This week's president is conciliator -- in stark contrast to last week's Obama, the combatant.
In a June 29 press conference the Republicans were a bunch of children, the president said, refusing to get timely work done on the debt limit debate -- more irresponsible than his young daughters, who finish their homework in advance.
Despite no firm signs of Republicans relenting, this week Obama is touting "progress" in the budget talks, dropping last week's fiery broadsides at the GOP for defending tax breaks for the wealthy and "corporate jet owners."
Sure, some of this is the predictable good-guy-bad-guy routine designed to force foes to the negotiating table.
But was Obama also serving up the hot rhetoric to mollify supporters who sometimes grumble at his compromising ways? It did stir hopes on the left that he was finally standing up to Republicans.
It might even be true that his angry words were primarily meant to soften his base for compromises to come -- like $200 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts. If so, add this to a string of examples spotlighting Obama's governing style: Talk Left, Walk Right.
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He doesn't use a "bait and switch" style. He promised us change and he most certainly granted it. Unemployment has lowered from 10% to nearly 6% (granted that doesn't seem much by those numbers, so here is something better; from 30,700,655 people to 18,420,393). Most do not realize how tremendously hard it is to lower unemployment rate without having a negative consequence on the economy. Or the major problems that could occur if we pull out a vast majority of troops out of the middle east.
He has tried his best to recover America from the Bush administration (even though his best didn't solve every problem in America) and it is because of this that I respect him.
Does leave you with a problem though. Are you going to be an Obama lemming or not.
Vote for this feckless poll again or write in Mickey Mouse???
Caving is his specialty.
That's what it feels like. :/
so are we.
talk is cheap.
It will be because after all the high hopes and the promises of "change we can believe in" so much of what he as actually done is just a continuation of the previous Republican regime.
One can only wonder why?