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NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias: Time's Joe Klein Praises Obama's 'Crisp' Handling of Otherwise Non-existent Pirate 'Threat'
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles: Obama and the Pirates
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: Newt On Obama And The Pirates
Time's Joe Klein Praises Obama's 'Crisp' Handling of Otherwise Non-existent Pirate 'Threat'
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... President Barack Obama was "crisp and decisive" but also lucky in his handling of the Maersk Alabama hostage crisis, exults Time magazine's Joe Klein [depicted in NewsBusters screen cap/file photo at right] in an April 13 Swampland blog post. ...
Obama and the Pirates
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Obama and the Pirates :: Swampland - TIME.com: It's better to be lucky than good. It's even better to be lucky and good. One can easily imagine all the different ways the rescue of Captain Phillips might have been screwed up--and the political firestorm that would have resulted. But President Obama appears to have been crisp and decisive throughout...and what can one say about the SEAL sharpshooters--firing from a bobbing ship at a bobbing dinghy and recording three headshots? ...
Newt On Obama And The Pirates
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
He just couldn't resist, could he?
Eating Crow
The Democratic Daily —
Some conservatives were attempting to paint Barack Obama as a weak leader over the pirate hostage drama. They are eating crow now.
And interestingly, speaking of eating crow…
A new poll indicates Americans don’t agree with former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent assertion that President Barack Obama’s actions have increased the chances of a terrorist attack against the United States.
Tags: Assertion, Barack Obama, Conservatives, Dick Cheney, ...
Why the Silence On the Fate of Roxana Saberi?
JammieWearingFool —
... of rocky relations under the former Bush administration. Oh, the government has been pressing for her release? I must have missed the press conference where Obama's TelePrompter demanded her release. The media is busy slobbering over Obama's dog, but has little time to fret over the cause of a human being. Meanwhile, Al Gore's employees are being held hostage in North Korea and Gore hasn't uttered a public word of concern. I wonder if Obama sycophant Joe Klein will talk about the crisp, decisive resolution to these hostage crises? Labels: ...
