Comments on: Barack Obama’s five most annoying talents http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/03/barack-obamas-five-most-annoying-talents/ Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don't say you weren't warned. By the way, this blog's name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, "All politics is applesauce." Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:45:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: SNuss http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/03/barack-obamas-five-most-annoying-talents/#comment-26014 SNuss Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:02:01 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/03/barack-obamas-five-most-annoying-talents/#comment-26014 It must be a horrific letdown for those who saw B. Hussein Obama as their political Messiah, to find that he is just another smooth-talking, lying, big government politician, who is spending the next two generations into tax slavery. It must be a horrific letdown for those who saw B. Hussein Obama as their political Messiah, to find that he is just another smooth-talking, lying, big government politician, who is spending the next two generations into tax slavery.

]]> By: expdoc http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/03/barack-obamas-five-most-annoying-talents/#comment-25984 expdoc Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:08:59 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/applesauce/2009/11/03/barack-obamas-five-most-annoying-talents/#comment-25984 I am so impressed. Apparently the people of Iowa aren't so sure. I think the bloom is coming off the rose, at least according to the ultraconservative New York Times. . http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/us/politics/03year.html "But by the time she received a fund-raising letter last month from the Democratic National Committee, a sense of disappointment had set in. She returned the solicitation with a handwritten note, saying, “Until I see some progress and he lives up to his promises in Iowa, we will not give one penny.” “I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,” Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa. “I really thought there would be immediate change,” she said. “Sometimes the Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. But it’s politics as usual, and that’s what I voted against.” One year after winning the election, Mr. Obama has seen his pledge to transcend partisanship in Washington give way to the hardened realities of office. A campaign for the history books, filled with a sky-high sense of possibility for Mr. Obama not just among legions of loyal Democrats but also among converts from outside the party, has descended to an unfamiliar plateau for a president whose political rise was as rapid as it was charmed. Interviews with voters across Iowa offer a window into how the president’s standing has leveled off, especially among the independents and Republicans who contributed not just to his margin of victory in the caucuses here but also to the optimism among his supporters that his election would be a break from standard-issue politics. " I am so impressed. Apparently the people of Iowa aren’t so sure. I think the bloom is coming off the rose, at least according to the ultraconservative New York Times. .

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/us/politics/03year.html

“But by the time she received a fund-raising letter last month from the Democratic National Committee, a sense of disappointment had set in. She returned the solicitation with a handwritten note, saying, “Until I see some progress and he lives up to his promises in Iowa, we will not give one penny.”

“I’m afraid I wasn’t realistic,” Ms. McAreavy, 76, a retired school nurse, said on a recent morning on the deck of her home here in east-central Iowa.

“I really thought there would be immediate change,” she said. “Sometimes the Republicans are just as bad as Democrats. But it’s politics as usual, and that’s what I voted against.”

One year after winning the election, Mr. Obama has seen his pledge to transcend partisanship in Washington give way to the hardened realities of office. A campaign for the history books, filled with a sky-high sense of possibility for Mr. Obama not just among legions of loyal Democrats but also among converts from outside the party, has descended to an unfamiliar plateau for a president whose political rise was as rapid as it was charmed.

Interviews with voters across Iowa offer a window into how the president’s standing has leveled off, especially among the independents and Republicans who contributed not just to his margin of victory in the caucuses here but also to the optimism among his supporters that his election would be a break from standard-issue politics. “

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