 merrie says: If it doesn’t, President Obama will have been defeated. But it’s the party, not the president, that will have failed. Rhetorical question: If Obama's not running the Demokrat party, who is??? 3. Obama is bogged down because he has been working so hard to accommodate Republicans. 4. Obama is failing because he's too nice. From The LA Times, words of encouragement from Rep. Maxine Waters Twenty-seven days after taking office, Obama abandoned his short-lived commitment to transparency and bipartisanship and signed his ill-conceived stimulus bill into law. Since that very turbulent moment, Americans have developed persistent doubts about Obama's judgement and leadership strategy. And in the process they have rediscovered their self-confidence. The Wall Street Journal explains: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574370301468452872.html American democracy has never been democracy by plebiscite, a process by which a leader is anointed, then the populace steps out of the way, and the anointed one puts his political program in place. In the American tradition, the “mandate of heaven” is gained and lost every day and people talk back to their leaders. They are not held in thrall by them. The leaders are not infallible or a breed apart. That way is the Third World way, the way it plays out in Arab and Latin American politics. [i]Those protesters in those town-hall meetings have served notice that Mr. Obama’s charismatic moment has passed. Once again, the belief in that American exception that set this nation apart from... How many times have we all heard "It's not my fault!"? Instead of spread the wealth, let 0bama spread the blame! — Comment removed by clipper — |
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