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Originally Posted by Guest
messaging and assume the role of leadership.
Here is an article by Dick Morris (the name will no doubt draw some ire)...forget the author....it is the message that I and many others (BOTH PARTIES) happen to believe:
http://thehill.com/dick-morris/its-o...009-02-24.html
(you may have to copy and paste the link).
He has yet to shift his rhetoric from campaign mode to that of POTUS and a world leader. He will find out sooner or later that POTUS can not be an office for a populist. He must break loose of the party/personal line and begin leading.
I am still going to wait for his first annual address to the nation....one year later...to make a final judgment. My background, in putting new executives in place dictates progress from day one and excludes allowing the continual reminding of how bad the situation is.....we know it that is why we hired you..now get to work.....my message to Obama.....stop campaigning...stop painting the pot blacker...start fixing....and oh by the way wake me when some one...anyone...hears some hope from the man.
That is how I see it (for now) like it or not that is my opinion, subject to change ONLY with accomplishment of objectives....NOT WORDS.
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I think a look at the other side of the coin here is prudent.. I have no doubt that if the President had less "doom and gloom" it would simply be fodder in this country for the same folks with nothing but the same old rote crticisms. Instead they would be saying he is not honest, he is glossing over things and not coming clean. The above noted article is a perfect example of that. I want a straight opinion, and even so I think we probably still don't get the full depth and breadth of the problem. As usual there will likely be a lag time between the manifestion of how bad things are the the government recognition of it, quite the the 6-12 months or more it takes to publicly pronounce we are in a recession.
Waiting a year to begin making judgments certainly seems prudent to me. It is a little tough to see the validity of
blanket condemnations of a man in office for a few weeks. Does anyone trying to take a true objective view of this think for a minute that a new president can come in set set decades cronyism and complacency on its' ear in this scant several weeks? I guess the key word is objective though. Some never will be no matter what, as is plain to see even on this forum.
Accomplishment not words is THE litmus test. I do think realistically significantly more time than has been allowed is in order to justify the overwhelming negative judgment and blanket condemnation this President is facing from those bound and determined to pronounce him a failure this early and waiting with baited breath on his failure. It certainly is in order to make an honest and accurate assessment if indeed that is one's goal.
I can see the complaints of "campaign rhetoric", I can also see someone commited to leadership and willing to make some decisions that may be tough and unpopular, that should have been addressed long ago, and willing to face the fire for it. So far looks like leadership to me.
I actually do hear cautious hope tempered with honest realism, pragmatism if you will, from this President. I can see how others construe this as negativity though. Its a matter of perception and is certainly tempered to a great degree on how one
wants to see it. That is human nature is suppose. The intellectual challenge I think is to recognize that and be willing know that the truth of all if it always lies somewhere in the middle, and no amount of anger, shrill emotion or rabid partisinism will change that truth.
Yeah, I think accomplishments and not words are the ways to measure progress and success, I think I may just give him time and some cautious support to actually do just that. Just my opinion, like it or not.