This week brought two high-profile examples of what has become the president's trademark approach to leadership -- "the fierce urgency of sometime later" -- as he kicked the proverbial can down the road on Afghanistan and gay marriage. On the former, his limited drawdown plan was derided as "cautious" -- not by anti-war activists, but by a GOP presidential candidate (Jon Huntsman). More evidence that opposition to our near-ten-year incursion there has moved way beyond left and right. On the latter, Obama once again stuck with his half-step positioning, refusing to endorse the then-still-pending New York bill on same-sex marriage while lauding the fight for "change that is lasting" -- a stance that continues to place him to the right of Dick Cheney. In both cases, the president is standing on the wrong side of history -- trailing behind the growing consensus of those he presumes to lead.
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is to "make the Democrats look bad to their constituants" I am sure your party does not appreciate
you enough.
But it hardly matters. Things won't change in this country until they've gotten worse, but once the American public gets completely fed up with our leadership, we'll demand change in a manner that our leadership will have to respect. That's the way it always happens.
"...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Hopefully, it does not come to that. But if our government continues to be destructive to our lives, our liberty, and our ability to pursue happiness, we do have the right to get rid of it.
(Boggle) I'm hoping someone will find the time to scare up abundant quotes for you. Wow.
Oh, and name a good leader of the Democratic Party. I double dare ya.
No President has ever before had the sheer, ugly obstructionism thrown up in front of him, none before has EVER had the opposition party stand there with their ugly bare face hanging out and declare that their single goal was to BREAK him and make sure he was a one-term President.
NO other President has EVER faced that kind of hatred.
I'm starting to wonder if those who will make excuses for him no matter what will be telling the rest of us 20 years from now that "we really need to elect Malia and Sasha" to finally accomplish what Obama speaks so beautifully (if vacantly) about.
You lost the last presidential election and you will lose the next one. The good news is it will help you to become a good loser.
Fair and balanced regulation is actually good for business. Want proof? Anybody remember the 1950s?
George Bush said almost exactly the same thing for the 2004 elections.
In Bush's case he spent that next 4 years digging the biggest hole in America's economy ever done to that point... and... he pretty much insured that the President to follow him would have to spend even more to dig us out of that hole.
The economic policies of the Bush administration... looking the other way while encouraging Financial Instrument regulators to do the same, participating in reducing financial oversight and regulation... decreasing our tax base by close to a Trillion dollars during his ''reign'' (increasing the wealth of the wealthy while bringing the middle class to their knees) and simultaneously starting two wars, one of which was based entirely on lies... the other of which could have been over in months if we'd sent 50,000 Marines in - gotten Bin Laden - gotten out. Those wars have cost us Trillions... and to this day, because they were started in such an ill-advised fashion, we have still not been able to end them safely.
Bush required two terms to create this mess we're living with... at least give Obama the same length of time to clean it up.
Or do you believe it takes less time to clean up the spilled milk than it did to knock over the bottle?
The state of the nation leads directly back to us.....if we have allowed our elected officials to do whatever they want, without saying one word to them whether we approve or not, then we condone their actions.
I am dumbfounded that Americans can't seem to get themselves organized online to flood the oval office & members of Congress with messages when any matter of national importance is being legislated......our politicians need to really know how the people feel, and not by some poll that speaks on behalf of a thousand people, but from millions of people.
Let's get organized.