President Barack Obama talks with Chief of Staff Jack Lew at the Esperanza Resort in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico, before the start of a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, June 18, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Sixty-four percent of likely voters surveyed after Obama’s June 15 announcement said they agreed with the policy, while 30 percent said they disagreed. Independents backed the decision by better than a two-to-one margin. – Bloomberg
PRESIDENT OBAMA scored another wide-ranging policy victory on his DREAMers executive order, much in the same way he blindsided the GOP on his free contraceptive for all of us Vaginas. That it came after the press, including myself, castigated the President on a very bad economic week for message and clarity was important. It gave Obama a tremendously consequential victory where Mitt Romney simply cannot compete.
Let’s face it, there’s a reason it’s hard to beat a sitting president and Barack Obama is illustrating why. If you’re willing to use your clout you can shake opinion and move people with the power of the presidency.
There is little doubt we’ll see a lot more of this if Pres. Obama is reelected, because he won’t ever have to face the voters again.
Obama needs to do more of these exec order type thing re housing
It’s a disgrace he passed on it in the first place.
“It’s a disgrace he passed on it in the first place.”
i COULDN’T possiblY AGREE MORE.
“There is little doubt we’ll see a lot more of this if Pres. Obama is reelected, because he won’t ever have to face the voters again.”
Maybe…MAYBE PLEASE he was waiting for the second term when he wouldn’t be beholding to anyone to put in place the things he talked about and the VAST majority of Americans want.
Yeah, right. To quote what you said on another thread:
“BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! STOP,STOP, yer KILLIN me here with stuff like that!!!!!!”
I guess the theory is that Obama is just cleverly waiting until he wins by a smaller margin than last time, and has much less political clout, with either much smaller Democratic majorities than before or none at all, before fulfilling all of the promise he displayed in 2008.
Riiiiiiiiigggght.
You have to wonder about the levels of delusion some people can reach.
President Obama will just want to be friends with the GOP. Yes, it was great that he finally showed some guts on marriage equality and immigration, but there is way more that he should do especially when it somes to unions among other issues. This is going to be a close election. My democratic Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Joe Manchain and Democratic congressmen Nick Rahall will not go to the Democratic Convention to protest President Obama. Its going to be a close race this year. That is one major thing that President Obama has and that is he is a sitting President.
Even the GOP biased Rasmussen poll reported that 71% of all respondants approve giving work permits to young undocumented workers.
President Obama has always supported the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill but it went nowhere due to GOP obstructionism and GOP senate filibuster. As a senator Obama voted multiple times to end the GOP filibuster of the McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill but the bill was never sent to the floor for an up or down vote due to the successful GOP filibuster.