President Obama's Imaginary Friend:

[COLGATE4]

The great Rude Pundit describes my astonishment and dismay at the President's handling of the Rethuglicans better than I ever could in his blog today:

..."Seriously, check this out. Obama said, "Making these reforms doesn’t require any radical steps. What it does require is common sense and compromise. There are plenty of good ideas about how to achieve long-term deficit reduction that doesn’t hamper economic growth right now. Republicans and Democrats on the bipartisan fiscal commission that I set up put forth good proposals. Republicans and Democrats in the Senate’s Gang of Six came up with some good proposals. John Boehner and I came up with some good proposals when we came close to agreeing on a grand bargain."

It's as if Obama has created this imaginary friend called "Mr. Nice the Elephant," and he's so happy to have Mr. Nice the Elephant around to play with that he just wants everyone to know about Mr. Nice the Elephant. He may as well have said, "Mr. Nice the Elephant and I come up with great ideas all the time. We should all have a pal as terrific as Mr. Nice the Elephant. Isn't that true, Mr. Nice? He says it's true. You just can't hear him, but I can." "...

Well worth a read.

rudepundit.blogspot.com 8/9/11

[gateley]

1. Rude rocks! Don't always agree, but always enjoy him. nt

[Armstead]

2. Well his Imaginary friend wants to help him ram through more Free Trade Agreements

So maybe he isn't really an imaginary friend.

The real problem is that the Imaginary Friend is not a friend to the rest of us.

[TwilightGardener]

3. He doesn't demonize or dismiss Republicans. He never has, he never will.

He fully recognizes that half the country is Republican, and I believe he feels a duty to listen and take them seriously. No matter how much we want him to, no matter how much it seems that a given situation calls for it (like the debt ceiling thing), he will not fully condemn the other side even when they clearly deserve it. He does chastise Repubs from time to time, but I have always sensed that he has very little taste for partisan squabbling. Sometimes frustrating, but that is who he is.

[Armstead]

7. He can and should demonize the ideology, even if he doesn't insult to do that.

[uponit7771]

4. OBAMA IMAGINARY FRIEND IS PROGRESIVES!!! They expect FDR like results but wont supply FDR like

...resources in the form of an 83% + congress

[ProSense]

5. I like Rude.

The President's "imaginary friend" is losing support rapidly. Boehner's disapproval climbed 16 points since April.

Maybe he's killing them with kindness.

[xchrom]

6. ...

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