President Obama Calls The World A Messy Place & Blames Social Media for Making People Take Notice

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="entry-thumb" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <figure style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"><img alt="1000509261001_1926800413001_History-Barack-Obama-Americas-First-Black-President-SF" class="attachment-blog-thumbs wp-post-image" src="http://static.ijreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1000509261001_1926800413001_History-Barack-Obama-Americas-First-Black-President-SF-768x330.jpg?de9c64" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: middle; width: 609px;" /></span></span></figure></div> <div id="mobileSharePost-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div class="entry-content" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">President Obama recently stated at a fundraiser that social media and the nightly news are making the world look like it is “falling apart.” As reported by<a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/216281-media-makes-you-think-world-is-falling-apart" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Hill</a>:</span></span></div> <div id="middle_content" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <blockquote style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; background-image: none; border-left-color: rgb(78, 88, 96); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 20px 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 20px; quotes: none; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold !important; line-height: normal; outline: 0px; padding: 0px !important; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;">“The world’s always been messy … we’re just noticing now in part because of social media. If you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world is falling apart.”</span></div> </blockquote> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The President made the remarks at a <a href="http://therightscoop.com/obama-were-just-noticing-the-world-is-messy-because-of-social-media-or-something/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">fundraiser</a> tonight in Purchase, New York, for the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Mark Knoller from CBS News was there to relay the remarks via Twitter.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">One of the benefits of the information age is that news and information have been broken down into a way that makes it more friendly to social media.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Social media is not causing the following national and international issues, it is merely reporting on them:</span></span></div> <ul style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: square outside none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 26px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <li style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;"><a href="http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CIVPART" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Workforce participation rates</a> at a 36-year-low, along with rising <a href="http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">national debt</a>obligations now at $17.7 trillion, <a href="http://thefalconpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/Budget-Pie-Chart.jpg" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">primarily due</a> to social programs.</span></li> <li style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;">Russia’s ongoing “incursion” into the Ukraine, which is a <em style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">de facto</em> invasion of a sovereign country on the edge of Europe.</span></span></li> <li style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal;">ISIS (or ISIL/IS) terrorists taking over the state of Iraq after the United States withdrew from the territory.</span></span></li> </ul> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This is not the first time that President Obama has blamed the media for frustrating his political agenda. For some context, the President is currently struggling with a <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/americas-fed-obama-approval-rating-hits-all-time-low-poll-n173271" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">low approval rating</a> in the 40s and <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/172457-president-obama-makes-startling-admission-strategy-isis/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">bad optics</a> of late because of his perceived lack of leadership confronting ISIS.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The President has variously <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/barack-obama-blames-fox-interview/2014/02/02/id/550431/" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blamed Fox News</a> and <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/01/24/obama-blames-fox-news-for-failuresagain-n1784088" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">conservative talk radio</a> for misleading the American people and creating an unfair “caricature” of him. Obama has also <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/13/AR2009031303486.html" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blamed Bush</a> for the stagnant economy, as well as his<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/11/obama-adjusts-iraq-narrative-now-blames-george-w-b/?page=all" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">withdrawal of troops</a> from Iraq.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">On numerous occasions, the President has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhgjKoIQS10" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">blamed</a> the House Republicans for failing to move legislation through the Democratic-controlled Senate and the White House.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">President Obama’s solution has been to use his ‘pen and phone’ to bypass or even override the American people’s representatives in Congress, by legislating from the executive branch.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Given that the President’s hallmark pieces of legislation – from so-called “<a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/12/10-broken-obamacare-promises" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Obamacare</a>” to the exorbitant “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303945704579387692278347858" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">stimulus</a>” package – failed to produce the results that were promised, it is an unacceptable premise that Americans should jettison representative government.</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The challenges of the presidency are both of enormous magnitude and entirely predictable. Those elected to become the leader of the free world must have extensive experience and must be fully prepared to deal with a world that is “messy.”</span></span></div> <div style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); line-height: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">President Obama’s blaming of other politicians or the media for this state of affairs just further confirms what many Americans have suspected all along: he may simply not be up to the job. It is not the fault of social media that it is doing what other major news media have often failed to do, and that is tell the American people the straight truth.</span></span></div> </div> <footer class="container-fluid" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px auto 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease;"><div class="row-fluid" id="postshare1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 609px;"> <div class="trackable_sharing" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="span4 shareButt fb" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; background-image: linear-gradient(rgb(73, 109, 181) 0%, rgb(46, 69, 138) 100%); border-bottom-left-radius: 5px; border-bottom-right-radius: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 5px; border-top-right-radius: 5px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-height: 65px; min-height: 30px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 20px 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline; width: 609px;"> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ijreview.com%2F2014%2F08%2F172770-president-obama-realizes-world-messy-place-thanks-social-media%2F" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.2s ease-in; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-weight: bold !important; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.2s ease-in; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" title="Facebook"><span style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease; background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: block; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; transition: all 0.2s ease; vertical-align: baseline; width: 609px;"></span></a></div> </div> </div> </footer></div>

President Obama Calls The World A Messy Place & Blames Social Media for Making People Take Notice

President Obama recently stated at a fundraiser that social media and the nightly news are making the world look like it is “falling ...

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