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(Huffington Post)   Actual headline: "Obama Isn't Who I Didn't Think He Was. But He Might Be." Bonus: Written by a former congressional speechwriter   (huffingtonpost.com) divider line
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ndotseth
2009-02-09 2:45:51 PM  
After only 1 month even the Liberals are beginning to feel alienated.
Way to go, Dems.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2009-02-09 2:55:54 PM  
FTFA: Frank Rich, who I believe to be the most eyes-wide-open political commentator around,

Yeah -- he wants to SEE who he's knob gobbling. Yeesh.
 
beerrun [TotalFark]
2009-02-09 3:10:53 PM  
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He was who we thought he was!!
 
BobtheFascist
2009-02-09 3:16:21 PM  

beerrun: He was who we thought he was!!


Done in 3
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2009-02-09 4:29:41 PM  
Well there isn't your not problem.
 
SeismicJizzer
2009-02-09 4:32:43 PM  
Jesus another stupid liberal who fell for the republican talking point that Obama is "the most liburl man in the senate!"

He isn't a progressive, liberal, or conservative he is a centrist and will govern like one. If you wanted a true progressive you should have voted in Kucinich.

/me likes a pragmatic thinker
 
benlonghair
2009-02-09 4:47:38 PM  
Wait... Somebody saying exactly what I've been saying for months and months? Crazy. And it's the exact reason I didn't vote for either McCain or Obama: They're two sides of the same coin, and the coin's the problem? Amazing.
 
DamnYankees
2009-02-09 5:23:41 PM  

beerrun: He was who we thought he was!!


Beat me to it.
 
litespeed74
2009-02-09 5:54:03 PM  
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unclejimbo827
2009-02-09 5:54:09 PM  

DamnYankees: beerrun: He was who we thought he was!!

Beat me to it.


Damn, me too. And I thought I had a chance with only eight replies in...
 
vonschiller
2009-02-09 5:55:05 PM  

unclejimbo827: DamnYankees: beerrun: He was who we thought he was!!

Beat me to it.

Damn, me too. And I thought I had a chance with only eight replies in...


Me too.

/Crown his ass!
 
rodeofrog
2009-02-09 5:55:54 PM  
That Is Quite A Headline.

I voted for the black guy. Change. Hope. No more white guilt.
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-02-09 5:57:17 PM  
He's been on the job for how long? 20 days?

I'm going back to sleep now, wake me up next year.
 
Nakito
2009-02-09 5:57:53 PM  
If you've ever simplified an algebraic equation, you can simplify this headline.

See? Your primary education came in handy, just like your teacher said it would.
 
top.bullfrog
2009-02-09 5:58:20 PM  
He's not the farking messiah... Get over it and enjoy the ride. You chose him, we all have to go alone with it.

/Didn't vote for him or McCain
//Went to the inaugeration for the hell of it
 
TeddyRooseveltsMustache
2009-02-09 5:59:01 PM  
Just because you're a congressional speechwriter doesn't mean you're not an idiot. They call Nascar drivers professional racers although all they do is turn left.
 
snake_beater
2009-02-09 6:00:21 PM  

beerrun: He was who we thought he was!!


And that's all I wanted to see.
 
trappedspirit
2009-02-09 6:02:05 PM  
Um, "actual headline" was actually on purpose.

/Reading comprehension FTW
//farkline FTL
 
some_beer_drinker
2009-02-09 6:02:15 PM  
wut?
 
TheQuest35
2009-02-09 6:02:21 PM  
I voted him not really expecting that much. I did'nt fall in the cult of persoanlity that a lot of extreme liberals, and uninformed new voters did.

That being said I am actully been pleased with many of his decisions, and personally glad he is our leader. A few things hav'nt gone that smoothly though.

But come on Dems, gotta pay your taxes, not paying them is what I expect of republicans.
 
wingnutx
2009-02-09 6:02:41 PM  
FTA:

When Obama makes a good decision, I use it to justify that narrative. And when he makes a bad one, I try to give myself an out by saying, "Well, we knew who he really was all along." But perhaps that was always the point: we didn't know who he was. We knew who we wanted him to be.

Oops.
 
boobsrgood
2009-02-09 6:03:09 PM  
Recently, I've been forced to deal with my own rank hypocrisy concerning the Obama administration. I find myself flying off the handle in all directions, attacking the new team in Washington one minute and defending it the next, praising its critics and then assaulting them for being unreasonable and expecting too much, too soon.

That's okay. Once you have your first mensus everything will seem fine. Play with stickers and the years will just fly by.
 
MuToiD_MaN
2009-02-09 6:04:19 PM  

Nakito: If you've ever simplified an algebraic equation, you can simplify this headline.

