A big double standard for Obama

[dcsmart]

http://salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2009/12/29/obama_double_standard/index.html


President Obama takes the heat President Bush did not
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31049.html


:banghead:

[gratefultobelib]

1. Error: "You can't recommend posts from this forum." I forgot! Great post.

[dcsmart]

3. really...

that sucks...there is some good info out there...

[Cha]

2. This is so predictable though.. You

can bet Pres Obama and Team knew this was coming.

The corportemediawhores enable this hypocricy and that's why they're Public Enemy Number ONE.

[LiberalAndProud]

4. Two very excellent articles.

President Obama's candor Tuesday describing the mosaic of warnings about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that were mishandled by U.S. intelligence officials shouldn't be noteworthy; it should be routine. But let's be honest, it isn't, and Obama deserves credit for bringing what he called "human and systemic failures" out into the light shortly after he learned about them.

Smart and classy.

Asked about a double standard for Bush’s actions in 2001, a spokesman for Hoekstra, John Truscott, said Tuesday the congressman was really objecting more to the administration’s clamp-down on briefings to Congress than about Obama’s public silence.

It's a bitch to be a member of the minority party, aint' it?

“This hypocrisy demonstrates Republicans are playing politics with issues of national security and terrorism,” DNC spokesman Hari Sevugan said. “That they would use this incident as an opportunity to fan partisan flames … tells you all you need to know about how far the Republican Party has fallen and how out of step with the American people they have become.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31049.html#ixzz0bCyDLfj6

Ain't it the truth?

[SeattleGirl]

5. Good articles, dcsmart. Thanks for posting. And I have to say

that the continued hyprocracy of the repukes, especially that of Hoekstra, King, and Cheney, get me so angry I'd like to gob smack the lot of them!

I don't much trust Politico, but that article was a good one.

[rebel with a cause]

6. A big double standard for Obama?

It has taken them ten months to notice this? Most of us noticed it the first month.

This is nothing new really. It has always been this way for women and members of a minority. and the fact that Obama is a Democrat makes him an even bigger target. Perhaps some of the other news outlets will start to being truthful about what is going on.