" Sixteen Months Later, Is Obama Finally Getting His Media Honeymoon? " by Al Giordano

[Cha]

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"No US president in my lifetime entered office so rudely hazed as Barack Obama. It’s been sixteen months of this: A bunch of privileged white folk with college degrees – you know, the ones who dominate the press and pundit corps – suddenly discovered a fun new board game. Let’s call it what it is: “The black guy can't possibly know how to govern so we will tell him what to do!”

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The racist impulses of the tea partiers and others of the far right came unglued in full public view last week when Republican US Senate nominee Rand Paul in Kentucky – at the very moment he became the political face of the tea party “movement” by winning his party primary and by virtue of the nepotism of being “libertarian” Saint Ron Paul’s spawn - actually called for allowing private businesses to discriminate against Americans based on their skin color. Then he backpedaled and claimed not to mean it all the dozens of times he had said it over so many years.

That tendency has also manifested in some corners of the left, but it played out differently because unlike those on the right, its adherents felt a sense of entitlement to tell Obama what to do. And when Obama ignored the self-appointed counselors of left and right, some on the left took it personally. That’s when it really got vicious. “What? How dare he not follow MY advice!” At that point a gaggle of them lost their heads altogether, because hell hath no fury like a know-it-all blogger scorned, especially one who thinks everything is about him or her.

Yet for sixteen months, denied the media honeymoon that every other president always had in his first year in office,The President has been one hundred percent unflappable. He has not lost his cool or blown his temper in public, not even once. Instead, Obama set to work cueing up his legislative priorities and shepherding them, one at a time, through a difficult Congress, especially hard in the Senate where 40 Republicans plus any one or two conservative Democrats could, as a minority, block the 100-member chamber from voting on any proposed law. And on every single law he proposed or backed, he won passage. Let me repeat that: Every single one. In baseball terms, Obama has batted 1.000. He hasn’t struck out once. Not yet. In a funny way, that infuriates his naysayers even more.

Whether one agrees with Obama’s positions or not, one has to give credit that is due: He walks to his own drumbeat and step by step has gotten big things accomplished."

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[Arkana]

1. Yeah, that's true.

We haven't seen him blow his top in public. Never. Not once.

[Cha]

2. And, as we know by now..

that's Pres Obama's style..different drummer but some want to make him into their own image.

[WeDidIt]

3. I've been saying it for 18 months and get slammed for doing so, "Black Executive Syndrome".

As I've said time and again, it is well know in the corporate menagement world that any black manager must perform three times better than any of his peers to be considered in the same league as the worst of his peers. For Obama, this translates as a requirement to perform three times better than an FDR, Lincoln, or Washington just to be considered in the same league as a Buchanan or Bush Jr.

And political leaning does not alter Black Executive Syndrome one whit. Those on both the left and the right have imposed this standard on Obama.

For my part, I think he's performing above the three times the best standard.

[Cha]

4. I think a lot of it

is racist from people who lean that way..some of it is just over inflated ego.

[RoyGBiv]

5. Good stuff ...

Thanks.

“The black guy can't possibly know how to govern so we will tell him what to do!”

As I was saying ...

And I can't say what I want to say right here because it'll get deleted, so I'll just leave it at that.

[Cha]

6. One encouraging sign from Texas..Austin..

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"University of Texas weighs renaming dorm named after KKK leader"

Ralph K.M. Haurwitz, Austin American-Statesman

"AUSTIN – Simkins Residence Hall is the last all-male dormitory at the University of Texas. Tucked into a quiet corner of campus along Waller Creek, it was the first men's dorm with air conditioning at the school.

It is notable for another reason as well: Simkins is named for a UT law professor who was a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.William Stewart Simkins, who taught at the School of Law for 30 years until his death in 1929, organized the Klan in Florida after the Civil War along with his brother, Eldred, who later became a member of the UT System Board of Regents.

Now, 55 years after opening the dorm, the university is about to begin a review that could result in the removal of Simkins' name from the building.

The disclosure of the review comes several weeks after the release of a scholarly article examining Simkins' record. The article, posted in an online journal, the Social Science Research Network, and part of a collection to be published by the Cambridge University Press, also details the resistance by UT administrators and regents to integration in the 1950s and 1960s.

"Simkins engaged in illegal, terrorist behavior during Reconstruction and doesn't merit having a building carrying his name," the article's author, Tom Russell, a former UT law professor who now teaches at the University of Denver, said in an interview. "It's particularly true in view of the fact that he was a law professor."


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[Cha]

8. Yeah, I know you did, Frenchie..

and I like the way Al Giordano ties his in with the whiney rand paul wanting a honeymoon from the press.

[gratefultobelib]

9. Lovely post. Thank you so much!

[Number23]

10. Good Lord, I love that man. Is Giordano spoken for??

"In baseball terms, Obama has batted 1.000. He hasn’t struck out once. Not yet. In a funny way, that infuriates his naysayers even more.

"One would think that true liberals and progressives, especially those who were skeptical at first, would be truly happy, and truth is that most are. So what’s wrong with the Eeyores? Well, they’ve been proved wrong (again) and that always gives them road rage. And some are now personally embarrassed and are beginning to catch some overdue blowback for their tantrumism."

"...What has really just happened is conventional media wisdom has begun to shift, and it looks to me like President Obama is about to get that honeymoon from the media that all the (white) previous presidents got in their first year in office, only a year and some months late."

Wouldn't that be nice?? Better late than never...

[FrenchieCat]

11. He ain't about to get shit! That's what I think.

They'll give him a honeymoon once he retires....that's my suspicions.

[Peacetrain]

12. Take this to the bank..

Because it is the truth..

Edit to add... but I will be most surprised if he gets any positive feedback from the media.. forget the sloggers on the net.. they have invested too much of their self worth into hoping Obama fails.. that is never going to change..but I have my doubts about the media also