See? Your primary education came in handy, just like your teacher said it would.


While people should be able to sit down and work their way through it, you'd think a speechwriter would have figured out how to write something that isn't totally bizarre and obfuscated. It's not too much to ask.


Ass.
 
Nepherym
2009-02-09 6:07:24 PM  
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OniNeko
2009-02-09 6:07:36 PM  
I couldn't finish the article. Seems like a lot of talking in circles, going nowhere extremely fast.

Since when did writing go from a way to clearly express thoughts and ideas to an art form that's meant to leave people wondering what the hell was said?

No wonder I did so poorly in English classes.

/Why does it need to be 350 words when I can express the idea in 25?
 
WFern
2009-02-09 6:09:55 PM  

ndotseth: After only 1 month even the Liberals are beginning to feel alienated...


We are?
 
WFern
2009-02-09 6:10:47 PM  

WFern: ndotseth: After only 1 month even the Liberals are beginning to feel alienated...

We are?


Sidenote: does fewer than three weeks equal "1 month" now in Republican math?
 
IXI Jim IXI
2009-02-09 6:11:01 PM  

ndotseth: After only 1 month even the Liberals are beginning to feel alienated.


As opposed to his predecessor who, suddenly after 2006, nobody could be found who voted for him.
 
IXI Jim IXI
2009-02-09 6:11:48 PM  

WFern: Sidenote: does fewer than three weeks equal "1 month" now in Republican math?


These are the people who also said that the Iraq war was going to be paid with oil profits.

/not terribly happy
//not terribly alienated
 
rodeofrog
2009-02-09 6:12:00 PM  

OniNeko: Since when did writing go from a way to clearly express thoughts and ideas to an art form that's meant to leave people wondering what the hell was said?


Read The Sound and the Fury.
 
TheMiddleFinger
2009-02-09 6:13:23 PM  
1 word. Neurotic. This guy needs to lay off the drugs.
 
Kurland
2009-02-09 6:13:45 PM  
I voted for Obama. So far he is pretty much what I expected him to be at this point. I am rather pleased with what he has done in the short time he has been in office. Asked me again in 6 monthes or so then I can give you a better view of him as he will have done more by them.
 
atlas spanked
2009-02-09 6:15:56 PM  
"Stupid" does indeed define the Huffington Boast.

/Endless 'playwrights' and 'artists' posting their knee-jerk political cluelessness.
//It's the MSM in electronic delivery form, albeit with a very, very slight progressive tilt.
 
boobsrgood
2009-02-09 6:16:02 PM  

WFern: ndotseth: After only 1 month even the Liberals are beginning to feel alienated...

We are?


But of course. Don't you remember how Barack was against good things, and now he's for them? Goddam flip floopity flamdangler!


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krelborne
2009-02-09 6:16:38 PM  
Dear God that was awful.
 
IXI Jim IXI
2009-02-09 6:17:26 PM  

atlas spanked: /Endless 'playwrights' and 'artists' posting their knee-jerk political cluelessness.


And here you are, bringing that little feeling of home to Fark.
 
JonnyBGoode
2009-02-09 6:23:16 PM  
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/understood the headline perfectly
 
rodeofrog
2009-02-09 6:23:28 PM  

atlas spanked: "Stupid" does indeed define the Huffington Boast.


Delicious. You old sock. Comedy is spending the week with you.
 
PoopStain
2009-02-09 6:28:53 PM  
krelborne: Dear God that was awful.

And long. And pointless. At least the real pundits and bloggers are on the ball about Obama's first few weeks. (pops) What?

Seriously, we're three weeks in. The bad ideas in the stimulus bill are only a failure on Obama's part because he couldn't rein in Pelosi and Reid, both of whom have pretty dismal approval ratings and could care less how they are viewed. His cabinet choices could have been better vetted, but the people he chose were capable of doing the job.

I crossed the fence to vote for him, so I'll wait for a true fark up before I start throwing stones. His backhanded move to try and get the census taken by the White House instead of the Commerce Department is percolating on the horizon, so we'll see how that goes.
 
Drakuun
2009-02-09 6:31:53 PM  
I don't know how you can blame Obama, or be upset with Obama that these people who have permeated D.C. since before he got elected are now getting caught up in his 'responsibility, have some' dragnet.

It's not his fault they are greedy corrupt failures, and I don't in any way think it should be used to reflect negatively on Him, just because he's leader of a system that was corrupt and broken before he got there.

IMHO he's done more for the Government, and the people in this last 20 days than any administration in history, save George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
 
angelwolf65
2009-02-09 6:32:51 PM  
Well, I for one am tired of this failed Presidency! Geez, after a month, you would have thought he would have fixed the economy and brought peace to the Middle East, and brought the troops home by now!

