And that, Mr. Obama, is why no sitting president has ever gone on late night."It's like the Special Olympics or something," Obama quipped after Leno asked him about his bowling game. Naturally, the comment didn't go over well with the Special Olympics or parents of special needs children.
The very nature of the Tonight Show lends itself to heavily to a potential gaffe and President Obama fell right into that trap. The platform for American presidents has always been carefully orchestrated for a reason. The flippant and relaxed environment Obama put himself into was a pitfall he should've avoided.
Certainly a foolish, off-handed remark is something we've all made without much thought, but Obama isn't meant to be "one of the gang". We hired him to be something better and particularly during a time of crisis, Obama has no business yuckin' it up with Leno.
From coverage of the president working on his NCAA tournament bracket to his television appearances, Obama is undeniably overexposed. Photos of the president sitting at his desk in the Oval Office would be preferable to another segment of him talking about March Madness.
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With everything going on in the world what motivates you choose to criticize Obama for a TV appearance? It’s no wonder the republican party are foundering so if this is the sort of issue they think in now important enough to present for comment and discussion. If everything else is perfect, I say go for it…
…if not, I ran across this ditty today. Their words are better than mine are since a portion is an actual e-mail quote from those involved:
(3/20/09) It appears lawmakers in Juneau are feeling burned over Governor Palin's announcement yesterday that she was declining 30% of the federal stimulus money. The most controversial chunk of change left on the table was $170 million for education that has both lawmakers and education professionals stunned.
Lawmakers are apparently upset because they thought they had a deal with the governor on what funds the state would be keeping and now she has put them in a position where they'll look like the spenders while she polishes her appeal to conservatives who are courting her for 2012.
This was an email I received this morning from a legislative leader:
Here’s the scoop on the Big Stim funding. Until 24 hours before her press conference, the Governor was going to accept most everything, and reject a few items that we all pretty much agreed were not acceptable. Most of the Big Stim money is really pretty benign and does not require unsustainable new permanent programs.
The issue became a big tug of war for control of the Gov between folks in state government and Sara PAC. Sara PAC won, literally hours before the announcement was made. Alaska was sacrificed again to the godless pagan illusions of her national ambitions.
Goodness. It would seem the folks in Alaska are also questioning Palin’s political ambitions and their penchant to interfere with her ability to govern the state.
Refusal to accept stimulus money as a tool for future political gain: now that’s a topic worthy of discussion!
It's good enough for your friends at CNN to discuss. It's good enough for my friends at Fox News to discuss. It's good enough for me to discuss.
Folks with mentally disabled children certainly find the topic worthy. The chairman of the Special Olympics were inundated with emails and calls all day yesterday.
Just because it's a non-issue for you doesn't mean others aren't affected.
The bit about Palin...she's making decisions based on the conditions that come with accepting free money. Alaska is not in the same shape that California is in.
Quit picking on her. You have plenty to complain about in Washington. I'd think the governor of Alaska should be a non-issue for you.
CNN and Fox News have to fill 24 hours of broadcast time every day in order to sell the ad spots. At some point they all latch on to anything out there. Just because they use the story doesn't make it worthy of a blog topic. You are obviously allowing the media to influence your view of what is important.
Regarding Palin, she is using her position as governor to grandstand for her own political future. It has nothing to do with doing what is right for her state or her constituents. She no longer cares about them; they are merely an annoyance. Her state needs the money which you would understand had you done your due diligence on the subject. Revenues from oil are drying up, the checks will be reduced to the voters and the school system needs cash. Any strings that come with the stimulus money can be cut – don’t kid yourself about that fact. Nothing is ever etched in stone regardless of what these people would like you to believe.
The governor of Alaska is only an issue for me when she enters the national stage, either by political grandstanding on issues like acceptance of stimulus money or when she kills nature just to provide hunting grounds for her wealthy republican supports.
You don't care about Alaska. Please don't act like you care about Alaskans. You care about ripping Palin apart. I'm not sure why we're talking about her. I truly don't think she's a threat so...leave her to govern in peace.
