As a certified Obamabot, I plan to bring to light some good informational/editorial/opinion pieces about the dems and this admin that I have read in blogs/msm to counter the 24x7 misinformation/distortion/outright lies.
So, off we go.
BooMan
Under Bush, terrorists were "elusive," "masters of disguise," and the president didn't spend that much time thinking about them. Under President Obama, terrorists are dead. Hell, even pirates are dead if they mess with American citizens.
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This is how a war on terrorists should have looked. Instead of big invading and occupying armies that chewed up our treasury, we should have methodically tracked down the people who were directly responsible and either captured them and put them on trial in normal courts or killed them if that wasn't possible.
Deaniac
Unlike columnists like Mr. Meyerson, real historians don't have the luxury to hang their hat on a particular pony from one end of the political spectrum in their analyses. Barack Obama is already a transformational president.
He’s the President who pulled us back from the brink of a full on economic disaster, whatever his detractors on either side of the political pendulum have to say about it. He is the President who revitalized the American auto industry. He’s the president who passed health care reform that that presidents and Congresses have been talking about for over a half a century. He’s the president who put common sense rules of the road back in the financial industry through the most sweeping regulatory reform since the Great Depression. He’s the president who streamlined student loans and signed into law a credit card bill of rights and women’s equal pay for women. He’s the president who more significantly expanded the rights of LGBT Americans than any before him, including repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, ensuring hospitals honor the relationships of same sex couples and offering Medicaid protections to gay couples.
He’s the president who has ended or is ending two wars. He’s the president who’s securing loose nukes and reducing nuclear warheads. Oh, and AxelFoley pointed out below in the comments, President Obama is the President who took out Osama bin Laden.
I am no historian, but I think those are among things history is likely to say about President Obama.
Update:
Tom Doctoroff
China's recent passive-aggressive behavior on the world stage is unfortunate but not unexpected. President Obama is handling the PRC's non-collaboration with great skill and savvy. He realizes the Middle Kingdom's ancient cultural imperatives and contemporary geo-political objectives dictate a balance of caution and steely firmness. If he stays the course, push-me-pull-you tension between China and the West will continue. But strains will not erupt into full-blown crisis.
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Barack Obama's Asia strategy is perfect pitch. From Japan to Vietnam and Singapore to India, he is strengthening relationships with China's neighbors, building or rebuilding partnerships with powers that crave American presence in the region. (The call for India to join the United Nation's Security Council was a masterstroke.) He is adopting a stronger, clearer line with the Chinese on issues ranging from human rights to currency appreciation, sending unambiguous signals that the West will not be intimidated by Chinese swagger. (After recent North Korean bellicosity, the U.S. deployed an aircraft carrier to waters the Communist Party erroneously claims are within Chinese territory. This was the right thing to do.)
At the same time, he is not "encircling" China. He voices respect for Chinese aspirations and views its success as fundamental to 21st century prosperity. He has driven the creation of the G20, a much more representative economic forum than the G8, and has actively supported increasing emerging market voting power at the International Monetary Fund.
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I will be doing this often, as and when I read such pieces and probably won't 'engage' in my own diaries (oh, the horror). So consider these as FYI pieces or get-out-of-the bubble pieces. Your call.
Yes, yes, I know that these can be covered under Open Thread, but what the heck, Markos has personally gave me Carte Blanche to go nutz around here ...
So have at it.