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Get Ready for the Obama Boomlet
The Atlantic ^ | December 15, 2014 | Peter Beinart

Posted on 12/15/2014 11:38:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Remember when pundits loved the president? The conditions are right for that old feeling to return.

Remember when pundits loved Barack Obama? It’s been quite a few years now. But I suspect some of the adoration is about to come back.

There are three reasons. The first is that politically, Obama’s immigration gamble is working. Fearful of alienating Hispanics or shutting down the government, Republican leaders have largely abandoned hope of overturning Obama’s move. What’s more, Obama’s approval ratings are up 15 points among Hispanics but have not dropped among Anglo whites. Add immigration to health-care reform and the fiscal stimulus and more commentators will start noticing that, whether you like Obama’s agenda or not, it’s been the most consequential of any Democratic president’s since Lyndon Johnson.

Second, and more importantly, the economy is improving. The third quarter saw the fastest job growth in three years, and the unemployment rate is now 5.8 percent, down from 10 percent in 2009. Gas prices are also plunging. And there’s evidence Americans are beginning to notice. As Time recently noted, consumer confidence has just hit its highest mark in eight years. Even if the improving economy doesn’t boost Obama’s approval rating, it’s likely to improve the way he’s seen by the Beltway press. And given the role a strong economy played in buoying Bill Clinton’s approval ratings in the late 1990s, despite the Monica Lewinsky scandal, it’s quite possible that Obama’s will rise too, which will further fuel the journalistic perception that Obama is back....

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; boehner; immigration; obama
It is to laugh.
1 posted on 12/15/2014 11:38:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The poor man never got the adoring press that Palin and Reagan, and George W. received, it is a testament to his courage that he managed to hold up to the onslaught of the media attacks on his every move and utterance, and the comedians ridiculing him every night.

I guess this late at night, I should be sure to label this sarcasm.


2 posted on 12/15/2014 11:47:01 PM PST by ansel12
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is this guy smoking? It seems to be powerful stuff. Wait until the impact of ObamaCare hits the major employers’ employees after the first of the year. . .


3 posted on 12/15/2014 11:52:55 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker
Wax, the ultimate distillation of marijuana, is so potent that it is said a single hit will keep a person high for more than a day.
4 posted on 12/16/2014 12:01:13 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-battle-on-whos-to-blame-for-gaza-deaths-gets-nasty-personal/


5 posted on 12/16/2014 12:16:19 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Swordmaker

Wait til the scandals start to leak out more! Wait until the Senate belongs to the GOP in January—wait until a new Terrorist attack and Americans die? Wait until Russia moves into Ukraine and captures Keiv. Wait until Baghdad falls to IS—and the rivers run with blood and heads. Wait for more problems rock the boat.


6 posted on 12/16/2014 12:19:13 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That is a grade a squish!


7 posted on 12/16/2014 12:20:29 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The first is that politically, Obama’s immigration gamble is working. Fearful of alienating Hispanics or shutting down the government, Republican leaders have largely abandoned hope of overturning Obama’s move.”

Can’t argue with him about that, as much as I would like to.

How many here predict that the RINOs that are going to run the House and the Senate will do anything about this come February?

Where he’s wrong is in thinking that just because the RINOs caved that the people caved as well and that all of a sudden they’re happy about what the dictator did.


8 posted on 12/16/2014 12:28:23 AM PST by aquila48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Any thing from The Atlantic should carry a Barf Alert.


9 posted on 12/16/2014 1:00:47 AM PST by TYVets
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait until Biden’s boast “We’re out of Afghanistan in 2014. Period. It doesn’t depend on conditions.” becomes “except for 10,800 troops. “ not involved in combat operations”—just sitting ducks waiting around to get blown up?


10 posted on 12/16/2014 1:09:16 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Even if the improving economy doesn’t boost Obama’s approval rating, it’s likely to improve the way he’s seen by the Beltway press.

Huh??? The Beltway press already suffers fecal poisoning from their servicing of Obamugabe.

11 posted on 12/16/2014 2:21:29 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Swordmaker

The author, Peter Beinart, used to work for the New Republic.

A child still at the age of 44, Peter wrote a book entitled “The Good Fight: Why Liberals-—and Only Liberals-—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again”.

So consider the source.


12 posted on 12/16/2014 2:24:01 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: ansel12

Come in Planet Earth. I am lost in space with a moon bat named Peter Beinhart. Calling Planet Earth. Do you hear me?


13 posted on 12/16/2014 2:40:05 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: WashingtonSource

“Wait til the scandals start to leak out more!”.....

There has been more than enough scandals to hang the bastard and his ilk. From where I sit, I see NOTHING will happen no matter how many scandals there are or ever will be. You think Clinton was the “Teflon President”? Clinton wasn’t even close to what the current clown has be allowed to get away with.


14 posted on 12/16/2014 3:43:51 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Journalism school must include some really potent drugs with the side-effect of withering away the cognitive parts of the brain.


15 posted on 12/16/2014 4:15:24 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Get Ready for the Obama Boomlet”

Get ready for more fake polls from the bed-wetting fascists. Seig heil!


16 posted on 12/16/2014 4:23:21 AM PST by sergeantdave
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