Thoughts & Commentary on the Obama Administration

[seireikhaan]

The most obvious is Health Care reform, the goal is becomign more and mroe elusive. Most Americans recognize the need for reform, but if this is negotiating it, he is an aweful negotiator. His goal is gettign further and further away from him because of bad tactics and worse strategy.

Would any of this have to do with outlandish claims such as "death panels" that keep getting thrown out by the RNC, in blatant attempts to do nothing but stop any reform, regardless of what is in it? Bearing in mind, the Prez is not responsible for legislation anyways. Surely someone as concerned with checks and balances would recognize that it is congress' failing for not settling on adequate legislation? Obama can be a cheerleader or bully, but nothing more.

Another is general racial harmonization. I at least expected that he wouldn't aggravate situations.

I'm assuming you were referring to the situation with the Harvard professor? He was entirely correct in in assessing that the officers behaved poorly. Further, the situations seems fairly resolved and out of the news. Blew by in a week or two, and haven't heard from it since. Not exactly a thunderstorm of activity, especially considering it was the media who felt it was so important despite that it was a brief statement about at the very end of a q&a about healthcare.

Additionally - faith in the administration to resolve problems effectively. The polls show that his number one asset; his personality - is not playing well. He is not communicating a coherent or staid vision that will likely be implemented. Weak moral and political rationalization seems to characterize his administration, but it seems to be infuriating the center, which is unexpected. His words seem hollow and without weight. Do you disagree?

What center? I am hearing of no center. I hear of people screaming "don't socialize my medicare!" and "Those objectors are acting like nazis!" I hear very few in the center, because both republican and democrat are making so bizarre and false claims about the other that everything else is drowned out in our never ending, real life Jerry Springer episode.

As for his communication, he sure seems to be making a pretty strong effort to get his own message out there, whether via email, facebook, etc.... You are correct, however, that rationalization seems not oft-well communicated in these attempts.

I agree with his position on Israel - I havn't agreed with a U.S. President on that in a while and his moderate position on S America is nice as well; It clips the wings of Chavez to an extent, making him look even more absurd.

There are policies that I agree with him on, but unity within the nation is a serious failing - without even a semblance of unifying the center to the various special interests that you represent.

Again, I do not see how you can blame him for the unity issue- the RNC is being stunningly obstinate. Obama greets the possibility of cutting medicare expenses for the budget hawks, and Steel rejects the notion and even goes to the effort to "warn seniors" of the possibility. So even when Obama does try to throw out ideas for Republicans to work with, they're spitting back in his face anyways. I fail to see how he's responsible for that.