No shame at all.
Josh Marshall:
"The idea that Obama is the bad guy in this story is not only preposterous but verging on obscene".
Anything bad that happened to anyone since January 20 2009, is Barack Obama's fault. At this point, it's a fact of life. From the smallest mundane stuff to the oil leak – it's his entire fault. The good stuff, the almost unprecedented record of meaningful and helpful legislation, executive orders, under-the-radar sharp shifts from the previous 30 years – all that goes unnoticed and unappreciated. Because when a president is being judged, treated, and respected - or actually disrespected - by a completely different standards than any of his predecessors, it's an open season every day.
The treatment president Obama received from all over in the past 72 hours, was/is despicable. People could not be happier to go for blood, each and their own reasons. The RW, I'm not even going to waste time or energy on them. The media, consciously or not, is acting from day 1 in a way that can only be describe as a conspiracy to bring this president down. And on the left, plenty of people resent him because it turned out that he's not a magician.
And everybody got together to crap all over Barack Obama. The unity was so moving, i could cry.
The secretary of a peripheral department decided to fire a medium level employee - a decision the president had absolutely nothing to do with. It was a terrible decision, and a day after it was clear what a grave mistake its been - Shirley Sherrod received the public apology she deserved, a job offer, and two phone calls from the president trying to reach her.
And yet, throughout a span of 24, even 48 hours, everyone sang the same tune: President Obama is the bad guy in this. The sons of bitches that did this horrible act got away with relative ease. Most of the media couldn’t care less that it was one of their own committing a real crime. Here, there were dozens of diaries on the matter; most of them were not about the real enemy. They were about the weak president. That Uncle Tom. Yea, read that too. There were sheer lies about Barack Obama's "fear of dealing with racism", and media figures like Keith Olbermann and others acting like they actually understand Shirley Sherrod' ordeal better than this president, or they can understand what it is like to be the first African-American president in this environment. And they didn't even blink before calling that first AA president "weak" and "coward" and "self defeated". How arrogant. How condescending.
All this while at the same time simply ignoring what this "weak" president is doing and achieving each and every day, as he's trying to rescue the sinking ship. Neither KO show, and not even Rachel (a journalist I love to death and which her "Scare white people" segment from last night is Pulitzer worthy) cared to dedicate time to the signing of Wall Street reform. Not to mention the more traditional media - If they could, they would have not report on any of his achievements.
No. It was all about how the first black president of the United States is the villain in one of the most despicable acts of white racism in recent years. It was all about the "weak" president, who is "scared" of the racists. The same president who gambled his entire candidacy on one speech about race. The same president who wrote almost an entire book about race. The same president who gets more death threats than any previous one, simply because of his skin color, and yet he goes about his job day in and day out, and doing it better than many-many of his predecessors. This president is a coward? This president is weak?
No shame. No shame at all.
PS.
This.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this.
And this!
And the week isn't even over yet.