The Rachel Maddow Show - THE OBAMA PARADOX - Friday July 23, 2010

[Tx4obama]

Run time: 10:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wczYsTru7nQ   Posted on YouTube: July 24, 2010 By YouTube Member: dontbugplx Views on YouTube: 16   Posted on DU: July 24, 2010 By DU Member: Tx4obama Views on DU: 2492

 

Part TWO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl8lRLm2kiA

[SoapBox]

1. This is good...

I saw this on her show this evening.

...loves ya Rachel!

[maritzasolito]

2. We the “Democratic proclaimed” do deserve what we get for bitching

I have never seen a sitting president being trashed so my as President Obama has by his own party and here is a perfect example: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/22/886452/-Barack-Obama-is-weak-Barack-Obama-is-scared-No-shame.

Barack Obama is weak? Barack Obama is scared? No shame.
by blackwaterdog

Thu Jul 22, 2010 at 01:37:35 PM PDT
No shame at all.
• blackwaterdog's diary :: ::
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Josh Marshall:
"The idea that Obama is the bad guy in this story is not only preposterous but verging on obscene".
Anything bad that happened to anyone since January 20 2009, is Barack Obama's fault. At this point, it's a fact of life. From the smallest mundane stuff to the oil leak – it's his entire fault. The good stuff, the almost unprecedented record of meaningful and helpful legislation, executive orders, under-the-radar sharp shifts from the previous 30 years – all that goes unnoticed and unappreciated. Because when a president is being judged, treated, and respected - or actually disrespected - by a completely different standards than any of his predecessors, it's an open season every day.
The treatment president Obama received from all over in the past 72 hours, was/is despicable. People could not be happier to go for blood, each and their own reasons. The RW, I'm not even going to waste time or energy on them. The media, consciously or not, is acting from day 1 in a way that can only be describe as a conspiracy to bring this president down. And on the left, plenty of people resent him because it turned out that he's not a magician.
And everybody got together to crap all over Barack Obama. The unity was so moving, i could cry.
The secretary of a peripheral department decided to fire a medium level employee - a decision the president had absolutely nothing to do with. It was a terrible decision, and a day after it was clear what a grave mistake its been - Shirley Sherrod received the public apology she deserved, a job offer, and two phone calls from the president trying to reach her.
And yet, throughout a span of 24, even 48 hours, everyone sang the same tune: President Obama is the bad guy in this. The sons of bitches that did this horrible act got away with relative ease. Most of the media couldn’t care less that it was one of their own committing a real crime. Here, there were dozens of diaries on the matter; most of them were not about the real enemy. They were about the weak president. That Uncle Tom. Yea, read that too. There were sheer lies about Barack Obama's "fear of dealing with racism", and media figures like Keith Olbermann and others acting like they actually understand Shirley Sherrod' ordeal better than this president, or they can understand what it is like to be the first African-American president in this environment. And they didn't even blink before calling that first AA president "weak" and "coward" and "self defeated". How arrogant. How condescending.
All this while at the same time simply ignoring what this "weak" president is doing and achieving each and every day, as he's trying to rescue the sinking ship. Neither KO show, and not even Rachel (a journalist I love to death and which her "Scare white people" segment from last night is Pulitzer worthy) cared to dedicate time to the signing of Wall Street reform. Not to mention the more traditional media - If they could, they would have not report on any of his achievements.
No. It was all about how the first black president of the United States is the villain in one of the most despicable acts of white racism in recent years. It was all about the "weak" president, who is "scared" of the racists. The same president who gambled his entire candidacy on one speech about race. The same president who wrote almost an entire book about race. The same president who gets more death threats than any previous one, simply because of his skin color, and yet he goes about his job day in and day out, and doing it better than many-many of his predecessors. This president is a coward? This president is weak?
No shame. No shame at all.
PS.
This.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this!
And the week isn't even over yet.

I am going to have to quit this site(and others) after being a looker for some years!!!

[maritzasolito]

4. I said that I was a looker so here are the links if posible...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-22/credit-card-reform-succeeds-in-ending-many-deceptive-practices-pew-finds.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-22/credit-card-reform-succeeds-in-ending-many-deceptive-practices-pew-finds.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/executive-order-stewardship-ocean-our-coasts-and-great-lakes

http://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USEOPWHPO/2010/07/22/file_attachments/10053/Background_on_Accountable_Government_Initiative.pdf

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-expands-greenhouse-gas-reduction-target-federal-operations

[Tx4obama]

5. Here's a link to The Obameter .... just in case you don't have it ;)

The OBAMETER
http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/
Look on the right side of the page on that link.
They are tracking Obama's campaign promises, they rate them and each promise has an article with citations.
So far, Promises Kept 120 --- Promises in the Works 244

[Tx4obama]

17. Bump :)

[maritzasolito]

