SBW

This piece from a Democrat that voted for Obama.

At least HE is honest.

The media is turning on President Obama
By Michael GoodwinApril 27, 2014 | 3:09am

With multiple crises spiraling out of control around the world, stories about the Obama presidency are taking on the air of postmortems. What went wrong, who’s to blame, what next — even The New York Times is starting to recognize that Dear Leader is a global flop.
“Obama Suffers Setbacks in Japan and the Mideast,” the paper declared on Friday’s front page. The double whammy of failure pushed the growing Russian menace in ­Europe to inside pages, but even they were chock-full of reports about utopia gone wrong.
One story detailed how the White House was facing the “consequences of underestimating” North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Others recounted the continuing Syrian slaughter and the murder of three Americans in Afghanistan.
The accounts and others like them amount to an autopsy of a failed presidency, but the process won’t be complete unless it is completely honest. To meet that test, the Times, other liberal news organizations and leading Democrats, in and out of office, must come to grips with their own failures, as well.
Obama had a free hand to make a mess because they gave it to him. They cheered him on, supporting him with unprecedented gobs of money and near-unanimous votes. They said “aye” to any cockamamie concept he came up with, echoed his demonization of critics and helped steamroll unpopular and unworkable ideas into reality.
Some of his backers knew better, and said so privately, but publicly they were all in. Whether it was ObamaCare, his anti-Israel position or the soft-shoe shuffle around the Iranian nuke crisis, they lacked the courage to object.
They said nothing as Obama went on foreign apology tours and stood silent as our allies warned of disastrous consequences. Even now, despite protests from a succession of Pentagon leaders, former Democratic defense hawks are helping Obama hollow out our military as Russia and China expand theirs and al Qaeda extends its footprint.
A king is no king without a court, and Obama has not lacked for lackeys. The system of checks and balances is written into the Constitution, but it is the everyday behavior of Americans of good will that makes the system work.
That system broke down under Obama, and the blame starts with the media. By giving the president the benefit of the doubt at every turn, by making excuses to explain away fiascos, by ignoring corruption, by buying the White House line that his critics were motivated by pure politics or racism, the Times and other organizations played the role of bartender to a man on a bender.
Even worse, they joined the party, forgetting the lessons of history as well as their own responsibilities to put a check on power. A purpose of a free press is to hold government accountable, but there is no fallback when the watchdog voluntarily chooses to be a lapdog.
The sycophancy was not lost on other politicians and private citizens. Taking their cue from the media, they, too, bit their tongues and went along as the president led the nation astray and misread foreign threats.
From the start, support for Obama often had a cult-like atmosphere. He sensed it, began to believe it and became comfortable demanding total agreement as the price for the favor of his leadership.
That he is now the imperial president he used to bemoan is no long­er in dispute. The milking of perks, from golf trips to Florida to European vacations for the first lady, is shockingly vulgar, but not a peep of protest comes from his supporters.
The IRS becomes a political enforcer, but that, too, is accepted because nobody will risk their access by telling Obama no. You are either with him or you are his enemy.
The evidence is everywhere that his ideas are flawed, that his view of economics, diplomacy, the military, history, science and religion are warped by his own narcissism. He doesn’t even talk a good game anymore.
Yet it remains a fool’s errand to hope he will correct his ways. He is not capable; he looks in the mirror and sees only a savior.
It is equally clear that those who shielded him from facts and their own best judgment did him no ­favors. Out of fear and favor, they abdicated their duty to the nation, and they must share the burden of history’s verdict. After all, America’s decline happened on their watch, too.

cthahn

This is a photography site, not a spreading of political disease.

Old Grey Beard Loc: Salt Lake City, Utah

Yet, people will argue.

hj Loc: Florida

Uhh-h, it's tagged for the General Chit-Chat (non-photographic forum)

SBW

Assuming you can read. Big assumption I know but the is the chit chat non photography section of the site.

sarge69 Loc: Ft Myers, FL

General Chit-Chat (non-photography talk) is the forum...

What part of non-photography talk don't you understand ?

Sarge69

Bobbee

Again, read the title of this Group.......

Photography Forum -> General Chit-Chat (non-photography talk)

JJ Imagery

As stated by the other replies, it's for chit-chat and specifically states this is non-photographic chit-chat. I'll add one remark further, cthahn, your statement about "spreading of political disease", I presume you don't agree and are being a tad defensive knowing what was stated, by and large, is the truth. Obama is a hypocrite of the highest order and has completely overstepped the powers of the President. It's not so much what he's done, it's how he's done it that ticks me off to no end. To those Obama supporters with a short fuse when this man is criticized, the truth hurts doesn't it?

dljen Loc: Central PA

Please stop it, this man made a mistake, he doesn't need your tirade.

SBW

The truth really cuts down to the quick doesn't it? Makes the stomach churn doesn't it? The world now knows that it is perfectly okay for a lib to make a mistake.....but no one else.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

If you weren't IN HIDING, you would realize that this is an area for chit-chat.

travelwp Loc: New Jersey

Media turning on Obama.

If we had an honest media, there would be no Obama.

FrumCA

I seriously doubt that he made 'mistake'.He posted a comment in retaliation to an OP he doesn't agree with and by doing so he threw down his glove. If he or anyone else can't take criticism or rebuttal then there is an easy solution.

dljen Loc: Central PA

I don't know the personal history between these two but it seems ppl were being very harsh.

silver Loc: Santa Monica Ca.

OH WHO CARES WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY. GO CRAWL INTO A HOLE.