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I don’t like anyone featured in this story, including the paper reporting it. Somehow, it makes the cover memorable
the article is here
Trump had been criticized for renting space for Gadhafi, and his organization issued a statement saying, “We have requested that the tenant occupying the property in Bedford, New York, remove the tent that was erected. They have complied with this request.”
Oh, and in his rambling speech that lasted 90 minutes., he called for UN to be moved to Lybia so he wouldn’t suffer jet lag when he comes, called the Security Council a terror council (oh, the irony!) attacking them for being permanent
Permanent is something for God only. We are not fools to give the power of veto to great powers so they can use us and treat us as second-class citizens.”
Ironically, the man in power for 40 years, wouldn’t mind if Obama also rules forever
“We Africans are happy, proud, that a son of Africans governs the United States of America,” the Libyan leader said. “This is a historic event. … This is a great thing.” “Obama is a glimpse in the darkness after four or eight years,” said Qadhafi, who referred to Obama as “my son.” “We are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as president of the United States.
And while on UN and Obama, an interesting take on his speech from the Telegraph
Needless to say, the loudest cheers from the gathering of world leaders came when he condemned the actions of a close US ally, Israel, in continuing to build settlements in the West Bank. You can always rely on attacks on the Israelis to generate the biggest roars of approval at any meeting of the United Nations, and Obama dutifully obliged.
Here’s today’s Daily News cleverly titled cover on the story
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For Ahmadinajead’s speech see NYT – which I guess titles their piece “
A More Conciliatory Ahmadinejad at the U.N.
simply because this time
he did not call for the complete destruction of the country, as he has in the past.”
The Daily News is more to the point
Khadafy is whacky, but Iran thug Ahmadinejad is the real threat
That Iran, which barraged peaceful protesters with clubs and bullets, is “one of the most democratic and progressive governments of the world.”
That his nation, which arms terrorists, “has been a main victim of terrorism.”
That a regime like Iran needs and deserves “equality” – wink wink, nuclear weapons – which, of course, it denies it’s pursuing
NY Metro joins in the fun with an atrocious pun
So goes the title of a headline – not in a conservative paper, but in the Guardian. The subtitle is
The disappointment with Barack Obama is tangible – on climate change and financial reform Europe leads while the US lags
Something we don’t get to hear much here, but it seems Europe went for some measure of regulation of their financial institutions and are recovering better now. here, Only Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg – prosper. There’s an interesting quote on deregulation
recent quote by President Obama questioning the need for supporting Europe’s proposals. “Why is it,” he asked during a recent interview, “that we’re going to cap executive compensation for Wall Street bankers but not Silicon Valley entrepreneurs or [American] football players?”
This article was prompted by Obama’s bestest speech on climate change at the UN. On this front, the world is equally unimpressed
Its biggest achievement so far has been a disappointment. President Obama signed an executive order to increase US motor vehicle mileage standards – but only to a level that will push fuel efficiency by 2020 to a level that European and Japanese cars reached several years ago, and even China has already achieved.
The word is finally getting “not ready on day one”
Beyond Obama’s oratorical skills, which excited not only American voters but people all over the world, he is mostly untested as a politician. His previous experience was only a few years in the US Senate and a few years more as a state senatorA sinking feeling is arising among many that President Obama may not be up to the task, that he may not possess the artful skills needed to accomplish even his own goals.
To be sure, the Guardian also blames our skewed political system – and they are good observations. But Obama started this with control of Congress and managed to retain only control of …prime-time TV.
Seems Obama has accomplished postpartisanship abroad, because the Telegraph agrees with The Guardian, albeit with a more polite headline
President Barack Obama is beginning to look out of his depth
and pretty much asks the same questions
Mr Obama has tactics a plenty – calm and patient engagement with unpleasant regimes, finding common interests, appealing to shared values – but where is the strategy? What, exactly, did “Change you can believe in” – the hallmark slogan of his campaign – actually mean?
Remarkably, they even see through the cluelessness of the right wing “socialist” meme
The President’s domestic critics who accuse him of being the sinister wielder of a socialist master-plan are wide of the mark. The man who has run nothing more demanding than the Harvard Law Review is beginning to look out of his depth in the world’s top job. His credibility is seeping away, and it will require concrete achievements rather than more soaring oratory to recover it.
