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

To: longnshort who wrote (28068)	3/26/2010 8:16:24 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 103300

"Remember the movie...." Nope. Why?

To: longnshort who wrote (28068)	3/26/2010 9:30:06 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Obama Gives Up: The era of bipartisanship is over, at least until November. By John DickersonPosted Thursday, March 25, 2010, at 7:39 PM ET President Obama's allies have occasionally been irritated that he won't do away with all his bipartisan talk and treat his opponents as they deserve to be treated. These allies/critics must be happy with his speech today in Iowa City, the same place he unveiled his health care proposal in December 2007 and where today he mocked his opponents with the thoroughgoing enjoyment he displayed during the campaign. "Leaders of the Republican Party, they called the passage of this bill 'Armageddon.' " Obama told the audience, to laughter. " 'End of freedom as we know it.' So after I signed the bill, I looked around to see if there [were] any asteroids falling or some cracks opening up in the Earth. It turned out it was a nice day. Birds were chirping. Folks were strolling down the Mall. People still have their doctors." I half expected Obama to pull out a version of the campaign line he used to flash when he was feeling particularly loose. "Don't be hoodwinked," he used to say of McCain's or Hillary Clinton's claims. "Don't be bamboozled, don't fall for the okey-doke." Since taking office, Obama has dashed between two postures. When he has made overtly partisan shots, he has pretty quickly returned to his posture as the post-partisan bridge builder. He traveled to Massachusetts in mid-January to beat up on Scott Brown on the eve of the special Senate election, for example, but weeks later, in the State of the Union, he said he would "not give up on changing the tone of our politics." Full article below: slate.com GZ