Liberal columnist Mike Barnicle confessed early on Friday morning “that the media ‘deified’ Barack Obama during his 2008 Presidential campaign,” Matt Hadro writes at Newsbusters:
Both Barnicle and former MSNBC host Donny Deutsch, on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” admitted that Obama had no executive experience when he took office as president and that hurt him in his first two years in the Oval Office.
“This guy took office, he had never really run anything in his life, and it’s very easy to be an ideologue,” Deutsch said of Obama. “And he learned,” he added. Barnicle noted that Obama “has never been executive, he’s never run anything, he’s never managed anything.”
“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough questioned why Obama took so long to focus on a job-centered agenda rather than liberal policies such as health care and cap-and-trade. Barnicle confessed that Obama “was glorified and deified during his campaign, largely by the media. We have to admit that, I mean, we have to plead guilty to that.”
At the end of the segment, the panel unanimously agreed that Obama has learned from his mistakes and is now “acting like a president.”
And then later that day, Bill Clinton arrived back in DC.
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