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President Obama has his dis-information Czar.
Glen Beck has a dis-dis-information Czar.
Hilarity ensues.
Saluting Barack Obama’s Americorps.
Watch for this special moment.
It comes at 1:02 into the 1:24 clip below:
bumper sticker from the Tennessee Republican Party
What seems to be lacking amongst the main-stream media’s love fest is a little historical perspective.
Obama remains, at this point, neither the messiah nor the devil. The best adjectives to describe him are untested, little known, unproven. We will not really be able to discern the arc of his presidency for some time yet.
Sort of like the Greek proverb, “Call no man happy until he is dead.”
To supply some historical context, I offer the following bit of data:
Presidential approval ratings, ~30 days into office
(Johnson & Ford omitted for obvious reasons)
Barack Obama 2/21/2009 59%
George Bush (43) 2/21/2001 61%
Bill Clinton 2/14/1993 51%
George Bush (41) 2/27/1989 60%
Ronald Reagan 2/16/1981 55%
Jimmy Carter 2/15/1977 71%
Richard Nixon 2/25/1969 59%
John Kennedy 2/15/1961 72%
Eisenhower 2/26/1953 66%
Source: The American Presidency Project, UC-Santa Barbara
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/popularity.php
In God we trust.
All others, bring data!
from CitizenLink:
One of the first “Presidents” books to be updated with a bio of Obama. No glaring red flags in the Bush & Obama write-ups. the author appears to have tried to be even-handed. Less happy with the Harding & Wilson sections. Will have to read through carefully before making a final judgement.
Originally published in 1990 in Great Britain. The Great Game was the struggle between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia for influence and position in Central Asia. Britain feared that the Russians would come south through Afghanistan and threaten India – which the Russias openly desired to do. I’ve run across a number of references to the book and the metaphor. Time to fill in a little corner of knowledge.
Originally published in 1985 in the Germany, translated in 1987. Re-published in 2008 in the UK – not yet available in the US, but there is a seller you can click through to from Amazon. There’s a new movie out in Germany which tells the tale, based on this book written by a reporter who knew many of them but who rejected their irrational, romantic embrace of violence. Can’t wait to dig in.
disappointment.
outrage.
“Your invitation to Reverend Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at your inauguration is a genuine blow to LGBT Americans.”
- quoted from Obama’s Divisive Choice of Rick Warren
There’s a Facebook Group with 1,800+ members already called No Rick Warren at Obama Inauguration
Sample comments:
“We must never, never, nerver forget how Obama betrayed us.”
“Take off your shoes, America, and get ready to hurl them hard!”
“What is Obama’s obsession with fake-Christian hatemongers? He promised change, not status quo.”
Short honeymoon, eh?
