This is a smashingly fine post and I have absolutely no shame in stealing or re-posting this.
Terry, who is one of the contributors over at the fine site, Fellowship Of The Minds hit 100 posts with this one. As one who has worked in the shadows since 2008, I would like to offer my congratulations to Terry.
This is in honor of your 100th post and very well done. Nothing needs to be added to this.
ENJOY!
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A Slobberin’ Love Affair w/ the POS
By TerryDear Gentle Readers’
This post will be a milestone for me!
It
is my 100th!! A few short weeks ago, when I posted my 1st, I never
dreamt I would have a hundred in me. But with the insanity going on in
our Country and the World, finding material to write about is an easy
task. Finding TIME to share it ALL with you is the impossibility.
I
wanted to make this one REALLY SPECIAL. I wanted to write something
that would stick in your minds for years to come. Something that would
spark discussions in every gathering of minds!
But I Didn’t.
Instead,
I thought I would take you down memory lane with some quotes from the
‘Greatest Minds of the MSM’ that have been uttered since our esteemed
POS was elected.
I have numbered them for easy reference if you have a glowing remark of your own to add.
I hope you have finished your meal.
~Terry
H/T and credit to Bernard Goldberg
1. “Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope….Barack Hussein Obama did not win because of the color of his skin. Nor did he win in spite of it. He won because at a very dangerous moment in the life of a still young country, more people than have ever spoken before came together to try to save it. And that was a victory all its own.”
— Time’s Nancy Gibbs, November 17, 2008 cover story
2. “You’ve
seen those videotapes of Walter Cronkite the night that man landed on
the moon for the first time, when Neil Armstrong stepped out and he
could just barely get out monosyllables. Politically, that’s what this
is. This is man on the moon.”
— MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann during live election night coverage, November 4, 2008.
3. “We
know that wind can make a cold day feel colder, but can national pride
make a freezing day feel warmer? It seems to be the case because
regardless of the final crowd number estimates, never have so many
people shivered so long with such joy. From above, even the seagulls
must have been awed by the blanket of humanity.”
— ABC’s Bill Weir talking about Obama’s inauguration on World News, Jan. 20, 2009.
4. ” It
may take days or years to really absorb the significance of what
happened to America today….When he [Obama] finally emerged, he seemed,
even in this throng, so solitary, somber, perhaps already feeling the
weight of the world, even before he was transformed into the leader of
the free world….The mass flickering of cell phone cameras on the Mall
seemed like stars shining back at him.”
— NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on the January 20, 2009 Nightly News
5. “I
like to say that, in some ways, Barack Obama is the first President
since George Washington to be taking a step down into the Oval Office. I
mean, from visionary leader of a giant movement, now he’s got an
executive position that he has to perform in, in a way.”
— ABC’s Terry Moran to Media Bistro’s Steve Krakauer in a February 20, 2009 “Morning Media Menu” podcast
6. “You’re
so confident, Mr. President, and so focused. Is your confidence ever
shaken? Do you ever wake up and say, ‘Damn, this is hard. Damn, I’m not
going to get the things done I want to get done, and it’s just too
politicized to really get accomplished the big things I want to
accomplish’?”
— CBS’s Katie Couric to Obama in a clip shown on The Early Show, July 22, 2009.
7. “While
it took 27 years in prison to mold the Nelson Mandela we know, the
48-year-old American President seems to have achieved a Mandela-like
temperament without the long years of sacrifice…. Whatever Mandela may
or may not think of the new American President, Obama is in many ways
his true successor on the world stage.”
— From
Time managing editor Richard Stengel’s introduction to his new
self-help book, Mandela’s Way: Fifteen Lessons on Life, Love, and
Courage, quoted by Politico’s Mike Allen in a March 30, 2010 Web posting.
8. “It
remains simply a fact that Obama has delivered in a way that the
unhinged right and purist left have yet to understand or absorb….What I
see in front of my nose is a President whose character, record, and
promise remain as grotesquely underappreciated now as they were absurdly
hyped in 2008. And I feel confident that sooner rather than later, the
American people will come to see his first term from the same calm, sane
perspective. And decide to finish what they started.”
— Andrew Sullivan in Newsweek’s January 23, 2012 cover story, “Why Are Obama’s Critics So Dumb?”
9. “Reagan
[at the 1984 D-Day commemoration] was all about America, and you talked
about it. Obama is, ‘We are above that now. We’re not just parochial,
we’re not just chauvinistic, we’re not just provincial. We stand for
something.’ I mean, in a way, Obama’s standing above the country, above —
above the world. He’s sort of God. He’s going to bring all different sides together.”
