Obama’s Campaign Rhetoric Clashes With Reality
Not that Obama has stopped campaigning and switched to governance mode, but, an amusing analysis from Liz Sidoti thru the AP: Analysis: Obama rhetoric, reality clash
Barack Obama’s optimistic campaign rhetoric has crashed headlong into the stark reality of governing.
Ya think?
In office two months, he has backpedaled on an array of issues, gingerly shifting positions as circumstances dictate while ducking for political cover to avoid undercutting his credibility and authority. That’s happened on the Iraq troop withdrawal timeline, on lobbyists in his administration and on money for lawmakers’ pet projects.
“Change doesn’t happen overnight,” Obama said at a town-hall style event in California on Thursday, seeming to acknowledge the difficulty in translating campaign pledges into actual policy. Asked by a campaign volunteer how his supporters can be most effective in helping him bring the sweeping change he promised, Obama said: “Patience.”
Very Jimmy Carteresque. Or Cheech and Chong. “Chill, dudes and dudettes, we’ll get there. Sometime. Say, have you donated today?”
“There was a lot of excitement during the campaign and we were talking about the importance of bringing about change,” Obama told the volunteer. “We are moving systematically to bring about change. But change is hard.”
So’s governance. It isn’t all unicorns and peppy slogans. It usually involves actually staffing up, but, hey, Leno called. It’s not a wonder Obama’s teleprompter left so many Bush appointees in their positions. He’s too busy doing other things, and let’s not forget that incompetence issue, to actually get the people he needs in place. Perhaps the time spent on that long vacation in Hawaii might have been better spent getting people in place.
But, while Liz does mention many of Obama’s broken and/or stretched campaign promises, the central point of the story seems to be
“Candidates make promises and presidents break promises, and that’s a very predictable pattern,” said Julian Zelizer, a Princeton University historian.
So all that flip flopping and promise breaking is the norm, so stop asking so many questions, you darned neo-cons, and get with the program. Except Obama was not the norm. He was anointed the Messiah, he told us that the seas stopped rising, the Earth began to heal, war ended, our international image was restored, and our nation was remade because he became the Democrat candidate. And we have seen this time and time again since January 20th: the media reducing the expectations that they and the Obamanuts, along with Obama, set pre-election, now that the cold fish of reality has smacked them in the face.
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Posted by William Teach on March 21, 2009 7:46 am
» Filed Under Barack Obama, Liberal Media/Bias, News, Politics As Usual
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Yeah, that’s what happens when you’ll say anything to get elected- but it always worked for him up to this point, as Barack’s never stuck around in one job long-enough to be held to account for his promises and actions.
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It’s about time this President was asked about his incredulous statements and disingenuous “goals”- for Obama to portray himself as some sort of deficit hawk just three days after signing the largest spending bill in US history is like Josef Stalin giving a speech deploring conditions in the Siberian gulag.
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Then they’ll be “no lobbyists” in his cabinet… except for these three. And they’ll all be ethical… except for a half-dozen tax cheats. All his pledges are like what you get from a used-car salesman; they’re just a means-to-an-end with him… and the expriration-date is tomorrow.
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Obama’s been writing his own story as the MSM just parrots it for far too long, and very little of it squares-up with reality. Barack Obama is habitually dishonest… and maybe he should finally get called-out on some of it.
Can anyone find something our 44 President has accomplished that was Presidential? Bashing Bush ,Conservatives going on the Leno Show.. does not count.
The Fresh Prince of Hot Air is a friggin joke. Anti-American to his core (as well as his wife), he grew up in and around communists, anarchists, socialist-intellecturals and moooslims. Perfect background to be President of the USA, huh?
NOT!
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Liz Sidoti is warm but is far too timid. It is true that Barack Obama campaign rhetoric does not mesh with reality. However BO’s rhetoric does match with his world view, and that is the problem. BO’s world view is simply out phase with reality.
One of BO’s problem, of many, is that his world view got formulated by diehard socialits, Ayers, Wright, etc. BO has never critically examined his indoctrination. As the Gipper quipped, Communists are the ones who studied Marx. Ex-communists are the ones who understand Marx. Put BO in the former category.
The problem is, you live The Big Lie and think that you are the only ones living in “reality.”
If you thought about it, you’d see how superstitious and hateful you really are. The only ones who think “communism” and “socialism” are around anymore are you nuts.
Take a look around. We, America, are funding every one of your so-called dictatorships, communist or socialist, on earth. You are incredibly naive, but that’s why “Jesus” loves you, I suspect.
You all might be happier in other countries you support, where you can just go out and kill the opposition.
Like I said elsewhere today. The bama has no memory for what was said last week. Most people who dope up as much as he has have no use for memory or how they gave their word on something yesterday and along comes today and everything is spinning around. It is hard for them to focus and so we find them wandering off to L. A. or Disneyland or the Leno show as if nothing is serious in their world.
They are having a ball. Carefree. No responsibilities. Ah…. life is nice in the world of drug haze.