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September 21, 2010 12:38 AM UTC

NYT Outs Failures: Obama and his Policies

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  • by: Libertad

Day after day the policies and principles of Democratic leadership have been questioned. Oft rebuked as Tea Party extremism or unfortunately lacking a ‘sound view’ of the world, those questioning the state of our nation have been hammered, sullied and called racists.

Yet as reported by the NT Times, Obama’s core base is having serious problems with his policies and performance.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09…

WASHINGTON – It was billed as “Investing In America,” a live televised conversation between President Obama and American workers, students, business people and retirees on the state of the economy, a kind of Wall Street to Main Street reality check.

In question after question in Monday’s one-hour session, which took place at the Newseum here and was televised on CNBC, Mr. Obama was confronted by people who said, in short, that they had expected more from him. People from Main Street wanted to know if the American dream still lived for them. People from Wall Street complained that he was treating them like a piñata, “whacking us with the stick,” in the words of a former law school classmate of Mr. Obama’s who now runs a hedge fund.

“I’m exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for,” said the first questioner, an African-American woman who identified herself as a chief financial officer, a mother and a military veteran. “I’ve been told that I voted for a man who was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class, and I’m waiting, sir, I’m waiting. I still don’t feel it yet.”

The president also laid down a challenge to the Tea Party movement, whose candidates have been defeating more mainstream Republicans in a string of recent primaries in Alaska, Delaware and other states. He said it was not enough for Tea Party candidates to campaign on a theme of smaller government; he tried to put them in an uncomfortable box by prodding them to offer specifics about just what programs they would cut.

I say lets start with no more ARRA, Cap and Trade and will he back a repeal of Obummercare?

Further will POTUS freeze regulatory expansion … like just dead in its tracks or will he use the Ritter ‘freeze policy’ (aka an increase).

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5 thoughts on “NYT Outs Failures: Obama and his Policies

  1. This is what you get when an academic type runs for office who has never run anything in government or out of government.  He is like a deer in headlights.  He has absolutely no idea what he is doing and he is our leader.  When he lets others lead, he hands the ball off to Pelosi and Reed.

    I think the Tea Party candidates should be specific in what they are going to cut as soon as the Dems get honest about how they plan to pay for the mess they have put us in.  Only an idiot could possibly believe that adding health insurance to 20 million more people would lower costs.  I saw this morning an article in the Denver Post about health insurance companies were announcing rate increases.  Surprise, surprise.

    1. My early research into Obama Who? showed him to be non-confrontational, someone seeking the approval of both sides of an issue.  An arbitrator.  Now, those are very useful skills when two parties want to work something out, but when one just says “NO!” to everything, time to shift to a bully pulpit and more.

      I also did not get on board the Hope and Change bandwagons because that’s all they were, wagons.  No horses, no policies to explain how we hoped to change things. So when fellow Dems complain how he has let them down, I can honestly say, “I’m not let down.  I never expected what you did.”

      As to being jerked around by the insurance companies – surprise, surprise! – that’s what we get when we didn’t have the huevos to go single payer, or at least a public option.  

  2. You realize that her frustration with Obama comes from the progressive side.

    But let me just say, please, tea party candidates, run on a pro-Wall Street platform.  Please, defend the folks whose reckless greed and ambition got us into this situation in the first place.

  3. Conservatives are quick to point to the supporters who questioned the President but did any of them interview them after the forum to see if they still support the President? No one seems to be talking about how the President didn’t balk about answering these questions honestly. I guess that doesn’t make for as exciting a soundbite or headline for conservatives. I also noticed that conservatives don’t seem to be talking about how overwhelmingly supportive the audience was towards the President. There was a lot of applause directed at Obama, especially when he refused to let the hedge fund manager play victim.

    Do you think Palin or Demint or any of the other “leaders” of the new uber-conservative wing of the Republican Party have the mental prowess or balls to ever do a nationally televised town hall without requiring pre-screened questions?

    Demint might have the nerve but not the brains, Palin has neither. She’s still recovering from her interview with Katie Couric. She’s way too chickenshit to come out from behind her facebook page or out of her comfy Fox News chair.

    So criticize all you want, but until your chosen candidates and/or leaders from this ridiculous uber-con “movement” show they have a plan and can hold a nationally televised town hall, without screening questions, and let us know what that plan is, it just the usual conservative hypocrisy.

    Nothing new there.

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