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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Thank you gala1 for showing us just how far off base it is possible to be.
"For all of you who thought that when Obama made all those campaign promises to you, he meant any single one of them --Welcome to Politics 101."
You must be joking. The real issue here is not that Obama isn't honoring campaign promises. The issue is that he IS honoring them. He is doing exactly what he said he would do and the far left just didn't believe he would be the centrist he said he would be. I'm sorry you are still angry about Hillary. I worked for her campaign and thought she would have been a great president but that doesn't blind me to the fact that Obama could be just as good.
The crust of frozen snow was pretty hard this a.m. so I decided to stay in with a hot toddy and watch this new guy talk, or read from his special made podium with the built-in teleprompter which he hasn't mastered yet; shades of W in there when it either got ahead or behind him. I realize he wants to look like Bill and Hillary who can memorize a speech before they give it but to try to fake it shows your a fake. Especially when you have to read the name of the next reporter you are going to call on with the pre-assigned question - W all over again.
I am old, and I may have forgotten, but does anyone out there remember a future president running around with a sign saying "Office of the President Elect" on his butt everywhere he goes?
For every action there is a reaction and I think that is coming true for BO. This was the guy who promised you all who voted for him that taxes for the rich will be back with a passion and taxes for the middle class was going away. I didn't get that from his speech today, it seems now that it may be a good idea to leave the rich tax free and leave the middle class paying. You don't think all those rich people that gave him all that money for his campaign also gave him a tight pair of shoes as a gift for winning the nomination do you?? Reality hurts.
Give him time, I watched chameleon's change color before and some colors take more time to achive than others, he will soon be back to hypnotizing you all so you hear what you want to hear and not the fact that he really isn't saying anything.
I hear him referred to as "cool" and also "smooth." Well, it is 25 degrees outside, "that's cool;" when the lake freezes enough to skate on "that's smooth" - both are "cold"!
Obama SAID that he isn't an idealogue, and he is seeking to bring the country together. Certainly that is the SMARTEST strategy to follow at the start.
As time goes on, I'm sure that Obama's idealogy will assert itself. But then, I'm not totally convinced that he HAS an idealogy.
Just look at Obama's coalition. He had rich, latte-sipping liberals working side-by-side with black ghetto gangsters. They have nothing in common.
Obama has a unique capability to be either black or white, depending upon who his audience is. Just watch his accent change as he goes from speaking before a black audience, to speaking before a highly-educated white audience.
Who knows. But I figure that he's probably going to be better than Bush. Hopefully Obama will use his smarts for the benefit of the country.
Vegas was built on the money of those who heedlessly preferred to bet the circumstances of their reality on the possibility of their dream. Who played the genuine odds?
Obama is a politician. That means once he gets where you put him, he owes you nothing.
For example, if Obama was so noble to start with, WHY exactly would he let his wife take a doubling in her salary from a PUBLIC HOSPITAL at exactly the minute he went off to Washington where he could vote favorably on her employers interests. Why is an indicator so Chicago-blatant not of any concern to you?
How many hospital community liaisons get paid a thousand dollars a day--every day of the year? Just what was that hospital paying its medical staff if that's what puff patronage pays? How many patients got shorted for that money to be there?
What does that really say about who Obama is? What would that have said if the Clintons had done that? Ask yourself -- and answer to yourself--why it would be different.
Just remember, one definition of history is a listing of all the worst debacles that each seemed such a splendid idea at the time. And then, the actuality of what's really there, and worse --what's not---makes it all come undone.
You see sunrise glimmers of hope. I see the shiny desperation of frantically worshipping a Golden Calf.
And the terrible reality is what you have bet on --with nothing tangible to back it up--to be a True Believer.
You are sorry Hillary lost? Let's both hope you won't find out exactly how sorry that might actually end up being.
My post wasn't about Hillary, anyway. It is a warning about the place quid quo pro has in Obama's every decision. And if you think for one moment you are privy to ANY of the real promised obligations Obama made to get where he is... well, that's just how he got there.
-gala1
Agreed, but I think it's important to add that Obama will not be credulous in this process.
In other words, when his advisors enumerate A, B, and C, Obama will not say, "Fine, make it happen" before he asks a host of penetrating questions, solicits counter-opinions, and arrives at his own conclusions.
He will be damned sure he understands and signs off on the advice he's getting rather than simply deferring to it because it's proffered by an "expert." He will, in the process, become his own expert and when he does, look out, he will be a monster to be reckoned with.
He will never hide behind his advisers if something goes wrong because he will not let things happen before he's had a chance to apply his own powers of judgment and discernment to the problems at hand.
This is an inquisitive and powerful intellect we're dealing with.
So yes, in the end, he'll say, "Make it happen," but not before he has wrapped his mind around the advice he gets.
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