[quote=briansd1]People working together for the greater good. That’s well said Arraya.
Let’s take health care reform for example. We all knew that we needed to reform health care and implement some kind of universal health system. So Obama adopted a Republican plan and he’s labeled a communist Hitler by the right.
On the debt ceiling, the Republicans play brinkmanship to the detriment of the country.
As Allan accurately pointed out, the Republican are uncompromising and dug in. Obama completely underestimated the hard ideological line that the GOP would take and HOLD. The GOP has NOT budged and this is where Obama’s inexperience has wrong-footed him, again and again .
Obama’s strategy of appeasement of the Republicans and “working together for the greater good” is not paying off. Even Allan sees that, and along with liberals is advocating “going big” on the Republicans.
Is it really inexperience on the part of Obama, or a genuine desire do to the right thing?
The evidence points to intransigence on the right that is ruining the country.[/quote]
Brian: I love you, man! Even when trying to make a valid point, you turn it into Left versus Right and thus make my point that this kind of warped, partisan thinking is why we’re here now.
Forgetting the execrable strawmen that litter your argument (communist Hitler? That’s not even possible!), you cannot use the word “evidence” unless there is ACTUALLY evidence to support your argument.
As to doing the right thing, have you been paying attention lately? How about Obama’s position on the whole EPA – smog thingie? I’m conservative and even I recognized that this flew in the face of Obama’s base constituency.
ACA/Obamacare? That’s a hot mess and largely because Obama failed to make it his own, meaning don’t give shit to Congress to do because they’ll fuck it up. Same thing with the stimulus. Right idea, really bad execution.
Sorry, Brian, but pointing at the Republicans and simply stating “it’s all THEIR fault” is both puerile and completely wrong. Obama is NOT leading, pure and simple, nor is he being true to the core principles of the Democratic Party. You seem content to blindly accept everything Obama says as being right and good, whilst painting the Republicans as know-nothing rubes. As with everything in life, there is an element of truth there, but you’re trying to spin straw into gold and that just ain’t gonna work.