PS I thought the topic was worthy of my time. So did your friends Anderson Cooper and Larry King. They only have an hour to cover and they included it. Good enough for me.
Sigh! If you would just take the time to read and understand my point of view you would be quite enlightened - but you are too busy trying to read my mind which I assure you is much too complex for you to achieve any measure of success.
It was the very last comment in the previous post. Go back and read the part where I said:
"Regarding Palin, she is using her position as governor to grandstand for her own political future. "
...and...
"The governor of Alaska is only an issue for me when she enters the national stage, either by political grandstanding on issues like acceptance of stimulus money or when she kills nature just to provide hunting grounds for her wealthy republican supports."
Ha! Don't we think well of ourselves??
"You are too busy trying to read my mind which I assure you is much too complex for you to achieve any measure of success."
Get over yourself!!!
I just want you to lay off Palin. Why do people spew venom at her? Why do you hate her? She didn't do anything wrong. She just has a point of view that isn't yours. She's not stupid. She's not evil. She just doesn't agree with you and why should she have to...because of your complex and superior mind??!!
So, you want me to lay off Palin? You are just encouraging me to do even more! Her action are the only thing that will cause me to lay off. In fact, I haven’t said anything about her for some time until I noticed this wolves thing. And then she started on the latest. What a bimbo.
Why should I get over myself? It’s taken me 52 years to build the person I am today.
And now, back to your Alaskan bimbo buddy. You are right; she didn’t do anything to me. People must spew venom at her for a reason, reasons you apparently choose to ignore. Perhaps you should ask around. Oh, and any venom spewed in her direction is surely earned.
She had no business being on McCain’s ticket and it cost him the election. That should make you unhappy. Let me say it again: Palin cost McCain the election. I was seriously leaning towards voting for McCain until “she” was added to the ticket. That’s when I knew the republican party had lost their way and their leadership was non-existent or on drugs or just simply nuts.
You have a point of view that is different from mine and I don’t hate you! What makes you think I hate her? I don’t even know her. All I do know is what I see her do. So to be clear, I do hate what she does. She cannot possibly agree or disagree with me because she doesn’t know me! If she did know me the only thing she would care about is if I could help become president one day.
I guess simple fractions pose a problems for Alaska's gov. From the Anchorage Daily News:
Palin first told the news media that she's turning down nearly half the federal stimulus money -- but later conceded that does not count the Medicaid money she is accepting. That brings down what she's refusing to 31 percent of what the state government could get. Local governments and nonprofits could still compete for stimulus grants.
The biggest single chunk of money that Palin is turning down is about $170 million for education, including money that would go for programs to help economically disadvantaged and special needs students. Anchorage School Superintendent Carol Comeau said she is "shocked and very disappointed" that Palin would reject the schools money. She said it could be used for job preservation, teacher training, and helping kids who need it.
Palin said she's sure that her decision on the education money will draw the most heat, and that she wouldn't be surprised if the Legislature tries to change it. "It is a matter of discussing with our lawmakers if the expansion there is something we're willing to pick up the tab for when the federal dollars dry up, when they no longer flow into Alaska," Palin said.
Anchorage Democratic Rep. Les Gara argued that it's bad governing not to do things he said would improve schools and reduce the unemployment rate for two years just because it might not last forever. Gara suggested that Palin is pandering to voters outside Alaska in order to further her own national political ambitions.
"I'm worried the governor is taking this sort of national political stance, which is that she's going to be the opposite of Barack Obama on everything," Gara said.
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Gara makes both my points; 1) take the money until it is gone and 2) political ambitions.
This is one rocket scientist!
