Comments on: Republicans Are Making a Mistake With Obama Concerns http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2009/10/19/republicans-are-making-a-mistake-with-obama-concerns/ Conservative group weblog that publishes daily commentary on political events and topics affecting Canada, the United States and the world. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Christopher Northcott http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2009/10/19/republicans-are-making-a-mistake-with-obama-concerns/comment-page-1/#comment-213642 Christopher Northcott Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:27:12 +0000 http://www.thepolitic.com/?p=6556#comment-213642 I'm beginning to think Obama is his own worst enemy as well, or, at the very least, still acting like someone who spent too much time in the circles of higher education. This whole nonsense after the weekend about Fox News not being news but "a perspective" (as though no other news organization---hmmm, MSNBC---has a "perspective") is a perfect example. Many, many fair minded Americans get their news from Fox. If you don't like what they are saying, accept their invitations and send your people to go on their highly rated shows. What a stupid fight to pick! ... What, are they trying to muster support for the "Fairness Doctrine"? ... Good luck getting that by going after Fox News. It's a game, they should play it. Not everything has to be a revolution. Which is why the news of a few Obama staffers having an affinity for Mao is so bizarre. Unless they are prepared to do what Mao did, sentimentalizing over him won't get them very far. Bush was the exact opposite of Obama when it came to informing the country's expectations of him. Bush over played expectations. Obama under-whelms because he sets the bar so high. ... Like accepting a Nobel Peace Prize now rather, than, maybe, much later? ... With that in hand, to make his hand count, I suspect he is going to have to be much more hawkish than Bush (justifying it as a Nobel Peace Laureate), which doesn't seem likely, to say nothing of being possible to pull off. I’m beginning to think Obama is his own worst enemy as well, or, at the very least, still acting like someone who spent too much time in the circles of higher education.

This whole nonsense after the weekend about Fox News not being news but “a perspective” (as though no other news organization—hmmm, MSNBC—has a “perspective”) is a perfect example. Many, many fair minded Americans get their news from Fox. If you don’t like what they are saying, accept their invitations and send your people to go on their highly rated shows.

What a stupid fight to pick! … What, are they trying to muster support for the “Fairness Doctrine”? … Good luck getting that by going after Fox News.

It’s a game, they should play it. Not everything has to be a revolution. Which is why the news of a few Obama staffers having an affinity for Mao is so bizarre. Unless they are prepared to do what Mao did, sentimentalizing over him won’t get them very far.

Bush was the exact opposite of Obama when it came to informing the country’s expectations of him. Bush over played expectations. Obama under-whelms because he sets the bar so high. … Like accepting a Nobel Peace Prize now rather, than, maybe, much later? … With that in hand, to make his hand count, I suspect he is going to have to be much more hawkish than Bush (justifying it as a Nobel Peace Laureate), which doesn’t seem likely, to say nothing of being possible to pull off.

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