Can't wait to vote again (11/10):
This is all a bleak chapter in American history. Perhaps we should all start going to church to pray for the survival of our democratic system and our weakening country.
Joe Honick, GMA International Ltd (11/10):
This should have been on the Washington Post front page, Wes. One of the major problems I pointed out early on with a comment on "Czars Here, Czars Everywhere". Obama could score modestly by unloading these people not vetted publicly by the Senate. They have had powers normally in the portfolios of cabinet officers or even more. The one and only advantage he can return home with are confirmed sales opportunities for job creating businesses in America. OTH Mitch McConnell has presented one more small gift with his foolish commitment, not to the country, but the nonstop undermining of the White House for the next two years.
Wes Pedersen (11/11):
Thanks, Joe. Obama was presented to us as a fast learner. We bought him in that role. Did he ever learn the importance of a well-selected team?
Kevin Foley (11/12):
Great, Wes. In "Game Change" the authors describe the "suits" that surrounded Obama during the 2008 campaign, admitting only the information and the people they first approved. Two years later, the same people have him walled off. That's not unique among presidents, but for a guy who prides himself on his confidence, independence and street smarts, Obama, better than anyone, should understand just how stifling his inner circle has become.
PR historian (11/12):
Harry Truman made the big decisions, and made them right. What a contrast between him and his current successor. Truman was a great communicator, too. He did not need a teleprompter to tell him what to say.
Bill Huey, Strategic Communications, Atlanta (11/12):
I sincerely hope the Republicans mis-read this election as a mandate for their agenda, which it wasn't. As former OMB director David Walker said this morning, it was a mandate to make something happen. If BMC (Boehner, McConnell, Cantor) and the GOPheads spend the next two years trying to undo the past 22 months, they will get chopped, too. The press could help a lot by calling them out when they make stuff up and rely on Fox/Limbaugh/Hannity et al. to turn it into "news."
Eye on Washington (11/12):
Mr. Huey, many in the Attila the new Hun assemblage view the elections as a mandate to slash, stab and burn. When it sinks into the public mind that these primitives are out to destroy the social, economic and political fabrics of the country, and leave the aging, the needy, the ailing, the veterans, and the kids in the lurch, there will be a new rebellion.
Media Maven (11/15):
Oat Cadell, a Democratic pollster, is one who believes Obama, if he wants to be an oustanding, should announce that he will not run for re-election, then make the tough decisions regardless free of political taint. In other words, start acting like Harry Truman. Sounds like a plan to me.
Joe Honick, GMA International Ltd (11/16):
It is imperative to keep repeating my drone that there is still a war going on that too few seem to want to deal with....certainly not the leadership of the recent GOP winners, nor the leadership of the Democrats. Naturally we expect little of real commentary from the Decaffeinated Tea Party which seems to want to flounder with the Founders with little apparent understanding of what they thrashed out and about in putting together the government. We need winners and losers all to remember they work for the country and not their party.
Desperate Democrat (11/17):
Obama options? Stop caving, start saving. Stop talking, start doing.
Joe Honick, GMA International Ltd (11/17):
It is really fascinating what the new winners really want: they all want the goodies of health and other benefits that come with their offices but don't want any for the rest of theh people. There is an oft repeated and reliable quote from an old Black Preach that has stood the test of time: Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. When the McConnell/Boehner/Teabaggers figure that out, you will find them all dining at the same old lobbyist haunts in DC as before and little will have been changed...EXCEPT they will have gotten on a bandwagon to destroy the Administration which is really a defiance of the Constitution. As the Republican right screamed whe the Democrats assaulted Bush: "We only have one president at a time." Do they have problems with that reality? Not one new Republican has enunciated how he or she will end the senseless confolicts their GWBush got us into a decade ago. Why is that?
Wes Pedersen (11/18):
Joe, you have it so right about lobbyists. They sup at the most expensive restaurants no matter what party is "in". The public does not realize that it is the lobbyists who write the bulk of legislation that is ultimately enacted into law.
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