The big lie that has been spread both by the right wing media and the retreat by former pro-Obama media columnists, moderators, and commentators has been confused with the integrity of the Obama Presidency. They have destroyed his success by associating his programs and legislation with "socialism", big government, big spending, and similar phrases of disdain and disrespect for his office. The talking and writing class have decided that Obama's score in passing legislation that coincides with his pre-election goals is an evaluation of Obama as President of the United States.
How can he succeed when even his own Democratic party doesn't support him and worries more about the mid-term elections than serving the voters that put them in office? They, too, along with a large part of the voting public have bought into the Big Lie, which has now become universally accepted truth. To support the President in passing the health reform bill is tantamount to losing the election.
All of this may be "reality" that has taken root because it's easier for the voting public to accept a media bite the conservatives have put together to damn Obama and his health reform, as one example, than it is to try to understand what it's all about. I reject that Obama has not gone out to the public to sympathize with their plight. Each effort is criticized by the Big Lie authors. If the legislation is complex, muddy, and hard to understand, it is the fault of Obama's efforts at bi-partisanship. His tactic is a smart one, because it puts the responsibility for legislating at the feet of the legislators. That's what they are supposed to do. This is an uncomfortable turn-about from the usual and old politicsal tactic of brow-beating and offering pork by the President. Change is hard. And Congress would rather rely on the old politics than consider that the legislative environment needn't be that way.
The summary of all of this is that Obama cannot be judged by the standards of his opponents. And the columnists that keep score of success and mostly failures, and depict the passage or failure of health reform as the turning point in his Presidency are using old standards of Presidential leadership. This is one case of where just about everyone cannot truly evaluate Presidential leadership. He cannot be an LBJ, because the opposition would get him for being a dictator, or, worse, a Hitler. So, he is who he is, a model of integrity and a change agent that they don't get, and so he is a failure, weak, ineffectual. They're dead wrong.
They, too, along with a large part of the voting public have bought into the Big Lie, which has now become universally accepted truth.
Posted by: vibram five fingers | April 05, 2011 at 11:26 PM
The summary of all of this is that Obama cannot be judged by the standards of his opponents.
Posted by: vibram five fingers | May 29, 2011 at 10:51 PM
If i were them, i would never going back. I'll choose a better and simpler life.
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