Comments on: Two presidents

By: Blackshot

Blackshot — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:32:59 +0000

He really need to be more sensitive. Go for it.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:32:27 +0000

I think he’s having his hand held. As far as Hillary recieving the Sec of State position, I think that was part of the deal as early as August.

As you can tell, I don’t like Obama. He ignored the Southside of Chicago when he was Senator, so I do not respect his sudden “intellegence” as President Elect. Why didn’t he have this energy when he was representing the Southside? Were the people there not important enough?

By: roger rainey

roger rainey — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:48:26 +0000

I agree Obama has made some comforting appointments and sounds. However, Jeff is buying into a false narrative (along with the rest of the MSM) that (i) attributes stock market rises to actions by Obama but (ii) ignores the possibility that some of the tax-and-spend and redistributionist noises Obama made during the end of the campaign and immediately post-election led to some of the atrocious losses we saw. I can tell you from direct experience that this is not right wing bleating, but something that motivated traders. This is a casebook example of a writer’s (in fact, as we have come to expect, a mass of writers’) belief system effecting his (or their) very understanding of events. Writing about, and in fact believing, only half of the story denies readers a fuller understanding of the complex situation unfolding before our eyes. Many of us independents are still waiting for the news media, including media observers who should be out in front on these issues, to begin figuring out a way to impart information without infecting it with their own personal worldview.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:45:05 +0000

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:55:01 +0000

I think you’re right about needing, and having, temporarily two presidents. But in fact, there is still only one who can sign the bills.

Part of the problem is the need of newsreaders to hear about the ‘future’, which is always somewhat uncertain, but to hear about it with authority. As if it’s as fixed as the (now already boring) past.

I’m glad he’s doing far better than what I feared he would do when I supported McCain. With H. Clinton, my guesstimate probability of Iran getting a nuke in the next 4 years goes down from 20% to 10% (still only 5% with McCain).

By: Mike G

Mike G — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:35:10 +0000

“he has a great team and they should be able to hit the ground running soon after Jan 20.”

Especially those who already hold the offices he’s reappointed them to… Friedman, Collins et al. are basically saying we need Bush to leave so we can get Robert Gates and Ben Bernanke to work!

By: SEO

SEO — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:36:09 +0000

I believe Pres. Elect Obama will do an excellent job and I too am glad that I voted for him………he has a great team and they should be able to hit the ground running soon after Jan 20.

By: MarkJ

MarkJ — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:02:35 +0000

I’m less concerned about Obama’s high-profile picks than the ones he’ll try to slip under the radar. Clintonite retreads and Old Beltway Hands making the rounds of the Sunday morning shows isn’t going to really count for s*** if Obama installs lots of barking moonbats in second- and third-tier regulatory and policy-making positions.

Let’s concentrate more on the dogs that don’t bark, eh?

By: Peter Levitan

Peter Levitan — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:54:14 +0000

Jarvis, Voiceless!

I happened on Hannity last night. he and Rove were trying to find reasons to bash Obama. Workin hard.

Not sure you’d be voiceless on H+C.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:37:40 +0000

Didn’t vote for him, but also like much of what I see so far. Especially, as you say, in matters that I watch like the FCC.

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:45:17 +0000

I’m starting to wonder, is Obama a stealth Republican?

By: Steve K.

Steve K. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:19:13 +0000

Huzzah! Jeff Jarvis says nice things about Barack Obama! This made my day