Is Obama the 21st century's Woodrow Wilson? Smart, but over everyone's head?
The nation in crisis, the American president gives a special talk with his lips pursed and a disapproving frown -- a countenance of barely tolerating those idiots who conspire to make his life miserable.
But his words fall flatter than you-know-what on a plate. Mission to inspire? FAIL.
The U.S. is wallowing in one of its worst throes of confidence. Not only is the stock market loopy, Afghanistan defeating, job creation insipid, but its citizens are in real need of a tonic.
So what does Obama do? Not a lot. He delivers nostrums to the nation, looking ever so much like the Sunday school teacher that Wilson was, before jetting off to Camp David for the weekend!
My American friends argue that this president is the victim of some of the nastiest racism possible. There are people who would prefer to see the States go down rather than see him succeed.
Perhaps this is so, but Mr. President, rise to the challenge! Speak over the heads of those Washington pinheads and nitwits and speak directly to the American people. Show your 'audacity' with a message of hope (you remember that) and a plan to restore the lustre of your citizenry.
Have a plan to create the conditions for industry to flourish, a plan to cut down the mind-numbing bureaucracy that stifles the enterprise that made America great.
Stop wishing that everyone in Washington will suddenly stop what they're doing to hold hands and sing Kumbaya. Stop lecturing and start leading.
Obama knows the list of things to be done to allow the U.S. to soar. He just needs to get to it in order to help the American people escape the funk which is dragging down the spirit of the last best hope.
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Wall street,
Insurance companies by not going single payer
Tea Party by nominating their judge, deporting Mexicans etc. and the all in unison said "no way Jose"
So now its his turn to give them the finger...
But his mother taught him that if you pay nice, they will come around...
So he continues...
Guess he does not like power too much...
Obama can't lead. It isn't a skill he has and everyone would have known this had they looked at his record pre-election. Liberals who are unhappy with him (and rightly so) say well I have to vote for him as the alternatives are even worse. So I say to them, a democrat challenger needs to rise up and get this guy out of office.
Better yet, an independent who has the leadership skills and the gift to be able to unpolarize this nation......
so much criticism, but no action at all from the chair force.
If not that, then we need a progressive third party NOW.
But, oh by the way, as long as we continue to elect the President by the Electoral System, we will never have more than two sustainable political parties at a time. Direct popular vote with proportional representation is the only way to build multiple-party coalition government that is practiced widely elsewhere. The Founding Fathers wrote a brilliant Constitution, but the Electoral System was their greatest blunder outside of not outlawing slavery.
Maybe you try thinking before posting next time.
I'm hoping his people are keeping him apprised of what America is saying about his lack of leadership, how we progressives and supporters are screaming for some action, a serious jobs bill, we want him to continue the fight with Republicans over raising revenues. We can't let that one go by, we have to have that fight, right up until we win it. The country is in trouble, in part because of the unfunded Bush tax cuts to the tune of $4T over 10 yrs.
We have a revenue deficit.
We have to rail against the Norquist Pledge for it's conflict of interest with the oath of office. There is a crying out for President Obama to take the lead, be the Man With The Plan. Fight for a Progressive agenda with all your might, President Obama, even if you think it's a losing proposition due to obstructionism. At least we can show the American people what the Republicans really want for America, and voters will turn against them.
At least be candid. These are now the Obama tax cuts.
And so you thought his speech had some fire?? All I can do is roll my eyes at that as we've heard many a speech from Obama that "showed some fire" but the fire was put out quickly as soon as the teleprompter was turned off.
I'd rather have Obama's people whose job it is to keep him apprised of public opinion and to keep him informed read my post and skip yours...
Your message seems to b "roll your eye and give up."
My message is "fight like h-ll, even if it looks like there's little chance of winning."
I thought he did that. I can remember one line in particular, "Call your Senators and Congressmen to tell them" something about doing the right thing.
I know everyone says "what Obama should do", but I haven't yet seen a message to deliver that makes sense.
"Have a plan to create the conditions for industry to flourish, a plan to cut down the mind-numbing bureaucracy that stifles the enterprise that made America great."
Can you translate that for me? It sounds like political speak, and I hear rushing hot air.
The right will do ANYTHING to undermine the black man in the White House, to the point of self-destruction if necessary, and the president will do ANYTHING but take a stand, lest he be labeled an angry black leftist. The president's got experience that I don't have being black, so he should know by now that the right wing racists will never, ever respect him or accept him or say a kind word about him or give him an inch. He seems to be fighting for the respect of people whose respect no decent person would want.
Obama is a tragic figure who will be undone for being untrue to himself. Either that or he's just a right winger in hopey-changey clothing. Either way, we lose.
BTW he isn't exactly black. He is half black and raised by a white mother, white grandparents in a white society. Obama is more white than I am so all of this racist rhetoric is ridiculous.