I say we go down to the BlackWhite House, and drag him out for a good old fashioned lynching. I'll serve Fried Chicken after.
 
Placebo_Effect
2009-02-09 6:35:42 PM  

rodeofrog: That Is Quite A Headline.

I voted for the black guy. Change. Hope. No more white guilt.


No more white guilt? No more white guilt? WTF are you talking about? There should always be white guilt. There always WILL be white guilt. Affirmative action biotch! You owe me because people who look like you once enslaved people who look like me. For... ev... er. Obama changes nothing. Don't like that?

...Racist

/Troll away, troll away, troll away.
 
scwewywabbit
2009-02-09 6:37:31 PM  
the outcome of Obama's presidency is certainly a known unknown
 
Ed Willy
2009-02-09 6:38:42 PM  
Seriously, I don't get all the complaints. Obama doesn't fit neatly into a two boxes that politicians have cut out. He's neither a right wing radical nor a left wing nutjob. I disagree that he's a centrist. His ideas are definitely liberal, but in the John Kennedy/Abraham Lincoln kind of way, where he's not bound to the absolutists dictates of liberal groups, but is willing to do for them what he can, without alienating the people that don't agree.

Given the nation is in the middle of a diplomatic, economic, and social shiatstorm a little pragmatism and focus on the big problems is called for.

It's not Obama who is acting bad, it's the Republicans in the House who claim Obama won't work with them (despite his changing his bill to get them on board) and vote instead for a not-a-chance-in-hell to pass, let alone work, bill substituting tax cuts for actually thinking of a new ideas for the economy.

After 12 years in the House Republicans forgot that compromise means you have to give stuff up to the other side, and if for two election cycles voters strip your power in both Congress and the White House, some humility is needed as well as getting back in touch with voters and rethinking your agenda.
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-02-09 6:41:06 PM  

angelwolf65: Well, I for one am tired of this failed Presidency! Geez, after a month, you would have thought he would have fixed the economy and brought peace to the Middle East, and brought the troops home by now!

I say we go down to the BlackWhite House, and drag him out for a good old fashioned lynching. I'll serve Fried Chicken after.


IMPEACH THE TRAITOR
 
Manfred J. Hattan
2009-02-09 6:47:46 PM  
"His backhanded move to try and get the census taken by the White House instead of the Commerce Department is percolating on the horizon, so we'll see how that goes."

This and his apparent support of the bipartisan constitution-farking of D.C. representation have really been the only unpleasant surprises. IMO. I voted for the other guy, but sheesh, give the guy a week or two.

Has anyone else noticed the similarity between this thread's title and the Dennis Green press conference?
 
texastag
2009-02-09 6:56:49 PM  
I would just like to remind everyone that whatever happens the democrats own the issue of the economy. If things get better they will be heroes. If things get worse they will have nobody to blame this time. They really don't have anyone to blame for the problems now. They knew this was coming for a long time and did nothing because they could blame Bush and Republicans for everything. They played politics and all of us are paying. Congress controls the purse and democrats have controlled congress for over two years. Here are some solutions just in case any high power democrat operatives are reading...

First, a six month tax holiday. All six months no taxes on anything. Sales, income, property, everything. The stock market would go up at least 2000 points.

Second, begin the transition from petrol/diesel for all vehicles to natural gas within four years. First the federal then the state then the local governments convert all their vehicles. Then lastly all new vehicles manufactured in the US must run on natural gas. The infrastructure already exists. The fuel is cheap, plentiful, and American made. The enviro-farktards are happy, there will be jobs created, and we all get cheap fuel thereby reducing the economic burden on everyone.

Finally, start eliminating government agencies.

/I know, but a guy can dream can't he?
 
stinky_pete
2009-02-09 6:59:44 PM  
"Compromise" to the Republicans is "my way or the highway". Period. When your guy gets more votes, then you can do whatever you want.

Republicans in Congress had a chance to show they could work with the President, and some in the Senate did. But those in the House have chosen party over country, which is sad, yet expected.

While Rush's idea of hope is failure on the part of the President, Republicans in congress can already claim failure as "Mission Accomplished."
 
LOCNAR69
2009-02-09 6:59:48 PM  

make me some tea: He's been on the job for how long? 20 days?

I'm going back to sleep now, wake me up next year.


20 days and poised to spend 1/17 of the war bill--farking socialist dumbass
 
punto
2009-02-09 7:02:30 PM  
I don't know why double negatives are so frowned upon in the english language. Double negative = positive. it's not that hard.
 
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