— Newsweek’s Evan Thomas to host Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball, June 5, 2009.
10.
“When he turns to solving problems through policy, he reveres facts,
calling for data and then more data. He looks for historical analogues
and reads voraciously. ‘This is someone who in law school worked with
[Harvard professor] Larry Tribe on a paper on the legal implications of
Einstein’s theory of relativity,’ said senior adviser David M. Axelrod.
‘He does have an incisive mind; that mind is always put to use in
pursuit of tangible things that are going to improve people’s lives.’”
— Washington
Post reporters Anne Kornblut and Michael Fletcher in a January 25, 2010
front-page story about Obama headlined, “The Seeker as Problem-Solver.”
11. “If
an Obama brand exists, it is his image as a probing, cerebral President
conducting an exhaustive analysis of the issues so that the best ideas
can emerge, and triumph.”
—
Washington Post writers Michael Leahy and Juliet Eilperin in an October
12, 2010 story about Obama formulating a policy on offshore oil
drilling.
12. “By
calmly and meticulously overseeing the successful targeting of Osama
bin Laden, President Barack Obama just proved himself — vividly, in
almost Biblical terms — to be an effective commander-in-chief of the
armed forces of the United States.”
— The Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman, May 2, 2011.
13.
“Touring that awful storm damage in Alabama, while knowing at that very
moment U.S. Navy SEALs were already on the move halfway around the
world. (to Obama) You had to go to Tuscaloosa. You had to go have fun at
the Correspondents’ Dinner. Seth Meyers makes a joke about Osama Bin
Laden….How do you keep an even keel? Even when we look back on the
videotape of that night [the Correspondents’ Dinner], there’s no real
depiction that there’s something afoot.”
— Brian Williams
to President Obama during his May 2, 2012 Rock Center special on the
first anniversary of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
14. “When you watch the President like that, I always feel he’s got so many pluses, doesn’t he? In a sense, he’s personable, he’s handsome, he can be funny. You know, abroad he has this great image for America. A lot of things are just perfect about Barack Obama.”
— Host Piers Morgan to Obama strategist David Axelrod on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, December 5, 2011.
15. [VIDEO]
Clip of Barack Obama from 2008: “My family gave me love. They gave me
an education. And most of all, they gave me hope. Hope, hope that in
America, no dream is beyond our grasp if we reach for it, and fight for
it, and work for it.” MSNBC’s Chris MatMthews: “I get the same thrill up my leg, all over me, every time I hear those words. I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, that’s me. He’s talking about my country and nobody does it better.”
— Setting up a segment on MSNBC’s Hardball, September 7, 2010.
16. Joy Behar:
“You’ve really done a lot, I think. I mean, you’ve signed 200-plus laws
into — since you’re in office. You have — financial reform has taken
place. You got a health care — I mean, you put two women on the Supreme
Court. I could go on and on about your accomplishments. And yet, the
right-wing, through Fox News and other outlets, they seem to be
hijacking the narrative. Where, on your side, is the narrative? Where is
your attack dog to come out and tell the American people, ‘Listen, this
is what we did?’” President Obama: “Joy, that’s your job.”
Joy Behar, over audience applause: “I do it! But, I’m only one woman!”
— Exchange on ABC’s The View, July 29, 2010.
Special section for the ladies (and queers):
Dreaming About Sexy Obama, Admiring His “Chiseled Pecs”
17. “Between
workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed
looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one
geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit
competitions. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during
four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular
treadmill runs and basketball games.”
— Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow in a December 25, 2008 front-page story about Obama’s vacation fitness regimen
18. “The
other night I dreamt of Barack Obama. He was taking a shower right when
I needed to get into the bathroom to shave my legs….I launched an
e-mail inquiry….Many women — not too surprisingly — were dreaming about
sex with the President.”
— New York Times “Domestic Disturbances” blogger Judith Warner in a February 5, 2009 posting.
And Now-The ‘Grad Finale’:
19. “Can
we just enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be
weighed and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month
or two to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by
Vermeer or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a
Peyton Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement?
Because twenty years from now, we’re going to look back on this time as
a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent,
fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from
triumph to triumph….‘I am large, I contain multitudes,’ Walt Whitman
wrote, and Obama lives that lyrical prophecy….Barack Obama is developing
into what Hegel called a ‘world-historical soul,’ an embodiment of the
spirit of the times. He is what we hope we can be”
-Esquire’s Stephen Marche in a column for the magazine’s August 2011 issue: “How Can We Not Love Obama? Because Like It or Not, He Is All of Us.”
-FOTM’s Terry at completion of this putrid article.
Original source is here.
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