Spencer Ackermann previews “The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The Next 72 Hours.”
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Spencer Ackermann previews “The Post-Gadhafi Journalism You Will Read In The Next 72 Hours.”
It incorporates the conventional tropes and takes subtle swipes at everyone from Tom Friedman to Politico to Foreign Policy.
Despite being written with tongue firmly planted in cheek, we’ll almost certainly see two-thirds of these, including my favorite:
9. Gadhafi’s Death May Not Lead To Bump For Obama (Politico)
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@Hey Norm: Sully is prone to a bit of hyperbole.
@Hey Norm: I’m not a declinist but do think it’s an interesting argument. Our ability to kill — or, as in this case, act as an enabler for the killers — despots isn’t going to be a major factor in deciding whether we remain the world’s dominant actor. That’ll depend on a variety of things, most notably our economy.
@Hey Norm: Oh, the fake Politico headline is a spoof on the paper’s tendency to make everything an Up/Down story for 2012. I think the foreign policy successes, especially getting OBL, will help Obama on the margins. But the economy and the quality of his opponent will be 95 percent of it.
No question THE issue is the economy.
And there is a clear choice…you have a guy that pulled the economy back from the brink of disaster, rescued the banking industry at a profit, rescued the auto industry and all the jobs associated with it, presided over a stock market that has grown from around 8000 to around 11,000, increased private sector jobs almost every month (unfortunately offset by public sector job losses which for some reason Republicans see as advantageous.)…or a corporate raider that’s still preaching supply-side economics.
Taking out OBL, along with a bunch of other al Qaida leaders, and Ghadaffi is just gravy.
