Wait a cotton-tail minute.
The trillion dollar plus deficit budgets are not his fault?? He
can veto stuff, you know?
David
To compel a
man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of
ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and
tyrannical.--Thomas Jefferson
On 10/14/2010 4:17 PM, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:
Most of Obama's private (and
sometimes public) rebuttals to the voices slamming him
on all sides are justified or spot on. He did inherit a
lot of problems from the Bush Administration. He did act
quickly in the initial weeks of his Administration to
stave off a worldwide depression. His efforts at job
creation have been obstructed by Republicans (even the
proposals based on policies supported by the GOP in the
past). His opponents haven't put forth specifics of
their own, nor offered genuine compromise, while the
media have allowed the right's activists and gabbers to
run wild with criticism without furnishing legitimate
alternative solutions. (See Barack
Obama's top 10 sound bites.)
But Obama has exacerbated
his political problems not just by failing to enact
policies that would have actually turned the economy
around, but also by authorizing a series of tactical
moves intended to demonize Republicans and distract from
the problems at hand. He has wasted time lambasting his
foes when he should have been putting forth his agenda
in a clear, optimistic fashion, defending the benefits
of his key decisions during the past two years (health
care and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, for example)
and explaining what he would do with a re-elected
Democratic majority to spur growth.
Nice analysis; very Radical Centrist.
Most of Obama's problems aren't his fault. But they *are*
his responsibility, and so far he hasn't truly stepped up.
-- Ernie P.
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