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Unusally positive things China has done since the Obama visit. http://tinyurl.com/y9lrznp Talking heads said the trip was a failure! 12/10/2009 |
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RT @AdamSerwer: Obama sold out Butterstick for emissions targets and pressure on Iran. http://is.gd/5cczJ // Another slap in the face! 12/4/2009 |
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RT @AdamSerwer: d Obama sold out Butterstick for emissions targets and pressure on Iran. http://is.gd/5cczJ // Another slap in the face! 12/4/2009 |
Midday Open Thread
Daily Kos —
... what about the rest of the year? Like many American Indians, Mary Annette Pember, a member of the Red Cliff Ojibwe tribe, has mixed feelings about Thanksgiving. One in every four Afghan combat soldiers quit in the year ending in September, according to the U.S. Department of Defense,a statistic that belies the happy talk about U.S. success in getting Kabul's military up to speed. James Fallows casts a spotlight on President Obama's supposed failures on his China visit. Does Radiohead's "Idioteque" best ...
Obama Failed In China!
Oliver Willis —
James Fallows documents the FAIL. If this is fail, more FAIL please.
Seeing the Asia trip in a new light
Political Animal —
... of American outlets' coverage of the diplomatic efforts. Yesterday, Fallows followed up, noting more " evidence of failure " in the wake of the president's excursion. Today in ...
The China Turnaround
Matthew Yglesias —
... James Fallows rounds up the headlines and finds sudden progress being made on just about every issue on which Obama’s trip to China was deemed a “failure” by the media consensus. To reiterate what I ...
Obama in China - An Example of Village Group-Think, In Stark Relief
Library Grape —
... wonder if our news media will be the death of us. Remember all the pantswetting in the respectable establishment media about how Obama's trip to China was embarrassing and how Obama didn't seem to be getting much from the Chinese? All of this which is borne of their obsession with real-time, blow-by-blow, horse-race-style "analysis" that casts everything in the model of "How should this be viewed in terms of its optics today?". Well, if this is Fail -- Obama keep on Failin': Today in the NYT: "China Joins ...
What Obama Gained In Asia
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... If you did not read his brilliant dismemberment of lazy MSM reporting during the Asian tour, you can reprise the best here, here, here, here, here and here. If you haven't come away from this series of posts without a deeper and much better understanding of what Obma moved forward on this trip, then by all means return to watching cable news. But let's just look at the more recent headlines: Item One: Item Two:
Item Three: ...
Did Obama Pass The Asia Test?
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... As the POLITICO is fond of pointing out, perception drives reality in Washington. But as the Atlantic's James Fallows has noted (and noted and noted), the American political elite responded to a narrative of President Obama's trip to Asia two weeks that turned out largely to be a myth. U As much as the President's foreign policy team would like to ignore the prevailing narratives, they can't. Obama's agenda is constrained by public opinion, which, of course, is influenced by and influences the chatter among the elite. And that elite is a cum ...
A word packed with blowback
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Like many of Obama's perceived failures and equivocal triumphs, I suspect that yesterday's oh-so-partial climate deal will bear fruit over time. But this ...
