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Steven Weber

Steven Weber

Posted: April 19, 2010 03:57 PM

Glaring Competence (With Apologies to Shepard Fairey)

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DOGnIT
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02:01 AM on 04/28/2010
Time and time again Obama told supporters to make him do what they wanted him to. That's quite different from GWB who proclaimed after the 2004 win of having a "mandate" and proceeding to try to privatize Social Security. Something he didn't campaign on, but clearly his supporters wanted. So get cracking and prioritize. So far he's got my back.
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leftbrnrightbrn
11:42 AM on 04/30/2010
Got your back? From a sixth floor window.
04:54 PM on 04/23/2010
President Obama is competent, as well as, shrewd. Let’s hope all goes well for him and the country.
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leftbrnrightbrn
11:46 AM on 04/30/2010
Obama has brain power all over the place. Highly polished brain power. But he is a collectivist. A redistributionist. And that is wrong. The reason he believes this way of life is because he can. He's been protected by American freedoms and an ability become a multi-millionaire, as well as the most powerful person in the world, and has never been challenged. He's never been challenged intellectually or in a practical way, by having to struggle for what he gets to simply make ends meet.
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DOGnIT
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02:42 AM on 05/11/2010
I think you need to read a few books. Might as well begin with "Dreams from My Father".
08:48 PM on 04/19/2010
Thx, Steve. Love this iconic image! Just finished a piece for university's visual rhetoric class about it and parodies from it. Hope...Change...Vote...and now glaring competence. It's so comforting to have a brain along with a body in our White House. GoObama!!
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BethS
06:53 PM on 04/19/2010
Progressives-please note-it is competence along with results. Stop projecting your timelines and methods and let the President "handle it"! Great Mr. Weber!
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02:13 AM on 04/20/2010
Sorry, but it's our duty to hold President Obama's feet to the fire on his campaign promises. We progressives weren't involved enough in the HCR debate (remember when we tried to get involved, Rohm called us "effin' ret**ds"), and we ended up with an insurance industry-friendly HCR bill that we could have gotten from the Repubs in the early 90s. Results? You bet, but mediocre results compared to what we should have and could have achieved.
No, the issues are simply too dire, and this President, intelligent as he clearly is, is too prone to appeasement and compromise.
FDR told the progressives of his day, concerning their progressive agenda, to go out and "make me do it."
Obama invited us to come with him to DC when he was campaigning, and then he immediately abandoned us when he got elected. I want this President to be one of the greats. That's why progressives like myself, are gonna keep reminding him that greatness means bold steps towards reclaiming this nation for we the people.
If you want him to be a mediocre President, just keep allowing him to "handle it" by listening to the DC insiders like Rohm, who are acting as if this is still the Clinton Administration of the 90s.
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JohnLorenzo
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06:03 PM on 04/19/2010
Steven – you are so correct in the observation that the people upset with "government" are focusing on Obama because of race. They are railing against an intelligent black man being our countries leader.

It's not hard to imagine these rapid right-wingers would be oozing their hate about Obama. These tea party, gun-toting, angry individuals loathe intelligent people. Hence, the constant put-down of "intellectual elites." But to have a man of color who is smart and competent – you said it before, "it's the incarnation of a racist's nightmare."
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Raventoo
05:41 PM on 04/19/2010
To say the least... Great picture, Web. Will be sharing this on FB pronto!
05:01 PM on 04/19/2010
Obama IS a handsome man, I've always thought so, but that doesn't make him competent. This is a common societal misjudgement.

but with that being said...I would have loved to have him on our side... (with the correct views). The Republicans would have been equally as proud.

And Steven, you keep forgetting... what about Colin Powell?? He could have been president (or come very close) but he chose not to run.

I don't know how validating this is, but in the movie "W".. After Colin critiques Cheney (Dreyfus) about what could have been... Cheney responds... "well, you could have been president".
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BethS
06:51 PM on 04/19/2010
It was just a movie...
03:01 AM on 04/20/2010
I know it was just a movie but I don't think Oliver Stone would have included that line if it didn't have some truth to it. It argues against the "excuse" I've heard several times now.. that the Right really didn't want him to win... which makes absolutely no sense.
05:01 PM on 04/19/2010
I don't always agree with the methods, but they do seem to get the job done. This is something we could never say under Bush (I think Steven would have a better analogy here). If Bush did do something right, it was by accident and not intent. If I get one more right wing e-mail concerning the false assumption of the cancelling of "The National Day of Prayer" I think I will scream.
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londonexpat
04:27 PM on 04/19/2010
You bet your ass...spot on