Is MSNBC Falling Out of Love with Obama?

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[Michael van der Galien]

Is leftist network MSNBC falling out of love with President Obama? It certainly looks like it.

Keith Olbermann, for instance, was less than impressed with Obama’s BP speech. “It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days,” the man who became (in)famous for doing everything in his power to discredit and disgrace conservatives said on his show yesterday. When guest Howard Fineman asked Olbermann whether he believed Obama had aimed too low, he responded: ”I don’t think he aimed low, I don’t think he aimed at all. It’s startling.”

A little later he quoted Obama as saying: “Our determination to fight for the America we want for our children, even if we’re unsure exactly what that looks like, even if we don’t yet know yet how we’re going to get there, we know we will get there.” Olbermann: “It’s nice, but again, how? Where is the how in this speech, when the nation is crying out for how?“

If you wouldn’t know any better, you’d almost think that it’s 2006, rather than 2010, and that George W. Bush instead of Obama is the president.

And Olbermann isn’t the only MSNBC hack suddenly becoming critical of the man once heralded by him and his fellow leftists as a secular Messiah. Even Chris Matthews finally realizes that the “thrill” he felt up his leg when listening to Obama giving speeches during the 2008 campaign, “was probably a stroke” (h/t the Daily Caller).

“I don’t sense executive command,” Matthews said about Obama’s handling of the BP oil spill.

[b4its2late]

Now he’s just fat.

[Jim Scott]

As much as I welcome brain-dead leftist media hacks questioning their pathetic tin god, Obama, we all know this won't last long. Obama personifies everything they believe, mainly authoritarianism with a smiley face. Frankly, in political terms, they really have nowhere else to go. I see this brief loss of confidence as just what it is: a fleeting moment of clarity, soon buried under chanted ideological mantras, i.e. "he's so brilliant and he cares soooooo much".

[ilovesarah2012]

Yep. Sad.:( LOL

[reagan_fanatic]

I ‘m all out of love, I’m so lost without you
I know you were right believing for so long
I ‘m all out of love, what am I without you
I can’t be too late to say that I was so wrong

I want you to come back and carry me home
Away from this long lonely nights
I’m reaching for you, are you feeling it too
Does the feeling seem oh so right
And what would you say if I called on you now
And said that I can’t hold on
There’s no easy way, it gets harder each day
Please love me or I’ll be gone, I’ll be gone

[VRW Conspirator]

This is easily the smartest political leader I have ever seen, as good a political public speaker as I've heard, + last October I was privileged along with 11 other newspeople to spend 2 hours with him as he showed extemporaneous mastery of every one of two dozen topics fired at him by us in random order.

Gotta give Olberman credit for being able to talk with his mouth full.

[Republic of Texas]

He’s just not Communist enough for their taste. Right now. He’ll come around though.

[Interesting Times]

PMSNBC fears that Obama is turning out to be an ineffective purveyor of Marxism.

[colorado tanker]

And rich.

[b4its2late]

[fish hawk]

Don’t forget Mo Dowd. Make that a trio.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Much ado about a temporary thing

I’m not so sure. They appear to be in the process of concluding he is an incompetent failure on the Jimmy Carter model. If they reach that conclusion, and the result means another quarter-century out of power, they will throw him under the bus faster than you can say Hillary.

[anniegetyourgun]

They will be accused of being racists...and nothing makes leftists wither faster. Besides, he’s not failed them in exacting their agenda. They just don’t realize that it’s really his agenda he’s exacting, and he doesn’t give a rip what they think either.

[ilovesarah2012]

Getting old sucks.

[BuckeyeTexan]

A liberal said to me the other day that he wished W were in charge of this mess. His reason? W would do everything in his power to keep BP from destroying itself because of the potential domino effect upon oil production in the U.S. And that in protecting his big oil buddies he’d be cleaning up the mess, preventing any further mess, and putting people to work.

?????

I was speechless.

[Don@VB]

Why arn’t these Lefty Hacks branded as Racist for being critical of Zero?? If you are a Tea Party Member and disagree with him, that’s your label by default.

[b4its2late]

Yes it does.......

[Star Traveler]

Here's the full text of President Obama's speech about the BP disaster/gusher in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Obama's Remarks To Nation On Oil Spill [Full Text]

[GonzoGOP]

Once November nears, they will of course do thier solemn duty for their messiah.

They are not devoted to Obama, but to the cause. So long as Obama was helping the cause they saw him as the Messiah. Now that Obama, through his hubris, incompetence, and stupidity, has become an impediment to the case they will turn on him with all the fury of a lover scorned. They are devoted socialists. If the destruction of Obama is necessary for the furtherance of their cause they will destroy him without hesitation.

[truth_seeker]

More fruitful than expecting to change a liberal’s mind is for conservatism to “perform” well and win over independents, the fastest growing voter group in many areas.

Smaller, fiscally responsible and competent government is the winning message.

The dems are stacking up a pile of problems to answer for.

—bad economy
—unemployment
—oil spill response
—corruption
—continuing war quagmire

[bt_dooftlook]

...but it beats dying young...just sayin’