He may have chosen a few bomb throwers to serve in his Cabinet or the White House, but that hasn't satisfied the more dainty of the lefties who are appalled at his selection of Pastor Rick Warren, who committed the unpardonable sin of not only opposing gay marriage, but actually promoted Proposition 8, which banned the aberration in California.
Up on Capitol Hill, the Democrats are out of sorts because he failed to act more quickly on his planned stimulus package, and Barney Frank -- an openly homosexual Democrat from Massachusetts -- is enraged over the choice of Rick Warren.
They simply don't buy his only-one-president-at-a-time alibi. They want him to start acting presidential now, and all he's been doing in Hawaii is physical exercise (when he's not showing off his pecs to the ga-ga media).
The left is also unhappy with the economic team he's assembled -- a group of moderates who embrace traditional approaches to economic policies rather than the openly socialistic nostrums the Marxist wing of his party cherishes.
His problem with Congress lies in the fact that Congress never accepts responsibility for anything. They shift whatever blame there is in any situation downtown to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. but wallow in the glory of anything that goes right.
The boys and girls on Capitol Hill were more responsible for the current economic mess that any other entity, but they shift the blame to the Bush administration, which had in fact tried to forestall the crisis and was blocked from acting by such top Democrats as Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd, who were drinking heavily at the money fountains of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac.
The fact that they haven't done anything worthwhile is all Obama's fault, and starting on January 20 they'll blame him for anything that goes wrong. His honeymoon will more quickly resemble a marriage on the brink of divorce rather than a joyous romp at Niagara Falls.
All this, sadly, is simply a sign of the decline now evident in Washington with the utter absence of backbone and leadership.
The taste of Barack Obama's triumphant victory could well turn out to be ashes in his mouth rather than that of honey. He has climbed the hill to the top and found it covered with thorns and thistles and poison ivy, instead of the roses he expected.
Shortly after the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Sen. Barry Goldwater dropped by the White House to see his friend and former Senate colleague President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
When Barry asked him how he was, JFK looked at him, threw up his arms and said "What a lousy fouled up job this has turned out to be."
Welcome to the White House, President Obama. Enjoy your stay. Have a great New Year. You are in our prayers.
And Happy New Year to one and all.
I still have trouble praying for Obama.
Instead I pray for my country.
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Yep, he's been quiet on Gaza, but he held a presser today on his stimulus plan.
He’s voting “present.” Nothing new here.
Very good.
Anything negative and he's been in hiding.
It won't change once he's President either. Even when he's been anointed he'll still dodge the bullet and let previous administrations take the blame for anything that's negative while trying to reap credit for any positive. You watch! Obama in two years if Iraq looks good will have the “audacity” to take credit for that!
Democratic Underground :Moderate American Jews Need to Take Back the "Israel Lobby"
I don't envy anyone who takes the job of POTUS. Campaigns are fun. You get to talk to a lot of people. You get to give rousing oratory to adoring crowds. It's a race and a game and people like races and games. Especially when you win and they like you, they really really like you.
Governing is difficult and boring. You sit in meetings all day and have to make difficult decisions you have to sell to the media and the public at large. You have negotiate with other self-interested people to get things done. You have to manage conflicts within your own staff and Administration. I certainly hope Obama is up for it.
LoL! The poor bastard is in for a ride.
I hope the country withstands it.
There, all fixed.
(He will soon learn that terror strikes and economic calamities are not subject to reversal merely by hinting at the prospect of racism...)
Cheers!
He can stay on the sidelines regarding Israel and HAMAS for now and I won’t condemn him for it. If he interfered, we would condemn him for that too and, as I see it, the less he says on the matter, the better. Silence is tacit support. The truth of the matter will be revealed come January 21st or shortly thereafter.
This from the same man who when to Iraq and tried to undermine the President during his campaign. Hypocrite.
It'll be curious to see if a movement (sincere or bogus, you never can tell with these things) gains momentum to shorten the length of time between the election and the inauguration. People who live in countries with parliamentary systems are always amazed at how long our campaign "season" runs (and how expensive it is) and then the lag time between the election and the swearing-in. They're used to a one-day turnaround. I have to admit a one-day turnaround would make me nervous.
Hussein is doing the right thing in this case. Probably for the wrong reasons, though. If only he would keep quite about other foreign policy matters until after he takes office.
Naturally, that doesn’t apply to domestic policy.