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Fineman: A Turning Tide? (establishment worried "president may not have what it takes")
Newsweek ^ | Mar 10, 2009 | Howard Fineman

Posted on 03/10/2009 7:39:55 PM PDT by GOPGuide

Surfer that he is, President Obama should know a riptide when he's in one. The center usually is the safest, most productive place in politics, but perhaps not now, not in a once-in-a-century economic crisis.

Swimming in the middle, he's denounced as a socialist by conservatives, criticized as a polite accommodationist by government-is-the-answer liberals, and increasingly, dismissed as being in over his head by technocrats.

Luckily for Obama, the public still likes and trusts him, at least judging by the latest polls, including NEWSWEEK's.But, in ways both large and small, what's left of the American establishment is taking his measure and, with surprising swiftness, they are finding him lacking.

They have some reasons to be concerned. I trace them to a central trait of the president's character: he's not really an in-your-face guy.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho2009; bho44; democrats; emptysuit; establishment; fineman; finemean; first100days; firstrealjob; impeachzero; obama; onthejobtraining; overwhelmed; unfit; weakling
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To: DB
What does he think the federal take over of health care is???

Don't forget the fed take over of the banks.

81 posted on 03/10/2009 10:06:54 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
And I don’t mind saying, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of worshipers in the cult of personality.

Unfortunately, they've locked us in the trunk and forced us to go along for this ride.

82 posted on 03/10/2009 10:09:51 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: caseinpoint
His words are in your face, his actions are behind the back.

His words and actions are diametrically opposed. In every case! This is the asshat who called the stimupork "a well-planned and disciplined bill".

83 posted on 03/10/2009 10:12:34 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: ken21
fineman says obama is no socialist.

right.

Come on! BO SAID he wasn't a socialist, that's certainly good enough for me!

84 posted on 03/10/2009 10:15:58 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: 5thGenTexan

You’re right....there are huge consequences of succumbing to this “historical election” crap and all the imagery BOs people used. I blame the media.


85 posted on 03/10/2009 10:18:14 PM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: FrogMom

Was it his mentor Lenin or someone else who said, tell a lie, tell it often and it will be accepted as truth. Frankly, I have little doubt that Obama believes gutting capitalism is the best thing he can do for the country and that taking the heat right now is part of what he considers “discipline” to stay the course against public outcry.


86 posted on 03/10/2009 10:22:33 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: FrogMom

“These people need a dose of reality.”

Alternately, voters need one.


87 posted on 03/10/2009 10:24:17 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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To: caseinpoint

Wasn’t that Hitler’s propagandist? Goebbels, I think.


88 posted on 03/10/2009 10:41:25 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: WoofDog123

They’ve got it now!


89 posted on 03/10/2009 10:41:57 PM PDT by FrogMom (No such thing as an honest democrat!)
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To: Prole

bump that


90 posted on 03/10/2009 10:56:57 PM PDT by txhurl (ralph...)
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To: GOPGuide
I think this is my favorite line:

Obama is no socialist

Doesn't it occur to people like Fineman that there might be a reason they have to keep telling us this?

I have no strong opinion on Fineman, but sometimes in his articles he seems to be stretching, and this is one of those times. The whole piece is unfocused, like he's trying to say everything's fine, or give Obama advice, but doesn't really have much to say.

Saying he's not an in-your-face guy doesn't make it so,Howard. Obama is as rude and smug as a math team member who's just won homecoming king by mistake and keeps crowing about it.

91 posted on 03/10/2009 11:21:30 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life atheist behind enemy lines in Boston and Cambridge)
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To: GOPGuide

He’s also not “in the center” of any political movement, save socialism. To Fineman, that is the center.


92 posted on 03/10/2009 11:26:29 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: GOPGuide; All
The Teleprompter Messiah®.

Or. click the picture:







93 posted on 03/11/2009 1:27:41 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: GOPGuide

This guy is delusional!


94 posted on 03/11/2009 3:14:27 AM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: romanesq

I checked this morning before I left for work, final poll tally was at 60% “F”

Wonder if “Got a tingle” Chris Mathews will report on that one? Oh wait, that would be “reporting”. That’s not his job!


95 posted on 03/11/2009 4:15:11 AM PDT by Sunshine54 (Sunshine54)
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To: FrogMom

You might be right.


96 posted on 03/11/2009 4:29:15 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things)
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To: Da Coyote

How did loon’s wife graduate from Princeton with that dreadful thesis of hers? My 7th grader could construct a paragraph better than that.


97 posted on 03/11/2009 6:32:13 AM PDT by autumnraine (Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose- Kris Kristoferrson VIVA LA REVOLUTION!)
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To: livius

That would be a “bully” - like Clinton,

getting in the faces of those who had no power to confront him.


98 posted on 03/11/2009 6:36:11 AM PDT by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: potlatch

99 posted on 03/11/2009 7:28:43 AM PDT by devolve (-- When Hussein II goes to the john - It is a "summit" --)
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To: potlatch

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2203912/posts?page=93#93


100 posted on 03/11/2009 7:32:25 AM PDT by devolve (-- When Hussein II goes to the john - It is a "summit" --)
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