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Time, Newsweek & the President-Elect
November 18, 2008 11:25 AM
We've written a lot here about the expectations surrounding the new administration...but this seems a bit much. Newsweek's current cover is titled "Obama's Lincoln", with Mr. Obama standing in a long shadow cast by the sixteenth president. Time magazine has Mr. Obama reclined in an old car, top hat and cigarette holder, in the unmistakable pose of FDR. Time's heading: "The New New Deal." (Funny how no one's putting Chester Arthur or Millard Fillmore up there with the President-Elect...)
In the meantime, kudos to Time for unearthing this nugget from their archives. This was first published in January 1990, under the heading "Class Act":
Running the Harvard Law Review often leads to a prestigious career. Last week, for the first time in its 103-year history, the Review welcomed a black president. Says Barack Obama, 28, who directed a community program for Chicago blacks before entering law school: "I feel like I've walked through a door a whole lot of other people worked hard to open." Eventually, says Obama, he may run for office.
Hmm. Makes you want to read those little news-magazine notes more closely...
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Expectations are high and the problems awaiting him are daunting. Nonetheless I believe he is equal to the task.
Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | Nov 18, 2008 12:20:43 PM
LOL....and we were ridiculed for calling him the "messiah"......
Now the in-the-tank media thinks he is ready to be compared to the best we have put forth....
Maybe, Just Maybe, we should wait until he ACTUALLY does something worthy of these kinds of comparisons!
Posted by: Mike_C | Nov 18, 2008 12:33:04 PM
The media is out of control with their adoration. I am afraid they'll be disappointed, as no one could live up to these expectations.
Posted by: a reader in ga | Nov 18, 2008 12:33:50 PM
Mike_C_Sour_Grapes,
When are you going to recognize anything positive at all in Obama??????
Posted by: Steve_NJ | Nov 18, 2008 12:56:06 PM
Everything is possible in this world so long there is a "WILL".
Am optimistic he will make it. What he needs is the big support behind him.
Posted by: FM | Nov 18, 2008 1:02:43 PM
Recognizing good things about Obama:
Great Speaker (when he has a speech in front of him)
Nice dresser
Knows how to organize people
Knows about new-fangled technology,
therefore, knows how to raise money
Has a lot of friends
(some he recognizes openly)
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Well, I'll wait until he actually BECOMES the President and goes to work.
I hope he does well.
No really, I do.
What, you want me to worship him, too?
Sorry, no.
Posted by: I'll wait and see. | Nov 18, 2008 3:37:37 PM
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