Reply #82: No, I just expect them to LEAD. [View All]

Obama hasn't led. Not on anything.

He has been the tool of too many of the special interests that controlled the previous administration and he has not stood up to a single one of them.

As another poster wrote upthread, Obama has always had the power of his own special gift -- speechifying. Had he chosen, in the early months of his administration, to give the American people as well as the congress a few of his campaign-style impassioned speeches on various issues, I have a feeling there might have been some action. Maybe he wouldn't have swayed a Ben Nelson or that piece of pond scum from Connecticut, but he might have aroused enough popular sentiment in certain states to push some of the moderate pukes into some real bipartisanship.

He didn't do that. He didn't do squat.

It's nice of you to try to let him off the hook for the Senate's failure on this health care reform bill, but the buck always stops at the president's desk. Always. On every single issue. He inherited the disaster from boooosh, yes, but he knew that going in. Nobody held a gun to his head and "made" him run for the office. He took this on willingly. And it's unfair to him for his supporters, yay, verily even his cheerleaders, to whine it's not his fault. When he put his hand up and got sworn into office, ALL of it became his. And ALL of it includes all the failures.


This is a failure, and it's his. ALL his.



Tansy Gold