“If there is one thing that I regret this year, its that we were so busy getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us, that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people…”
Obama now feels that if he had just taken the time to explain to the American people the “good, rational” decision making that went into his decisions that the “people would get it!”
This is a President who, is his first year in office, held 42 news conferences, gave 158 interviews and made 411 speeches, 52 of which dealt solely with health care! Obama has had more face time on television that Simon Cowell on American Idol.
It is also interesting to note that even after one year in Office, Obama is still unable to accept responsibility as President of the United States, finding it easier to continue to blame George W. Bush for the all of the nation’s problems.
“People are angry, and they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year…but what’s happened over the last eight years.”
Representative Chris Van Hollen, Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, echoed Obama’s assertion that George Bush is the root of all evils facing the President’s administration when he stated:
“Elections are about choices and this year’s Midterms will be a choice between continuing the economic progress and independent leadership that House Democrats are delivering for their districts versus Republicans who are eager to turn back the clock to the same failed Bush-Cheney policies that brought our economy to the brink of collapse.”
As Obama and Van Hollen were busy blaming George Bush for the Massachusetts train wreck, his Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, was busy talking up his friends in the main-steam media blaming the entire mess on the failed democratic candidate, Martha Coakley. Not surprising for an administration that has shown no hesitancy in throwing friends, allies and even relatives “under the bus” for the sake of political expediency.
Unfortunately, absent any semblance of a real understanding on the part of Obama of what has happened in America since he took Office, I fear that our President and his liberal cronies will view the recent “Miracle in Massachusetts” more as a bump on the road of his socialistic agendas than a real wake up call.
The writing is now clearly on the wall. Voters are angry with their Democratic dominated government. They don’t appreciate Obama’s inattention to the economy. They are very worried about soaring national deficits and they despise ObamaCare! They are sick and tired of secret back room deals to win votes and the lack of promised transparency on the part of Congress in dealing with Obama’s political agendas. They are fearful of an administration that worries more about advising a terrorist of his Miranda Rights to remain silent than interrogtaing him for actionable intelligence!
The voters are also disgusted with the intentional and heavy handed lack of promised bi-partianship displayed by Obama's cronies in Congress on the part of Nancy Pelosi and Hary Reid.
After a year in Office, to shirk his responsibility as President by continuing to blame George Bush for all of the world’s ills or by castigating their own candidates for failed elections, Obama will only make deeper the already substantial hole he is standing in.
This is not a democrat issue. This is not a Republican issue. It’s not even a conservative or a liberal issue. Perhaps President Obama would be well served by the words of Thomas Jefferson when he wrote:
“The duty of an upright administration is to pursue its course steadily for the good of the people, to know nothing of these family dissentions, and to cherish the good principles of both parties.”
Peter J. Mahon
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