Friday, October 9, 2009

Time magazine, thy name spells "suck up"

(From Ace of Spades):

"Time's Mark Halperin Grades Obama's First Incomplete Year"

"Oh, come on. On one hand you know they're desperate to give him the A. On the other hand, you can't believe they'd actually do it.

"They did it. A minus, baby! (See, we're not just over-the-moon schoolgirl crush partisan hacks!
"We gave him the minus, too! We're "balanced"!)

"Instantly comfortable and highly skilled at the hardest job in the world — proving his supporters' contention that all the traits that made him a great candidate would serve him well in the White House...
...
A handful of public missteps (particularly on his international trips and on torture issues) and a failure to ameliorate the partisan divide are the only true blemishes so far. $1.4 trillion dollar deficit this year and $2 trillion next year and thereafter we'll get to halving the deficit down to a very manageable trillion per year.
A-.
Oh, and he hasn't accomplished a single campaign promise, and has either reneged on, or is paving the way to repudiate, almost every promise he made.
A-.

The brilliant rest simply must be read, with SNL video:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/293421.php

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