Chuck Todd and MSNBC First Read NAIL it on President Obama

[Politics_Guy25]

Wow wow wow.

From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg
*** No pain, no gain? In a way, last week epitomized President Obama’s 10 months in office. There was lots of seemingly short-term pain -- members of Congress calling for his Treasury secretary to resign, more P.R. snafus over the stimulus, the chattering class criticizing his Asia trip, and his approval rating dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup’s poll. But there also was long-term gain -- the Senate on Saturday moving one step closer to passing health-care reform and a growing economic consensus, via the New York Times, that the stimulus is working despite all the P.R. headaches it has caused. Indeed, this short-term pain/long-term gain for Team Obama occurred during the presidential campaign. For all the hits they took (Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, “bitter,” the PUMAs, Bill Ayers, Landstuhl, even Joe the Plumber), they were always working toward the prize (270-plus electoral votes). And remember this: If you simply judged the last three months of the 2008 campaign by which campaign "won" the daily news cycle, McCain came out ahead. That’s perhaps the best example of the short-term/long-term.

http://www.firstread.msnbc.com

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. He's done a great job (Obama). I love the man, however....

He now needs to stop doing what GOPers have done for the past few decades: throwing our much-needed money into the military-industrial complex in Afghanistan. I realize those corporate CEOs will FREAK if he cuts the budget they're accustomed to, but too f bad. We need to rebuild our country after the destruction of the GOP over the past decades. The military budget needs to be cut.

[Politics_Guy25]

2. Delete

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3. Don't be so quick to pat yourself on the back, Chuckie

...(T)he stimulus is working despite all the P.R. headaches it has caused...
...for the Republicans, LOL!


...For all the hits they took...(Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, “bitter,” the PUMAs, Bill Ayers, Landstuhl, even Joe the Plumber)...(the Obama campaign was) always working toward the prize (270-plus electoral votes)...If you simply judged the last three months of the 2008 campaign by which campaign "won" the daily news cycle, McCain came out ahead...

Fortunately, we didn't have to judge the election by who "won" the daily news cycles: thanks to the blogosphere providing us with a "public option" of sorts, the MSM couldn't "push" McCain "ahead" the way they could have a few short years ago. If we'd had to depend entirely on the MSM news cycles, a LOT fewer of us would have learned that the Clintons also had ties to Wright and Rezko, that there were plenty of controversial clergypeople in the McCain/Palin camp, and that Joe the Plumber WASN'T a plumber. The blogosphere (despite the attempts of First Read and Politico to muscle in) is the REAL reason why those "hits" didn't stick!



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4. Direct link to Article

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/11/23/2134561.aspx


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[PHIMG]

5. this hackneyed CW from Immelt's boy is worthless.