Obviously, this Dauo fellow is not part of the inner circle of The Illuminati, otherwise he would have know that everything is going right according to plan.

Did someone fart?

I didn’t make the list because I haven’t turned on Obama. And I maintained by antipathy to all things Palin.

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Waylay, get a life, pal. What rubbish! If you had been [*ahem*] paying freaking attention… “Lest we forget” it’s counterproductive to project one’s laziness and ignorance onto others.

Note well, oh clued-out one, that blogging as a phenomenon on the Right was precisely in response to Bush’ failures – and that in the period 2003 to 2006 as people turned away from CNN and the NY Times to the Internet *and* as blogging media were maturing. From your lame comment, one would think blogging started with Marconi.

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To Dauo’s nonsense, it too is hilarious. Reminds one of the days following John F! Kerry’s loss to the mediocre Bush. The Left (was it Alterman and Kos?) were explaining the loss to the Demo’s failure “to get the message out!” as if the media hadn’t done their job. They were exactly wrong: Not only was Kerry’s message delivered loud and clear by the old press, it was amplified by the New Media.

All of those lefties are as clueless as they come, especially in their blind support of the Demonrats and Obama. Heck, some can be described as deranged (e.g., Andrew Sullivan).

But there is no way that they are the “crux” of any problem for Obama. If anything, Obama is a primary cause of their problems. He’s the President, not the bloggers.

Oh, and that sound y’all heard while reading RSM’s post? That was the sound of those “prominent progressive bloggers” getting tossed under the bus.

With the gleeful support of waylay, I might add. It’s more interested in changing the subject than countering it. Heh!

All of those lefties are as clueless as they come, especially in their blind support of the Demonrats and Obama. Heck, some can be described as deranged (e.g., Andrew Sullivan).

But there is no way that they are the “crux” of any problem for Obama. If anything, Obama is a primary cause of their problems. He’s the President, not the bloggers.

Oh, and that sound y’all heard while reading RSM’s post? That was the sound of those “prominent progressive bloggers” getting tossed under the bus.

With the gleeful support of waylay, I might add. It’s more interested in changing the subject than countering it. Heh!

You’re misreading Daou.

The key words in the quote you’re mis-interpreting are “for Obama.” A better phrasing would have been “to Obama.”

Daou is merely pointing out that Obama’s entourage and defenders are making a mistake by blaming Greenwald et. al for the regime’s problems. If you read the whole article, you’ll see that Daou correctly notes that those progressive bloggers are holding Obama to precisely the same standard as they held Bush, and finding him lacking.

@Thomas L. Knapp

The key is that Daou — following the lead of Axelrod and others — sees everything as a matter of political perception, rather than trying to deal with the underlying reality. That has been the Team Obama theme from the outset: As long as he wins the P.R. battle over image and perception, the reality of effective policy is irrelevant. During the 2008 campaign, they didn’t give a damn how grandiose their rhetoric was or that they were raising expectations that were sure to be disappointed.

Obama was like Professor Harold Hill in “The Music Man,” a con-man whose only goal was to convince people that he had the secret method of success. And now having passed the point where the “think” method has been put to the test and failed disastrously, everybody on the Left is looking for scapegoats.

Because Daou deals with progressive bloggers, he singles out a handful of disgruntled Obama critics as the problem. This is a false claim. The Obama administration isn’t failing politically because of its critics — Left or Right — it’s failing because its policies are bad, and the voters are sick to death of being told that “recovery” is just around the corner.

Bob Belvedere.. Correct.

Barack Obama, Fabian Socialist

Bigsarge, I see what you did there.

Stacy,

You write:

“Because Daou deals with progressive bloggers, he singles out a handful of disgruntled Obama critics as the problem.”

No, he doesn’t. His point is … well … exactly the same as yours, i.e. that Obama and Co. are incorrectly blaming “a handful of disgruntled Obama critics” for Obama’s failures as president.

Granted, Daou and the progressive bloggers in question mostly disagree with you on what those failures are, but that’s a different subject.

I suspect you have very little in common with Glenn Greenwald. The one thing you do have in common is that you both insist that Obama, not “the progressive bloggers” or “the obstructionist Republicans” or whoever, is responsible for what Obama does.

Obama was like Professor Harold Hill in “The Music Man,” a con-man whose only goal was to convince people that he had the secret method of success. And now having passed the point where the “think” method has been put to the test and failed disastrously, everybody on the Left is looking for scapegoats.

That means only one thing.

We have trouble, right here in River City.