Obama ‘Quite Comfortable’ As One-Term President, White House Spokesman Says
24 August 2009 7:11 am by guyski
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/52886
…“I don’t know that I’ve specifically heard him on health care,” said Gibbs, “but I have heard the president say that if making tough decisions in getting important things done that Washington has failed to do for decades means that he only lives in this house and makes those decisions for four years, he’s quite comfortable,” Gibbs told reporters at the White House press briefing…
A noble statement. But do the House and Senate Democrats feel the same way about losing their seats?
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Just to clarify, I know what “type” the site the link is from. But nothing wrong with an analysis of what the other side is thinking.
Know your enemies.
A noble statement. But do the House and Senate Democrats feel the same way about losing their seats? guyski
As I’m still up – and still irritated by the previous thread, I simply have to comment. Obama has already “made history” with his election. As we’ve seen recently with Sarah Palin, some people are quite willing to quit and ‘rake in the profit’ after doing that.
Maybe I’m just naive – but I don’t think Barack Obama is that kind of person. I still believe he has every intention of moving this country (and the rest of the world, when he can) in the best or most ‘positive’ direction.
Others may be getting a little soured – but my ‘rose colored glasses’ say “we’ve only just begun” – and I’m still a believer – despite the ’sky is falling’ attitude of Fox News.
I think the stock market today may prove my point.
This kind of statement just doesn’t make sense to me. Four years is not long enough to establish change in this country, and if the Dems lose votes in the Senate and House (which could be many judging by the way some Obama supporters are jumping ship)and God forbid we end up with a Republican (shudder) president anything he has changed by executive order could be reversed and we could revert to what was pre-Obama. You could end up with Republicans wanting to make war rather than peace. So if he wants to make changes in foreign policy he needs more than just four years to go down that road and make sure that we have the kind of stability in the area of foreign policy that he wants. I don’t know what to make of this anymore. I’m becoming so confused that my brain is rattling around in my head these days. Maybe I’m not making sense.
Well, anyway – good morning to all.
I’m linking Paul Krugman’s piece this morning because he’s comparing Obama’ policies to Reagan’s policies. So how can Obama be considered to be following Reagan and still be trying to bring socialism to this country. Or did I read this wrong?
http://tinyurl.com/kk92ez
And here’s Ross Douthat’s take:
http://tinyurl.com/mmbq5t
Is it any wonder I’m becoming nuts?
CNS is a horrible news source, so skip clicking on that link. Video from Real Clear Politics:
http://tinyurl.com/n8gu5y
Bad political analysis, JA, period.
Let’s be clear about one thing. Obama hasn’t done anything important yet, though I fully believe he can. A lot depends on the health care reform bill he actually signs. That’s yet to be seen. Additionally, if escalation happens in Afghanistan, well, things could get murky very quickly for him.
Taylor Marsh says:
24 August 2009 at 9:46 am
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Taylor – I wasn’t trying to analyze; I’m just confused with all the different rhetoric.
And I agree with you that Obama can do important things but I have to be able to see the forest for the trees.
um… I thought it would be clear that I was talking about Douthat.
Sorry – Wasn’t focusing. Too busy watching the little guy take his first steps.
“Bad political analysis, JA, period.”
I agree. But exactly WHAT tough politicol stands has President Obama taken since being elected?
Investigation of Bush wrong doing and crimes?
Effectively pushing for HealthCare with a public option?
Reversing DADT and discrimination against gays in the military?
Reversing DOM act?
Did I sleep through something?
That one termer sentiment smacks more of JFK like Bamelot image-making or “legacy shaping” than a committed resolve to damn the political torpedoes. It’s part of the script, echoes of Just One Term Jed Bartlett, rather than a chapter out of Profiles in Courage. Can only hope that the one termer sentiment reverberates and raises enough Congressional hackles to the realization that these four years just could end up being a brief and unique opportunity-sandwich that risks being squandered unless the People’s House summons the will to PUSH the Administration, to force the President to be worthy of a write up in “history books”.
After all one of the major threats facing the Republic, one of the razor’s edges of history angled across our constitutional society’s throat is the dangerously unbalance Branches of Governemnt. Three branch governement could benefit from a weak Executive; it is fine by me when it comes down to it, but one who’s coming to seem an obstructionist leader of his own party, hell no. That kind of Executive HAS to be pushed along and fast.
secularhumanizinevoluter says:
24 August 2009 at 10:59 am
Investigation of Bush wrong doing and crimes?
Effectively pushing for HealthCare with a public option?
Reversing DADT and discrimination against gays in the military?
Reversing DOM act?
rock on secular!
Too much has gone undone or done inadequately. To that list I’ll add
Employee Free Choice Act:
re-unionizing the country is vital. Collective Bargaining built the middle class not a mythical corporate “noblesse oblige”
Rescinding Bush era Executive Orders and signing statements:
there are literally HUNDREDS of these travesties of constitutional government to be shredded/deleted.
Restructuring the Financial Services industry
Oversight fails, easily and often. The best kinds of regulation are structural. We need firewalls not speed bumps. The inadequacy of this and the Bush administration’s response to the Financial debacle may take ten or fifteen years to become mammoth enough to re-collapse but that makes it only more threatening.
list could go on and on. There are so many, too many, real, immediate and potentially crippling threats to our society, economy and the country. It’d make anyone go thar in the headlights. We can be made history by standing hypnotized and run over. It’s plain now that “to make history”, for the country to survive and re-prosper there has to be a PUSH, a push that if it hasn’t come by now isn’t coming from the Administration.
autumnal says:
24 August 2009 at 1:06 pm
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I was hoping against hope no one would come up with Jeb Bartlett because my first thought was “West Wing.” I cringed. “-)
duoh!