Obama's first 100 days - ah, the phrase steaming pile of horse shit comes to mind - and he's giving yet another prime time news conference to celebrate it! Does anything speak better to the fact that this presidency is more about celebrity than accomplishments?
I need only point to one thing to determine that the Obama presidency so far is a failure - a failure to an objective observer, to liberals I don't question that it's a rousing success - but I point to one thing: the banking crisis.
The shit hit the fan in September, Obama was elected in November but in reality had the election wrapped up by October, he assumed the office at the end of January - and yet it took until March to come up with a plan to fix the banks, a plan that is loved by no one and for every person who sort of likes it there are two who seem to hate it - and now here we are at the end of April and still no one has a clue what the real state of the banks is! Can they survive, should they survive - who knows! Let's just drag this thing along for a few more months and hope everything works out. Obama had one overwhelming priority once elected - fix the banks - and he dropped the ball, worse than dropped the ball, made matters much more complicated by one, demonizing Wall Street and two, promoting egregiously profligate stimulus and budget plans that created such anxiety about how much money the government was spending that combined the two things left the public extremely unsympathetic to the banks needs.
So, as far as I'm concerned, an abysmal failure - I mean, I'm willing to consider the possibility that maybe no one could have managed this situation well - but that's a long, long way removed from declaring that Obama has had a splendid run of things, which seems to be the opinion of the bulk of the press. How many more times do I have to hear how popular he is? His approval rating is right where most presidents ratings are at this point in office - in fact slightly lower than what Carter's and Bush's were at this point - how on earth does that translate into "Oh my god, you don't wanna challenge Obama, he's so popular!" without a determined bias on the part of the press? Obviously, when they say 'popular' they mean 'celebrity' - and the same rules re negativity that apply to Brad Pitt even more so apply to Obama.
