Rachel Maddow & Michael Beschloss get a jump on GOP spin on Obama's first year

[ProfessorPlum]

Run time: 10:56 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyuxfHvdrGw   Posted on YouTube: January 13, 2010 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: January 13, 2010 By DU Member: ProfessorPlum Views on DU: 1294

 

[MoJoWorkin]

1. Thanks for posting this.

How quick will it sink?

I have believed President Obama had a great year, despite the tremendous obstacles he has faced--and the nasty irrational posts around here of late.

Rachel and Beschloss just confirmed my belief. BIG TIME!

[tblue37]

2. When someone posts a video without even a brief summary of its contents,

it should sink!

[burning rain]

3. It appears Rachel is becoming a low-expectations liberal.

Obama has been very active and energetic in moving the US from loony extreme conservative to saner moderate conservative policies, while maintaining the crony capitalist basis for them, which George W. Bush pioneered on the Republican side. If this is the best we can do, we are a broken people.

[icee]

4. Excellent, Burning Rain. I may be done with Rachel Maddow, whom

I stopped watching last week because of such idiotic summaries.

[burning rain]

5. I love her, but she's trying to sell a baloney sandwich as filet mignon.

For Obama to get his preferences is not as meaningful as, say, FDR or LBJ (whom she references), because Obama's preferences are an easier sell and relentlessly corporate-friendly, from Wall Street bailouts to a cosmetic credit card bill to health care, where Obama's crony capitalist preferences do not compare with the public, single-payer boldness of LBJ's Medicare. Even the Lilly Ledbetter Act is overrated: it continues to allow employers to treat women like shit provided they treat men like equal shit (now, EFCA would impress me, but that appears to be off the table). Obama's a couple inches to the left of the GOP, where FDR and LBJ were a good few yards. The way things are shaping up, it looks like the best we can hope for is for Obama to have a moderate conservative success rather in the mold of Bill Clinton and coast largely on personal popularity, the lunacy of the opposition, and hopefully a recovering economy--while cutting the legs out from under congressional Democrats by blurring differences with Republicans, as Bubba did.

I'll continue to look to Rachel for thorough reportage and smart analysis, whether or not I agree with her emphases--I sure as hell don't, here.

[icee]

7. Great analysis. I agree totally on the Lilly Ledbetter Act--the way

it's played over and over again bugs me. Like the US annexed Mexico or something. I'll start watching for your posts.

[ProgressOnTheMove]

6. We have to get out ahead too with posters of all the achievements and there have been many..

Sotomayor, Averting economic depression, the pirate hostage crisis, the rescuing of the Korean detainees, Ledbetter bill, recovery bill saving important emergency and education services, re-establishing friendships with allies, 70 percent of Afghans optimistic abo the future of their nation, the trend of job loss dramatically slashed and overall heading the right way from 100s of thousand lost in early 2009, to only 10s of thousands in 2010. That info has to get out there, because it gets lost in the spin. This is not the America folks would be living in, in McCain's alternate reality. We can sure say this isn't all we wanted that's valid, but imagine a reality where none of the above had happend.... In 2010 we'll kick out the Stupak, 2010 if we genuinely want progress we'll expand the Congress with more progressives, in 2011 it's likely we'll see by all accounts a new Majority Leader. So the the ship of state can go the right way if folks really want it to.