I think he needs to do both. He needs to tell congress to do their job, and shut the f up on the grandstanding. But people have tried that for 200 years, with no luck so far. Grandstanding is the one skill all of our elected officials share.
He needs to get the various agencies that need to deal with the underlying problems working on solving them. But most of those solutions are not sexy, are not quick, and will not be understandable to the general population And, AS IMPORTANT AS ANY OF THAT, he needs to get people, general run of the mill people, bedded down and back to their regular lives of generating stuff. But, the public has its back up. Part of that is media hype, but much of it is a true anger at the unfairness that has been revealed to them. In order to turn the herd around, he needs to pull a pied piper, get out in front, make some noise, get everyone looking at him, and then following him in a new direction. So, Jay Leno is perfect. Talking about his basketball bracket picks is perfect. Playing basketball at various agencies is perfect. He needs to instill confidence in the normal people that "things are going to be all right". He can't look like he is frightened. He can't have that "deer in the headlights" look. He needs to go about his normal other duties, while at the same time convincing people that he has taken (and is taking) the steps needed to right the financial ship. Less foreclosures in the last month. Stock market going in the right direction. Fewer banks being taken over by FDIC. Housing starts up. Little metrics like these will let us know how the general public is reacting. On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:54 PM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Do you really, truly believe that Obama is abdicating his responsibility > in > > trying to address the AIG issue and the other financial problems by going > on > > a national talk show? > > After listening/reading some of what he said (haven't had time for > everything) I think he's addressing the wrong crowd. He's taking it, > "to the people." > > In my opinion the investigations on who's "to blame" for the bonuses > should be focused internally and the anger at who "allowed" it should > be culled from the Congress, the administration and the Fed. > > That's not what's happening. > > What happened is that the people were told by the media that AIG > executives are evil, that they should pay for receiving their bonuses. > What happened is that Congressional members that voted on a bill they > did not have time to read are now generating public anger at an action > that was legal based on the very bill they voted on. > > Instead of taking care of his own House, he's out campaigning. > > > And, just to highlight a pet peeve and prove myself an asshat. The > F$%*$Aing > > word is LOSE. > > I know I know I know... I loosed my lips before I realized that I was > losing my grip and letting through loose spelling practices. > > :P > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292326 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
