Jake Tapper: Obama Claims He Has “Accomplished More in 30 Days Than Any President in Modern History”
By SusanUnPC on February 25, 2009 at 12:42 PM in Obamatopia, Obamatopia Mirage, President Barack Obama, stimulus tax package
From Jake Tapper’s Political Punch, before THE speech by THE One last night:
"President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history," a senior White House official said this morning in a background briefing for TV reporters.
Pointing to legislation on children’s health insurance and the "Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act," and most especially the stimulus bill, the official compared President Obama favorably to Presidents Reagan, Clinton and Bush, pointing out that the previous presidents’ major economic bills were all months away from becoming enacted into law at this point in their presidencies.
"He has a set of wins under his belt" as he comes to address a joint session of Congress this evening, the senior White House official said, contrasting the president with Bill Clinton, …
(Boy, was that a vague campaign speech, or what??? DID DAVID AXELROD WRITE THAT SPEECH??? Methinks so. God, he even had me going for a while, I hate to admit … that optimism, those promises … then it hit me [with some therapeutic assistance from the acerbic Larry Johnson] that there was NO THERE THERE. No specifics. Nada. LATER TODAY, I will give you a round-up of bloggers’ reactions, both pro and con. The “pro” responses are ALWAYS worth a laugh …. I cannot wait to look up Andrew Sullivan’s adulatory commentaries ….)
BELOW, more from the always alert Jake Tapper:
This one is just interesting; and I have to hand it to President Obama for adopting this practice — I just WORRY about who is sorting through those letters and WHICH LETTERS he is reading. After all, THE ONE needs those strokes from the folks, doesn’t he. So my bet is that there are far more “oh i love you” than the Rush Limbaugh-generated HATE mail):
“Political Punch: The Impact on a President of Reading Citizens’ Letters”
CHECK OUT MORE TAPPER here. I’m stopping now because I just discovered a gem that deserves its own post.
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