Posted on 04/21/2013 5:52:15 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Dowd bashes Obama: 'He still has not learned how to govern' By DONOVAN SLACK | 4/21/13 12:49 PM EDT
The New York Times' Maureen Dowd ripped President Obama for failing to do enough on gun-control and said he "still has not learned how to govern."
"President Obama has watched the blood-dimmed tide drowning the ceremony of innocence, as Yeats wrote, and he has learned how to emotionally connect with Americans in searing moments, as he did from the White House late Friday night after the second bombing suspect was apprehended in Boston," she writes in a column published Sunday. "Unfortunately, he still has not learned how to govern."
Dowd argues that the president could have turned the support from 90 percent of Americans into 60 votes in the Senate for expanded background checks for gun buyers. But, she asserts, he didn't know how to work the system to do it, and what's more, "he doesn’t want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him."
She faults Obama for delivering soaring speeches and rhetoric when he could have been down in the trenches, persuading senators, one at a time, with whatever it took.
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No duh, lady! He was a community organizer and an absentee Senator before he was elected. I don’t know why any of the supposedly smart liberals expected any better.
that requires WORK... he does not know how to do that... he has never worked...
gorgeous... she needs to lay off the surgery and facial injections before she gets to the point of no return... leave that to her hubby...
Obama thinks it is way or no way (executive orders).
He has never learned how to govern. Only to destroy weak opponents to get his way.
The NRA is not weak.
Newer rules...
Given Obama’s demonstrated level of intelligence, it’s surprising he’s learned to tie his own shoes.
Or does he have a secretary do it for him?
...he doesn’t want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him.
How's that famous "hope and change" working out?
Who’s the bigger idiot? The idiot or the idiot who supported him?
I must have missed the memo - can you spell out the “newer rules”, and what caused them?
Maureen Dowd ripped President Obama for failing to do enough on gun-control and said he "still has not learned how to govern dictate."
There. Fixed it.
‘he has learned how to emotionally connect with Americans in searing moments’
WTH!?
The guy in the White House hasn’t a clue what America is about. Rational, reasonable individuals capable of critical thinking have difficulty following his speeches full of nonsense. He displayed such ignorance about current gun laws (’gun show loophole’ Nonsense!) No one will feel the least bit compelled to follow his ridiculous regulation!
Hey Maureen - you and some of the low-information voters are just waking up to something a bunch of us have known for years! Thanks a lot!!!
Give me a break. Illustrates the complete disconnect and divide in the country. The left hears the emotions, the right understand the words "
"He" says to wait for the facts are in before coming to conclusions. Tell that to the folks involved in Benghazi.
When your actions no longer match your word, most Americans usually say STFU.
Cut him a break, Maureen. He can't help it cause he's ... you know ...
Bammy knows all about ruling.
I still don’t care what she says.
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