Arianna appeared as a guest on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on Sunday, along with Eliot Spitzer, Ross Douthat and Katrina vanden Heuvel . The roundtable discussed the growing frustration with Obama over his handling of the economy and the Gulf oil spill.
"President Obama is front and center in the news again this week," Zakaria began. "This time it's for the firing of Stanley McChrystal. Before that he was being criticized for his handling of the oil spill. His approval levels are down, and the nattering nabobs of negativism have been hammering him around the clock. Even some of the most left leaning of the commentary have turned on Barack Obama. So what does all this mean?"
Spitzer said that Obama needs to do more to take charge of the oil spill response. "He trusts people too much," Spitzer said. "He trusted Wall Street. He trusted the Republicans to engage in a meaningful way. He trusted BP. He's 0 for three."
"What Eliot said is absolutely critical," Arianna continued. "It's not just trust. I think there is almost like a reverence that the president has for authority. You know, a reverence for establishments. You know, the Wall Street establishment. The military establishment. The BP establishment, you know? Even his own admiral in charge of the BP oil spill a few weeks ago said that 'I trust that what Tony Hayward is telling me.' He actually used those words. So that is really very fundamental problem that is affecting his whole presidency."
"Liberals are dismayed. They're angry. They're abandoning him," Zakaria said.
Arianna replied that "This whole framing as a right versus left debate -- a liberal verse conservative debate is completely flawed. It's obsolete. It's making it much harder for us to solve our problems as a country."
"Wall Street reform is a classic example," she continued, "where some of the best conservative minds, and some of the best liberal minds agree that if you don't have the end of too big to fail, if you don't have fundamental derivatives reform, everything else is ultimately cosmetic."
"But the two parties are now ideologically polarized," Zakaria argued.
"You know what? I think Arianna is right," vanden Heuvel responded. "Because the left-right construct is artificial. And I think too much of it is the establishment media."
"The point here is that there is something really important about this left and right obsession that the media has," Arianna continued. "I mean, at the Huffington Post we have a tag line called, 'Beyond Left and Right.' And we use it a lot. ... When you have Mayor Bloomberg coming together with Fox News to push for real immigration reform. On drug reform. There is a huge left-right coalition on Afghanistan, and Wall Street reform. This is not really the easy division that the media likes to present."
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this is simply part of your republican smear campaign of unsubstantiated hype, hyperbole, hysteria & hypocrisy. until you can bring a specific facts, save your bashing for the gullible & easily manipulated.
oh wait, your party already has those people, huh?
i LOVE the job the president has done. go! go! o! :)
You think maybe if you and your ilk say and write it enough times you might actually begin to believe this dribble?
p.s: I'm moving full speed ahead to 2012 with the wool still pulled and firmly in place over my eyes! Viva President Obama!
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/765c7d6147/what-birthers-believe
the simple truth:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
No matter how you feel about his objectives or goals it is very hard to say he has done anything but stumble through his time in office. Gaffs, questionable personnel and appointment decisions, having to rely on congressional leaders to use parliamentary tricks to pass his so called health care bill which we were told Americans wanted so much when he had over whelming majorities in both houses should have been a sign from the start the he is in over his head.
Now we see him struggling with the mess in the gulf and his war is not going so well either while all the time the economy is sputtering along even after the massive spending enacted at his direction. People are not happy because his inabilities are out shining his charisma. The luster has worn off and the reality of having a chief executive that is not quite up to the job is settling in.
bring specifics & facts or check your republican't rhetoric at the door.
i LOVE the job this president has done. :) go! go! o!
m'kay????????????????????????????? (it doesn't work w/question marks either!)
you're nothing but a wingnut with hype, hysteria, hyperbole & hysteria.
supply FACTS if you want to be taken seriously.
You need to realize. you're being effective. The Republicans love you and the building malaise toward Obama is becoming an issue effecting his presidency.
I too was a huge fan, but have been scratching my head lately wondering what the heck?!
Could it possibly have something to do with her new radio gig with Mrs Carville?
oh yeah, that's right, you just want to make it LOOK LIKE it didn't happen, raight.
the truth is, they have bent over backwards trying to work w/the republican'ts in congress to no avail. just recently, the REPUBLICANS KILLED THE BILL to help americans everywhere, even though every effort was made to work with them.
