Time articles sure seem to be trying to paint Obama in a negative light:

[jenmito]

UPDATE: At a town hall this afternoon in Strasbourg, France, Obama made his campaign pitch to the entire world. "America is changing," he said, in prepared remarks read off a teleprompter.

http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2009/04/03/obamas-new-global-vision-its-beginning-to-happen/?xid=feed-yahoo-full-world-related


The United States is still the same country it was a year ago, give or take about 6 million jobs. But its international branding campaign, as led by the new President, Barack Obama, is so different that the rest of the world might be forgiven if it has to do a double take.

Most of the hallmarks of the foreign policy of George W. Bush are gone. The old conservative idea of "American exceptionalism," which placed the U.S. on a plane above the rest of the world as a unique beacon of democracy and financial might, has been rejected. At almost every stop, Obama has made clear that the U.S. is but one actor in a global community. Talk of American economic supremacy has been replaced by a call from Obama for more growth in developing countries. Claims of American military supremacy have been replaced with heavy emphasis on cooperation and diplomatic hard labor. (Read "Obama in Europe: Facing Four Big Challenges.")

<snip>

At a town hall in Strasbourg, France, Obama stood before an audience of mostly French and German youth and admitted that the U.S. should have a greater respect for Europe. "In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world," he said before offering other European critical views of his country. "There have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."

The contrast is striking. Only four years ago, George W. Bush, in his second Inaugural Address, described what he called America's "considerable" influence, saying, "We will use it confidently in freedom's cause." Bush's vision of American power was combative and aggressive. He said the U.S. would "seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture." He continued, "We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/08599188951200

They just HAD to mention the teleprompter. They also left out all the criticism he had for EUROPE, making it sound like "everything's our fault." Anyone who saw the town hall knows he had tough words for Europe which immediately followed his criticism of our own country. Then to top it all off by pretending Bush really had noble goals. :eyes:

[whirlygigspin]

1. their master's voice

The 'press' and the echo chamber, what do you expect from them? that's what they do, woof woof.

[jenmito]

2. I'm so sick of them ALL! n/t

[firedupdem]

3. I just left the store and the front page of the Lincoln newspaper

said "1 Trillion but no promises" and Obama fails to do something....I turned away. They make me sick! Absolutely sick!

[jenmito]

4. They're really trying their hardest to make him look like a failure.

:wtf:

[firedupdem]

5. yep..and these people here already hate him, so it doesn't take

much.

[jenmito]

6. It's no wonder some people are still against him...

they are fed this BS and they don't follow him in his own words.

[firedupdem]

7. The newspapers are right wing spinners....and they live, eat, and

breathe fox news. I had a lady stop talking to me during the school year because I couldn't take her shrub love. How can anyone still think he was a good president? Hopeless. I just want out!

[jenmito]

9. All I can say is

I hope you are able to get out of there one day! :hi:

[firedupdem]

13. Me too!!!! Trust me, we're trying! n/t

:hi:

[Thrill]

8. The teleprompter remark is just further proof that they push RW talking points

Mark Levin feeds this shit to these guys

[jenmito]

11. Yup-and that was the only time he DID use the teleprompter

from what I could tell, during all his events.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Time Warner Inc. is the world's third largest media and entertainment conglomerate

Time Warner
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Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is the world's third largest media and entertainment conglomerates by market capitalization (behind News Corporation and The Walt Disney Company), headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. (TimeWarner.com Fact Sheet Page) Formerly three separate companies (and owns the assets of a fourth, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., acquired by a pre-AOL merger TW in 1996): Warner Communications, Inc. and Time Inc. before the Time-Warner merger in 1990 and America Online, Inc. before its purchase of Time Warner in 2001 has created the current Time Warner , with major operations in film, television, publishing, Internet service and telecommunications. Among its subsidiaries are AOL, New Line Cinema, Time Inc., HBO, Turner Broadcasting System, The CW Television Network, TheWB.com, UBU Productions, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Kids' WB, The CW4Kids, Cartoon Network, CNN, DC Comics, and Mohawk Productions.

[jenmito]

12. Jeez...

it's amazing he won the election with all that working against him.

[FrenchieCat]

14. That was in spite of them, as it became more and more evident they were trying too hard!

Remember their pastorbaiting? It went on and on and on and on.

[jenmito]

16. Yup. I think people got sick of it and saw Obama was not the person the media was making him

out to be. The pastorbation MAY have been what made many people SUPPORT him. They saw him for who he was rather than who the media was making him out to be.

[DrToast]

15. Michael Scherer is the resident right-wing hack at Swampland.

[jenmito]

17. Yeah-isn't he the guy with a beard who always answers people by using "sir"?

[jenmito]

18. Time should retract their entire article. Especially after he was asked directly

if he believes in American exceptionalism and he said yes, just as he's sure England believes in English exceptionalism and Greece believes in Greek exceptionalism. He also went on to talk about how proud he is of America, refuting everything the RW hack wrote in the articles in my OP. The difference between him and Bush is that he also respects OTHER countries and THEIR right to feel the same about THEIR countries and also that he's willing to work with other countries rather than being so arrogant as to want to go it alone.

[rvablue]

19. I don't agree with your interpretation of this and don't find anything

they wrote about as necessarily reflecting negatively on Obama.

Your highlighting and analysis make no sense. The article is comparing and contrasting the difference in tone of the two men.

And the fact that you find this piece of commentary:

"Bush's vision of American power was combative and aggressive." as them characterizing Bush as "noble" is utterly confounding.

Maybe it's just that you wanted to see it as negative? :shrug:

[jenmito]

20. See my post right above yours...

and yes, some things written DID portray Bush negatively, but the article clearly, as a whole, tried to paint Obama as someone who didn't think our country is a great country and who was "appeasing" Europe. And why did they have to throw in the RW teleprompter line?

[JayMusgrove]

21. I agree, it's a terrible article, filled with innuendo and snarky comments

If this kind of highly critical article had appeared just after 9/11 about Bush, (using a teleprompter in the Oval Office), or about Cheney in 2003, ("we know where the WMD's are") people would have been indignant to Time for doing so.


It's trash reporting, highly opinionated,and should be retracted.

[jenmito]

22. Thanks, Jay...

I don't understand how some people don't recognize that. I knew YOU would, though. :) :hi: