Posted on 04/03/2010 7:17:21 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
NOT since Clark Kent changed in a phone booth has there been an instant image makeover to match Barack Obama’s in the aftermath of his health care victory. “He went from Jimmy Carter to F.D.R. in just a fortnight,” said one of the “Game Change” authors, Mark Halperin, on MSNBC. “Look at the steam in the man’s stride!” exclaimed Chris Matthews. “Is it just me, or does Barack Obama seem different since health care passed?” wrote Peter Beinart in The Daily Beast, which, like The Financial Times, ran an illustration portraying the gangly president as a newly bulked-up Superman.
What a difference winning makes — especially in America. Whatever did (or didn’t) get into Obama’s Wheaties, this much is certain: No one is talking about the clout of Scott Brown or Rahm Emanuel any more.
But has the man really changed — or is it just us? Fifteen months after arriving at the White House, Obama remains by far the most popular national politician in the country, even with a sub-50 percent approval rating. And yet he’s also the most enigmatic. While he is in our face more than any other figure in the world, we still aren’t entirely sure what to make of him.
Depending on where you stand — or the given day — he is either an overintellectual, professorial wuss or a ruthless Chicago machine pol rivaling the original Boss Daley. He is either a socialist redistributing wealth to the undeserving poor or a tool of Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs elite. He is a terrorist-coddling, A.C.L.U.-tilting lawyer or a closet Cheneyite upholding the worst excesses of the Bush administration’s end run on the Constitution.
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Watch as he is deflated by the up-coming elections. Before its done he will look like the black guy on the Uncle Ben’s rice box.
Frank Rich is consistent. I’ll give him that.
He’s a phony affirmative action president who hasn’t worked an honest day in his life.
Super Barf is right!
And they wonder why no one reads the NYT anymore.
Frank Rich just gets down on his knees....
Success? The man is a God!!!!!! Greatest president EVER!!!
His favorite position.
Sounds like Rich’s tingle in his leg has flared up again.
He’s still Jimmy Carter on steroids.
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BUMP!
It's just you.
There are actually people who still pay to read the NYT.
That is absolutely fascinating.
‘Comrades! Attention, comrades! We have glorious news for you. Observe the steam in Big Brother’s stride! All over America this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to Barack Obama for the new, happy life which his wise leadership has bestowed upon us!’
Chris Tingleman
Great graphic!
frank rich wears a stained blue jacket.
LLS
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