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Some people have ridiculous expectations for President-elect Barack Obama. And now there's already talk that he can't be trusted. But listen, he beat the Clintons, and he beat the GOP. Stop the temper tantrums and the second-guessing. Obama's a true-blue American pragmatist so just get off his case.
Nov. 19, 2008--Having already gone through my—now regretted—Obama tantrums in July (and on this Web site), I do not want to hear about anyone else's. Please try to get over yours as soon as possible.
Let's clear up a few things. The right is all in a tizzy because it is trying to project itself onto Obama. It's Sarah Palin and the resentment machine who sent chills down the spine of everyone who ever studied fascism. It is George W. Bush who turned out to be the crypto-socialist (at least for banks, not automakers). It's the far-left blogger types and other leftists who will also flip out and throw tantrums because Obama seems to be governing from the vital center, with the occasional left lean, but they should've known that in the first place.
Stop second-guessing Obama and trust him. He beat the Clintons, and he beat the GOP. Obama saw things nobody else saw. He won fraggalackin' Indiana, formerly a Klan-stronghold.
Perhaps I'll regret this, but the man is a genius. I always liked him, but at first I didn't think he could win. I jumped on board after Iowa, sweated through the primary and obsessed about the general election. Sure, I doubted him a few times—maybe more than a few times—right up until the last week. I was proven wrong every time. Every time! Obama's vision seems based on not only better sets of data than most informed people, but it's what he does with his data that makes him so brilliant. So he removed certain policy proposals from change.gov. Well, maybe the briefings he's been receiving have caused him to rethink the proposals. If so, I think it's great.
Obama will succeed because he will be a true-blue American pragmatist, the culmination and most practical expression of America's philosophical tradition. With its roots in Franklin and Emerson, most sophisticated expression in Charles Peirce, William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, and rebirth in Richard Rorty, et al.
He will look at situations and study what has worked, what might work, what won't work, and figure out what probably will work. If that does not work, he will find something that should work. In the days after election, I imagined that the 2012 map would be solid blue, with Obama taking 50 states. I am now shocked to hear one-term murmur—based on the economy! Don't worry. Just because the people on Wall Street who wrecked the economy did not know what they were doing does not mean Obama does not know how to fix it quickly.(Besides, it's not as if people who knew what they were doing were on the government side of things either for the past eight years. How is Chrysler doing, Secretary Snow? Oh, OK. Good luck with that.)
Reagan and Clinton had rocky first terms and were reelected by handy margins. George H.W. Bush was defeated not by the economy (stupid) but by a combination of Perot and weariness with 12 years of the GOP (a factor Perot fed on). Jimmy Carter was beat by the hostage crisis and a Reagan one-liner that I never understood.
President-elect Barack Obama has earned our trust. Get off his case. Emanuel and Biden are there to make sure nobody (Clintons, Congress) dares to make mischief for him. Unless Obama really screws something up, he will sail to a second term in 2012, take a few years off and perhaps ascend to the Supreme Court at 60. Remember where you heard it first.
Paul Devlin is a graduate student and writer in Long Island, N.Y.
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We are going to get out of Iraq. - Approved a $1 Billion dollar investment in a PERMANENT military base outside Bagdhad.
We are closing Gitmo. - Approved $750 million to build another one in the mid-east.
We are putting Habius Corpus back in place, everyone deserves a trial when accused. - Now wants people held for life in US prisons without even the pretence of a trial.
Health Care Reform. - Opps, we really meant make the insurance companies richer.
Invest in alternative energy. - Opps, maybe we need offshore drilling and to BUY MORE FORIEGN OIL.
Fix the disaster in the banking industry. - Really meant give them $350 BILLION and not ask anything about where it went. You peasants should shut up and stop complaining.
If Congressmen block good legislation I will name names to the public. - Opps, didn't know it would be people in my own party, nix that idea.
Put an end to the rich avoiding taxes. - Real result, a very "iffy" increase of 3% on the wealthiest. (Along with NEW loop holes.)
Global climate change MUST be addressed now, we can't allow it to continue. An immediate reduction of 40% of pollution dumped in the air. - Real "change" was to cut it by 4%, but only if its easy.
From my point of view, American's swallowed a line of BS, hook, line and sinker...
I have to agree with Colin Powell, I am a little concerned about a number of policies that seem to require the creation of all sorts of czars and more gov bureaucracy; I'm little nervous about the rising unemployment rate, and yes even that he trying to do too much too fast thus spending money the country doesnt have right now...and making him look like he's a little unfocused. I'm a tad uncomfortable with the proposed health care reform that will cost a pretty penny but will only cover an additional 46 million. The talk of breaking his word on middle class tax cuts is concerning. And, I must admit the possibility of a one-term president has crossed my mind.
.... BUT the man clearly is smart, intelligent and a critical thinker. You cant get a better combination for leading a country in such complex times. So I'm going to trust that he knows what he's doing and has surrounded himself with the right people. It took 8+ years to get into the current mess, its not going to be fixed tomorrow. I'm going to withhold my drama/need to engage in the proverbial ass-whopping until say, end of year 3?
And, oh BTW, I'm really on pins and needles waiting for Sarah's book; wonder who will write it.
"The question on everyone's minds now is whether Palin is preparing for a 2012 presidential bid or ducking out of electoral politics for good."
My hope is that she rides off back into obscurity. Her as president? Hell, she can't even take care of her own daughter! Ya know what I'm sayin'?
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1) ”…not because I believe in bigger government — I don’t — not because I’m not mindful of the massive debt we’ve inherited — I am.” Speech to Congress, February 24, 2009
2) “And that is why I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists…” Speech to Congress, February 24, 2009
3) “My administration has also begun to go line by line through the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs.”
4) “My immediate task is making sure that the second half of that money, $350 billion, is spent properly. That’s my first job.” Press conference February 9, 2009, talking about TARP money.
5) ”It also contains an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability, so that every American will be able to go online and see where and how we’re spending every dime. What it does not contain, however, is a single pet project, not a single earmark, and it has been stripped of the projects members of both parties found most objectionable.” Press conference February 9, 2009 talking about his own economic bill.
6) “Second is recognition of the limits of the judicial role, an understanding that a judge’s job is to interpret, not make law, to approach decisions without any particular ideology or agenda, but rather a commitment to impartial justice…”
7) “It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.” He has appointed over 150 recycled Clintionistas
8) ”I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.”
9) “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.” In reference to Rev. Wright 42 days before he disowned him.
10) “To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn: I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President, too.”