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

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

The Beer Summit of 2009

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The President made it through his first 100 days without much mishap. The first signs of the sort of crazy headlines that would threaten to derail his health care plan were actually of the President’s own making. Behold the Beer Summit. In the aftermath of well-known Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates arrest at the hands of a white police officer, Obama took Lynn Sweet’s bait during press conference and proceeded to describe the police as having acted “stupidly.” Before you know it Obama’s remarks have caused such an uproar that the President shortly finds himself hosting a “Beer Summit” with Gate, Biden, and the officer in question Sgt. James Crowley.

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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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