Passion?? It’s called reality.
Making believe you have the all answers is MUCH easier than actually coming up with them(as with Trump too.) In 2008 Obama was pretty darn good at pointing out all the things that were ‘wrong’, and all the easy answers...but now it’s not so easy for him.
Still, he gets too much of a break.
Obama is without a doubt, the luckiest pol that ever lived....HANDS DOWN!!!!
Break?” He is the luckiest man who ever lived in Americaq.
I still think he is really Damian : )
He thought it would be cool to play President, and he has milked it for all its worth.
Reality has a funny way of eventually smacking people upside the head though.
Oh please! He never stopped repeating that mantra.
in the most damaging of the tic-like gestures of compromise that have become the hallmark of his presidency and against the advice of multiple Nobel-Prize-winning economists he backed away from his advisers who proposed a big stimulus, and then diluted it with tax cuts that had already been shown to be inert. The result, as predicted in advance, was a half-stimulus that half-stimulated the economy.
Maybe 5% stimulated, not half. And a bigger percent of union boondoggles would have been even less effective.
That, in turn, led the White House to feel rightly unappreciated for having saved the country from another Great Depression but in the unenviable position of having to argue a counterfactual that something terrible might have happened had it not half-acted.