It's amazing how the right co-opted Obama

[Onlooker]

During the election campaign, he was a passionate speaker, but now he's just a policy wonk who spends most of his time searching for compromises with Republicans, while they go out an attack him, and he even caved and delivered an insipid speech to children.

Of course, when the Democrats pass a watered down piece of health care reform that satisfies no one, the Democrats will lose control of Congress, and the Republicans will show the Democrats how to play politics. They will investigate Obama, turn his administration upside down looking for dirt, demand Hawaii release every birth record they have on Obama, do all they can to stop funding of the weak-kneed torture investigations, and give even more for Wall Street than Obama did with his generous bailout plan. The Republicans are wrong, but they are passionate.

Obama has shown himself to be an emotionless policy wonk who simply doesn't get the genuine passion of many on the right, and instead performs effetely, more interested in preserving his childish notion of a post-partisan presidency than in showing the courage to confront the right wing with equal passion. Maybe Obama will show some guts tomorrow, but frankly so far he's a big disappointment who has found ways to make the vanquished Republican Party look strong.

If Obama was principled, he'd be investigating Cheney and Bush and the way we started the Iraq war and engaged in torture; he'd be prosecuting corrupt Wall Street bankers (as was done during the S&L scandal); he'd be slamming Republicans on health care and not trying to compromise; he'd be humiliating them with investigations on torture, on their Wall Street friends, on the insurance industry, and so on. But, Obama seems to be in it for himself, for his own aggrandizement, and the evidence of that is his lack of passion.

[Teaser]

1. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz

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[Jennicut]

2. An insipid speech? Please tell me you are not serious.

That speech inspired many young people today...what should he have said, its wasn't a political speech.

[Number23]

10. Not only that, but the OPs assertion that Obama caved to the right and changed the speech

to appease them is laughable.

[TTUBatfan2008]

15. It's not just laughable...

it's a right wing talking point.

[countingbluecars]

3. Bullshit. n/t

[elleng]

4. I assume

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :rofl:

[tekisui]

5. During the election campaign, he was campaigning, now he is

governing. He needs to be a policy wonk.

Also, Repukes won't gain back control of Congress, regardless of what the Health care bill looks like when passed. If the jobs numbers improve, Dems will hold and/or expand their majority.

Further, are you worried about the Hawaiian birth certificate?

[depakid]

6. Not really- it was actually a pretty simple forumula and they've been doing it for years

Psychologist and neuroscientist Drew Westen describes the process and dynamics of it very cogently here today:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/why-the-president-has-bee_b_278971.html

[Undercurrent]

7. Oh brother...

When did the train arrive from Loopville? :eyes:

[depakid]

9. Fact is- both he and the Dems HAVE been coopted on this issue

as any rational and objective observer can see for themselves.

[quantass]

8. Let's not freak out until we hear his speech tomorrow ... if he gets Healthcare reform right then

i am cool with the other stuff since no president is perfect. We now know Obama is no hardcore liberal but one thing might happen is that with the constant attacks from the rigth he might become a hardened president over time. I just hope for the best in this healthcare thing.

I really am concerned that it will include a trigger which is horrible. Although there are hints that obama will take the trigger just to have it pass i am still hopeful the democrats in congress will decide against putting it in for him because i am almost certain he will sign a bill with a trigger regardless.

[Cha]

11. Oh you don't what the fuck President Obama

is..it's just vermin coming outta your keyboard.

[Thrill]

12. Obama is having to compromise with Conservative Democrats not Republicans

I don't know why people up here and in the media continue to give Republicans relevance. When Obama talks about bipartisanship, he's really talking about the pricks in his own party.

[jefferson_dem]

13. Shorter here.

...just a policy wonk searching for compromises, caved and inspipid, weak-kneed, emotionless, childish, big disappointment, own aggrandizement...zzz...

[HughMoran]

14. Bye

You're an idiot.

[nemo137]

16. self delete.