Prisoners of the White House

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their par...Country!!

You must have been paid an awful lot over a lot of years to think that you can pass this crap off as 'journalism'.

Obama is " teasing out illogic and sloppy thinking with probing questions" and throwing footballs in the Oval Office, whereas "Bush insisted on respect for the office: aides wore coats and ties and saluted smartly, metaphorically and literally" .These thoughts were used as counterpoints in the same paragraph, so the assumptionto be made is that Bush was able to 'tease' logical and cogent thinking by iinsisting upon business attire and smartly executed salutations? (both of which are fallacies, in any case).

How about that hilarious comedy routine that Bush had photographed in that same Oval Office, in his search for the WMD that has killed hundreds of thousands of people.
seriously?

You must get paid an awful lot to be in a position to think that you can get away with passing off this crap as 'journalism'. Obama " teasi[es] out illogic and sloppy thinking with probing questions. " whereas "Bush insisted on respect for the office: aides wore coats and ties and saluted smartly, metaphorically and literally." ?? These were presented in the same paragraph, as counterpoints. So, the assumption should be that Bush 'teased' out logical and cogent thoughts by demanding salutations and business attire? Or is that just 'metaphorical'?

seriously?

Mr. Thomas, could you please not repeat long-discredited tropes like the "informal, football-tossing Oval Office of Obama" versus the "sober/serious, suit-and-tie" version of Bush? This is simply not true, and I question your professionalism and your agenda when you repeat such things. Go here to see how "seriously" Bush took his office, and his responsibilities: http://www.americablog.com/2009/05/evan-thomas-of-newsweek-repeats.html

Except you're completely wrong about that... http://www.americablog.com/2009/05/evan-thomas-of-newsweek-repeats.html

Dear Newsweek,

Can I have this guy's job? I'm just as lazy and un-curious about the facts, and I'll be
happy to be a stenographer for whatever flavor-of-the-minute ideology you folks
are currently pushing. Plus, I'll do the same work for half of what you're paying this
idiot! How can you possibly pass up such a bargain?

''An uninquisitive, cowed press''

Francis Cianfrocca, May 05,2009.

That about sums NEWSWEAK and the rest up.

Yet Chuck Todd over at the hyperpartisan MSNBC let the cat out of the bag by admitting opposite conservative Laura Ingraham that yes indeed, the White House goon squad led by Rattner did threaten CHRYSLERS investors ''with ruin'' by siccing ''the entire Washington press corps'' on these, so alarming the ''speculators'' [as Obama calls these] that they approached a federal judge with a motion that their names be kept anonymous due to this fear. The bankruptcy judge averred, observing that the White House would leak their names in any event to the lapdog press.
Idiots liike presidential poodle Harold Meyerson over at the Washington Post this morning state that ''CHRYSLERS medicine is just what is needed on the [Wall] ''Street''.

Great. Play along with our ex poste facto gaming of your company or we will send you dead fish wrapped in Chicago TRIBUNE newspapers to begin with,and follow these up with government thugs. Some way to run a Democracy, and an excellent way to run a police state. Indeed, Obama has created something new in American politics as it applies to private enterprise. Run the game my way [literally], with ex poste facto changes and reneging on original compacts to be settled by judges and not administration figures, establish a priori [Cianfrocca] that rewards poltical constituancies [the UAW in this case],and use government threats in order to cow investors. Obama is out of line here,and the reverberations from his handling of the auto giants will most certainly come back to haunt all Americans.

THE NEW LEDGER May 06,2009:''The Chrysler Fallout: Obama Takes Sides''.

Terrorism comes clothed in turbans or neckties, doesn't matter which. If George W. Bush had even the SLIGHTEST respect for the office, he never would have run for it in the first place. The man had lost touch with reality long before the "prison of the Presidency" showed us all what an unworthy, disrespectful person he is.

Terrorism is clothed in turbans or neckties, it doesn't matter which. If George Bush had the SLIGHTEST respect for the office, he would never have run for it in the first place.

oh, little thomas. you must be embarrassed, getting caught trying to use that old, disproved line about "respect for the office." but it's just too easy, right? and it inherently means that obama has no respect for the office.

well, first of all: who the hell cares? do you think (or does anyone at newsweek think) that people are concerned about obama taking off his jacket in the oval office? he can be nude, as far as i care.

and second, trying to slip that in there, hoping no one would notice, calls into question your entire piece (career?)

sheesh.

ohhhhh, sorry evan. you must be embarrassed to have pulled out that old "respect for the office" line, thinking no one would notice.

here's the deal. even if it is true...who the hell cares? but of course, inherent in the line "bush had respect for the office" is the rest of that line: obama is disrespectful of the office.

your whole piece is called into question from your using that one, silly, long ago disproved line.

Hey Thomas, do a little research. Here's some pictures of bush in shirt sleeves, his staff in shirt sleeves and bush "searching for WMDs in the oval office. http://www.americablog.com/2009/05/evan-thomas-of-newsweek-repeats.html
Yea, Bush was a real role model (snark)

President Obama is doing rather well given the mess of the last eight years. The economy and financial centers were and are in real trouble. Now we have new leadership and a different means of talking about problems. People ,however, must do a better job of speaking out on issues. America needs jobs. Our banks must help people not just take our money. The President has done well. America is a better place because of Mr. Obama. The GOP is dead in their thinking. America must and will move forward.

Come on Thomas. With you people,its easy. One of the modern-eras biggest mass migrations-by-force is occurring in Pakistan as we speak [ estimates: half a million people] and all we get around here is more Rose Garden hogwash being peddled by NEWSWEAK. Such a migration [ or retreat] only makes it more difficult for the Pak Army to stop the Taliban,which is kicking the hell out of them right now creating a teetering nuclear situation.[never mind Georgia, where a Soviet-backed coup is dropping that country into the hands of Putins poodle].

www.longwarjournal.com May 05,2009.

I am desperately hoping that this outreach and "hearing all sides" applies to education policy as well, in particular burgeoning policy for preschool-aged children. As a 30 year veteran of the field, what I'm seeing so far makes me squirm. And by reaching outside the "sycophants", I not only mean outside the immediate reach of the presidency, but also outside the upper echelons of entrenched organizations, no matter their grassroots or noble beginnings. Not the media celebrities, who have become "famous" for their work, but the behind the scenes folks who understand child development and education and what is needed for the 21st century in a fully out-of-the-box way.

The pressure to reach out for economic advising is heighened under current economic conditions. Will education have to reach a similar free-fall in order for the field to shift to a new way of thinking?

I can hope, anyway.