Thursday, October 18, 2012

The Times Runs Interference for Obama [Beyond Shameless!]

The Weekly Standard ^ | October 17, 2012 | JEFFREY H. ANDERSON

 Today’s New York Times mentions but then quickly glosses over President Obama’s statement in early 2009, in which he said, “One nice thing about — the situation I find myself in is that I will be held accountable. You know, I've got four years. And…— and — and —…and, you know, a year from now I think people — are gonna see that — we’re starting to make some progress. But…[i]f I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s gonna be a one-term proposition.”
The Times then writes, “Whether you are better off today than in 2009 may not be the most useful question to ask about an economy emerging from its most severe downturn in 80 years. A more illuminating question is how we have done relative to other countries that were caught in the global financial cataclysm. By that standard, economic growth in the United States has done surprisingly well.”
In other words, the Times suggests that the appropriate standard for judging Obama is, Are we doing better than other countries that also aren’t doing very well? Is this really what Obama meant by being “held accountable”?
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