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March 11, 2009 9:39 am ET by Eric Boehlert

Boy, this Newsweek headline speaks volumes, no? [emphasis added]

"A Turning Tide? Obama still has the approval of the people, but the establishment is beginning to mumble that the president may not have what it takes."

Isn't it sort of creepy the way Beltway journalists, such as Howard Fineman, now comfortably advertise their disdain for the gullible "people," while sucking up to the establishment as all-knowing sages?

And BTW, Fineman doesn't actually bother quoting anybody from "the establishment" in his piece. The essay is entirely his opinion. In other words, Fineman has no proof of what "the establishment" thinks or if it's collectively turning on Obama. But because Fineman has doubts, he assumes all the other important people do, too.

Gee, nothing self-aggrandizing about that, right?

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    • Author by ericfree (March 11, 2009 10:44 am ET)
         
      Had to go to the original to get the actual headline; it's "may not have what it takes." It took Katrina for the MSM to decide that about Bush, after a stolen election and nearly five years of howlingly destructrive moves.
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    • Author by wookie (March 11, 2009 10:56 am ET)
         
      Seeing as how he campaigned as the candidate of change is it really any shock that the establishment is beginning to mumble?
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    • Author by jrundin (March 13, 2009 1:18 pm ET)
         

      In my experience, when a person says, "Some people believe X," that person actually means "I believe X."

       Fineman should not present his own opinions as anything but his own opinions. 

       

       

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