Fool Howard Fineman thinks OBAMA will be damaged by the RW Petraus scandal!

[tblue37]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fineman/david-petraeus-morality-play_b_2119081.html

The so-called “liberal media” are so predictable. Howard “Blue-dress” Fineman sees a bunch of RW Republicans acting very badly, so of course he thinks Obama must somehow be at fault and therefore that he will be damaged by the whole scandal.

David Petraeus Morality Play Offers More Comic Hypocrisy Than Hollywood
by Howard Fineman

WASHINGTON -- The Showtime series "Homeland" strikes many viewers as preposterously far-fetched. But it's gritty and realistic compared with the "Odyssey of Petraeus," a fabulous Greek morality play about hubris that has the potential to inflict serious collateral damage on the just-re-upped Obama administration.

The story teaches an old lesson: It's virtually impossible to overstate the comical hypocrisy of our leaders, especially those lionized to the point of canonization by a credulous media in search of uplift.

The other lesson is for presidents: Just when you think that you've "won" and can kick back and watch ESPN, a story blows up that reminds you what you didn't like about the job in the first place.

<SNIP>

[graham4anything]

1. Obama never was kicking back and watching ESPN(a rightwing network btw)

funny he doesn't see how one by one like dominoes the Bushies are falling down and the repubs have nothing at all

[Spazito]

2. LOL, this is the idiot who also tweeted this...

"Howard Fineman Howard Fineman ?@howardfineman

It's not scientific or quantifiable by Nate Silver but Des Moines Register endorsement of Mitt first time it's' clear O may lose the race."

After he did this, I tend to laugh at anything Fineman says.

[Eleanors38]

5. Yep. Still waiting for the farm vote to come in...

Newspaper endorsements never have meant much, and now they mean less. Our still-daily AustinAmerican Statesman has dropped presidential endorsing altogether.

[ProSense]

8. Yeah, it's like

he and others believe everyone forgot the lead up to the election: Romney is going to win!!!!

Mitt got his ass kicked and the handwringing continues...it's now probably an attempt to save face by projecting RW bullshit onto the President.

[Whisp]

13. that first debate was supposed to lose it for the President too.

what dirty disgusting idiots.

prior to debate 1, how many times did I hear
1. it's rare for an incumbent to gain from a first debate.
2. debates mean nothing, in the end.

and what do they do.

OMG NOES!!! OBAMA LOST THE ELECTION, ROMNEY WON, omg, wtf you DOING, oBama! AAAGHMM,,SSEEE!!!!!7^%%#))!@&&!, you KILLED US ALL, jsut now. YOU BAD MAN you. YOU handed ROMNEY the PresidenCY! you you you.

what dirty disgusting idiots.

[Horse with no Name]

3. They can only prop it up so long

the fact that RW mouthpieces are trying to shut this down and make excuses for Petraeus tells me that there is something there.

This is a huge RW scandal with major players. Hopefully they will all go down.

Cantor is the one who needs to be frightened. He is the one who KNEW and failed to tell the ranking officials on the Intelligence Committee. He planned on using the information politically--national security be damned.

[ProSense]

6. Exactly. n/t

[Poll_Blind]

9. Bingo! This has nothing to do with the PotUS! nt

PB

[Eleanors38]

11. This is where the chestnut "follow the money" comes up short...

Deer-in-rut know what to follow. Hooo WEE! Even humans can catch a whiff of that.

[flamingdem]

4. Howard is a putz and a whiner n/t

[reformist2]

7. Howard needs to keep up. This is a Repug scandal now.

[GeorgeGist]

10. You gotta admit ...

Obama appointed Petraeus to be head of CIA.

perhaps he's cleaning house

[tblue37]

12. Or an attempt to quiet RW mouths who were pressuring him,

and maybe even keep Petraus off the campaign trail, where he would have stumped for Republicans and where he would be positioned to run for president in 2016.

[underthematrix]

14. That's what I'm thinking recall McChrystal was taken down

by someone embedded with him and his team.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. It's amazing how the weather vain

Fineman spins. If memory recalls,Howard was one of the go to Raygun guy. Stopped subscribing to magazines this turd did articles for years ago. Fineman,just another shmuck in the D.C. Punditocarcy .