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Rachel Maddow Assesses Obama’s First Year In Office
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow made another appearance on CBS’ The Late Show with David Letterman last night. Maddow assesses Obama’s first year, “I think nobody’s noticed that he’s kind of quietly put together the most legislatively accomplished first year of any president in a generation.”
Here is the video:
Letterman asked Maddow for an assessment of Obama’s first year, “Well, it’s, the most interesting thing about Obama’s first year is how crazy the opposition has gone in reaction to him, and that’s been so exciting, the Sarah Palin/Michael Steele/ Tea Party stuff on the right that I think, nobody’s noticed that he’s kind of quietly put together the most legislatively accomplished first year in a generation. He’s done a lot.”
Letterman followed up by asking if Obama has effectively accomplished things.
Maddow answered, “Well, he did, the bailout thing, while being wildly unpopular, does appear to have stopped the financial industry from disappearing. We do still have an economy. It’s not the best one, but we have one, and to have sort of saved us from going into the Great Depression was the thing he didn’t ever plan on having to do, but he actually did it, and had to do a lot of politically unpopular things to do. Also did the giant stimulus, which even conservatives are starting to admit now worked, and if he gets healthcare signed, that’s something that what six, seven presidents have tried to do and nobody’s been able to, so everybody’s slagging him off and saying what a disappointment he’s been while he’s quietly doing everything he wants to do.”
I think Maddow delivered an accurate assessment of Obama’s first year. The expectations for Obama were so unrealistically high that when he didn’t sit behind his desk in the Oval Office, snap his fingers, and make all of our problems go away, people were disappointed. If he gets healthcare, he will have had a first year that is on par with Ronald Reagan’s.
Hopefully, Obama has also learned some lessons about leading Congress and not leaving them to their own devices, and the fact that his opponents must be willing to engage before bi-partisanship is possible. Obama has had his rocky patches, but overall it has been an impressive first year. Once the unemployment rate drops, Obama’s approval rating will return to its previous high levels
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Anonymous
Jan. 9th, 2010 at 5:41 am
Thank goodness for this article and for real TV journalist, Rachel Maddow.
Most of the main media outlets have lost all sense of integrity by choosing to air sensationalism and falsehoods by the GOP leaders. The prominent anchors
and reporters have no guts. They must be given their own talking points which seem to match with the Republican leaders. Any real reporting goes by the way side.
What are they really afraid of? They are doing a grave disservice to America.
I welcome more Rachel Maddows!!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous
Jan. 10th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Rachael just keeps getting better and better, and her show is a must watch for me. Even in a comedy late night show she manages to make the news worth listening too.
Anonymous
Jan. 14th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
The Bush/Obama wall Street bailout wass a bandaid on a cancer. Do what you have to do before it fails and everyone realizes that it enabled the depression rather than cured it. I don’t know anyone outside of the District of Columbia who thinks the gigantic bailout worked. It was supposed to prevent unemployment from exceeding 8%. His proposed health care fix will at least boost the fortunes of insurance companies when 30-48M new customers are delivered at taxpayer expense.
Tell us more Rachel. Tell us about how President Obama expanded the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, started a new front in Yemen, didn’t take troops out of Iraq, kept prisoners in Guantanamo, quadrupled Bush’s deficit spending, expanded the national debt, is threatening us with a middle class cap and trade tax, expanded unofficial unemployment to 10%, and borrowed money from China to pay for Cash for Clunkers – half of which went to buy foreign product.
Anonymous
Jan. 21st, 2010 at 9:30 pm
you should do some reading, or something….and not just ignorant e-mail forwards and Fox News.