6. Here goes the rest to BWD's post lin if posible...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-passage-tribal-law-and-order-act

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-senate-judiciary-committee-vote


http://www.whitehouse.gov/WallStreetReformVideo?utm_source=site&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=wallstreform

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/statement-president-barack-obama-senate-passage-unemployment-insurance-extension

[bjobotts]

8. Not me. But keep in mind dems don't have their own TV station bashing the right 24/7 like FOX

[bjobotts]

9. Plus coporate funding for all these con think tanks and hate radio 500 to 1

[bjobotts]

10. Thank God most dems are able to see through the bullshit to what horror is the alternative

[bjobotts]

11. btw...the wealthy senate owners don't care about anything but tax cuts, bank reform, ins. reform

[bjobotts]

12. 25% of independents are loyal Bushies who like Nazi soldiers just burned their uniforms

and now call themselves tea partiers but they are still the right wing crazies like Michele Bachmann or government quitter 'cause couldn't handle the job (left Wasilla and AK with huge budget deficits well beyond when she began her term) Palin.

They have the big megaphone but not the followers they think they have and a long as dems don't become complacent repubs will get trounced in the mid-terms. If you can't vote for a dem vote to keep the crazies out. Our country cannot survive them again.

[meowomon]

13. No! Mustn't Criticize President

Bad Democrats. Now, Heel!

[JHB]

3. "You take those enemies on, and you beat them"

Thank you, Rachel!

[DeSwiss]

7. I agree with you in part Rachel.....

...but Obama needs some junkyard dog in him to fight the negative forces arrayed against him. Bipartisanship is a weakness now. He wasted too much time and energy treating Faux Snooze as if they were a legitimate news organization when he should have been calling them what they are, a bevy of traitors calling for the failure of the country.

If George Bush can stand in church after 911, and declare to the world that "you are either with us or you are with the terrorists," then Barack Obama should at least feel confident enough to call out those who actively rail for his failure -- as if it would have no effect on the rest of the country. And while we are listing his triumphs, let's also list the other things, like the extension of the Patriot Act. The continuation of rendition and secret prisons. The continuation of the war in Afghanistan, even when we don't know why we're there.

The Bully Pulpit is his now. He needs to learn how to use it better than he has.

K&R

[JDPriestly]

14. When Obama walked up to that podium, for the first time since the election , I saw his

fighting spirit.

Obama needs to show more of this courage.

The American people are very, very angry. We feel cheated, defrauded and duped. Obama needs to show that he understands and respects our anger. It is righteous anger.

Obama needs to replace some of his aides, especially in the economic area, with people who are fighters for ordinary folks, people who can explain complex economic and other issues to ordinary Americans, people who can help him harness the anger and make it work to accomplish much more of the change he promised.

Let Obama keep the spirit he had today. With that spirit, he can harness the anger of the American people. The country will be the better for it.

Words will not suffice.

Obama needs to act.

To begin, he needs to see to it that criminals in the Bush administration and in the financial sector are indicted for the crimes they committed starting with torture, illegal wiretapping and fraud. He can give immunity to the little guys who did what they were told. He needs to indict those who told the little guys what to do.

If Obama does not do that, the likes of Michelle Bachmann will, as she threatened today, be issuing subpoenas to the Obama administration this Fall. For what, I cannot imagine. But, the Republicans certainly showed during the Clinton administration that they they can manufacture scandal out of nothing if they think it will earn them some political points.

Obama, harness the anger. The American people are your jury. Go for it. Get them angry at those who stand in the way of progress, regardless of their party. That's how you can win the American people to your side.

This is the time for the courage and strength to bring justice back to our country. Obama, yes you can.

[DFW]

15. Maddow knows better than David Axelrod

The rabid right spent a fortune to sell Cheneybush to an America that would suffer under them.

And their product sold.

The rabid right is spending another fortune to make whatever Obama has accomplished up to now
seem not only negligible, but negative.

Obama does not need to spend $3 million a week. He's in the White House. When he speaks, people
listen. When he acts, people take notice.

So, speak. Act. Just get out there and fight back. Remember how Reagan outspent the Soviet Union
into near bankruptcy? Ro defeat the extremist right, Obama doesn't need to spend anything except
a little time and effort. That seems a small price to pay for a continued Democratic majority in
both houses of Congress and a shoo-in re-election. Maybe he has now gotten the word from somewhere.

[spicegal]

16. I totally agree with Rachel, although would take it a step further.

A huge part of the problem is our inept media, and what passes for journalism. Not to sound conspiratorial, but I've come to believe this is all part of the right wing strategy. That is, to be on the constant look-out for any story they can sensationalize and distort to throw out there whenever it's necessary to detract from or hurt any of this administration's accomplishments. Add to that the media's failure to cover these accomplishments or provide any contextual information, or refute all the right wing fallacies.