Obama's 'regrets' — he's had a few

Chicago Tribune ^ | January 17, 2016 | Clarence the Crosseyed Page cpage@tribpub.com

[Chi-townChief]

Considering the stubbornness of his opposition, I thought President Barack Obama was being quite generous in expressing "regrets" over his role in Washington's dysfunction.

"It's one of the few regrets of my presidency," he said Tuesday during his last State of the Union address to Congress, "that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better."

He shouldn't be too hard on himself, in my view. When it comes to stirring "rancor and suspicion," he had plenty of assistance from his stubbornly resistant conservative adversaries.

I am not one to complain, as many Obama supporters do, that the nation's first black president has had a rougher road than any previous president. Who can forget the blizzard of allegations, myths and rumors that were showered on Bill and Hillary Clinton during his presidency?

Expect more of the same if Hillary Clinton is nominated for the presidency this year.

Obama should have anticipated no less, as I wrote at the time of his first inaugural: Nobody promised him a rose garden, except for the big official one behind the White House.

Sure, both parties try to block their rivals' agendas. That's politics.

[Chi-townChief]

Evidently, Mr. Page forgets that in 2008, 0bama told us to "argue with your neighbors .. get in their face" and then he, like many of our liberal friends, appears to recognize that all 0bama has going for him is his nominal "blackness."

[Olog-hai]

Tout le monde est comme d’habitude, eh?

[Steely Tom]

He shouldn't be too hard on himself, in my view. When it comes to stirring "rancor and suspicion," he had plenty of assistance from his stubbornly resistant conservative adversaries.

His conservative adversaries couldn't do a blessed thing to stop him for his first two years in office. During that time, he never missed a chance to tell his conservative adversaries to sit down and shut up, and to then gloat over his ability to do so and the fact that they couldn't do anything about it.

Then, in 2010, his conservative adversaries got a powerful boost when they took back the House from disgusting Nancy Pelosi. They couldn't have done it without the votes of the general population, which (there is no doubt) Obama wishes he could pack off to concentration camps, and only cannot because of the Second Amendment.

Life's just not fair to men of color, is it, President Obama?

[BenLurkin]

[ronnie raygun]

4 years ago the regime had the house and the senate, everything locked up and they could have destroyed everything back then why didnt they?

[Olog-hai]

They wanted to give the other half of the Uniparty their shot at it?

[The_Media_never_lie]

He shouldn't be too hard on himself, in my view.

Author is crosseyed. Why am I reading this crap?

[TalBlack]

bozo tries to blunt his own culpability, film at eleven...

[CptnObvious]

Obama and Hillary see Republicans as "Enemies":

Obama on the an election: "punish our enemies and reward our friends".

Hillary asked which enemy she was most proud of making during Tuesday night's debate, Hillary replied, "Well, in addition to the NRA, the drug companies, the insurance companies, the Iranians, um, probably the Republicans." So any Republican that votes for Hillary is voting to be destroyed as they are her enemies.

[SaveFerris]

Next we’ll hear from Hillary.