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phonyfeminazi · Expert Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 7819

.A couple paragraphs from Time Magazine:

Inspirational words have brought him a long way - including to the night in Grant Park less than a year ago when he asked that we "join in the work of remaking this nation the only way it's been done in America for two-hundred and twenty-one years - block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand." (See pictures of Obama in Grant Park.)

By now there are surely more callouses on his lips than his hands. He, like every new president, has reckoned with both the power and the danger of words, dangers that are especially great for one who wields them as skillfully as he. A promise beautifully made raises hopes especially high: we will revive the economy while we rein in our spending; we will make health care simpler, safer, cheaper, fairer. We will rid the earth of its most lethal weapons. We will turn green and clean. We will all just get along. (See pictures of eight months of Obama's diplomacy.)

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dick · Journeyman Joined: 28 Jan 2009 Posts: 3134

I heard otherwise... like he saved the world and stuff.

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Brant · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:31 pm Post subject:

Phony, do tell, was that from a column in Time? Because columnists do have an opinion, and some magazines present a variety of them.
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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

It's Nancy Gibbs, I think...
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phonyfeminazi · Expert Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 7819

Brant · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 3:44 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the link. It's an opinion piece. Newspapers and magazines run those, and if it's a good newspaper or magazine, at least from my perspective, they should provide you with a variety of points of view. I wouldn't subscribe to a magazine that did nothing but praise Obama, just as I wouldn't subscribe to one that did nothing but bash him.
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phonyfeminazi · Expert Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 7819

Brant · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:02 pm Post subject:

I took several history courses in college that I enjoyed a lot. I even took one on West Virginia history. Now there's a place where the entire population might be traced to the same two people.
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phonyfeminazi · Expert Joined: 30 Sep 2008 Posts: 7819

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SSSS · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject:

brant-with all due respect you WORK for a publication that does nothing but praise obama-my opinion only of course.
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Brant · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject:

Interesting that you say that, because I just sketched out the editorial pages for the next three days, and the editorial cartoons on each of them could be considered as negative toward Obama. And I don't remember putting any worshipful columns on the docket, either.
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ellipses · Mod Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 9218 Location: WashPa!

Oh come on now, there have been plenty of "right wing" editorials in the OR...
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