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POLITICO: NYT reporter warns of one-term Obama. You wanna at least wait until he’s sworn in before…
Instapundit — ... POLITICO: NYT reporter warns of one-term Obama. You wanna at least wait until he’s sworn in before that kind of speculation? Oh, who am I kidding . . . ? ...

Comedy is hard — but not hard to come by
Cold Fury — This attempt by some liberal “journalists” to lower expectations for their Lord’s First Holy Term is a real howler , start to finish: White House reporters for The New York Times predict that the market collapse will force President-elect Barack Obama to abandon for now many of his campaign promises. If his stimulus plan “doesn’t work out, he may very well be a one-term president,” said Jeff Zeleny, who covered Obama’s campaign. “It’s hard to imagine that he could be reelected if the economy’s in the exact same position four years from now.” It’ll be worse — precisely because ...

Obama a one-term president?
The Swamp — by Frank James Obama possibly a one-term president? That's what our former fellow Swamper, Jeff Zeleny now of the New York Times, said at a panel discussion yesterday in New York. Zeleny's point was that if the economy doesn't turn around by the time Obama has to run for re-election, then Obama may find himself joining one-termer Jimmy Carter and not two-termer Bill Clinton in the pantheon of Democratic presidents. An excerpt from Politico.com: White House reporters for The New York Times predict ...

Is Obama Revising His Year-One Agenda?
The Atlantic Politics Channel — ... At one of those journalism roundtables we like to do, The Politico picked up some intruiging comments from the cadre of New York Times reporters who cover President-elect Obama this weekend.  Correspondent Peter Baker, who has some of the best Obama sources** around, suggested that the new president: ...

Miscellany
If I Ran the Zoo — ... But don't celebrate too hard; looks like the Obama presidency is already a failure. I'm a little fuzzy on who won the 2012 election, but apparently it wasn't Obama. ...

Obama and the Keynesian Revival
The Corner on National Review Online — Tuesday, January 13, 2009 [image] Obama and the Keynesian Revival [Steve Hayward] There was a lot of chatter over the last few days about this ...

More good news for Republicans
Balloon Juice — ... If his stimulus plan “doesn’t work out, he may very well be a one-term president,” said Jeff Zeleny, who covered Obama’s campaign. “It’s hard to imagine that he could be reelected if the economy’s in the exact same position four years from now.” (via) ...

Obama Online Miffs the MSM
The Moderate Voice — ... He could turn out to be a one-term president, according to New York Times White House reporters in a panel discussion this weekend moderated by their assistant managing editor who complained: ...

ChangeWatch
Stones Cry Out — ... Universal Health Care is being back-burnered.  Indeed, the economic crisis should be one of the top priorities, but I thought this whole scheme was supposed to save us all money.  If it’s such a win-win for the economy and health care, why delay?  Hmmm.  (Perhaps it has something to do with how ...