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"I'm the mayor, I can do whatever I want until the courts tell me I can't.'" --Sarah Palin, as quoted by former City Council Member Nick Carney, after he raised objections about the $50,000 she spent renovating the mayor's office without approval of the city council
"If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." --Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards while suggesting that criticism of her is unconstitutional
"I told the Congress, 'Thanks, but no thanks,' on that Bridge to Nowhere." –Sarah Palin, who was for the Bridge to Nowhere before she was against it
"[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does
"They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco
All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric
"Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade
"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border." --Sarah Palin, explaining why Alaska's proximity to Russia gives her foreign policy experience
"I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is." --Sarah Palin, on running for national office in the future
"We realize that more and more Americans are starting to see the light there and understand the contrast. And we talk a lot about, OK, we're confident that we're going to win on Tuesday, so from there, the first 100 days, how are we going to kick in the plan that will get this economy back on the right track and really shore up the strategies that we need over in Iraq and Iran to win these wars?" --Sarah Palin, suggesting we are at war with Iran
"I don't know if you're going to use the word 'terrorist' there." --Sarah Palin, asked if people who bomb abortion clinics are terrorists
"I like being here because it seems like here and in our last rally too -- other parts around this great Northwest -- here in New Hampshire you just get it." --Sarah Palin, Laconia, New Hampshire
"I'm very, very pleased to be cleared of any legal wrongdoing ... any hint of any kind of unethical activity there. Very pleased to be cleared of any of that." --Sarah Palin, after an Alaska legislative report found she had broken the state's ethics law and abused her power in the Troopergate scandal
"There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women." --Sarah Palin, misquoting former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who said women should "help" other women,"
"I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you." --Sarah Palin, asked by Katie Couric to cite specific examples of how John McCain has pushed for more regulation in his 26 years in the Senate
"Perhaps so." --Sarah Palin, when asked if we may need to go to war with Russia because of the Georgia crisis
"I have not, and I think if you go back in history and if you ask that question of many vice presidents, they may have the same answer that I just gave you." --Sarah Palin, after being asked if she had never met a foreign head of state, despite the fact that every vice president in the last 32 years had met a foreign head of state prior to taking office
"Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie, and that's with the energy independence that I've been working on for these years as the governor of this state that produces nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy." --Sarah Palin, misstating the actual amount of energy produced by Alaska, which is only 3.5 percent
"As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day?" --Sarah Palin, interview with CNBC's "Kudlow & Co",
"And our congressional delegation, God bless 'em. They do a great job for us. Representative Don Young, especially God bless him, with transportation -- Alaska did so well under the very basic provisions of the transportation act that he wrote just a couple of years ago. We had a nice bump there. We're very, very fortunate to receive the largesse that Don Young was able to put together for Alaska." --Sarah Palin, on federal pork and earmarks secured by Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
"What would your response be if I asked you to remove some books from the collection?" --Sarah Palin, inquiring with Wasilla librarian Mary Ellen Emmons about banning books right after taking office in 1996
Back the the original point of this fluff - it's marketing, dummy. Laying the ground work.
Just because you want to see someone in a photo behind a desk with his sleeves rolled up doesn't mean that photo gives everyone else confidence. Others want to see someone that is out there, confident and willing to engage others. Can you imagine Bush on Late Night? What a fiasco that would be which is why you've not seen it happen previosusly.
Now for the following I ran across, not written by me. It covers the latest TV apprearance...pretty damned balanced but I'm sure you'll be critical with no alternative. We'll see. Read on...
Last night's presser was fascinating to me for one core reason: it was the first moment that this new president found an equilibrium between campaign and government. It was the end of the very beginning.
Sometimes, we forget just how momentous this past election was. It was momentous because it culminated in a rejection of the politics of the past eight years, and also, to some extent, an understanding that a very new direction was required given the gravity of the many crises facing the US and the world. The only reason Barack Obama is at that podium is the crisis we are in. In any other time, Hillary would be standing there, or McCain. He was elected to change things profoundly, and as he took office, the hurricane forces of economic collapse strengthened. We all know this. Without this context, none of it makes sense. With this context, everything makes sense.