There is however one feature Jr.jr excells at – just like the other incompetent whose policies he is continuing: governing out spite. In a fluff piece about his appearances on every program of the food channel there’s this striking paragraph
He personally decided not to go on “Paula’s Home Cooking,” because according to White House sources, the Georgia-based Paula Deen’s cooking was not healthy enough, and her demographic skewed to the same demographic as Fox News. According to one very high-ranking source, “We are going to screw her just like we screwed Fox News.”
Wow! I am not a fan of Fox News by any measure, but this is too reminiscent of W being overheard screaming:
“Screw Saddam! He’s going down!”
I guess I am glad Obama’s pettiness is still, well, on petty targets.
After creating a political crisis in NY by publicly medling in next year gubernatorial elections, Obama put himself in an embarrassing position having to meet the governor and his designated successor
The tabloids couldn’t miss such a juicy opportunity.
The Daily News continued on “His Majesty’s privilege” tone
while the NY Post kept on with their “governor in waiting”
and the NYT found this fit to print as well
Here’s their article – mostly justifying Obama but with the occasional opposite POV
Joe Sestak, a Pennsylvania Democrat who ignored White House efforts to urge him to stay out of a primary race against Senator Arlen Specter. “To be seen like you are selecting winners and losers in a party-boss way will breed some resentment, and in a longer term it won’t bode well.”
Karl Rove is also asked thinks that
“This was particularly ham-handed,” Mr. Rove said. “They shouldn’t have tried this unless they can make it happen. Even then, they should have acted in a way that was subtle, not messy and ugly.”
More interestingly he reveals
The White House’s interest in trying to assure the election of Democrats to Congress reflects its own legislative agenda. But in going after governors, Mr. Rove argued, the concern is more about the president himself.
To make things more interesting, here’s Bill Clinton’s take (h/t wonk the vote at the Confluence)
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David Corn from the Nation who just tweeted – miffed that Tom Friedman gets more Obama attention than him, wants racism to be the reason people oppose Obama. A lot of people do, including Obama – unofficially, but Corn seems to wage a battle with both Obama and his good friend David Brooks.
In his “it is too racism” article, Corn repeats the old chestnuts then comes up with an apparently new argument
Yet whatever role race plays in the Obama opposition, the people leading this from-the-right dissent can be judged by their willingness to confront the racism that is part of their movement. Otherwise, they will have no credibility when they claim this really isn’t about race.
That reminds me of the way Sharpton attacked Mark Green as racist in the mayoral primaries 2001: “the NY Post published a cartoon about me, which I consider racist. You didn’t take offense on my behalf, so you’re racist!
I believe Hillary too was attacked for not defending Obama from perceived racist attacks.
It was also the way right wingers found leeway to tar all Muslims as terrorists: “why aren’t they denouncing the radical elements amongst them if they want credibility?
Indeed, the racism label is a debate ender – that’s why it’s so cherished by many.
Until it will get so overused, it will become a joke.
Like the one where NY’s first black governor, Paterson is asked by Obama not to seek reelection, because – among other things – Paterson said attacks on him come from racism, and Obama is next.
With Paterson refusing to step down from his next election, Obama created a nice little political crisis in New York. One of the effects highlighted by the NY Post
With the governor race one year away, the governor’s position is already seriously hobbled for the coming year. A president who is in campaign mode every day wouldn’t think of that.
Some of the media (and many voters) are sympathetic to Paterson’s stand-off. AM-NY
upstate Herald Record
nd even Newsday seem to at least headline this fairly. Obama cheerleader Daily News is huffing and puffing
And the New York Times tabloid gets the perfect visual for Obama’s blitz of yesterday
- same thing, different stooge.
Update
Crushing primaries is hardly limited to New York as this Denver Post editorial reveals.
Obama has jumped into other primaries, as well. He endorsed Sen. Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican-turned-Democrat, in his bid against a more liberal opponent. The president also gave a quick thumbs up to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand when there was a chance she might be challenged by another Democrat for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s old New York Senate seat.
Still, Obama doesn’t know who the best candidate is for Colorado. The issues in this race haven’t even been broached. Certainly we have no problem with the president endorsing someone — in fact, we like to do it, too — but c’mon, let’s have a campaign first.
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