The rats are running from the sinking ship! First, the stinging commentary from Dowd and now these from HuffPo?
Excerpts from:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/obama-jobs-speech_b_944753.html
Obama hates risk. Even his most ardent supporters will tell you that he does not like to take big risks. He thinks it is imprudent.
He doesn't realize he's getting pummeled. He thinks this is all still a genius strategy to capture centrists by compromising on every single little thing. He is not trying to put on an appearance of weakness to lull his opponent into a false sense of complacency. He doesn't even realize he is being weak. He's the one with the false sense of complacency. As he's getting knocked around the ring, he thinks he's winning.
These guys in the Obama camp are in for a horrible, rude awakening.
Here is what all voters, and especially independents, despise and disdain in a politician -- weakness. Nobody wants to see their leader get beat to a pulp every night and then bow his head again.
Of course conservatives were citing obama's weakness during his international apology tour but even libbies are finally seeing the light!
And if that article weren't enough:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/black-and-bleak_b_948773.html
What a terrible irony this Labor Day that under America's first African-American president, black unemployment has risen to its highest level since the early Reagan years, and decades of black progress on homeownership have been wiped out.
The problem is less Obama's failure to target black unemployment per se than his weakness on the jobs issue generally. Race comes into the equation because of an almost pathological aversion to conflict on Obama's part, which has been widely attributed to his wish to bridge racial and ideological gaps.
The liberal critique, writes Chait in Sunday's New York Times, "wishes away any constraints on his power." But this is a hopelessly static understanding of power.
As effective presidents, including Lincoln, FDR, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson (and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush for that matter) demonstrated, the challenge of a president is to move public sentiment, win over the voters, and thus make it harder for the opposition to block. There is more to leadership than legislative compromise.
Which brings us back to the paradox of Obama and the black community. Obama is still the pride of black America, but more for what he represents than what he has achieved or fought for.
As many of us have been saying for three years, this guy is an image only. This is how he won the election, how he was given a noble. But substance and achievements are sorely lacking.
Excerpts from:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/obama-jobs-speech_b_944753.html
Obama hates risk. Even his most ardent supporters will tell you that he does not like to take big risks. He thinks it is imprudent.
He doesn't realize he's getting pummeled. He thinks this is all still a genius strategy to capture centrists by compromising on every single little thing. He is not trying to put on an appearance of weakness to lull his opponent into a false sense of complacency. He doesn't even realize he is being weak. He's the one with the false sense of complacency. As he's getting knocked around the ring, he thinks he's winning.
These guys in the Obama camp are in for a horrible, rude awakening.
Here is what all voters, and especially independents, despise and disdain in a politician -- weakness. Nobody wants to see their leader get beat to a pulp every night and then bow his head again.
Of course conservatives were citing obama's weakness during his international apology tour but even libbies are finally seeing the light!
And if that article weren't enough:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/black-and-bleak_b_948773.html
What a terrible irony this Labor Day that under America's first African-American president, black unemployment has risen to its highest level since the early Reagan years, and decades of black progress on homeownership have been wiped out.
The problem is less Obama's failure to target black unemployment per se than his weakness on the jobs issue generally. Race comes into the equation because of an almost pathological aversion to conflict on Obama's part, which has been widely attributed to his wish to bridge racial and ideological gaps.
The liberal critique, writes Chait in Sunday's New York Times, "wishes away any constraints on his power." But this is a hopelessly static understanding of power.
As effective presidents, including Lincoln, FDR, Harry Truman, and Lyndon Johnson (and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush for that matter) demonstrated, the challenge of a president is to move public sentiment, win over the voters, and thus make it harder for the opposition to block. There is more to leadership than legislative compromise.
Which brings us back to the paradox of Obama and the black community. Obama is still the pride of black America, but more for what he represents than what he has achieved or fought for.
As many of us have been saying for three years, this guy is an image only. This is how he won the election, how he was given a noble. But substance and achievements are sorely lacking.
