It's pretty clear by now that Obama is NOT a liberal. The status quo has prevailed quite nicely during his two years. The rich have gotten a LOT richer, big business is making record profits and sitting on record amounts of cash in the bank, wages are slipping for middle and low class. CEO and top executive pay not only has gone back to its peak of the 2005-2007 years, but climbed beyond those highs. This has been a Republican wet dream come true.
I swear, there's something 'off' with this move to the 'center' ... it feels really fake and desperate.
I mean like when slick willie triangulated, his moves were still designed to generate results - like there were sound ideas undergirding his moves.
Why not move to the center and cooperate with Republicans by trying to think up an alternative to the wildly unpopular healthcare mandate?
Or why, when he was enacting Wall Street regulations in the wake of the crash, not also pledge to revisit Sarbanes-Oxley - the Democratic platform being that the left supports freedom coupled with responsibility.
Or why not aggressively pursue new trade deals as he seeks to balance existing ones that are currently running deficits - the Democratic platform being that the left supports the notion that free trade is key to prosperity ... and hence there needs to be trade.
I mean like his platform of 'compromise' is to denounce ideas? I think he underestimates the desire of people to want to feel like winners - people want to feel like he's making progress, not just 'getting things done'.
I'll bet Pres. Obama doesn't really see many conservative ideas as 'good' or 'legitimate', so he isn't able to synthesize them with the ideas on the left to actually create something truly centrist out of the so-called extremes the way Bill Clinton did.
Open-mindedness is hard ... it takes a tremendous amount of strength and self-control ... I don't think it can be faked ...
pushed back against the conventional wisdom that the president is suddenly moving to the political center, setting himself up for a re-election campaign that's focused on moderate voters, leaving liberals out in the cold.
He comes across as dismissive. And people tend to reciprocate, you know. Like that's human nature, unless people either don't realize it's happening to them or else they're desperate.
I suppose the good news for him is that ultimately most people really just care about results.
The bad news for him being that ultimately most people really just care about results. And these two new appointments were the architects of NAFTA and the China trade deals?
The achilles heel of all incumbents is the deficit - if the only way Washington's been able to make progress is buy borrowing it, like people know the score there ...
I just don't think people will reward somebody who's failed to achieve substantive results when somebody new holds the promise of a better tomorrow ...
Okay, I think even the densest of people have now figured out that he's a closet Republican. But who does he think is going to vote for him in 2012? The Republicans?
Don't you people know that Obama does what Obama wants! He is a fair weather friend, your o.k.as long as you support him! When he thinks he's going down hill-he will ditch you in a minute! As his radical friend( at the time)Rev. Wright said "Obama does what is good for Obama"! After he lied about NOT hearing the racist, radical remarks of Rev. Wright-guess he was unconsious for 20 years!!! We can get rid of him in 2012!!!!
"These arguments will do little to calm the fears of the Democratic Party's left wing. To them, it's one more sign that the White House is confident that liberals will have nowhere else to turn to in 2012, and that once there's a Republican opponent, President Obama will look pretty good by comparison."
Ohh..ohhh..oh.......yeah...right.
You already look like George W. Bush by comparison. And I can assure you this is one progressive voting Democrat that already sees ANYTHING ELSE but you, by comparison, PRETTY DAMN GOOD.
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I mean like when slick willie triangulated, his moves were still designed to generate results - like there were sound ideas undergirding his moves.
Why not move to the center and cooperate with Republicans by trying to think up an alternative to the wildly unpopular healthcare mandate?
Or why, when he was enacting Wall Street regulations in the wake of the crash, not also pledge to revisit Sarbanes-Oxley - the Democratic platform being that the left supports freedom coupled with responsibility.
Or why not aggressively pursue new trade deals as he seeks to balance existing ones that are currently running deficits - the Democratic platform being that the left supports the notion that free trade is key to prosperity ... and hence there needs to be trade.
I mean like his platform of 'compromise' is to denounce ideas? I think he underestimates the desire of people to want to feel like winners - people want to feel like he's making progress, not just 'getting things done'.
jmo though ...
Open-mindedness is hard ... it takes a tremendous amount of strength and self-control ... I don't think it can be faked ...
pushed back against the conventional wisdom that the president is suddenly moving to the political center, setting himself up for a re-election campaign that's focused on moderate voters, leaving liberals out in the cold.
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He comes across as dismissive. And people tend to reciprocate, you know. Like that's human nature, unless people either don't realize it's happening to them or else they're desperate.
I suppose the good news for him is that ultimately most people really just care about results.
The bad news for him being that ultimately most people really just care about results. And these two new appointments were the architects of NAFTA and the China trade deals?
The achilles heel of all incumbents is the deficit - if the only way Washington's been able to make progress is buy borrowing it, like people know the score there ...
I just don't think people will reward somebody who's failed to achieve substantive results when somebody new holds the promise of a better tomorrow ...
I think that was obvious ...
Or get the same info from Michael Corleone... (some would say that's the more entertaining way to get the point!).
Ohh..ohhh..oh.......yeah...right.
You already look like George W. Bush by comparison. And I can assure you this is one progressive voting Democrat that already sees ANYTHING ELSE but you, by comparison, PRETTY DAMN GOOD.