SOTU – Promises, Promises, Promises, Yada,Yada,Yada……….. January 28, 2010
Posted by chelseanain in Uncategorized.Tags: health care, Justice Alito, SOTU, State of The Union
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“A few thoughts after a very long and I thought flatly delivered speech by President Barack Obama:
1. He’s not going to pivot towards the centre a la Bill Clinton 1995 – yet.
2. Obama realizes many people find him too cool and detached so he laid on the “I feel your pain” stuff with a trowel. But this sat uneasily with the passages in which he tried to be optimistic. It was a difficult thing to pull off and I don’t think he succeeded.
3. The speech was uninspiring. Perhaps deliberately slow. Soaring rhetoric would not have worked. Perhaps the greatest talent Obama has – speechifying – is now not much use to him.
4. He paid lip service to getting health care through Congress but he knows it’s dead.
5. A consistent theme from now until November will be that Republicans are rejectionists and it’s all their fault that Obama’s agenda has been frustrated. But ultimately the Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress so they’ll be blamed for inaction.
6. Obama has stopped blaming Bush all the time by name. But he did it several times in thinly-veiled references.
7. It’s remarkable how much of a back seat nationals security issues are taking given that the US is engaged in two wars.
8. Obama berating Republicans for being oh-so political simply won’t wash. The President is giving all his speeches in swing states and has given his 2008 campaign manager an enhanced role.
9. It was pretty classless to berate the Supreme Court while Democrats all around them leapt to their feet cheering and guffawing. Obama will suffer for this more than Justice Samuel Alito will for mouthing the words: “Not true.”
10. This speech won’t change the current political dynamic – Obama has much, much more to do. “ Toby Harnden – US Editor, Daily Telegraph
I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Harnden.
One Term Too Many January 25, 2010
Posted by chelseanain in Uncategorized.Tags: Health Care Reform Bill, Obama, polital agenda, State of The Union
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Today I conclude that President Obama does not have a clue what he is doing. I have tried to give him the benefit of the doubt; after all he is my president. But now he says he would rather be an “really good” one term president than a “mediocre” two term president. Is this not an oxymoron? I mean if he had an awesome first term why wouldn’t he be elected to a second? If he were doing a great job wouldn’t his supporters re-elect him? This is just one more in a litany of statements that have led me to my conclusion.
For whatever reason, most likely stemming from some childhood emotional baggage, he seems to have this opinion of himself that all he has to do is show up and talk and we will all somehow just breath a sigh of relief and go about our business trusting that he has every thing under control; that we should not bother worrying our feeble little minds about it, just trust him and it’ll all be OK. Well it is obviously not OK and we are no better off today and are actually worse off than we were a year ago when he took office.
Yea, yea these are tough times but when a nation rallies behind its leader usually things start looking up. That is if the leader knows what he is doing. I’ve been around for a while and know this to be true. Are things looking up? No.
Blindly trusting those he has chosen to advise him is a big red flag as to his inexperience and I am not sure his chosen have his or our best interest at heart. Case in point is letting Congress write his beloved health care reform bill. Either he didn’t have a clue as to how to do this himself, which I believe to be the case, or he trusted that whatever they came up with would simply sail right through to approval with nothing more than one of his self aggrandizing speeches to close the deal.
To change track now, as I am sure he is aiming to tell us he is going to do with his State of The Union Speech this week, and just expect us to swallow the fact that he is changing course because he has somehow miraculously discovered the wishes of the people within the last week is pathetic to say the least. I have found myself saying over and over and over again during the last 6 months “who does he think he is” and “who does he think he is kidding?”
Inexperience is not what this country needs during these difficult times but it is what we have in President Obama; proven by his bungling of countless issues since taking office. I have never seen so many perfectly legitimate questions attempted to be answered with statements which could be caricaturized by ping-pong balls flying out of the mouths of those making them.
And so I conclude that he just doesn’t get it, doesn’t care that he doesn’t get it and thinks that he gets it just fine but doesn’t give a damn because why would it matter what we think anyway since in his mind he is always right and we just aren’t smart enough to understand how wonderful he is and that we just need to relax and let “papa’ handle it; believing that all he has to do is give one more long speech and we will all just shut up and “trust “him once again. Well not me. I don’t trust him, not for one minute. I admit to having been cynical about his agenda at times but now I am just plain sure that he has no agenda other than to continue his incessant campaigning to get us to buy the rhetoric that he has everything under control and we just don’t understand.
No appropriate agenda and no idea of how to form one or carry it out. This scares me. I don’t like feeling scared. I am anxious to have a true leader again in the White House.
