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"Slow Down the Political Response... | by jdelphiki | 2009-02-10 06:37:29 |
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I was thinking quite a bit of the same thing | by Classic_Jon | 2009-02-10 07:04:24 |
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Selective listening? | by vdp | 2009-02-10 07:43:33 |
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But, you have to admit that the majority of it | by Classic_Jon | 2009-02-10 08:19:01 |
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No, the majority of it was on the stimulus package | by vdp | 2009-02-10 09:40:53 |
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You sort of answered my question but dodged the | by Classic_Jon | 2009-02-10 10:48:34 |
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Were you expecting an informational session on how | by vdp | 2009-02-10 11:36:40 |
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I disagree and you still have not answerd my | by Classic_Jon | 2009-02-10 11:51:07 |
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Read it again | by vdp | 2009-02-10 13:06:24 |
| If that is not part of the Economy, what is it a |
by Classic_Jon |
2009-02-10 13:49:53 |
part of? The economy refers to, the economy right? The stimulus package affects, the Economy, correct?
I will grant you that reading what you just posted I see where you are coming from. You are discounting that they are interrelated and are treating the "economy" in a broad scale as a seperate issue from the "housing/credit/banking crisis." Fair enough. I disagree though in that it still does not answer my question of what the press conference accomplished or what it's goal was. If someone said "it was to make the American public feel like he is taking it serious and was PR" I could accept that, I may not like it but I could accept it. As it is, what I got from it was simply this. "Here are all the things I want to do and the people in Congress are not giving it to me." If he wants specific things that bad, write up *HIS* version of the stimulus bill, have it presented into congress and say vote on it. As it was he told congress to take the outline and run with it....and run they did....right back into old partisan habits and adding personal agendas.
I would be willing to bet that if Obama had walked in with a specific plan, had it introduced into congress, and then let them beat on it...we would not be having as much fuss and fluff added to it as we are seeing now. Right now we need a *LEADER* and if that press conference is any measure, to me at least,
I did not see any leading done, I saw someone who was surprised they were not getting what they thought they should get, and was complaining about it. Where is the "Change" he said he would bring when the Congresspeople are doing this and he is not chastising *ALL* of them for it?
Using a president we can both agree was another great Orator as an example, President Reagan did a good job of having press conferences and speeches to the public that told people what the whole plan was and how he wanted it accomplished. I did not see that here with Obama. If Obama wants to set peoplse minds at eas he needs *desperately* to lay out a plan, and stick to it. More importantly he needs to *LEAD* and if he wants things to happen a specific way in a bill, then he needs to present that version of the bill in congress and LEAD by example. If he does not want riders on economic bills, he needs to say so and make his opinon known to the public on that fact. He needs to take both Democratic AND Republican congresspeople to task for NOT following his "Change" philosophy. Just my opinon though...you make it politically embarrasing for a politician to add extras to a bill...they won't.
It still all comes back to my point of, what do we know now (and to be specific) about the U.S. ECONOMIC PLAN AS A WHOLE, that we did not know before the press conference? I don't see any *new* information on it, do you? |
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One last bit, and I am done | by vdp | 2009-02-10 14:52:53 |
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Fair enough. I agree with the sentement | by Classic_Jon | 2009-02-10 15:13:30 |
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