I'm not sure the press corps fully gets this, and I'm not sure that matters very much. Their job is to be polite assholes, asking questions the president would prefer not to answer, and generally being loathed by the public. They did their job better last night than until now, I thought, because they are finally settling in with the new president. They're human too. They had to cover a phenomenon wrapped in a campaign and then a historic transition. They had to prove they weren't saps but also make sure they weren't being unreasonable of a new president with a mountain of problems just weeks into office. After two months, it's beginning to feel normal - with the banter and sharpness and interaction a healthy relationship with the press requires. They did good. But Obama also noticeably avoided the MSM hierarchy. He gets the mood. And seriously: he's obviously up to the job. That was as competent a presser as I've seen in my years covering politics, and light years better than his predecessor's.
And what does Obama's response to these multiple crises look like two months in at this point? It looks to me like relentless, detailed, reasonable pragmatism. It is what I hoped for. The Geithner package is neither right nor left: it's about solving the problem within the existing structures as far as possible. Will it work? I cannot know. But it is not dividing one half of the country against another; it is resisting the most radical and irreversible move; it is part of an entire package designed to move the world economy out of a dangerous abyss; if it fails, nationalization remains a list-ditch option. I see it as a good faith effort, and prepared meticulously in the time-table dictated by the crisis and simple human competence - not a political product to be wheeled out as marketing. It is a serious project that the president asks us to keep close track of and for which he will remain accountable. What more can we ask for at this point?
For me, the big imponderable is Obama's insistence that we move forward on energy, healthcare reform, and education while navigating this economic storm. He kept saying that these things are essential for growth and growth is essential to rescuing our public finances. He's not wrong about this. But we are perfectly entitled to question the methods and means.
I remain unconvinced that cap-and-trade is the most effective way to transition ourselves into a new energy world without depressing the economy. On healthcare, I fear that restraining costs means rationing in the end and expanding the power of the public sector in ways that will reduce patient choice and slow innovation and research. At the same time, I can see that the combination of our current expectations and the revolution in medical science will mean huge increases in spending which, because healthcare is distributed through third party insurance, is very hard to curtail without more government.
But Obama is right to ask back: so what do you propose? On energy, I'd say a gas tax hike balanced by a payroll tax cut. On healthcare, I'm not so sure. It's hard to oppose the upgrade in information technology as a cost-saver. I can see the merits of getting more people insured. As long as any reform is careful to prevent the private sector being squeezed out of business, I'm open to persuasion. But I'm more cautious on this than most, I guess. I value the private healthcare system in the US, that, for all its faults, has innovated medicines that have saved my life. Education? Sure - but only if there's real accountability for bad teachers.
What about the mounting long-term debt? That's the biggie. What I heard from Obama last night was: let us get through the next couple of years and then I promise we'll tackle the long-term problem. He didn't say that explicitly, but that's the sense I get. Am I wrong to trust him? Maybe. But I don't have to trust him on this for long. If he doesn't make a serious effort on entitlement reform in his first term, screw him. But this also means those of us who favor it need to argue for its fiscal merits - as well as ensure that defense is pruned as well.
Obama is a president who is eager to lay it all out. He understands that the elites - who are used to thinking ideologically - will be the hardest audience. But if he can talk directly, pragmatically, specifically to average Americans, he thinks he can talk them round. His confidence in this is a little breath-taking. And yet, when you see him in action, it seems foolish to under-estimate him.
I said it in the campaign and I'll say it again. He has flaws; he deserves pushback; he needs criticism. But we're lucky to have him right now, in my fallible judgment. Extremely lucky.
More TV appearances:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMr8z-lsf84
You should appreciate these words on fear, especially when you consider the source...if you even know who he is...and no fair using Google...if you don't know do your research the real way, with books in a library.
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear ... To make anything very terrible, obscurity seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes. Every one will be sensible of this, who considers how greatly night adds to our dread, in all cases of danger, and how much the notions of ghosts and goblins, of which none can form clear ideas, affect minds which give credit to the popular tales concerning such sorts of beings. Those despotic governments, which are founded on the passions of men, and principally upon the passion of fear, keep their chief as much as may be from the public eye." — Edmund Burke, "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful."
Are you comparing John McCain's 20-something-year-old daughter (who is not a politician) to the leader of the free world?
Weak.
