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Barack Obama: even the mainstream media has given up on the hopey-changey stuff
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | May 30th, 2013 | Tim Stanley

Posted on 05/30/2013 7:46:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai

There was a time when Obama couldn’t get a bad headline in this town. Now he’s the new Nixon. I dropped out of writing about US politics three weeks ago to finish a book and, on my return, I discover that everything’s changed. The President has been hit not by one Watergate but by three—Benghazi, the IRS, the DOJ phone records scandal—and even the mainstream media has stopped treating him like the bringer of hope and change predicted in the Bible. He's not a Messiah; he's a very naughty boy.

It’s important to remember that Obama’s second term blues began long before the scandals broke. Although he won the 2012 election, the Democrats failed to take the House, and the Senate remained vulnerable to filibuster. That might not have been such a roadblock to legislation had the Prez not spent the election trashing his opponents, calling the Republicans everything from heartless SOBs to enablers of rape. The result was that he entered his second term despised by much of the Congress and so unable to get much done. Yes, he hardballed the GOP into accepting nominal tax increases, but he failed even to pass even the slenderest of gun control bills. His political capital was exhausted within weeks.

That left Obama with an aura of lonely moral authority. …

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hopeandchange; medialoveaffair; obama; toofarleft
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1 posted on 05/30/2013 7:46:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I look for the mainstream media to recover from their temporary attack of conscience, and begin supporting him again soon. I hope I am wrong, but the media have priors.


2 posted on 05/30/2013 7:51:31 PM PDT by Mark17 (My heart is in the Philippines, and soon I will be too.)
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To: Olog-hai
He's not a Messiah; he's a very naughty boy.

I love this article for the Life of Brian quote above all other merits.

3 posted on 05/30/2013 7:52:16 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - New Robin Hood book out!)
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To: Olog-hai

Because Obama is spying on them.
They didnt give a crap when it was those Tea Party gun-nut anti-IRS crazies being screwed.

But now they found out that Holder considers THEM ciminals.
That is different.


4 posted on 05/30/2013 7:53:00 PM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: Mark17

Um.... Im not sure about that.... They have been very verbal in mocking him publicly on twitter and blogs. I think now it will be a race for them to write the most damning stories they can.


5 posted on 05/30/2013 7:53:38 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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6 posted on 05/30/2013 7:55:44 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Obama-Ville - Land of The Freebies, Home of the Enslaved)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama is how you can tell the removal of Nixon was pure politics.


7 posted on 05/30/2013 7:58:08 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were violated...)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
Good catch!


8 posted on 05/30/2013 7:59:39 PM PDT by BBell (And Now for Something Completely Different)
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To: Olog-hai

“He “obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch,” observed Chris Matthews, a disenchanted liberal journalist who once said that those speeches sent “a thrill” up his leg.”


9 posted on 05/30/2013 7:59:39 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (The true Obama persona is emerging, the one from his first Presidential debate.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Olog-hai.
Although he won the 2012 election, the Democrats failed to take the House, and the Senate remained vulnerable to filibuster. That might not have been such a roadblock to legislation had the Prez not spent the election trashing his opponents, calling the Republicans everything from heartless SOBs to enablers of rape. The result was that he entered his second term despised by much of the Congress and so unable to get much done.
Not to mention that he's a criminal, as is Holder, and (among others of Zero's administration) various IRS thugs. Zero's demagoguery didn't start in 2011, or 2012, it has gone on throughout his faux-professional life.


10 posted on 05/30/2013 8:10:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Mark17
"...even the mainstream media has given up on the hopey-changey stuff"~snip~

"I look for the mainstream media to recover from their temporary attack of conscience, and begin supporting him again soon."

BINGO! They haven't stopped loving him for a second. Any seemingly derogatory comments they have made are pleas for help. They are begging him to get on track and act like the made for television president that they created. They will not turn on their own child.

11 posted on 05/30/2013 8:19:23 PM PDT by Baynative (Lord, keep one hand on my shoulder and the other over my mouth.)
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To: DoughtyOne
Obama is how you can tell the removal of Nixon was pure politics.

How true. Tagline-quality material. I would give it four Krauthammers.

12 posted on 05/30/2013 8:21:23 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Olog-hai

They’ve gone from the “Planet saving Lightbringer” to “Well, we don’t think he’s quite as bad as Nixon.”
Still protecting him but now it’s in lowered expectations land.


13 posted on 05/30/2013 8:24:18 PM PDT by Carl LaFong (Vera the possum is US.)
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To: Mark17

I wish you were going to be proven wrong, but I doubt it.


14 posted on 05/30/2013 8:51:42 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
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To: Olog-hai
Great article.

I doubt Obama will step down. I doubt he will be impeached.

He will take direction from the same person his mentor Saul Alinsky did.

15 posted on 05/30/2013 8:55:37 PM PDT by Slyfox (The red face of shame is proof that the conscience is still operational.)
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To: Olog-hai

Obama’s policies are now known as “Dopey and Mangy”. Much more accurate than before.


16 posted on 05/30/2013 8:57:58 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SunkenCiv; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...
Although he won the 2012 election

Vote fraud.

17 posted on 05/30/2013 9:07:39 PM PDT by thecodont
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18 posted on 05/30/2013 9:14:30 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

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19 posted on 05/30/2013 9:20:57 PM PDT by kanawa
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To: thecodont
Vote fraud.

Point blank, that what it was!



20 posted on 05/30/2013 9:39:45 PM PDT by rdb3 (I ain't got no grape jelly! I only have purple.)
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