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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHave 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.
MADem
(135,425 posts)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)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)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)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)We call it.....Bum Wad.
Cha
(297,275 posts)I stopped them both years ago.
MADem
(135,425 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Last edited Tue Dec 3, 2013, 12:06 AM - Edit history (1)
MADem
(135,425 posts)factsarenotfair
(910 posts)bumper stickers on cars owned by liberals now.
ismnotwasm
(41,986 posts)I'm glad I quit reading that bullshit rag.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)America's Pest Problem. (I eagerly await a veritable frenzy of uninformed, Bambi-hugging outrage.)
Vox Moi
(546 posts)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.
caraher
(6,278 posts)It's now in my recycling bin
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Somebody else posted that cover last week or the week before.
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)Thanks for the update, Shrike.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)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)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)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)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)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.
Archae
(46,330 posts)Especially until the mid 70's.
It was a far-right dream.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)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)In my adult lifetime they've gone from being light-substance to zero-substance to negative-substance.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)All opinion and no substance.
joebcool
(1 post)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.
Turbineguy
(37,337 posts)Soft, strong and thoroughly absorbent.