I can't get through your other comment right now, but could I get you to disagree with me without using the terms "dummy" "where's your brain" "one day when you gain more wisdom" and "my mind is quite complex"?
It's insulting and unnecessary. It's also very disrespectful and ironically, it's very immature. Come on...let's have a conversation without making me feel like I'm back in the 7th grade getting spitballs thrown in my hair.
Interesting. All I do is share a funny but ironic video clip and you've jumped to all sorts of conclusions and hidden meanings. Can't I simply share something I think is humorous and let it simply be that? Sigh.
I can't make you feel any way you don't want to feel. Kind of like you can lead a horse to water...
If you meant that to be humourous, I apologize. You can see how I might take that as offensive and, in turn, get defensive in lieu of the above comments???
You can make me feel how I don't want to feel! It's called fighting.
Say you call someone ugly. That comment is meant to be hurtful. If you tell someone they look pretty...it is meant to make them feel good. I can tell you to f$#% off, but unfortunately I do value your opinion. So, when you suggest that my brain is sub-par...it does affect me personally.
All that aside, your comments and banter keep me sharp and on my toes. I'm not so offended that I don't look forward to a good debate. But, I'm offended enough to ask you to tone down the name calling (i.e. dummy)!!!
Sticks and stones; some of the child-like sayings of your past are based in complex truths. I suppose that’s just a way to simplify things for children so they can relate a complex truth before their minds are ready to grasp the underlying basis.
If you "let" me "make" you feel a certain way you are giving up your power to me. This perhaps explains why some people are so afraid of terrorists. They win when their actions cause their targets to change their behavior. When you take anything personally, you are relinquishing up your power.
You always have a choice. You can react or you can respond. If you chose to respond you are being response-able; that's another way to say responsible.
On the other hand, when you become angry, hurt or defensive you are being reactive. That behavior comes from your flight-or-fight mechanisms in the brain (study about the amygdala in the medial temporal lobes region of the brain, as well as the hypothalamus). It takes a constant use of higher thinking to manage yourself and chose between reacting and responding. It takes even more higher-level thinking (AKA, intelligence) to take two disparate thoughts and place them together in new and different ways. That tends to be virtually non-existent when someone is reactionary, even if the person is intelligent.
When you react you are doing so from the mindset of a child. Intelligence and conscious thought is not involved. You can label that behavior with all sorts of adjectives and adverbs. Words like "dummy" and "being stupid" comes to mind. Learning about emotional intelligence also help understand these notions.
So, it doesn't matter how someone means something; all the power rests in how you take what they say. When you react you give them the power and essentially validate what they said or did. When you choose to respond you are managing the situation and you have the power.
If you truly want to be sharp and on your toes this will help. It is an integral part of the debate process and I've been a softie.
Rice sides with Bush, rebuffs Cheney: ‘We owe’ Obama ‘our loyalty and our silence.’
Earlier this month, former Vice President Dick Cheney attacked President Obama, saying his policies “raise the risk” of another terror attack in the U.S. However, last week, former President Bush rebuked his former VP. “I love my country a lot more than I love politics…I’m not going to spend my time criticizing him,” he said. “He deserves my silence.” Last night during her appearance on the Tonight Show, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sided with Bush:
RICE: My view is, we got to do our way. We did our best. We did some things well, some things not so well. Now they get their chance. And I agree with the president; we owe them our loyalty and our silence while they do it. […] These are quality people. I know them. They love the country and they won’t make the same decisions, perhaps, that we did. But I believe they’ll do what they think is best for the country.
I always thought she was an intelligent woman. Now I see I was right.
“Hey, Obama is being criticized for trying to solve too many problems at the same time. I’ll tell you one thing. This never would have happened if Bush were still president. We wouldn’t even be having this conversation.” - Jimmy Fallon
“I just love this story. Police in Illinois claim that Gary Skoien, who is the former chairman of the Cook County Republican Party, was in his childrens’ play room at 1:00 a.m. in the morning with two hookers, when his wife walks in, catches him and the wife beats him up with a toy guitar. And she’s like a superstar. In fact, women in the neighborhood now call her Guitar Hero.” - Jay Leno
Why is it that when a liberal does something that is attacked as bad, a conservative can do exactly the same thing, but it is OK?
