Are these guys watching the same first week in office??

[Ms. Toad]

Newsweek:

Erasing Bush
With a call for 'relentless' diplomacy, Hillary further obliterates W's legacy.
Jan 22, 2009


After Inauguration Day, departed presidents usually become footnotes pretty quickly. What we are witnessing now is far more dramatic. It's closer to a liquidation, or a cauterization. George W. Bush is being turned into an unperson, like a character out of Orwell. It's been only two days, and there is scarcely a trace of not only his personal presence, but of his policies. Or at least that is the impression Barack Obama would like to convey.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/181038

McClatchy Newspapers (Akron Beacon Journal, and others)

In early days, Obama moves with caution
New president finding his way around, making changes slowly

By Steven Thomma
Published on Sunday, Jan 25, 2009

WASHINGTON: At the end of his first day as president, after the ceremony and speech, the parade and all the balls, Barack Obama found himself home in the White House and unsure exactly where to go. ''It's a pretty big house,'' an aide said.

A pretty big job, too, he might have added.

Days into his presidency, Obama is starting to find his way around the halls not only of his house but also of power, making the transition from campaigning to governing and taking his first steps to mold the office into what he wants it to be.

From his transition to the tone of his inaugural address to his first orders and meetings, Obama signaled that he wants to change the country's course as he promised in his campaign, but that he'll move cautiously at times, work to build consensus rather than adopt a my-way-or-the-highway style and reach out to the right, not only symbolically, but also substantively.

http://www.ohio.com/news/nation/38289464.html

Reminds me of the fable of the blind men describing the elephant - one touching a massive leg, another the ropey tail, a third the ear. I certainly hope the media is not so figuratively blind after 8 years of sleeping on the job that their perceptions are really that diametrically opposite.

[spanone]

1. the real enemy of progress for President Obama is the worthless media in our country

[Jackpine Radical]

2. McClatchy is one of the few bright lights among those worthless media.

[csziggy]

3. To Newsweek - can we chisel Bush's name off every single public place

You know, the way the Egyptians used to for unpopular pharohs? That would certainly obliterate his "legacy"!

[RTFirefly]

4. Bush WAS a character out of Orwell.

War is Peace... Ignorance is Strength... Sounds damn familiar to me.