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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (18494)	9/6/2009 5:00:52 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

during the trial of that blind shiek involved in WTC1 attacks, the clinton's justice department let out the fact that we monitored his cell phone. After that I heard OBL stopped using his

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (18494)	9/8/2009 6:43:47 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 103300

Obama cast himself “as a man of moderate policies, and especially of moderate temperament,” disavowing Rev. Jeremiah Wright and David Ayers. But now in office, he is trying to govern from the left — see, for example, his appointment of Van Jones — and that’s not going to work. No President is responsible for all of the views of his appointees, but the rise and fall of Mr. Jones is one more warning that Mr. Obama can’t succeed on his current course of governing from the left. He is running into political trouble not because his own message is unclear, or because his opposition is better organized. Mr. Obama is falling in the polls because last year he didn’t tell the American people that the “change” they were asked to believe in included trillions of dollars in new spending, deferring to the most liberal Members of Congress, a government takeover of health care, and appointees with the views of Van Jones. If for many on the right the Jones episode confirms Obama’s fundamental leftyness, for many on the left, it confirms the president’s fundamental weakness. “A lot of us have feared from the get-go that, when it comes to dealing with the viciousness, mendacity and absolute ruthlessness of the wingnuts running the Republican Party, President Obama is bringing a Smurf doll to a street fight, trying to beat shivs and guns with lollipops,” says David Neiwert at Crooks and Liars. So this is what we can expect from Obama: When the right gets into full-froth rabid attack-dog mode, he folds. He’ll even throw one of his best friends and most loyal liberal allies under the bus. Best of all, he’s just handed the most rabid of the haters who are undermining his agenda — namely, Glenn Beck and the rest of the Fox crew — their biggest scalp yet. The crowing that will follow is just the start. . . . If President Obama and Rahm Emanuel think that letting the Fox crew drive out his appointees is going to help him win his legislative battles — this was clearly the product of a White House more intent on trying to get its health-care reform package passed than dealing with the larger, more pervasive problem that threatens not just health-care reform but all of his initiatives — he is sadly and badly mistaken. For others on the left, Jones’ scalping is a sign of weakness not of Obama but of the left-liberal groups that helped elect him, and have since been rewarded by being corralled in a “virtual veal pen.”

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (18494)	9/8/2009 6:47:21 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Byron York says the Jones story is about how the Times is trying — and failing — to maintain its role as a gatekeeper. At the Washington Examiner, York connects the Jones story with that of Jeremiah Wright, John Edwards’ love child, and Charles Freeman’s appointment to run the National Intelligence Council — all stories, says York, that the Times “failed to report” until it absolutely had to. There was a day, not too long ago, when the Times and other influential news organizations could kill a story — could deny the bad guys a win — simply by ignoring it. Sometimes they still try. But it just won’t work anymore.