2014
If you seek a president for all Americans, if you seek a leader, a person who understands compromise and who can negotiate effectively with the most ardent opposition, a person who understands the sanctity of the constitution, who sees the United States as a shining ray of hope in the morass of world governments, who unites rather than divides, who builds up rather than tears down, who doesn’t use propaganda or scapegoats to pit segments of society against one another, then Mr Obama may well go down in history as one of our worst presidents.
I have to think if he were instead leader of some South American banana republic acting as he does today, our press would be ripping him apart for his actions. Instead we have morphed into “the end justifies the means” mentality … By executive order !💪.
You have heard me talking about scapegoats endlessly here. Why, because that is the most dangerous form of rhetoric, it’s what dictators and tyrants use the get the masses to follow them while turning a blind eye toward the real causes of their problems. Republicans are vilified as obstructionists and uncompromising and yet the press misses the point that compromise is a two-party effort. One party can’t always be the bad guy unless the other is not really interested in any compromise.
Left, right, conservative or progressive, how you achieve your goals does matter. Consensus does matter and unity to the maximum extent possible does matter …. the middle ground does matter … for the long-term stability of the Nation. I can only imagine how the left would react if a conservative president said, if Congress won’t act I’ll do what I want to do anyway. Does Mr Obama realize he does not have the unanimous support of the American people on any issue he supports? Does he realize his approval rating is only 42%; lower than the average rating for every president since 1938 and lower than all the most recent presidents, except Richard Nixon, at the start of their second term?
You should take the time to read this opinion piece in full.
The 2008 campaign phrase “hope and change” will haunt future histories of the Obama presidency.
Many Americans voted Barack Obama into the White House for that reason alone. That reason is gone. The notion that this president would unify the nation by allowing people to summon their better spirits, as he promised, faded fast.
Even Mr. Obama’s supporters see now that his operating method wasn’t unification, but political and social division. Support for the president among the independents who gave him 52% of their vote in 2008 has fallen into the 30s.
Dividing the nation in his first term so that some Americans would vote in anger against his opposition was clearly the game plan from the start. He repeatedly scapegoated “the wealthiest” and the “1 percent.” In 2012 when House Republicans published their deficit-reduction proposals, Mr. Obama dismissed the document as “laughable,” “social Darwinism” and “antithetical to our entire history.”
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I’ve always believed that Barack Obama made any future accomplishment impossible the day he accepted a PPACA that didn’t have a single vote from the GOP.
He did not insist that Messrs. Reid, Pelosi, etc get some Republican fingerprints on the PPACA, and I am convinced that decision, to choose “expediency through arm twisting,” burned every bridge he could’ve used in the future. He has accomplished nothing since.
America is now being forced to sit on her hands and lose 8 years of her life, waiting for a new President. I see the inefficiency of time wasted.
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I think you are correct. They took advantage of their situation and now complain about lack of cooperation.
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