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Post by privateinvestor on Aug 10, 2011 9:15:12 GMT -5
Barack Obama must wonder sometimes if his luck has run out. Maybe he used it all up in 2008. "Yes, we can!" has devolved into "Hey, we might." "When I said, 'Change we can believe in,' I didn't say, 'Change we can believe in tomorrow,'" he told an audience at a Chicago fundraiser on Wednesday. "Not, 'Change we can believe in next week.'We knew this was going to take time, because we've got this big, messy, tough democracy." True enough, but not FDR-inspiring to a deflated and desperate nation that may face higher borrowing rates after the shock of the first credit downgrade in U.S. history. Barack Obama blazed like Luke Skywalker in 2008, but he never learned to channel the Force. And now the Tea Party has run off with his light saber. The dissonance of his promise and his reality is jarring. When he had power, he didn't use it. He wanted to be a "transformational" president like Ronald Reagan, but failed to understand that Reagan's strategic shows of strength allowed him to keep the whip hand without raising his voice. And now, just when the high school principal in the Oval has been browbeating Congress to help create jobs, he is once more distracted from that task as he tries to save his own. He goes to fundraisers to tell people to stick with him, but he seems to be trying to reassure himself To continue reading: www.news-record.com/content/2011/08/08/article/maureen_dowd_president_obamas_downgrade_blues |
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