Maddow: Beyond the spin, Obama's productive first year

[HopeOverFear]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/34833567#34833567

[NYC_SKP]

1. Thanks! Highlights:

Segment starts with Sarah clip... idiot.

"COMMON WISDOM #FAIL" is the first theme, how the Right is pushing hard to frame the discussion.

Fed Reserve profit of $52.1 Billion is spun as bad news, but it really shows that their investment in corporations is paying off.

Next: Job Loss and Stock Market "Bikini Graphs" indicate highest point of job loss and lowest point of Dow at very end of Bush administration, turn around and improvements in both as Obama takes the helm.

Then a rundown, impressive, of the President's many accomplishments.

Health Care Reform: Biggest reform since FDR, and three more years to go.

LBJ got from congress what he wanted 93% of time, old record, 96.7% for Obama is a new record.

"Just watch the Republican spin over the next few weeks..."

I would add, "just watch the leftbaggers..."

:patriot:

[cliffordu]

2. Yep -the fake activists and the psuedo-lefties are going to really have to

scream and twirl and shout to get the hate up to acceptable volumes to drown this out.....

[NYC_SKP]

3. They can twirl on these...

This plant has a name, but I shall not include the name in this reply.

You know how to figure it out... (right click-properties)

:P

[cliffordu]

4. Nice!!!!

:rofl:

[NYC_SKP]

7. Here's me last September, prospecting in the desert, takin' a break...

:P

[cliffordu]

8. Prickly fucker, ain't ya???

:rofl:

[grantcart]

5. yep Maddow is classy smart and even handed.

[quiet.american]

6. Glad to see Rachel break it down. Wasn't too sure where she was going at one point.

I've been a Rachel fan since the days when it was her, Liz Winstead and Chuck D on Air America, but at one point last year, it seemed her idea of using her smarts in regard to Obama was to promote her *theories* about what the president was doing, rather than taking a good, long, real look at what he was actually proposing/accomplishing.

It's wonderful to see her giving credit where credit is due.

[Cha]

10. Precisely what I expericenced

with Rachel. I suppose she could have gone on like that as so many on the left are but she chose not to and that's why grant's OP on "Rachel Leaving the Competition Behind" hits to the heart of the matter.

[quiet.american]

12. Hey, Cha -- glad to see my perception was shared by someone else, too. nt

[Cha]

9. Kick to keep in Focus.

[MoJoWorkin]

11. Kicking, to keep visible

[cliffordu]

13. Kicketty..Just for fun