America in a Chicago style thuggery that no other President has done it before or even came close to do it.

10 posted on 09/25/2009 5:40:37 AM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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This guy obviously prefers CWII to settle the question.

It's Time to Part Company

11 posted on 09/25/2009 5:42:22 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance...)
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To: radioone

Hey, Michael, Dear Leader will never be able to speak slowly and cleary enough for us dumb anti-intellectuals to understand him.


12 posted on 09/25/2009 5:43:49 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Love my country. Hate my government./Barack Obama: An authentic "African American.")
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To: mewzilla; radioone
Then a follow up in 2006 from that Pulitzer Prize Winner, Michael Hiltzik

Famous Blogger Busted Faking Reader Comments

"Pulitzer Prize-winning L.A. Times columnist MICHAEL HILTZIK was caught posing as a reader, defending his own column and attacking his own critics under a pseudonym. The Times SUSPENDED HIS BLOG."

http://www.therawfeed.com/2006_04_01_archive.html

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That means we will have to be on the look out today for someone signing up to defend this dweeb's work

;)

13 posted on 09/25/2009 5:44:45 AM PDT by Sparko (Obama & Czars: perverting the Constitution & neutering the American Voter.)
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To: radioone
Keep talking 0. Every appearance chips away at your support.
14 posted on 09/25/2009 5:45:52 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. V for victory)
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To: 50sDad

Very nice rendition of the Liberal mindset.


15 posted on 09/25/2009 5:46:49 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: Sparko

Whoa! Great find. Jeez louise, is that guy a piece of work...


16 posted on 09/25/2009 5:47:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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I think I got it: Slowly now......The Democrats are in the majority of the House and Senate, and it’s STILL the Republican’s fault.


17 posted on 09/25/2009 5:47:58 AM PDT by radioone
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Interesting considering Couric just whined that O has NOT explained the details on health care and that is why the public is not on board.


18 posted on 09/25/2009 6:00:27 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: radioone

Othuggo hasn’t taken the gloves off yet because ... why? ... he hasn’t had his goons machine gun us down in the streets yet? ... he hasn’t had his goons put us into concentration camps yet?


19 posted on 09/25/2009 6:01:29 AM PDT by webschooner (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win -- Mahatma Gandhi)
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To: mewzilla
LOL, indeed.

Remember when there would be a post about some *sshole in the news and inevitably someone as a joke would sign up to post something like the following (always misspelled and sometimes 2 months or 2 years after the original post)?

"I am a niegbor of Michael Hiltzik. I am surpised at the comments directed at him by you people. I have know Michael since he was 3 years old. He always keeps his lawn cut neetly and is quite on Sundays. Mike is a fine person and would never say anything that does not reperesent the truth. He has too dogs and a cat."

20 posted on 09/25/2009 6:04:08 AM PDT by Sparko (Obama & Czars: perverting the Constitution & neutering the American Voter.)
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