Posted on 01/24/2009 9:01:11 PM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush's unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government.
"What an opportunity we have to change this country," the Democrat told his senior staff after his inauguration. "The American people are really counting on us now. Let's make sure we take advantage of it."
In the highly scripted first days of his administration, Obama overturned a slew of Bush policies with great fanfare. He largely avoided cultural issues; the exception was reversing one abortion-related policy, a predictable move done in a very low-profile way.
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No problem here. I don't subscribe to one. Not even to line the bird cage.
I saw this all day. Slugs like Graham and McCain give them cover to say this. “Well, closing Gitmo *is* bipartisan! Graham and McCain are for it!” Like they represent the GOP. Then again, maybe they do.
Only as it exists today.
Did Liz Sidoti fellate Obama before or after she had this nonsense published?
AP doing damage control....
Typical AP column, utterly devoid of shame.
If its not divisive why are some people pissed off
they’ve had this story on the front page of my yahoo email for 3 days now whenever i login, this is too sick.
These are frightening words.
For the last 6 months he has been telling people exactly what he is going to do. But, no one is really listening...
That’s how it usually is just before the end comes...
CA....
Although we all know that the media supports Obama more than he supports himself the media still surprises us with the level of insanity that they have reached such as in this insane article.
nothing at all divisive about “I won” or telling Republicans to stop listening to Rush...;)
Man, I’d love to have the kneepad contract for the LameStream Media. They’re going to be buying them by the truckful.
This person is scary. Deluded. Typical AP writer.
Somewhere they surely have missed the “TRUTH”.
I didn’t know that AP employed comedy writers.
“He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government.”
LOL!!!!
My name for this is spineless.
Of course I could be wrong and it is simply indecisiveness.
one begats the other
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