The example du jour is Bristol Palin, who is now officially an unwed mother, having broken off her engagement to the father of the child, Levi Johnston. Now, when Murphy Brown (a fictional TV sitcom character no less) was an unwed mother, the conservatives (led by Dan Quayle no less) were all over it. More recently, the same Lisa Schiffren who wrote that speech for Dan Quayle also attacked Rep. Loretta Sanchez for having her baby before she married her fiancé. But as for the news about Bristol Palin, all Schiffren has to say is “poor girl”. And Kathryn Jean Lopez says “Let the girl live in peace with her child” while opposing the same for gays and lesbians.
What liberals are simply too stupid to realize is that conservatives reject the idea of moral equivalency. Obviously, it is OK for Bristol Palin to be an unwed mother exactly because she is a conservative. The problem with Murphy Brown was that she was a liberal unwed mother, who “would not be able to raise her child with good, conservative, Christian, nonfictional values”. As a conservative, Bristol is in an especially good position to teach her child about the dangers of pre-marital sex. Conservatives are able to turn immorality into teachable moments.
This also explains why when America tortures a terrorist suspect that is not the same as when a terrorist tortures someone. Or why killing civilians in a war or accidentally executing the innocent is not the same as abortion. Or why giving corporations tax cuts is not the same as welfare. Liberals always try to confuse things using false analogies, but conservatives bravely reject moral equivalencies by making important distinctions. Richard Nixon summed it up nicely when he said “When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.”
-- Jon Swift
“Well, earlier this week, President Obama took on the teachers union by saying he wants merit pay for teachers and to fire the ones who do not perform well. That is pretty bold. A Democrat taking on the unions? That’s like Rush Limbaugh going after the donut manufacturers.” - Jay Leno
“Bristol Palin and Levi Johnson have broken up. That’s right. That’s right. And apparently it was not that big a surprise. Even the Russians saw it coming.” - David Letterman
“Another big bailout yesterday. Levi Johnson bailed out of his engagement to Sarah Palin’s daughter. It’s now officially confirmed that Bristol Palin has broken off her engagement to Levi Johnson, the father of her baby. Yeah. See, their relationship never evolved because they don’t believe in evolution.” - Jay Leno
“I think secretly, Rush Limbaugh wanted them to fail.” - David Letterman
“But right about now, Sarah Palin is in a helicopter hunting for the boyfriend with her rifle.” - David Letterman
As noticed by the blog Sadly, No, the conservative websites National Review Online and Town Hall both have published articles containing identical words (attacking Obama, naturally), although attributed to two different authors (Jonah Goldberg in the case of NRO, and Kathryn Jean Lopez in the case of Town Hall). It has been obvious for a while that conservative sites reprint Republican talking points, but usually not verbatim.
What’s really hilarious is that the two sites haven’t taken the articles down, although this may change before you get to read them (Sadly, No has images). I guess they are both stupid and lazy.
Both articles are titled “Big Bedfellows”. Bedfellows, indeed.
“What I find so amusing about all of this is that Obama’s been in office 45 days roughly, and the public is blaming this all on him. It’s the Obama Recession, which is kind of true, because if McCain had won, Sarah Palin would still be buying clothes.” - Bill Maher
I don't think anyone is blaming Obama for this. I don't think some are happy about his handling of it (adding to the debt with this outrageous bill), but no one's blaming him for how we got here.
As for Bristol, I don't know why they are giving this girl a hard time. Murphy Brown, as you point out, is a fictional character (created by adults). Bristol Palin is a real human being and made these decisions as a child. One situation was created on purpose; one was not.
That being said, now days you have to realize that you can't ask Hollywood or TV to create an example for your child...you have to do it yourself.
But I don't think any liberals should be ripping on Bristol. That's their "thing". They're all about free love.
It's pretty weak to pick on her. But, they don't have W. anymore, so I guess they have to find someone to make them feel better about themselves.
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