"Well, no one is asking him to go out there and asking him to be a jingoistic cheerleader. But when you call your own country 'lazy' when you are abroad and you call it unambitious and soft when you're home, I think what you are showing is not tough love, but ill-concealed contempt," – Charles Krauthammer, Fox News. Chait explains how Krauthammer wrenches Obama out of context. I notice that he also said on Fox that Obama spent
$1 trillion on the stimulus which increased unemployment
He knows this causation is nonsense. It was not $1 trillion, and it prevented unemployment being far worse in the short term. Criticize it on its long term effects, but please. This is partisan propaganda.
The Dish 