Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Sure it’s funny now, but Fox viewers were convinced at the end of Obama’s two terms that he was the most divisive president in US history. All of these stories were a coordinated effort to undermine his presidency and they worked with their intended audience.
Sure it’s funny now, but Fox viewers were convinced at the end of Obama’s two terms that he was the most divisive president in US history.
That really is funny, especially considering that in this short century, the Republican Party has given this country the worst president in American history as well as one of the worst presidents in American history…quite an accomplishment…
Bush Jr. saved Reagan from being remembered as the stupidest president of our lifetimes. Trump saved Junior from the same fate. Who will the Republicans give us next?
@CSK: The funny thing is, by his own admission, that is just a phrase that someone gave him. He thought it was silly, but started using it when he saw it got a reaction. As such, he uses it to manipulate, as is the case with this tweet (unless, of course, he has started believing his own BS, which is quite possible).
@95 South: Your right wing media bubble is seriously telling you to fall back on IRS/Tea Party right now? That’s a legitimate talking point? Have you actually read any of the stuff Matt or Neal (and probably countless others) have so helpfully pointed out to you in the past?
The @95 South is a skittish creature scared of actually having to express any sort of opinion or courage of convictions.
If you ask it to do so, it disappears for days at a time only to emerge to blurt out what it heard on Hannity that day (for fox isn’t the lying media) and then return to it’s media bubble with a cry of “I listen to all sides of the argument, but Democrats are always wrong!”
Now the lack of MAGA, because they are deeply concerned about how Trump is to crass, but that won’t stop them from voting for him…
Holy crap that wasn’t even 2 full minutes? It felt like an hour.
That is truly the lowest point of the Obama presidency. I mean it literally.
Sure it’s funny now, but Fox viewers were convinced at the end of Obama’s two terms that he was the most divisive president in US history. All of these stories were a coordinated effort to undermine his presidency and they worked with their intended audience.
That really is funny, especially considering that in this short century, the Republican Party has given this country the worst president in American history as well as one of the worst presidents in American history…quite an accomplishment…
You forgot about the real scandal.
Obama and the tan suit
Bush Jr. saved Reagan from being remembered as the stupidest president of our lifetimes. Trump saved Junior from the same fate. Who will the Republicans give us next?
@MarkedMan: I suggest we not give them the opportunity to show us.
@MarkedMan: President Rob Schneider, VP Dinesh D’Souza.
President Glenn Beck, VP Candace Owens.
President Joel Osteen, VP Mark Taylor.
President Jesse Lee Peterson, VP Kent Hovind.
The GOP has a deep bench…
“A self-absorbed ass clown”…apparently Lou Dobbs has never looked in a mirror…
Those stupid Republicans got so angry about the tan suit and the politicization of the IRS.
@95 South: I think your problem is, as I think I noted the other day, your media diet.
Trump has a pinned tweet now: “I AM DRAINING THE SWAMP!”
@CSK: The funny thing is, by his own admission, that is just a phrase that someone gave him. He thought it was silly, but started using it when he saw it got a reaction. As such, he uses it to manipulate, as is the case with this tweet (unless, of course, he has started believing his own BS, which is quite possible).
@95 South: Your right wing media bubble is seriously telling you to fall back on IRS/Tea Party right now? That’s a legitimate talking point? Have you actually read any of the stuff Matt or Neal (and probably countless others) have so helpfully pointed out to you in the past?
@Jax:
Shh shhh shhh…
The @95 South is a skittish creature scared of actually having to express any sort of opinion or courage of convictions.
If you ask it to do so, it disappears for days at a time only to emerge to blurt out what it heard on Hannity that day (for fox isn’t the lying media) and then return to it’s media bubble with a cry of “I listen to all sides of the argument, but Democrats are always wrong!”
Now the lack of MAGA, because they are deeply concerned about how Trump is to crass, but that won’t stop them from voting for him…