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sheshe2

(83,785 posts)
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 03:56 PM Dec 2013

Have you seen Time Magazines new cover? I just saw it at the checkout.

And no, I refused to pick it up. I have never subscribed to the magazine. They seem to have become a RW talking point, as far as I can tell. Or maybe they always were.



Here is a clip to the cover story. Without subscribing, it is all I can get.

Obama's Race for the Cure

The President's second term may hinge on how fast his health care reform can recover

By NANCY GIBBS Monday, Dec. 02, 2013
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A good President needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights. But humility doesn't come naturally to those who decide they are qualified to run the free world. So the sign that the Obama presidency had reached a turning point came not when his poll numbers sank or his allies shuddered or the commentariat went hunting for the right degree of debacle to compare to the rollout of Obamacare.

It happened when he started apologizing. In triplicate. For not knowing what was going on in his own Administration. For failing to prevent his signature achievement from detonating in prime time. For not telling the whole truth when he promised people that Obamacare would not touch them without permission: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."

Obama's supporters can decry a "feeding frenzy," but this is a critical moment for a President whose agenda for a second term amounted to little more than being not as lame as the other guy. The HealthCare.gov website may or may not get fixed on deadline, the senior staff may be booted and rebooted, but it is already too late to avoid a pageant of media scrutiny, Republican merriment, a rebuke even from Bill Clinton and a host of existential questions: Can this policy be saved? What is left of Obama's second term if it is consumed by fixing an unpopular policy from the first? How could a White House appear so confident and incompetent at the same time?



Read more: Obama's Race for the Cure - TIME http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2158133,00.html#ixzz2mLfIf2y2


Read more: Obama's Race for the Cure - TIME http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2158133,00.html#ixzz2mLevGZpU

Sounds like it is straight from Faux news. Talk about a "feeding frenzy", well Time Magazine, tag you're it. They are a weekly news magazine? Yeah, right.



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Have you seen Time Magazines new cover? I just saw it at the checkout. (Original Post) sheshe2 Dec 2013 OP
Right wing drivel....consider the source. MADem Dec 2013 #1
Ah, I do miss Newsweek, MADem. sheshe2 Dec 2013 #7
Hahahahaha!!!! MADem Dec 2013 #9
Tracing paper, exactly! sheshe2 Dec 2013 #10
On rare occassions we break out the tracing paper in the engineering world wercal Dec 2013 #11
Newsweek is gone?! Wow, I did not know. Cha Dec 2013 #16
They have an "online presence" but it is meaningless. The print magazine died a year ago. nt MADem Dec 2013 #25
Belongs in an out-house. **If you've been to Maine, you must be familiar with them. :-) RBInMaine Dec 2013 #29
+1!!! nt MADem Dec 2013 #31
Damn. I've been eliminating right-wing propaganda from my info sources and I'm practically down to factsarenotfair Dec 2013 #2
Oh FFS ismnotwasm Dec 2013 #3
Tea baggers don't read. And who really reads TIME? nt kelliekat44 Dec 2013 #4
lol, TIME? Never heard of it. InAbLuEsTaTe Dec 2013 #32
Actually, the NEW Time cover depicts a young deer beneath the words ... 11 Bravo Dec 2013 #5
The poison pill Vox Moi Dec 2013 #6
My mother brought it with her when visiting for Thanksgiving caraher Dec 2013 #8
Good place for it, caraher! nt sheshe2 Dec 2013 #13
That's last week's cover and article, if that helps. Shrike47 Dec 2013 #12
I thought so. HappyMe Dec 2013 #14
I guess I am behind the times~ sheshe2 Dec 2013 #15
so disgusting. Whisp Dec 2013 #17
This pisses me off. I hope Nancy Gibbs got more than a few Cha Dec 2013 #18
Good Morning, Cha. sheshe2 Dec 2013 #20
Good afternoon for you, sheshe.. Cha Dec 2013 #21
Cold and damp the past few days... sheshe2 Dec 2013 #22
Time magazine used to be FAR worse. Archae Dec 2013 #19
I subscribed to Time magazine back in the 70's . . . for a year or two. Major Hogwash Dec 2013 #23
Time? johnp3907 Dec 2013 #24
All the while pretending to be at least moderately high-brow. Nice trick if you can manage it. nomorenomore08 Dec 2013 #27
Faux Noise type crapola treestar Dec 2013 #26
time magazine new cover joebcool Dec 2013 #28
Time. Turbineguy Dec 2013 #30

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. Right wing drivel....consider the source.
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 03:59 PM
Dec 2013

If Newsweek were still alive, they'd have a picture of a happy lower middle class family, now able to afford medical care thanks to Obamacare.

