Posted on 07/09/2014 6:44:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
MSNBC host Chuck Todd assembled a panel of liberal-media veterans on his morning show "The Daily Rundown" Monday and joked that the assembled heavyweights presented "a nightmare scenario for Brent Bozell." But what these journalists proceeded to issue was a devastating indictment of the Obama presidency and a real nightmare for this president.
Carolyn Ryan, the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, brought up "the national funk we're in, the sort of national malaise." The word "malaise" is never a good word to be around if you're the president. But for President Barack Obama, who is now seen in polls as the worst president since World War II, worse than the Master of Malaise, Jimmy Carter, it's kryptonite.
Iraq's collapse and "this crisis on the border does go to this question of competence," Ryan said. With Obama's utter lack of clarity in his immigration policy, "I feel like it can be a negative for President Obama where it seems like so many things in this country just aren't working," Ryan added.
Todd agreed. "Boy, you can see that 30-second TV ad, right? You start with the health care rollout, you go to the VA, you go to Syria, you go to Iraq, and you can go to the border. You can draw a straight line."
Susan Page of USA Today found different storm clouds. She insisted that Obama will have to move harder to deport the tens of thousands of children illegally pouring over the border, action which will then hurt him with core constituencies that want more amnesty, not more crackdowns. "This is kind of a lose-lose for him, politically speaking."
Todd noted that Democrats don't want to go anywhere near the immigration issue right now. Then this whole panel agreed that it is incumbent that Obama go to the border during his upcoming Texas visit, because, as Page said, "This is a Katrina moment, right? ... You're going to a fundraiser, and you're not going to the border, where there's this crisis?"
Ouch. Hurricane Katrina is another metaphor Obama definitely does not want attached to his crumbling legacy. Dan Balz of the Washington Post underlined, "If he goes, he draws even more attention to the fact of the problem that they were unable to solve right now." Again, it's another lose-lose.
Obama certainly is relying on his historically pliant media not to discuss the need for a border visit. The options on the evening news are politically dreadful. Imagine the footage of the president visiting amidst the human squalor his inaction has caused.
Balz put the issue in a more historical context. "When we have seen these mass arrivals, it's hurt the party that's been in the White House badly." Todd agreed: "Always has. Every time." Todd reminded his audience that the Mariel boatlift of Cuban refugees in 1980 helped defeat Bill Clinton in the only election he ever lost. Many Cubans were kept at Fort Chaffee in western Arkansas.
The notion of Obama's incompetence in matters both foreign and domestic is really beginning to sink in with the press. Try as they might in their daily attempts to sugarcoat the bad news and/or blame it all on the Republicans, even the liberal news media can read the tea leaves.
They'll keep blowing the wind beneath Obama's crippled wings, but yesterday's gusto is gone.
Remember the national ‘malaise’ during the Carter administration?
Yes, I do. It was a mere passing shower compared to Obama’s tornado of destruction.
Took six years?
Obama’s Katrina moment in the malaise...
Sherlock Holmes--pick up the courtesy phone! You've got a challenger in the field of deductive reasoning.
Incompetence??
Yagottabekiddingme.
Coward/Piven is VERY alive, and doing VERY WELL, thanks to our Dear Leader Hussein.
beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, and so is incompetence.
first, Obama is not running the show, the puppet masters are. and i’m quite sure, they’re not stupid. second, does anyone believe anything, from the irs to the va to this border crisis, is not exactly as planned?
I can’t be sure of the true motives of that panel, but attacking a lame duck president is practically obligatory.
Ha! Incompetence? Well, that’s a NICE way to say it.
He is worthless and criminally ineffective. Americans expecting “O” to lead the most powerful national entity in the known universe is like handing a band aid to a hemophiliac.
The MSM geniuses should have spent more time on FR six years ago. We saw it coming then.
May I be blunt? All these “journalists” that are suddenly seeing the light about Obuma are doing nothing more than farting gas to clear the anal canal for the next turd they plan to dump on our heads. . the fecal matter called Hildabeast!!!!
When are people going to realize all of obama’s gaffes are intentional.?!
BTW calling Obama incompetent doesn't mean what it would for any other president. For him, being inept is the definition of success as it means the entire country suffers as a result.
They are always spinning. Mention of incompetence is only a cover for the other option for his behavior. Intentional.
I voted for Carter the first time around. I was a brainwashed young socialist. Carter turned me into a right wing extremist and I haven't voted for a democrat since.
Oh-ohbama has been an incompetent amateur since the day he laid his hand on the koran ... er, ... Bible ... and swore to uphold this nation’s laws. That didn’t stop liberals from re-electing him. With the full support and endorsement of the media that are now trying to distance themselves from his failures.
Since Obama’s stated goal is to “fundamentally transform the United States of America” and otherwise destroy the country as we know and love it, shouldn’t we want him to be incompetent?
It is also sinking America.
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