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AlexanderProgressive Donating Member (238 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:25 PM
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I googled "obama honeymoon over." Here are some of the 439,000 results
Edited on Thu Jun-18-09 08:27 PM by AlexanderProgressive
Many of you probably noticed that the media is claming the "honeymoon" with Obama is over because he dropped 2 or 3 points, in average, in his approval rating.

But how many times can something be said to be "over?"

On March 15, David Broder said "is not too soon to say that the Obama honeymoon is over."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031302274.html

Dana Milbank declared it over in February: "It was easy to see why. If this is Obama's honeymoon, one shudders to think what a lovers' quarrel would look like."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/03/AR2009020303456.html

In April, NY Daily News' Michael Gerson said, "Obama's honeymoon over, and it shows."
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/04/17/2008-04-17_obamas_honeymoon_over_and_it_shows.html

Howard Fineman was the boldest, claiming in January 27 that "The honeymoon that ended before it began."

The Telegraph (UK) said it was over in April 23:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/concoughlin/5209594/The-honeymoon-is-over---President-Barack-Obama-has-to-show-that-he-is-a-world-leader.html

:shrug:





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Hotler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:27 PM
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1. Has for me. eom.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:27 PM
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2. Well, Gerson has a stake in claiming it. By this time, in '93 it was 'Clinton's failed presidency'.
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:35 PM
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3. Buncha whiners. Why do they care about such foolishness?
Too tough to write a column on an issue of import, perhaps?

The four fellers names are really like the Four Horsemen of the Kvetchopolypse. Happiest when they're whining about nitpicky stuff....
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PATRICK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:40 PM
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4. They rely on short memory spans
They did the exact to the word same thing to Clinton. It STARTED with the honeymoon being over and the faux amazement by the pundits of how this could be so. Then it progressed to the the presidency AND the government being irrelevant. Then it went to the GOP revolution to coup to to total national meltdown under an aura of total support from the same disappointed MSM honeymooners, some of whom actually slept(not in the metaphorical sense) with the usual suspects.

Old lame, constantly repeated, unless they come up with some new anti-truth/reality smear tactic to bring down democracy and the law.

It is a constant thorn to even have to center our concern on these media squatters and what they say considering the constant abuse, predictable adversity and lies against all of us, not just the president who isn't Mammon's marionette.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 08:40 PM
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5. Whatever(nothing
against you)..I'm tired of the corporatemediawhores' catch phrases.
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-18-09 09:08 PM
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6. If you take all of these people that are now pronouncing the end of the
Obama honeymoon and the begining of the lack of popular support for the President and the begining of his rough days, and put them into a very large stadium;


They would perfectly fill the same stadium that was filled by the same people who said (in the same tone of voice) that Obama could never get the nomination, never win the election, and so on.


Some folks never learn. After Iowa I stopped doubting his resourcefulness. I embarass myself on a regular basis, no reason to go out actually looking for it.
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