From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Duveyoung Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Secretary Clinton on Sunday TV RD,
Yeah, total agreement with you below. I do think/wish-it's-true that Obama has seriously had to bite his tongue and deal with the devil when it comes to these major concessions that I as an outsider think he's making. I'm thinking of John, Martin and Bobby. Call me a conspiracy nut if you must, but Obama does have some real world examples of what happens to presidents and other leaders. Obama can only push so hard, before he's entering that danger zone, and if he's tippy toes around the military industry, I can understand. I mean, how did J.Edgar Hoover keep his job for so many presidencies? Hoover had some power it seems. I ask you straight out: "If Obama had already closed down Guantanamo by bringing all those prisoners here to our courts, and it was then shown again and again that the evidence against many if not most of them did not come up to American standards of habeas corpus and exposing our military as festering with brutes and perverts, and there were world wide riots protesting the revelations, and if Obama had completely gotten our army out of Iraq, and now Iraq was killing themselves with a religious civil war, and if Obama had gotten congress to pass a single-payer health plan that virtually put most insurance companies out of business overnight, and if Obama had vetoed the bailout bill and the entire economy of the world had collapsed, what would RaunchyDog and Edg be saying about Obama's brute force tactics that had caused such upheaval in American life?" I think you and I would be shouting about his impatience, his bullying, his uncaringness, etc. Like I said, "Triage sucks." Edg This expresses my take on things. And I anticipated this. Some Lefties expected Obama to come waltzing like some kind of magician and fulfill all their fondest hopes and dreams. I suppose Ron Paul folks thought the same of him. He would have smashed into an immovable wall. Obama is better at dancing the dance. I think he has a keen sense of just how far he can push things, and when he needs to go easy if he wants to accomplish anything. That doesn't mean that I agree with everything he's doing, but I credit him with the intelligence, the access to information, and the experience to do a better job than just about anyone else could be doing at this point.
