Comments on: Richard Cohen Gets a Clue

By: Batocchio

Batocchio — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:51:58 +0000

Ah, Cohen. What’s the saying? A broken clock… will still support war in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

By: moonbat

moonbat — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:18:05 +0000

My thesis:

- Obama is doing the best he can with the mess he was handed. Some things will turn out well by 2012, others will not. By 2012, he will be seen as someone who at least tried and in some ways succeeded to make things better. Some things will be perceived, rightly or not, as being much worse.

- Palin will divide the GOP. She will run either as a Republican or as a 3rd Party, spoiling the conservative vote.

- Net result, Democrats win in 2012, even though they will do so with a weak hand, due to ambivalance about Obama.

By: David Rickard

David Rickard — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:27:15 +0000

Cohen gets a clue: just proves the old proverb, every fool is occasionally blessed with luck.

By: Swami

Swami — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:44:53 +0000

The train left the station on January 20, 2001

By: Fairly Unbalanced

Fairly Unbalanced — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:55:51 +0000

An FCC complaint against Faux Nooz over Palin coverage? – Oh noes!!!
Sarah Palin – the gift that just keeps on giving for the GOP.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/11/19/fox-production-error/#comments

By: biggerbox

biggerbox — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:56:37 +0000

Stephen Colbert did a review of Palin’s book which really ought to be watched. It zeroes right in on the core of the Palin schtick. My favorite phrase: “snatching victimry from the jaws of defeat.”

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/256441/november-18-2009/the-word—grand-old-pity-party

(It makes a good antidote to the NPR Morning Edition story about people lining up in Grand Rapids to see her sign books, and the sound bites of how wonderful they think she is.)

By: maha

maha — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:01:32 +0000

The train was already wrecked, in 2008. Now we’re trying to dig ourselves out of the rubble.

By: Swami

Swami — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:48:40 +0000

Obama can campaign in 2012 on the promise to get us out of Afghanistan.

By: joanr16

joanr16 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:47:59 +0000

I fear that [Obama] is setting us up for an economic train wreck.

You mean in addition to the one we’re already in? There isn’t any aspect of our economy that didn’t already collapse under Bush’s regime.

I’m fine with Obama running in 2012, but I sure hope he “Throws Geithner Off the Train.” Or under the bus, if you prefer. Before the 2010 elections would be best.

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:36:19 +0000

if follows that you think the presidency is largely a symbolic office that anyone could do

Uh…yeah, sure. And budget surpluses and financial meltdowns just happen, sort of like the weather. Good times and bad times have nothing to do with who’s in office…who we elect.

It’s like one Bush insider said We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. Why wouldn’t those who elected them take that same luxury themselve?. After all they’re just following in the foosteps of the leaders they elected. What a lesson they learned — that one can ignore the consequences and pull explanations for their screw-ups out of thin air.