American Glob

Michael Scherer of TIME Magazine published a lengthy piece about Obama today in which he acknowledges the growing buyer’s remorse over hope-n-change…

With the local unemployment rate above 12% and rising again this summer, about a third of the employer display tables stood empty. Julie Griffin, who voted for Obama in ’08, sat down at the room’s edge, well dressed and discouraged. After 23 years as a payroll administrator at a local RV plant, she got laid off 18 months ago. “Really, what has he been doing?” she said when I asked about Obama’s efforts to help people like her. “I guess I don’t know what he is doing.”

Ironically, back in December of 2008 when I switched American Glob over from a news aggregator site to true blog form, my very first post was about the absurd number of times TIME Magazine had featured Obama on their cover.

That was almost two years ago. God only knows how many more times they’ve had him on the cover since then.

Read more opinion on the Time article at Memeorandum.

You can also watch Scherer summarizing his article in the video below.

Your Freudian Slip is showing, Deval.

For those of you who don’t live in New England, let me fill you in.  96.9 WTKK is a mostly conservative talk radio station in Boston. Their current morning line-up starts at 7 am with liberal talk team Margery Egan and Jim Braude. They’re followed up by the 10 am to 2 pm show by conservative talker Michael Graham.

This morning as Michael Graham was preparing for his show, Egan and Braude were talking to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick about the recent Glenn Beck rally in DC. In the video below, Graham and his producer talk about how they weren’t even listening to Egan and Braude’s show but they were forced to pay attention when their email accounts were flooded by listeners who took offense to a certain comment by Obama’s bestest buddy, Deval. Listen below…

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air weighs in here, saying Michael Graham makes a strong point toward the end…

Graham calls it a Kinsleyan gaffe, noting that if anyone asked Patrick if he liked that the US was a free country, he’d almost certainly say “Yes!”  But do Patrick’s policy choices and that of his party actually stand for freedom — or something else?

Oh, liberal Democrats stand for freedom, alright – freedom for those who agree with them.

Update: Linked at Weasel Zippers. Thanks ZIP!

CNN’s Rick Sanchez, who likes to call Obama critics “racists” has earned a new golden foot in mouth award.

Full story at NewsBusters. Video below….

Read more at Memeorandum.

Obama has been breaking his arm patting himself on the back for success in Iraq lately, Biden too. But just so we’re clear, neither Joe Biden nor Barack Obama deserve a single ounce of credit for any success in Iraq. The timetable for withdrawal of troops from Iraq that Obama sees fit to call the fulfillment of one of his campaign promises, was designed by the one man Obama will never ever give credit. George W. Bush…

President Barack Obama told disabled veterans in Atlanta on Monday that he was fulfilling a campaign promise by ending U.S. combat operations in Iraq “on schedule.”

But the timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops in Iraq was decided during the Bush administration with the signing of the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) by U.S. and Iraq officials on Nov. 16, 2008. The Iraqi parliament signed SOFA on Nov. 27, 2008.

The agreement, which had been in negotiations since 2007, set a timetable calling for most U.S. troops to leave Iraqi towns and cities by June 30, 2009, with about 50,000 troops left in place until the final withdrawal of all U.S. military forces by Dec. 31, 2011.

Listen to Obama, who opposed the surge, touting his success…

See more videos of Senator Obama on Iraq at Freedom’s Lighthouse.

Video by Freedom’s Lighthouse via ZIP…

Media mistakes distortions so far:

CBS Downplays Number of Attendants

Mostly White Crowd

Sarah Palin Misquoted (Deliberate?)

I’m an Enya fan and a General Petraeus fan. BIG thanks to Allahpundit of Hot Air for writing about this…

GRIFFIN: Is there any music that you particularly like? Are you a classical music guy? Are you a pop, are you a Taylor Swift guy?
PETRAEUS: No, no. I’m an Enya guy. I don’t know if Enya’s still –
GRIFFIN: Enya?

Below is a video for one of my favorite Enya songs. It’s called “Anywhere Is.”

Sometimes coincidences have meaning. Now is one of those times.

It’s no secret that the teachers’ union in New Jersey doesn’t like Governor Chris Christie. It’s also no secret that teacher unions backed the Obama 2008 campaign big time.

With that information in mind, doesn’t it seem oddly coincidental that New Jersey has been denied $400 million in federal education funds because of a one page error in a grant proposal over 1,000 pages long???

Follow up: Guess which state got the $400 million bucks instead of New Jersey. Ohio.

Guess which state the Democratic Party is desperately trying to hold onto in the 2010 mid-terms. Ohio.

I’m sure this all just a coincidence though.

Oh and by the way, right on cue Rachel Maddow of MSNBC is delighting in all this.

I’m sure that’s just a coincidence too.

Read more at Memeorandum.

Hat tip to Andy McCarthy of National Review who’s featured in the video below.

In his post at NRO’s The Corner, McCarthy comments on this exchange:

Last night, I was on David Asman’s Fox Business Channel show, Scoreboard, debating Imam Dawoud Kringle of the New York State prison system, a GZ mosque supporter. Imam Kringle, who seems like a nice enough fellow, reeled off the usual talking points about how Islam forbids terrorism and, therefore, if someone commits an act of terrorism that act is, by definition, un-Islamic.

Then came the moment of truth: the very simple question, “Is Hamas a terrorist organization?”

Talk about “Talking Points.”

Raise your hand if you already want to puke every time you hear the term “bridge builder.”

Read more at Memeorandum.

Obsolete…

The network newscast ratings for last week are in and “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” tied its all-time low in total viewers with an average of 4.89 million tuning in during the five days.

The low was set last June, when ABC also hit its own low. (Ratings records date back to the 1991-’92 season.) Last week, NBC averaged 7.42 million total viewers and ABC averaged 6.51 million.

Partisan…

In raw footage of Katie Couric preparing an introduction for broadcast during the Republican national convention in 2008, the CBS anchor pokes fun at vice-president candidate Sarah Palin.

The footage was recorded shortly after [meaning the day] John McCain picked Palin as his running mate but the five-minute video clip was just posted on YouTube on Tuesday. [August 2010]

In the footage, Couric lists off Palin’s credentials, including hunting caribou, enjoying moose burgers, high school basketball player and a former beauty queen before interjecting, “You can’t make this up.”

After talking about two of Palin’s children – Trig and Track – she quips, “Where the hell do they get these names?”

Idiot…

Growing belief that Obama is a Muslim, although incorrect, is not the fault of the American People. Way to keep your finger on the pulse of the nation, Katie.

Read more coverage at Memeorandum.

Not a bad idea. You can get the basics from the Washington Post…

CLEVELAND — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) called Tuesday for the mass firing of the Obama administration’s economic team, including Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and White House adviser Larry Summers, arguing that November’s midterm elections are shaping up as a referendum on sustained unemployment across the nation and saying the “writing is on the wall.”

Boehner said President Obama’s team lacks “real-world, hands-on experience” in creating jobs that are needed for a full economic recovery. The Republican lawmaker cited reports that some senior aides complained of “exhaustion,” including the recently departed budget chief Peter Orszag.

Of course the money quote comes at 0:46 in the video below. “We’ve tried nineteen months of government as community organizer and it hasn’t worked.”

Read more at Memeorandum.