What has Obama done for you lately?
US President Barack Obama
Wed Oct 8, 2014 11:8AM
Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks Network
Can anyone tell me what President Obama's second-term goals are? What has he
accomplished? What would he like to accomplish?
A little bit of immigration reform? Wow! What else? Still waiting.
I've never seen a guy want to coast this much as president. Even Bush who
couldn't wait to get out of office and be an ex-president was at least still
trying really bad ideas to the end. What in the world is President Obama's
agenda?!
So, in foreign policy, it's apparently "don't do stupid shit." Okay, forget
Republican criticism, which is that this strategy does not involve starting
enough wars (that problem has been fixed, by the way). But think about the
emptiness of that idea. It assumes that you have nothing you want to
accomplish and would just like to skate by until you're done.
If at the end of his eight years in office, President Obama's team got to
say, "We killed bin Laden and didn't do anything too stupid," they would
hang up a Mission Accomplished banner. That's so sad. My God man, what is
your vision of the world?
Would you like to push global education? Promote secular values so that we
can defeat the ideology behind Islamic fundamentalism? Engagement with
China? De-escalating needless tension with Iran? Or go the opposite
direction and say it's to go to war against all terrorists everywhere --
okay, don't -- but you see my point. I find it amazing that he hasn't cared
enough to come up with an idea of where he would like to lead the world. The
most powerful man on earth has hit the off switch.
This is part of the reason he gets pushed around by one storm after another
as Republicans and the Washington establishment keep yelling at him to do
one thing or another. He either does it 20 percent of the way or 80 percent
of the way. How much does he go his own way? Zero percent. Because that way
doesn't exist.
In domestic policy, it seems like the administration is saying, "We passed
Obamacare. What else is there left to do? That's our legacy. Why, did you
want us to do something else?" Yes, actually we did. There are dozens of
progressive priorities that are not even being considered.
What a wasted opportunity. Are there still the ardent Obama defenders out
there who are going to tell me he is playing three dimensional chess and
that we are finally going to see his progressive policies once he leaves
office? Go ahead, hit me with your best shot. What do you think, in your
wildest dreams, is President Obama going to do in the couple of years he has
left?
Yeah, I didn't think so. What did you do? Yes, you came up with a list of
excuses as to why he can't get anything done and mainly blamed Republicans
for all of our troubles. Admit it, that's exactly what you thought. Ok,
Republicans suck. Get beyond it. We could at least try to beat them,
couldn't we? We could at least lay out what our vision of the world is and
fight for it.
And if you're on team Democrat and you don't care about policy or getting
anything done, you just want to have Democrats win and then do nothing,
fine, then let me give you this political warning. There is no way in the
world you can play prevent defense for four years. This will blow up on
Obama. Trying to run out the clock is a terrible idea in sports and an even
worse idea in politics.
The base has been eviscerated. There is no vision. The approval ratings have
been battered. And President Obama hasn't really done anything colossally
wrong yet. That's why you have Fox News invent nonsense non-scandals like
the IRS because they don't have anything real on him. His biggest real
problem has been that he has continued George Bush's foreign and economic
policies. Of course, the right-wing doesn't want to criticize him for that.
But what if he does at some point make a real mistake? The roof is going to
cave in.
We have a do-nothing president to match our do-nothing Congress. Gee, I
wonder why nothing gets done in Washington? Imagine a progressive president
fighting to fix the insane economic inequality in the country or to end the
senseless drug war or best of all battling to get money out of politics.
Wouldn't that be wonderful? Well, that's not the president we have. We have
one who is coasting. But God knows what he's coasting toward.
SB/AGB
EM
On the 49th Parallel
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja and Dr. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni, Ssabassajja na Dk. Kiiza Besigye, Uganda ni
katika machafuko"
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