"History Will Be Very Kind To Obama"

[SleeplessinSoCal]

Feel free to delete if this was already posted.

"Ten and a half years ago, at the Democratic convention in Boston, Barack Hussein Obama was introduced to America as a youthful, magnetic man who had burst suddenly and somewhat mysteriously onto the scene. This characterization—superficially appealing yet weightless, more symbolic than substantive—followed him throughout his presidential campaign, when Hillary Clinton cast him as an inspirational speechmaker like Martin Luther King Jr., as opposed to a viable contender for president, and John McCain’s campaign scathingly labeled him a “celebrity,” attractive but vacuous.

The lived reality of Obama’s presidency has unfolded as almost the precise opposite of this trope. He has amassed a record of policy accomplishment far deeper than even many of his supporters give him credit for...."

from New York magazine

http://huff.to/1IgHqZy

[freshwest]

1. Good article. Love the picture there. Thanks for posting, Sleepless!

[TygrBright]

2. History doesn't need to be "kind," just "truthful." n/t

[sakabatou]

3. +1

[Warren DeMontague]

4. I tend to agree.

I think he came in having been dealt a crappy hand, and I agree that history in retrospect will consider him a far better president than perhaps he is seen as, now.

[treestar]

5. The "comforter in chief" lacks emotional connection?

Don't agree with that part. Even the cited Ebola case, he was seen hugging that nurse. He's not all Spock.

Paul Krugman devoted much of Obama’s first term to flaying the inadequacy of the administration’s fiscal response, and its failure to nationalize the large banks.

Really, that sounds insane to me. Is there any ground on which the banks could be "nationalized" even if Congress went along? They talk about that as if it could be done with a snap of the fingers.

[freshwest]

6. Mandatory digs at Obama, no matter how disingenuous, is how writers genuflect to their bosses...

All you said is true, but they have to flog the meme if they want to keep writing for money. They constantly self-censor. Or they are part of the machine willingly?

I wonder at times just how miserable a life that is, telling half-truths for a job although outright lying like Faux pays much better. These writers are most likely educated and at one time thought they were going to be part of a respectable, socially valuable intelligensia.

Propaganda denies intelligence, blocks solving problems, refuses to give useful information or help one to use sound judgment. We are in the Goebbels age of MSM.

[Hekate]

9. Krugman must have been misquoted; he's generally supportive of Obama's actions.

Nationalizing banks doesn't sound like Krugman to me, either. But I don't read him every single day, so you never know.....

[Thinkingabout]

7. He's Cool Handed Luke, he doesn't brag on himself, just get the job done.

Now since we have seen him in action when he goes out for a round of golf I wonder what he is working on in which he has not revealed. I guess I expect a lot, he gives a lot.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

8. I think in his head he applies skills of Chess and Poker

Stategy plus the ability to bluff goes a long way.