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| 2010-10-12 |
| Ken Blanchard, South Dakota Politics ...All year long Democrats have been urging the President to get tough, to show some passion, to fight. In fact he has been fighting, all along. He has made more speeches on behalf of causes than any President I can remember. He has been very direct. If any phrase of Obama's stands out, it would be "Let me be perfectly clear", or "my highest priority." It turns out, however, that the President's highest priorities number in the dozens, if not hundreds. What he is perfectly clear about fades away faster than raindrops under a windshield wiper. The problem isn't passion or toughness. It is that there isn't any there there. Even Clinton had an adolescent craving for acceptance combined with the charms of a confidence man. Barack Obama has nothing. Barack Obama has spent way too much time on campus. He has been surrounded his entire life by people who all agree with one another. Why did he sit twenty years in the pews listening to a half-demented preacher without once raising an eyebrow? Everyone in the room was shouting "amen!" Obama's star steadily rose because he always said amen along with the crowd around him. If ever he challenged his preacher, or his congregation, or his party, it has gone unreported. If ever he stood apart from the Harvard or U of Chicago crowd and said "no", there is no record. Why should he? The crowd kept passing him up the row. Everything in his life taught him that he could get ahead by figuring out what everyone around him wanted to hear. Since he took up resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he has had to confront problems that cannot be solved by agreeing with somebody. Suddenly, very suddenly, he has to hold American foreign policy interests in one hand and the Iranians, who just won't be agreeable, in the other. Suddenly, very suddenly, he has to deal with Republicans in Congress who just don't agree with his agreeable friends on the other side. Nothing in his career prepared him for this. So he ignores the one and blames the other on Fox News.... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #1 0's highest priorities aim toward things that are either harmful to the commonwealth, or irrelevant to it. He's not interested in doing what needs to be done, or in facing reality. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-10-12 08:16 |