Thread: Obama announces initiatives for middle class

Originally Posted by Muqtar SGT_Clintok

Then why the "Middle Class task force", with the cameras and the teleprompters? I'll tell you why, he is back to campaigning. Back to marketing himself.

The Republican party and their news outlets of choice are doing everything in their power to stymie his efforts to get things done as president. They're not fulfilling their duty to the American people to run this country as their elected representatives. If they were, they'd be working with him to determine a compromise instead of doing whatever they can to break the machinery of government so that nothing at all gets done. They turn every issue into a disinformation-filled sideshow. One of the things that I liked about Obama is that he got down to the business of running the country and when he spoke to an interviewer asking questions for the American people, he tried to speak to the American people as if they were adults. Meanwhile, his opposition spewed misinformation that was easily disproved or found to be ingenuous by anyone who spent more than 5 minutes researching it. Surprise surprise, a lot of the big far right talking points and sound bytes are junk data, and when they're regurgitated here and elsewhere, consist of poorly-researched half-truths ingested whole without checking for crap content. Speaking to the American people like adults did not work. Now Obama is going back to speaking to you like children. Don't complain about being sent back to the kid's table... you asked for it.

This is the state of political discourse in America now. The left is going back to fighting using the right's methods (I like to hope it's mainly the far right but who ever knows anymore). It won Obama the election, after all. But when someone on the right accuses Obama of propaganda or clouding the truth with slogans and buzzwords, just be thankful that irony is not in fact lethal.

Edit: You seem like a really nice guy, Muqtar, and this is not directed solely at you. It is annoying, however, dealing with the constant stream of bile from people who get news from places that would have painted a bad picture of Obama no matter how well or poorly he did in his first year, and a Republican minority in the house and senate who appear to be only concerned with 2010 re-elections and not with running the country. It's been one long campaign from the right this past year... why do you begrudge Obama some campaigning of his own?

Endless, never-ending succession wars (i.e. the constant re-election campaign cycle that is becoming more and more prevalent) ... behind the death of so many of mankind's past great empires. The right is clearly not calling their politicians on it, and now the left won't either. Stuck in a mire of steadily decreasing political thought and corruption (hell, we just gave any corrupt bastard/organization, American or no, the perfect way to dump untraceable -to them at least- money into any politician's campaign with this SCOTUS ruling). This country is continuing its slide and we all need to work together to fight it.