Egotistical, Selfish And Dull

For over a year now, the political press has been writing the ever-evolving book on Mitt Romney. But as the Democratic National Convention gets under way in Charlotte, major media outlets are sending President Barack Obama through the spin cycle, lobbing five high-profile bombs at the incumbent in a single holiday weekend.

The New York Times ran a front page piece Monday with the unmistakable subtext that Obama is a hyper-competitive egotist who often is not as good as he thinks he is at endeavors ranging from politics to poker.

The Washington Post noted the continued controversy over Obama’s “you didn’t build that” line, and how the clumsy remark continues to leave him vulnerable to criticism that he doesn’t understand free enterprise.

The Huffington Post argued that, for all his promises of a new kind of politics, Obama has “played the same old game.”

The Wall Street Journal weighed in with a piece that portrayed Obama as stingy with fundraising — and vocal support — for fellow Democratic candidates. “We really do believe a high tide raises all boats,” Obama campaign manager Jim Messina told the Journal, explaining how Obama’s success would help others win.

And POLITICO landed with an against-the-grain portrait of Obama as a conventional president — “relentlessly familiar” in his governing style, politically uncreative and culturally uninspiring.

The convergence of skeptical pieces, all of which suggest Obama has failed to live up to the mythic expectations he set for himself in 2008, signal that Obama may be facing unprecedented media headwinds just as the nation’s voters are really tuning in to the 2012 campaign.

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Media: Obama is egotistical, selfish, dull - Dylan Byers - POLITICO.com

headwinds---how ironic

what wapo really said about the "you didn't build it" debate is, precisely---you can interpret the idiotic statement romney's way, you can go with obama, but either way there's no getting around that it is a bold assertion of what obama sees as the necessary and seminal role of govt expenditure in private enterprise expansion

ie, obama is all about the never flinching apologist for all things govt (except the military, subject to those draconian sequester cuts)

bill richardson says today in charlotte that "this is going to be a very pro private sector speech," but these people are incapable, they literally cannot speak the language of private capitalism, they are not fluent

the "you didn't build that" remark is huge, it's defining, it's far worse than jfk's i voted for it before i voted against it

this "are you better off" business is going to make "build" comparitively small game

the poor perplexed president is certainly gonna have to completely rewrite his acceptance speech, and tomorrow nite he's probably gonna have to write it again

moving on, this dramatic turn on the part of the mainstream media is almost astonishing if it all weren't so predictable

he treats em like crap, really, no us president has ever dealt personally so poorly with the typically sycophantic suckups of the washington press corps

all the private phone calls, the cursing, the screaming, the cussing, the blatant representations of this as that, the imperious denial of the purple elephant literally stinking up the james brady briefing room

remember the time when then press secty robert gibbs, the absolute worst i've ever seen, told the "professional leftists" in the brady room that they really ought to consider getting themselves drug tested because they were showing dangerous signs of independence

the descriptors coming from nyt, wapo, wsj, hfpo and roger simon's journolisters above would be astounding if they all weren't so true

"egotistical," "selfish," "dull," failure to live up to "the mythical standards [oceans, anyone?] he established for himself," "cocky," "aloof"

at the end of the day, cnn's jon king chimed in---the presidency of barack obama has been "a time of deep democratic decline"

that'd be 68 house seats, most since '38, 6 senators, 10 gubs, the most state legislatures and assemblies in history

politico concludes, "these recent pieces on obama, though they reflect longstanding sentiments, feel like a sudden, unexpected rebuke of the more favorable coverage given to the junior senator from Illinois four years ago in denver"

"it was hard to wake up labor day morning, read a newspaper (or website), and not feel the result of four years in which the national media has grown steadily disenchanted with obama for failing to fulfill the promise of a transcendental presidency"two weeks ago, also pretty much all at the same time, jake tapper, mark halperin, chuck todd, nyt magazine and arthur brisbane the nyt public editor opined:

we tipped the scales for him, we are susceptible to doing what he wants, we spend too much time on returns and too little on the economy, the bias coming out of hollywood is pervasive if not total, we cover global warming and gay marriage and occupy more like causes than stories

links are pasted in "bias in the media" in this much improved forum

tina brown (!) at newsweek started it all off with her now bestselling cover: hit the road, barack, time for a new president

what's bill clinton gonna say wednesday?

someone this morning let it be known to the world (via the new yorker) that bill clinton's "closest economic adviser" is gonna vote romney/ryan

Report: Bill Clinton's Top Adviser To Vote For Romney/Yahoo

wow!

how is it you don't know these things, they're all over the net?

you should read more, link more, opine less

your mere opinions are worthless

seeya at the polls, pals

When I read your thread title I thought you had found a mirror and looked into it

But, but, but. Matthews legs are still tingling, Behar still climaxes when he show up,