Campaigning v. Governing
I am hoping this nonsense is due to a lack of leadership experience, rather than a compulsive inability to accept responsibility and criticism. And I am hoping it will stop. It's childish. It's not presidential.
President Obama, you won. You are the man. I'm mopping. We're all mopping. Your not-so-new job involves criticism and disagreement. And responsibility. Get over it, and get with it.
Update (10/18/09): More sophomoric behavior.
President Obama, you won. You are the man. I'm mopping. We're all mopping. Your not-so-new job involves criticism and disagreement. And responsibility. Get over it, and get with it.
Update (10/18/09): More sophomoric behavior.
posted by steve u. at 10/17/2009
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That those in the Republican Party have waged a war of obstructionism from the minute President Obama took office is not nonsense it is a fact.
Thank you Sen. Urquhart for posting this link. Unfortunately your comments reveal a lot more about you than they do about President Obama.
Actually most people claim that Bush Jr. invented the nonstop campaign. However I disagree I think that presidential politicians have always been like that, It just hasn't gotten noticed in the past because the media was not as pervasive. Reagon, Bush Sr, Clinton, all went to all kinds of events and spoke to all kinds of people its just that in the past they didn't have youtube and thousands if not tens of thousands of political blogs and broadband internet connections delivering on demand video feeds and instant information.
What we are seeing is merely National politics evolving into the information age.
RD,
You might be right. This might be the kind of thing that has always happened in smallish settings that simply didn't get reported. I'll buy that for now -- but, I do think the President does need to stop looking backwards. People know the economy was struggling when he took office. As people look for ways to measure his performance, they will factor that in; he only makes himself and his office look small by repeatedly referencing it himself.
I couldn't agree more, This type of rhetoric is just going make people mad especially Republicans, If he doesn't tone it down the 2012 election will be positively vile.
As a Senator, Obama was in office when all of this "mess" was going down. What did he do to try and prevent it?
Also, Obama campaigned as a centrist, and is now governing from the far-left. Does he really expect Republicans to go right along with it? Grow up, Mr. President.
He was a United States Senator from 2005 to 2008, The crap had hit the fan before he was in his senate seat. Also even after the democrats toke power in both houses in 2006 they still did not poses veto override power, and choose to allow the minority to lead for the most part rather then shut down the government.
Also he is a Radical Centrist Not a liberal. And he is governing from the Third Way not the far left.
As far as the current mess goes in regards to the democrats I can tell you that the democrats voted against Both of Bush's tax cuts which where both past by shoving it though with reconciliation, Both of these tax cuts caused huge deficits. It should also be noted that the first tax cut in 2001 was past before 9/11 but was still projected to cause deficits at the time, Of course the theory being that the lose in revenue would be made up by increased economic activity. I don't disagree with this theory, but I do disagree with the level of effect that is often claimed.
Often Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is sited as being a contributing factor to the sub prime crisis and it was past as a bipartisan bill. This bill removed a number of banking regulations that where past after the great depression.
Oops. Erasing spam comments (Grrr!), I accidently erased Adam's comment, which was, "Non-stop campaigning goes back much earlier than Clinton. Here's some of the earliest political science research describing and attempting to explain this behavior: Kernell, going public.
Our thinking within academia has changed quite a bit since Kernell's book. My point is just that this behavior has been around for some time now--at least since Carter."
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