Politico is popping the bubbly tonight: "DC Turns On Obama"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/dc-turns-on-obama-91386.html?hp=t1_3

It mentions that Democrats are turning on President Obama too. Democrats like............Maureen Dowd! Well, I guess that it's all over then for President Obama. Methinks that the folks over at Politico are popping the bubble a teensy bit early.........I mean, I know that they want to see President Obama crushed and destroyed and see Republicans get back to running the show in Washington but them saying that President Obama is finished in DC doesn't make it so..................

[jenmito]

1. And then someone from Politico goes on Morning Joe tomorrow to repeat this meme...

and then it spreads from there...

[Cracklin Charlie]

2. Always pushing the meme.

They're so predictable.

He's still President of the United States. Yawn.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

19. Republicans are so desperate

full of hot bad air

[southernyankeebelle]

3. All the bitchin in the world isn't going to change one thing. Obama is still president.

I think he was right to hammer the IRS if what happened is true. I think people need to keep their cool. Give it a week or 2 and we will see it change.

[Cha]

4. Consider the source of who's "turning on Obama".

Their big fat fake scandals will die and who will be left standing?

hint.. not these guys. I'd post a pic but they're too damn ugly.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. If the only "Democrat" they can name that is "turning on" President Obama is Maureen Dowd

then I doubt that there is really anything to worry about. Anyway, a few days of this and the media will probably move on to the next big shiny object(s). The more information that comes out the more it looks like there is nothing really to any of these "scandals" let alone anything that anybody can nail President Obama to the wall to. Stuff happens in any large organization, of course, but as long as it's not being promoted, covered up, and/or tolerated by its leader, then I'm not going to get too worked up over it personally. I just want to see the bad things investigated and fixed so that they don't keep happening.

[One of the 99]

6. Dowd is a Democrat???

And how can she turn on the President when she has always hated him.

[Chan790]

7. I don't think Dowd is politically-savvy as opposed to oppositional.

She's antagonistic and topical to every powerful figure in this town...she was brutal on Bush, mocked Cheney, accused Al Gore of lactating, calls Obama "Spock"...and through it all she shows no comprehension of political-nuance.

[Beacool]

9. On that point I disagree.

Maureen is vicious, but she cheered Obama on in 2007 & 2008. At that time he was running against Hillary and she positively hates her with a passion.

[One of the 99]

10. Calling him Obambi is cheering?

I never called people I cheered by silly, inmature names.

[Beacool]

11. That's how she is.

She's a scorpion, even when she likes you. It's in her nature.

[One of the 99]

12. She never liked the President

http://openandwilling.blogspot.com/2008/06/hateful-words-of-maureen-dowd-and.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. That's my point too

I'm not even sure that she IS a Democrat nor am I sure she ever really liked him, so Politico trumpeting her *current* disapproval of President Obama as a sign of his "downfall" doesn't mean all that much to me, as I was trying to convey in my OP. Notice that the article didn't name any Reps or Senators whom are "turning on him". The Politico story that was in my OP was dumb and premature IMHO.

[Jamaal510]

14. I also heard S.E. Cupp saying that nonsense today on the Cycle.

Last time I checked, his approval rating was still in the high 80s to lower 90s among both Democrats and liberals. Who knows where they got this idea from that the base is turning on him. People on the fringe probably aren't too happy with him, but they're a small minority and clearly don't speak for the entire Left.

[Beacool]

8. Maureen Dowd is a Democrat?

Well, who could have known considering the way she pilloried Gore and the Clintons.

[DonCoquixote]

27. mark the calendar, I agree with you!

Dowd is someone who knows she will never have to run for office, or even do anything other than get paid to type. Whenever people talk about the "death of print journalism", I point to her as an example of the lazy, silly nonsense that really stopped the presses.

[WeekendWarrior]

15. What's the date on that headline?

Two months before the first inauguration?

[Cali_Democrat]

16. What? Obama lost Maureen Dowd?

[brooklynite]

17. Unrec

"Popping the Bubbly"?

Point to an example in the article where the author is gleeful about this development. And "we all know" isn't an answer.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. I don't really know how to respond

No, I guess that there isn't a *specific* example in the article but, based on what "we all know" about Politico, it is (or should be) fairly obvious that Politico is trying to demoralize President Obama's supporters and declaring (VERY prematurely) that Obama's Presidency is essentially over and that he's worn out his welcome in DC. I don't really know how else to take this ridiculous article, do you? How did you interpret it?

[brooklynite]

21. How did I read it?

As a piece of political analysis, which Politico publishes in myriad forms. Is it "pro-Obama"? Of course not, but neither is it "anti-Obama". It is perhaps "pro-Beltway", and fixates on a pundits view of politics, but it includes liberals, moderates and conservatives among its stable of writers.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. Political analysis?

More like wishful (delusional) thinking to me on the part of the writers IMHO

[mgcgulfcoast]

18. president obama is stronger than ever.

[octoberlib]

23. Here's what Alex Pareene of Salon has to say about the authors

Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei :

When you see a joint Allen-VandeHei byline, you can safely expect the worst. When fellow Politico big shots John Harris and Jonathan Martin write a piece, they report on politics. When Allen and VandeHei write, they craft narrative. If the narrative bears no little relation to reality, or is simply self-serving spin from a professional political operative, no matter: Now the narrative is “out there,” because Politico is proud of its ability to create its own buzz and then report on that buzz.

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/20/hack_list_no_1_politico/

[Dawson Leery]

24. Thank you.

[babylonsister]

26. They're both gossips. That's it. nt

[davidpdx]

25. I've Maureen Dowd is a Democrat....

Then I am Fozzie Bear.

[madrchsod]

28. it`s politico.....

if they don't have a story they just make one up.