Washington Post: Obama Lets Others Lead
Washington is discussing President Obama's impending speech on his plan to deal with the country's financial crisis. Although you could save yourself a lot of time by reading this tweet from The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes:
Reading previews of POTUS speech tmrw, seems that he is not offering a plan so much as trying to get reporters to say he's offering a plan.
Even the Washington Post's news report is brutal. They say that Obama is going to highlight the recommendations of a bipartisan fiscal commision (the ones he ignored until now). Check out the last line of the excerpt below:
Obama will not blaze a fresh path when he delivers a much-anticipated speech Wednesday afternoon at George Washington University. Instead, he is expected to offer support for the commission’s work and a related effort underway in the Senate to develop a strategy for curbing borrowing. Obama will frame the approach as a responsible alternative to the 2012 plan unveiled last week by House Republicans, according to people briefed by the White House.
Letting others take the lead on complex problems has become a hallmark of the Obama presidency.
Ouch.
As for me, I'm kind of excited to just sit back and see how much Obama co-opts the fiscal responsibility message. And I think this rush to sound fiscally responsible shows how effective Ryan's budget plan message is.
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Sep '10
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So, um, the budget he already proposed? What is the explanation for that?
"This isn't the budget proposal you're looking for. You can go about your business. Move along."
May '10
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Weren't they (maybe not the WaPo) saying a while ago that Obama's voting Absent on these issues was part of his subtle, cunning plan, evidence of a deep and deadly poker foe or a chess grandmaster? Like he was a warlock with tiger blood and we were hapless trolls unable to comprehend his awesomeness?
Something like that. Don't lose patience with him, guys! Remember he's smarter than us.
Jun '10
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Sounds like a plan, but weren't the guys who were on trial at Nuremberg letting others lead, too?
Mar '11
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That makes the LA Times headline, "Obama to Set Clear Choice on Budget" pretty odd, if one believes in an unbiased media.
Jan '11
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The trouble with the budget he already proposed was that it contained actual numbers which people could add up and see how they contradicted what he claimed.
Want to play the world's dullest drinking game? Watch the speech and have a drink every time he uses a number. (Unless he mentions his golf handicap - that doesn't count.)
Jan '11
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I was unfortunately able last night to catch former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson on both the Chris Matthews “Hardball” program on MSNBC and on Eliot Spitzer’s show on CNN.
How did this old coot ever pass himself off as either a conservative or a Republican? If his sponsorship of the 1986 amnesty bill that bears his name wasn’t enough of an indictment of his soft-headedness, then the way he pushed for tax increases and berated only Republicans and Paul Ryan last night on both venues, to the obvious pleasure of both of the Democrat hosts, should seal the deal. The less we have to see this “Admiral Stockdale Redux,” the better for the conservative side in the ongoing budget battles.
And to think that Bill Bennett was hoping that the Democrat Erskine Bowles would come out in favor of the Ryan plan! Doctor Bennett, maybe you’d better get the so-called Republican co-chair of that Debt Commission on board before you start dream-weaving about the Democrat.
May '10
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I think you're overestimating how much facts matter to swing voters. They are swayed most by rhetoric. Obama will continue to tell the boldest lies you've ever heard, and many of those fools in the middle will believe he actually cares about fiscal sanity and rule of law.
Apr '11
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Margaret Ball: The trouble with the budget he already proposed was that it contained actual numbers which people could add up and see how they contradicted what he claimed.
Want to play the world's dullest drinking game? Watch the speech and have a drink every time he uses a number. (Unless he mentions his golf handicap - that doesn't count.) · Apr 12 at 8:37am
I already have a drinking game for his speeches: whenever he says, "Let me be clear" or "perfectly clear", whenever he claims that it was the previous administration's fault, and whenever he declares something a "false choice."
Granted, actual numbers would not add any drinks!
Dec '10
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Others lead where Community Organizers fear to tread..
Oct '10
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Isn't this part of the reason why Donald Trump is resonating with so many people? There's a vacuum right now and anyone who will fill it (or will seem to) is going to attract voters. And that's not necessarily a good thing. I think this needs to be the focus of the 2012 race and I hope the GOP is looking for a candidate who can sell that message.
Jan '11
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This will have all the suspense as flacks in the response room after the debate saying that their guy "hit a home run." The media types will crow that Obama stole Ryan's thunder. Or that, thanks Paul Ryan, the adults will take over from here.
The rest of us will see it for the plastic fraud that it is.
Sep '10
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Obama and Ashley Judd would make a perfect couple.
Jul '10
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And gas prices will rise and the work force numbers will shrink and Obama will finally get to take that long vacation he's been looking forward to beginning in January of 2013.
May '10
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Is it finally beginning to dawn on people that Mr. Obama is a dilettante, a child among men, and a rigid ideologue, and is it becoming so obvious even his cheerleaders in the press can no longer ignore it at the risk of what remains of their credibility? Hope so.
Sep '10
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Every time I see Obama declaiming or asserting something it's like a bad actor trying to play President. Democrats are sticking with him because they've invested in him, but I think they have to be getting embarrassed.