Obama Has to Work Twice as Hard to Get Half the Credit, Even from "Liberals" [View all]

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Last night, Rachel Maddow opened her show on MSNBC with an excellent segment reviewing the leapfrog progress made for liberal social causes under President Obama - most just since his re-election. She noted that the drug war - waged under Democratic and Republican presidents alike, seems to be ratcheting down with the Justice Department's directives to avoid mandatory drug sentencing as much as possible, and now ensuring Colorado and Washington states that they can implement their marijuana legalization laws, without worrying about a federal court challenge...

Except that she left out an important factor in this sea-change almost entirely. The president under whose leadership and under whose administration all of this happened got just one mention. Just one. Bill Clinton got several mentions, albeit negative. But President Obama? Maddow didn't see it fit to mention him more than once in the entire 11 minute and 22 second segment, when she credited him for signing a law reducing sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powdered cocaine offenses.

By my count, presidents ranging from Nixon to Reagan to Bush Sr. to Clinton to Bush Jr. all earned more mentions from Rachel Maddow than the leader of the era that is seeing the changes she so excitingly celebrates, Barack Obama.

Maddow didn't see it fit to mention that it was President Obama whose deliberate, patient and unwavering leadership ultimately ended the injustice of telling our soldiers that they must conceal who they love in order to serve the country they love. Maddow didn't think it necessary to point out that a big part of the reason the Defense of Marriage Act is now relegated to the dustbins of history is that President Obama made an executive decision not to defend it in court, and that the IRS is now acting under his direction and his policies...

http://www.thepeoplesview.net/2013/08/celebrating-progress-holding-back-credit.html