Time To Quit Begging Obama To Do What He Was Elected To Do
For the umpteenth time I've read an article on how President Obama must change.
Yet another well meaning author writes about how Obama must learn from his disappointing first year and take the country in the correct direction, the direction he campaigned on which got him elected; the direction, the issues on which he campaigned and that
he promptly, deliberately forgot or ignored.
It's getting tiring this ongoing call for President Obama to lead and to act like a real Democrat. And its an exercise in futility. It's pretty pathetic to have to beg a so called Democratic president to do what he is supposed to for the common good and general welfare.
His first year has been unsatisfactory and mediocre from his mostly disastrous selections of individuals (the list gets longer) for high level positions in his administration, to his failure to provide leadership in so many policy areas like health care. His woeful woodenheadedness about the economy and jobs, embracing Wall Street and dissing Main Street and almost constantly contradicting his hypocritical rhetoric are contemptible.
President Obama is not a real Democrat which we so badly needed after the Reagan, Bush, Shrub and triangulating Clinton years. He is a corporatist, Clintonite/Rubinite DINO, who uses rhetoric to obfuscate, introduce and/or sell to the American people a lackluster, ineffective action usually doomed to fail while protecting government of, by, and for the wealthy few.
His so called laid back style smacks of an unacceptable complacency as he copies Dubya and Reagan, not FDR. Obama hasn't changed Washington at all, but shown his true colors...more Republican lite than Democrat.
To all those disappointed people exhorting Obama to change from the past year's disastrous record and begging him and his administration to actually accomplish what he campaigned on and for which he was elected, rather than the current policy of polishing turds and calling it "the best we could do" gold, Benjamin Franklin offered some sage advice: "He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Yet another well meaning author writes about how Obama must learn from his disappointing first year and take the country in the correct direction, the direction he campaigned on which got him elected; the direction, the issues on which he campaigned and that
he promptly, deliberately forgot or ignored.
It's getting tiring this ongoing call for President Obama to lead and to act like a real Democrat. And its an exercise in futility. It's pretty pathetic to have to beg a so called Democratic president to do what he is supposed to for the common good and general welfare.
His first year has been unsatisfactory and mediocre from his mostly disastrous selections of individuals (the list gets longer) for high level positions in his administration, to his failure to provide leadership in so many policy areas like health care. His woeful woodenheadedness about the economy and jobs, embracing Wall Street and dissing Main Street and almost constantly contradicting his hypocritical rhetoric are contemptible.
President Obama is not a real Democrat which we so badly needed after the Reagan, Bush, Shrub and triangulating Clinton years. He is a corporatist, Clintonite/Rubinite DINO, who uses rhetoric to obfuscate, introduce and/or sell to the American people a lackluster, ineffective action usually doomed to fail while protecting government of, by, and for the wealthy few.
His so called laid back style smacks of an unacceptable complacency as he copies Dubya and Reagan, not FDR. Obama hasn't changed Washington at all, but shown his true colors...more Republican lite than Democrat.
To all those disappointed people exhorting Obama to change from the past year's disastrous record and begging him and his administration to actually accomplish what he campaigned on and for which he was elected, rather than the current policy of polishing turds and calling it "the best we could do" gold, Benjamin Franklin offered some sage advice: "He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
Posted by Kaz at 1/25/2010 2:26 PM 
Categories: Barack Obama
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Categories: Barack Obama
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