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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (68693)	1/22/2010 7:18:27 PM
From: manalagi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Is there no other person better than Bernanke for Fed Chief? He seems to pander to banks and Wall Street and ignoring Main Street.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (68693)	1/22/2010 8:37:52 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

You watching the concert?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (68693)	1/22/2010 10:02:27 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

Tonight on The Charlie Rose Show: January 22, 2010 -- Tonight politics of America after the first year of Barack Obama and the results in Massachusetts with Joe Klein of 'Time' Magazine, Adam Nagourney of 'The New York Times' and Joe Scarborough of 'Morning Joe' on MSNBC and then a discussion about Iran with Gary Sick of of Columbia University, Ehud Eiran of Harvard University, Graham Allison of Harvard University and Nick Burns former Undersecretary of the State.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (68693)	1/23/2010 1:22:01 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Mobs Rule _________________________________________________________________ By CHARLES M. BLOW Op-Ed Columnist The New York Times January 23, 2010 Welcome to the mob: an angry, wounded electorate, riled by recession, careening across the political spectrum, still craving change, nursing a bloodlust. There is a scene in the movie “Gladiator” where two Roman senators are discussing the games that the emperor has revived. One laments: I think the emperor “knows what Rome is. Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them and they’ll be distracted. Take away their freedom and still they’ll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the senate. It’s the sand of the coliseum. He’ll bring them death. And they will love him for it.” That was America during the dawn of W. — too many too easily manipulated. But people grew wiser and restless. And they revolted. As they did, a young crowd-pleaser in Chicago, cloaked in hope, sprang up, won them over and shaped the mob into a movement. That was then. Unfortunately, many now see Barack Obama as a left-leaning version of George W. Bush: just another out-of-touch emperor. It seems as if Obama and the Democrats made the mistake of believing that a heart once won was forever won, that people would be patient, and that the mob would accept their reasoning for lack of results. They were wrong. The mob is fickle. And it’s back with a vengeance. While the left slept, the right saw a void and leapt in. They feted the fearful to a steady stream of dread and circuses, and now the pendulum of enthusiasm has swung in the other direction. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey conducted last week, the percentage of people who view President Obama “very negatively” has more than doubled since he was elected. Over the same time period, the number of those who view the Democratic Party “very negatively” has increased by three-quarters, while the number of those viewing the Republican Party “very negatively” has dropped slightly. The most recent manifestation of the shifting landscape is the election of Scott Brown, a Republican in reliably Democratic Massachusetts, which shattered the Democrats’ filibuster-proof Senate majority and their sense of security. In an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News this week, Obama acknowledged as much: “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry, and they’re frustrated.” It’s smart to acknowledge this, but can he get out in front of it? Obama continued, “If there’s one thing that I regret this year, is that we were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us, that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are.” He underestimated the mob, and his agenda will suffer now that the emperor has no cloture. Copyright 2010 The New York Times Company