Obama has just figured out that he has to apply Lincoln’s dictum. This is what we have been begging him to do in the last 6 years.
For 6 years he has been bargaining himself down before confronting the Republicans in secret and managing to get bargained down even more. He has even been betrayed. If he had only spent more time explaining what needs to get done to the public, and then getting the public to put on the pressure, he would have gotten much more done. Not only that, but the Republicans wouldn’t have had 6 unconstrained years to tell lies to the public.
When he was first running, I thought he understood how FDR told a Union leader, that the union leader was right about an issue and that the union leader should go out and force the President to do the right thing. It was very disappointing to find that he seemed to have forgotten that story as soon as he was inaugurated.
“Obama admitted that he sometimes wishes he could express his irritation
with congressional lawmakers who refuse to believe the science behind
climate change.”
Because the U.S. is a country in which the Congress wields a great deal of power, that practice has to be the most brain-dead that any educated segment of any modern nation can possess. Knowing better and still voluntarily ceding control of one’s public affairs to the hillbillies and bigots who can always be counted upon to come out and vote in America.
The United States has a sophisticated information system. A functioning educational system. A reasonable level of social and economic stability, compared to the rest of the world. A degree of freedom in voting that most people on earth would envy.
And “Democrats don’t come out in off-year elections”. WTF???
It’s not Obama who needs to have his head examined. It’s us.
Your liking 2nd term Obama better is partly his jazzing up the base I think and partly him reckoning that he’s got limited time now and had better swing for the fences while he’s still there.
Yeah, I will have to go along with the general idea of your message. I think his Presidency has been more of reacting to public sentiment, and not forming it.
An even more classic example of this is his stance on gay marriage. His “evolution” was based entirely upon what was happening on the “ground”. As public sentiment shifted on the issue, so did he.
And while I do applaud his recent executive actions on climate, I am not quite ready to declare Obama the environmental President.
Four grammatical errors and counting, could you be less coherent? You need to go back outside to your sandbox and let the adults discuss this topic. Otherwise Paw Paw will have to get hims belt out again.
