The AP yesterday posted an op-ed titled "Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year." And from the headline you might think that it would show why Obama's year has been terrible, horrible, no good, and very bad.
It doesn't. What it shows is that the president has been yelled at a few times by the opposition, been alive during a couple of disasters entirely beyond his control (the DC blizzard; Deepwater Horizon), suffered a busted lip in a basketball game, and witnessed his family come under attack for taking a vacation. You'd have to pay close attention to a comment-free ticker at the top of each monthly entry to recognize that his own approval ratings haven't shifted much (solidly mid-40s), and that unemployment has dropped. You won't learn from the column that he remains vastly more popular than legislators of both parties and Congress as a whole, nor that he managed to win virtually every major policy change he sought. In fact, the column mentions only a single policy victory: health care reform. Missing are, among others...
Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/ap-terrible-op-ed?src=rss
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