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bhunter
Traditionally, didn't the executive turn to the people to get things churning against a stuck Congress? Of course, my thought is that Obama lost that option by not leading on PPACA and getting a compromise, rather than letting Pelosi and Reid run the show.
BlueStreak
Ah, but I would have to say that he should have worried about the personal attacks less and stayed on point with the more serious issues. To my mind, that was his biggest mistake, pretty much throughout 2009.....He let them keep him distracted with their silly BS. Sometimes, paying attention to a jackass, (Or a party of jackasses.), only encourages them. He shouldn't have let them get under his skin.
I would offer that these two posts differ only in their perspective of essentially the same set of circumstances. Obama himself has acknowledged that not getting out to the American people as well and as often as he might was a shortcoming in his first four years.
From my perspective I felt that Obama should have been more active in leading the charge on PPACA.
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Butch
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