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The Thrill Is Gone:NYT:Obama’s Relationship With America Is Growing Sour
New York Times ^ | June 18, 2010 | Charles M. Blow

Posted on 06/19/2010 7:59:26 AM PDT by lbryce

President Obama’s relationship with America, like many a young marriage, is growing sour.

That’s my surmise after reviewing recent polling and watching the carping that followed his Oval Office speech (which I thought was just fine, by the way).

It is becoming increasingly apparent that the magic has drained away. Even among his most ardent supporters, there now exists a certain frustration and disillusionment — not necessarily in the execution of his duties, but in his inability to seize moments, chart a course and navigate the choppy waters of public opinion.

What’s left for many is a big plume of disappointment and sadness lurking just beneath the surface.

Desperate to escape eight-years of an abusive relationship with a reckless cowboy and scared by a calculating John McCain who chose a feckless running mate, America was charmed by Obama’s supernal speeches and inspired by his vision of a happier ever after.

But once the marriage was official, reality set in and Obama tried to lower expectations. Life would not be lit by the soft glow of an eternal sunrise. Change would come slowly; pain would be felt presently; things would get worse before they got better.

In addition, he had to make tough choices (and not always the right ones) to steer us out of our darkest hour and secure a better future. He wasn’t always elegant in method or clear in message, and that allowed the more cynical side of America to find a footing and feed its fear.

This has left many on the left duking it out in a death match of finger-pointing, back-biting and navel-gazing. They have gone from applauding to defending, a turn many secretly resent and increasingly reject.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americahater; bho44; blamethedeckchairs; buyersremorse; kenyanborn; liberalidiots; mediabias; newyorkslimes; obama; obamalaise; sixth100days
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A USA Today/Gallup poll released earlier this week found that 73 percent of Democrats thought that the president had not been tough enough in dealing with BP in regards to the oil spill. That was the same as the percentage of Republicans who thought so.

Even the NY Slimes allows the light of truth to illuminate reality.

1 posted on 06/19/2010 7:59:26 AM PDT by lbryce
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To: lbryce

How could a socialist Muslim have trouble maintaining a relationship with a Judeo/Christian democracy?


2 posted on 06/19/2010 8:02:34 AM PDT by hometoroost (Proverbs 8:36 - All those who hate me love death.)
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To: lbryce

“President Obama’s relationship with America, like many a young marriage, is growing sour. Charles M. Blow”

“That’s my surmise after reviewing recent polling and watching the carping that followed his Oval Office speech (which I thought was just fine, by the way).”

Hey, hey...doing what Charles does best....


3 posted on 06/19/2010 8:03:45 AM PDT by choctaw man (Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
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To: lbryce

Figures that someone named Blow would pine over a president who sucks.


4 posted on 06/19/2010 8:04:05 AM PDT by 60Gunner (But there's this one particular harbor...)
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To: lbryce
"...his Oval Office speech (which I thought was just fine, by the way)."

Of course he thought it was fine. Blow is black. Obama is sorta black. Everything Obama does is fine with the likes of Blow. I about blow lunch every time I come across something by him.

5 posted on 06/19/2010 8:04:35 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes (No matter where you go there are always more stupid people.)
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To: hometoroost

Perhaps they are understanding there is a difference between a bleeding heart liberal and a cold blooded fascist.


6 posted on 06/19/2010 8:04:45 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: lbryce

Zero must be in trouble if a dumba$$ like this feckless whoosie jackass of the NYT is starting to see the light!


7 posted on 06/19/2010 8:05:04 AM PDT by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: lbryce

Even the designated gay black op-ed writer at the New York Slimes is speaking out. And to think that only a week ago he was springing to Obama’s defense!

Watch out, Barry, or you’re going to lose all those leg-tingling partners who throng around you!


8 posted on 06/19/2010 8:05:12 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: lbryce

I’ve noticed more and more Democrats refusing to admit that they even voted for the One. They aren’t changing parties yet but don’t want to be known as a person that supported this president.


9 posted on 06/19/2010 8:06:04 AM PDT by RC2
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America was charmed by Obama’s supernal speeches and inspired by his vision of a happier ever after.

And all because of "The Wizard At Odds".

Good grief. How viscerally mindless we are.

10 posted on 06/19/2010 8:06:14 AM PDT by bcsco (First there was Slick Willie. Now there's "Oil Slick" Barry...)
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Desperate to escape eight-years of an abusive relationship with a reckless cowboy and scared by a calculating John McCain who chose a feckless running mate, America was charmed by Obama’s supernal speeches and inspired by his vision of a happier ever after.

Swami Blow has his turban on rather tight, his mind reading skills are slipping.

11 posted on 06/19/2010 8:06:41 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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and scared by a calculating John McCain who chose a feckless running mate,

Oh, jeez...

NTSA

12 posted on 06/19/2010 8:06:47 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: lbryce

Barry, meet Bus.


13 posted on 06/19/2010 8:06:59 AM PDT by stboz
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”What’s left for many is a big plume of disappointment and sadness lurking just beneath the surface.”

How ironic that the MSM which foisted the undocumented Pres_ _ent Obama
upon the American public, wasting the trust and confidence the American public
once had for the MSM, does not know 'up' from 'down', or 'real' from 'imaginary'.


14 posted on 06/19/2010 8:08:00 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: lbryce

He’s just mad because Bonnie Prince Barry isn’t getting to this guy socialist utopia fast enough.


15 posted on 06/19/2010 8:08:42 AM PDT by tsmith130
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To: lbryce

The media built him up to an impossible standard that no fallible human could meet. The letdown is overwhelming for the true believers.


16 posted on 06/19/2010 8:09:16 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: lbryce

Blow and the rest of the demoscum can cry me a river. We took EIGHT years of abuse.


17 posted on 06/19/2010 8:09:18 AM PDT by bergmeid
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To: Cicero

Didn’t these shills, and others just meet with him at the white hut to get their spin assignments for the week? This must have been written last week?


18 posted on 06/19/2010 8:10:14 AM PDT by SanFranDan
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To: going hot

“Swami Blow” ROFL


19 posted on 06/19/2010 8:10:51 AM PDT by SanFranDan
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To: hometoroost
I said this on another thread, but, it fits so well here:

Someone said, Hillary is laying the groundwork for her run for the Dem nomination for the Presidency in 2012 with her new book soon to be released entitled "IT TAKES A SPILLAGE".
20 posted on 06/19/2010 8:11:13 AM PDT by no dems (I never thought I could loathe anyone more than the Clintons; enter Barack Hussein Obama.)
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