"Democratic leaders said they bent over backwards to accommodate demands by Republicans for a smaller measure. Among the cuts revealed Wednesday was a more than $10 billion cut from last year's stimulus bill, mostly by paring back food stamp benefits by about $11 a month per beneficiary."
"They asked to have it reduced; we did it," said Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA). "They asked to have it paid for; we did it."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128092037&ft=1&f=1001
WAHH! WAHH! WAHH! i'm so tired of disingenuous crybaby lies.
Obama is a far worse president than I could have imagined. But I'm supposed to be quiet about it so I don't ruin his golf game?
Wrong
http://blogsforvictory.com/2010/06/25/100-americans-most-hated-by-the-left/
Now when we Conservatives expose these sorts of things, we are hated for them, naturally.
The Christian is hated even more…strangely enough, people who come here from other countries that have differing “religious” affiliations or beliefs are “offended” by our Christian faith, and why is this? Because of the politically correct notions of left-wing ideologues who have conditioned a majority of our youth for the past 47 years into believing that the Christian faith only should be kept as a strictly “private matter.” But how do they come up with this when there are companies supporting the Jihadist movement and Al Qaeda? Their hypocrisy is exposed instantaneously. And the left are supposed to be the party of “tolerance” … don’t yank my chain.
The Christian is hated because the Christian loves Christ, and that Christ loves us, His people!
Signs of the last days, friends. Lots of wick trimming to do, and getting prepared.
His kingdom has come and it is within you, His servant. Let us now tell others about His wonderful plan of salvation before His final return!
I don't see where Christ is advocated the use of a hammer to bend the knee of another in order to make that person worship my idea of God. There is no spiritual value in doing so.
I do not support the conservative idea of ushering in a state that will enable Armageddon to start.
It seems a dirty effort to try manipulate God, at the expense of the right of others to life.
Those who embrace hate are bound to be embraced by it.
I'm considered a lefty. I don't think Christ would endorse a health care system that no one can afford, due to greed, but no one can afford to do without.
I don't think Christ would condone all the blood let upon the streets and holy places in Israel. I consider it to be an abomination to all that is sacred.
America became rich from the blood sweat and tears of slaves. America gained lands taken from native Americans by force, murder and broken treaties. There is no Christian dogma that embraces this.
It's not the bible, but WHO is reading it. When the teachings of Christ are manipulated to embrace these atrocities, I know I'm in the wrong church.
I meant to reply to mouseketer's post.
My mistake.
But there has been many people murdered in the name of atheism. Joseph Stalin was an atheist, and he had many millions murdered. Mao Tse Tung was an atheist, and he had anywhere between 50 and 70 million people murdered.”
Now, atheism is an ideology from Satan, so I’m pretty sure that all those people were murdered in the name of Satan, beings that unbelief is Satan’s philosophy. Communism has its basis in unbelief, so it would also be a philosophy of Satan. Post-modernism, which detracts meaning from words by conveying to the individual that he or she has the right to reserve his or her own meaning to words is also rooted in unbelief…they think it more “intellectual,” or “artistic” to play with the meaning of words to suit their evil, sinful leanings. Multiculturalism, which has served to weaken our nation, by breaking down our customary Christian underpinnings and creating anonymity or hiding of the Truth is also an atheistic philosophy…so multiculturalism is also from Satan. Even worse, the philosophy of PC (or political correctness) used in order to defend multiculturalism such as we saw in Dearborn, Michigan very recently with the policemen arresting some Christian witnesses is another means by which the PC crowd seeks to hinder the truth, and instead, defend lies."
"I like your Christ, I do not like yor Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ" - Mohandas Gandhi
"Ain’t that an awful thing…to have hate in the world?" Really?
The Bible describes hate as the equivalent to murder, as hate, is “murder in the heart already,” what Jesus said." Pot meets kettle.
Me personally, I see the left as hating all Conservatives, no matter if they are politically affiliated or not.
I just wonder how many of the 100 that have received death threats? I know Glenn Beck has, the left has a burning hatred for him. And I’m sure they would do him harm if given the chance."
I stopped listening to her when she ran around the country saying that VP Biden should resign because the President chose a different path than the one Arienna wanted.
Why doesn't she ever talk about how the republicans have done everything in their power, along with the so-called main-stream media, to undermine the President. Is she even aware of the republican obstructructionism? Does she know what is happening in the Congress even as we speak?
BTW, just what does she suggesting that the President with the oil spil, put on a wet suit and dive down into the water to stick his finger in the hole?