Sophomore Alex Eisner warns voters that they will soon experience buyer’s remorse for voting Barack Obama into office, and that:
“a year in the future, once the name Obama is no long synonymous with empty rhetoric (i.e. ‘change we need’) but rather with socialist policies, masses of Americans won’t be singing his praises quite so vehemently.”
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You know, the Daily Show doesn’t only make fun of republicans. They make fun of everybody stupid in politics. They made a lot of fun about the Clinton administration way back in the day.
Also, for the record, what is so wrong about socialist policies? The whole free market/deregulation movement got us into the disaster we’re in now.
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Are these comments being censored? I posted a comment about 6 hours ago and it hasn’t shown up.
Regarding Perry’s comment:
There’s nothing inherently wrong with socialist policies, except that it’s pretty much crapping on the foundations of this country.
Woo-hoo! Keep spewin’ the hate! That’s exactly why we won.
It’s too bad that the author of this article didn’t bother to do any research. Setting aside his ridiculous assertion that Obama’s policies are Socialist, his assessment of what will happen to the cable news networks is utterly devoid of factual basis.
First of all, independent analysis of the news nets have shown that the claims of a liberal bias are a myth. But even accepting that false premise for the sake of argument, the notion that Fox’s ratings will soar during an Obama administration while CNN and MSNBC plummet defies logic. If it were true then why didn’t Fox plummet during the Bush years while CNN and MSNBC went through the roof?
I wouldn’t worry about whether any of these networks find anything to talk about. Particularly Fox, who has no aversion to making things up. The key to their future success lies in their credibility. So I guess we can look for Fox to plummet after all.
I’m slightly concerned with the fact that Alex Eisner is a political science major. I haven’t read a column that incoherent and poorly reasoned in a long time. Shame on The Hatchet for printing this garbage.
Hey, remember Hoover? The president that was burned in effegy and shit on, and otherwise just generally hated? Oh, and did nothing to deserve it?
Hoover became president at a time of financial crisis, and got blamed for it. Even though the Great depression was already on its way long before he was ever voted into office.
The same will most likely happen to Barack Obama. He will preside over another tough time in American history.
So, do I agree with your “buyers remorse” analogy? Yes, I do. But, I don’t blame socialist policies. Legitimate socialist policies could actually help the country, but the way our government is set up, socialist policies can never really take effect. Obama is doomed to be hated, for a Republican dynasty’s mistakes.
This is why I love people in college, and especially people in their first years of college. Floating through space without any foundation or gravity, tossing out ridiculous analogies that you’ll laugh at only a semester in the future. By the way, I’m thinking he’ll be more like a new video game system, something people are willing to line up for spend hours playing, devote their lives to for several years and then move on to the next shiny game system when the company (party) deems it time for a new product. Dig in for the long haul, view your sources with a critical (not cynical)eye, and don’t sit too close to the tv.
This is a terrible article.
First you spent half the article explaining what Buyer’s Remorse is like we are all complete morons. The toy analogy is incredibly offensive because we are not that stupid; we are adults, not little children.
Then you make the claim that Obama’s policies are socialist, without giving even the slightest bit of evidence how. If you are a political science major than shouldn’t you put some of your knowledge into the article? How about talk about his beliefs on markets and on government intervention? Or his policies on taxation. No you couldn’t even regurgitate the monosyllabic lines that the GOP prewrote for you, you just head off right to the conclusion.
There is no point in opposing a president that has just been elected fairly and freely by the majority of Americans. Swallow your pride and help the new administration do its best.
So what did you expect us to do, not vote for Obama so shows like The Daily Show can go on and Fox shows can hit the wall? Come on, give me a break…
Nobody expects the Obama presidency to be void of any problems, but nobody’s gonna have “buyer’s remorse” just because of the few things that may or may not happen. Nobody ever ran a controversial-free preseidency, but we do expect less foul-ups in this preseidency than wat we saw in that last one. Re-think your argument please…
I am not surprised by the response to this article. Liberals will attack anyone with an opinion that doesn’t coincide with their own.