If you take out the staple in the center, a few pages of TIME will do well at the bottom of the bird cage!

sheshe2

(83,785 posts)
7. Ah, I do miss Newsweek, MADem.
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:05 PM
Dec 2013

Well considering the toilet paper my grandmother had, left over from WWI, it could be used for that too.

Eight days and counting, to the polls we go~

MADem

(135,425 posts)
9. Hahahahaha!!!!
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:07 PM
Dec 2013

European toilet paper used to be, back in the early sixties, like TRACING PAPER!

Damn, what an affront to the butt!!! A magazine would have been.....tender!!!!!

sheshe2

(83,785 posts)
10. Tracing paper, exactly!
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:14 PM
Dec 2013

She must have had a basement full of that stuff! I had to use it into my teens!

Affront to the butt

wercal

(1,370 posts)
11. On rare occassions we break out the tracing paper in the engineering world
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:14 PM
Dec 2013

We call it.....Bum Wad.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
25. They have an "online presence" but it is meaningless. The print magazine died a year ago. nt
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 09:51 PM
Dec 2013
 

RBInMaine

(13,570 posts)
29. Belongs in an out-house. **If you've been to Maine, you must be familiar with them. :-)
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 10:00 PM
Dec 2013

Last edited Tue Dec 3, 2013, 12:06 AM - Edit history (1)

factsarenotfair

(910 posts)
2. Damn. I've been eliminating right-wing propaganda from my info sources and I'm practically down to
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:02 PM
Dec 2013

bumper stickers on cars owned by liberals now.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
5. Actually, the NEW Time cover depicts a young deer beneath the words ...
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:04 PM
Dec 2013

America's Pest Problem. (I eagerly await a veritable frenzy of uninformed, Bambi-hugging outrage.)

Vox Moi

(546 posts)
6. The poison pill
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:04 PM
Dec 2013

Jeez: I guess that the wrapping is more important than what's in the box.
As a matter of fact, the contents are totally meaningless.

 

Whisp

(24,096 posts)
17. so disgusting.
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:19 PM
Dec 2013

desperate asshole liars.

THIS is why I have Obama's back. He has such filth attacking his every move with their lies.

Cha

(297,275 posts)
18. This pisses me off. I hope Nancy Gibbs got more than a few
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:28 PM
Dec 2013

letters telling her how Obamacare is helping them. And, she and her rw rag can take their bullshit propaganda and wrap their fish in it.

Indeed, she..

sheshe2

(83,785 posts)
20. Good Morning, Cha.
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:40 PM
Dec 2013

I know, I hope she got tons of mail setting her straight on the facts. It will probably go in one ear and out the other, sigh.

hope it has stopped raining there~

Cha

(297,275 posts)
21. Good afternoon for you, sheshe..
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 04:49 PM
Dec 2013

Yes, we actually had a good rainstorm for about 3 days(lots of howling wind, lightening, thunder and lots of Rain).. and now it's clearing up and the Sun is shining.

We needed the rain and it's all good.

Howzit there?

sheshe2

(83,785 posts)
22. Cold and damp the past few days...
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 05:02 PM
Dec 2013

it gets very cold at night, sigh. It's winter after all.

Glad you are seeing the sun though, soak up some warmth for me, Cha.

Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
23. I subscribed to Time magazine back in the 70's . . . for a year or two.
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 07:23 PM
Dec 2013

But, they were criticizing President Carter so much that I dropped them.
Their magazine was good for having small articles that would try to capture the essence of an issue in a short amount of space.
Since I was so busy back then and wanted to keep up on the news, I thought it was a good idea to read it.
As it turned out, the issues weren't so easy to boil down as they made it sound.
It seemed to me that they leaned quite a bit to the right, even back in those days.
They went for the throat when President Carter was in the White House and I got the feeling they longed for those halcyon days of Dick Nixon.
So, I canceled my subscription.

I subscribed to Newsweek at the same time that I subscribed to Time.
But, they were about the same thing, so when I canceled my subscription to Time, I also canceled my subscription to Newsweek.
They went clear to the right when Reagan was in the White House and acted like he had never done a thing wrong.

johnp3907

(3,731 posts)
24. Time?
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 07:38 PM
Dec 2013

In my adult lifetime they've gone from being light-substance to zero-substance to negative-substance.

joebcool

(1 post)
28. time magazine new cover
Mon Dec 2, 2013, 09:56 PM
Dec 2013

First time i saw it..I have never subscribed to time either..Too much over my head..The only time i read them is when i'm at doctor's office or in repair shop waiting room.

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