Reply #22: I believe that Barack Obama realizes more than you give him credit for..... [View All]

[FrenchieCat]

I think he realizes that he could not do one thing as opposed to the other, and therefore has had to integrate both doing policy work to help now and doing policy work to help later. The fact that folks don't understand this approach doesn't make them right, it makes them less thoughtful than was should be expected from those who would like to consider themselves informed.

You analogy isn't the best, as I would say it is like planning to purchase state of the art fire engines, while still going next door and putting out that fire. One isn't exclusive of the other....and I find it sad that anyone would try to think so.....

But your analogy brings up my own.....in where Obama is putting out the fire, while those in the neighborhood are standing around yelling through a megaphone that he isn't doing fast enough, well enough, and thoroughly enough,.......meanwhile, they have left a cigarette buring on their very own bed, and will blame him for that too, when he has to race to their houses, only repeating the same thing over again, all of the time continuing to have to hear the jeering and instructions yelled at him....from none other than the smokers who set up the every burning house scenario to begin with.....while others who should be clapping at Obama's efforts have joined in with the others at only seeing that there are fires, and not understanding that he is but one fireman, and that part of the solution, would be if they would simply also pick up the additional hoses laying there unused.