Posted on 02/09/2009 10:40:04 AM PST by mojito
It took less than three weeks for the real Barack Obama to come into view. He turns out to be both a conciliator and a fighter.
These are not contradictions in his character. They represent different sides of a politician who sees some issues as more susceptible to compromise than others, and who wants his adversaries to know that his easygoing style does not make him a pushover.
The sudden clarity emerged in the two best speeches of his short presidency and in the ongoing saga of the stimulus bill.
Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday with a warning against the use of religion "as a tool to divide us from one another -- as an excuse for prejudice and intolerance."
Obama did not cite Isaiah's injunction that we should come and reason together, but it seemed to be on his mind: "For it is only through common struggle and common effort, as brothers and sisters, that we fulfill our highest purpose as beloved children of God."
That was in the morning. By evening, when the president spoke to Democratic House members in Williamsburg, Va., he had cast aside his efforts to placate Republicans who had no intention of reasoning with him on the stimulus bill. Obama had turned the other cheek often enough.
"Don't come to the table with the same tired arguments and worn ideas that helped to create this crisis," the born-again campaigner thundered. "We are not going to get relief by turning back to the very same policies that, for the last eight years, doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Dionne lives in a world that looks remarkably like a campaign commercial.
Meanwhile, out in the real world, people have begun to notice that the great O is an empty suit, and his administration is a train wreck.
E.J. Dionne is the nerd who follows the class president around telling him "Wow, you were AWESOME at that rally!" and "You could get that girl NO PROBLEM! Who cares if she's dating the QB?" and "Wanna come over my house and hang out and watch Star Trek or something?"
All I have to do is read the author’s name “E.J. Dionne” and my skin begins to crawl.
speaking of obamatuer’s MSM pimpmobile- I made the mistake of stopping at MSLSD as I was flipping the stations as andrea what’s her name was on- under her ugly face was the headline “67% of the American people approve of the President’s handling of the economy”
wtf????
I guess they polled 67 people who work at the studio then went on the street and asked another 33....
Dionne ranks right up there with Krugman as two rank and file Marxists.
What the deluded MSM types fail to understand is that for them to continue getting paychecks, they need advertisers and that in a socialist economy, the number of advertisers will plummet.
EJ's the nerd from "Men in Black II" that takes his girlfriend to Cambodia for a cheap lobster dinner.
Kneepads here! Get your Obama kneepads here! Hurry while they last!
Girlfriend? You’re a lot more optimistic about him than I am. :D
LOL!
The absolute worst is JOHN HARWOOD
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