It’s a Very Short List [UPDATED WITH LINK!]
And it’s a very strange column from Eugene Robinson, in which he catalogs President Obama’s “winning streak.” Here’s the streak:
Last U.S. Combat Troops Leave Iraq.
Thus fulfilling a status-of-forces agreement brokered by the Bush Administration.
General Motors to Launch Stock Offering.
Let’s see how much money GM raises in its IPO. Also, let’s not forget that GM will continue to receive subsidies, so that it can sell an overpriced economy car to preening greenies, most of whom could afford to pay the unsubsidized (and outrageous) sticker price. And when will GM’s bondholders get a bailout, after having been screwed out of the protections they would have gotten through a normal Chapter 11 proceeding?
Gulf Oil Spill Contained.
By the end of the show, even Maxwell Smart would finally get his man. But getting there involved a lot of useless, clumsy hijinks.
President Wades into Mosque Controversy.
Robinson ought to reword this one to read, “President costs his party two or three more marginal House seats.” It’s a slight rewording, but I think it gets the message across a little better.
That’s the whole list, the big winning streak. That’s all Robinson could come up with. He had nothing to say on Iran, Porkulus, Obamacare, the economy, the half-million jobs we were supposed to be gaining each month (but instead lost last month — a million-job deficit).
It’s not too early to declare: This is a failed administration.
UPDATE
Brad comments:
Nice Maxwell Smart recall! That is a very apt description of any “success” that could ever be attributed to Obama. Hopefully, 2012 we’ll bring down the Cone of Silence on him for good! Does that make We the People the Chief?
The American people are always The Chief. It’s just that sometimes we forget it.
That is a lot of fishing and major spin to get to the ‘winning streak’ part.
Delusional is an apt term for Mr. Robinson’s column. Are these folks being graded on this?
From the world I have seen written by the communist press I do think we must live
in alternate realities. The membranes between the two worlds are so close one can actually see
the inhabitants of the other and seem to interact.
Nice Maxwell Smart recall! That is a very apt description of any “success” that could ever be attributed to Obama. Hopefully, 2012 we’ll bring down the Cone of Silence on him for good! Does that make We the People the Chief?
I don’t understand why he didn’t list big legislation passed. Even if most of the public doesn’t want it, it’s gotta be better than this list. He can come up with one thing most people would agree is an Obama win, and that one thing is successfully sticking to George Bush’s plan on Iraq.
The problem with trusting the Cone of Silence to take care of our elected Maxwell Smart, is that the Cone of Silence can only be trusted to fail in one way or another. Me, I’d rather replace Maxwell Smart with a Napoleon Solo or Illya Kuryakin or even an April Dancer.
Flint.
Nugene Robinson can see a white racist behind each bush and that includes George Bush…This pos would be shining shoes if it wasn’t for affirmative action and
MSNBC that throws this bigot out to their viewers every
chance they get…
Get yourself a new gig Nugene you have worn this one out..