A Year Of Obama: Top Ten Highs And Lows Of The Last Twelve Months

by Glynnis MacNicol | 12:20 pm, November 3rd, 2009

The War Against Fox News

Phew. It’s been a long nine months! NINE MONTHS. Sometimes it’s difficult to remember just how short a period of time Obama has been in the White House when you, say, regard today’s election coverage of three rather smallish races that in past election cycles would not have merited a blip (and yes I know Virginia is a battleground state, and NY-23 is considered by some to be a measure of whether the G.O.P. has completely gone off its rocker, but still!). Apparently the White House sussed out that we are now a country in need (want?) of continual campaign-like coverage because their declaration of ‘war’ on Fox News certainly successfully submerged the news cycle for the last three weeks. And voila! We have a sort of health care bill. Maybe in another nine months we’ll also have a sort of ecomony. Dare to dream audaciously! Below, Anita Dunn on Reliable Sources.

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Tacoma Chuck says:

November 3, 2009 at 12:54 pm

We need a change to the Constitution that allows for a referendom on the quality of an administration after the first year.
It would allow a choice. Pick one in each section.
The President is doing a great job, lets keep him……………….___
Oh crap, what have we done. We need a do over………………..___

Congress is doing a great job, Let’s keep them as is…………___
Who elected those morons? Let’s switch party’s in
every district, nationwide. Let’s hold a lottery, any adult
citizen can buy a ticket (max 5 tickets per adult)…………………..___

ImNotBlue says:

November 3, 2009 at 2:23 pm

9 Months… and what has been accomplished. A dead fly, beer, and a failed attack on FNC. A few good speeches, an (admittedly) undeserved award, and some legislation that probably won’t make it to law.

Woo-hoo????

gilrex11 says:

November 3, 2009 at 9:50 pm

what had Bush accomplished by this time in his rookie year.

oneifbyland says:

November 3, 2009 at 11:57 pm

Well Bush let a highly classified Navy Aircraft land in China.

ImNotBlue says:

November 4, 2009 at 12:28 pm

gilrex11 says:
November 3, 2009 at 9:50 pm

what had Bush accomplished by this time in his rookie year.

Well… Bush didn’t have the same kind of situation when he took office, now did he? No wars, no recession, etc. Additionally, by this time, 9-11 had already happened, and we were in Afghanistan… Bush’s approval numbers were way high.

But more importantly… does it matter? I thought Obama was elected to be BETTER than Bush… not to be equal to? Why would you want to compare them, to show how parallel they are? What does that prove?

Sunnyr says:

November 5, 2009 at 2:15 am

Is it 2012 yet?

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