Showtime at the Apollo

[Rokke]

NYTs:

Times have been bad and sad, and The One did not turn out to be a messiah, just a mortal politician who ruefully jokes that his talent is hitting the “sweet spot” where he makes no one happy, neither allies nor opponents.

The man who became famous with a speech declaring that we were one America, not opposing teams of red and blue states, presides over an America more riven by blue and red than ever.

The man who came to Washington on a wave of euphoria has had a presidency with all the joy of a root canal, dragged down by W.’s recklessness and his own inability to read America’s panic and its thirst for a strong leader.

In an interview with Fareed Zakaria for this week’s Time cover story, the president is maddeningly naïve.

[Rokke]

If you can hold your nose long enough, this is an interesting read. Interesting in the sense of watching people you really don't like get into a slap fight.

[Rheo]

Get past it being Mo Dowd and it was a good read.

 

The media tilts.....

[RandyM]

Yes, it was a good read (for such a shrewish hag), but she still had to take a cheap shot at Newt at the end of a column about Obama:

 

The Obamas truly feel like victims. But Newt Gingrich, who campaigns by attacking the culture of victimization, plays one on stage. He soared at the Charleston CNN debate by brazenly proclaiming himself the victim of “the elite media protecting Barack Obama” (the same Obama who told Time he was victimized by the press). Newt’s gambit was a calculated way of deflecting attention from a charge by his second wife, Marianne, that the family values he preaches are hypocritical platitudes, given his cheating ways with two wives he divorced when they were ill.

[Rheo]

She waited until the last two paragraphs though.