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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 874161" data-attributes="member: 1246">EXCUSES, EXCUSES !!It seems everything would be going swimmingly if Washington weren&#039;t so irredeemably broken.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Obama White House constantly complains that Washington is not &quot;on the level,&quot; that &quot;the whole Washington culture is not serious about solving problems.&quot; &nbsp;If his approval rating were 10 points higher, no one would be complaining about the political process.&nbsp;Obama modestly gave himself low marks for &quot;marketing and P.R.,&quot; since he&#039;s so much more focused on &quot;trying to get the policy right than trying to get the politics right.&quot; &nbsp;&quot;part of the reason that ... facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we&#039;re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we&#039;re scared. And the country is scared.&quot; (Obama) &quot;I am not a dictator&quot;..............&quot;Obama is only the president, he can&#039;t do whatever he likes, he has to compromise with Congress, this is a democracy, his powers are very limited.&quot; Really? Even when he had a democratic Congress he couldn&#039;t accomplish more? What about the way Bush rammed things through Congress? Did the Imperial Presidency disappear overnight when Obama was inaugurated? The dictator argument is a straw man. Nobody&#039;s expecting him to be Hitler. We do expect him to lead, to inspire, to act.&nbsp;&quot;Give me time&quot;&nbsp; .......&nbsp; &nbsp; Obama isn&#039;t running the country single-handedly, because if he were, he&#039;d be like Lucy Ricardo working on the line at that candy factory. He has a cabinet and advisers and government departments. Is he unable to delegate and multitask? &nbsp;&nbsp;He&#039;s trapping the GOP. This is the saddest one: &quot;All the compromises that have made progressives angry, what they&#039;ve really been doing is showing the American people how crazy and intractable the GOP is.&quot; It&#039;s all apparently a canny strategy to destroy the GOP&#039;s credibility and Obama is a master strategist, a Svengali who&#039;s baiting a giant trap for the GOP. Wait till the election! Wait till his second term! That of course brings us back to excuse of &quot;Give me Time&quot;.&nbsp;It&#039;s pretty clear that Obama is a prime example of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle" target="_blank">Peter Principle</a>: he&#039;s risen to his level of incompetence. He is, as described by Jim Garrison back on The Huffington Post in February, truly <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/obama-the-feckless_b_828136.html" target="_blank">Obama the Feckless</a>.Lev Raphael (a choking koolaid drinker)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 874161, member: 1246"] EXCUSES, EXCUSES !! It seems everything would be going swimmingly if Washington weren't so irredeemably broken. The Obama White House constantly complains that Washington is not "on the level," that "the whole Washington culture is not serious about solving problems." If his approval rating were 10 points higher, no one would be complaining about the political process. Obama modestly gave himself low marks for "marketing and P.R.," since he's so much more focused on "trying to get the policy right than trying to get the politics right." "part of the reason that ... facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country is scared." (Obama) "I am not a dictator".............."Obama is only the president, he can't do whatever he likes, he has to compromise with Congress, this is a democracy, his powers are very limited." Really? Even when he had a democratic Congress he couldn't accomplish more? What about the way Bush rammed things through Congress? Did the Imperial Presidency disappear overnight when Obama was inaugurated? The dictator argument is a straw man. Nobody's expecting him to be Hitler. We do expect him to lead, to inspire, to [I]act[/I]. "Give me time" ....... Obama isn't running the country single-handedly, because if he were, he'd be like Lucy Ricardo working on the line at that candy factory. He has a cabinet and advisers and government departments. Is he unable to delegate and multitask? [B]He's trapping the GOP[/B]. This is the saddest one: "All the compromises that have made progressives angry, what they've really been doing is showing the American people how crazy and intractable the [I]GOP[/I] is." It's all apparently a canny strategy to destroy the GOP's credibility and Obama is a master strategist, a Svengali who's baiting a giant trap for the GOP. Wait till the election! Wait till his second term! That of course brings us back to excuse of "Give me Time". It's pretty clear that Obama is a prime example of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle"][COLOR=#0088c3]Peter Principle[/COLOR][/URL]: he's risen to his level of incompetence. He is, as described by Jim Garrison back on The Huffington Post in February, truly [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-garrison/obama-the-feckless_b_828136.html"][COLOR=#0088c3]Obama the Feckless[/COLOR][/URL]. Lev Raphael (a choking koolaid drinker) [/QUOTE]

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