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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:53 AM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

I tend to move on quickly. The voters have spoken, and I have one thing to say to POTUS.

From this moment on I expect to see you living 24/7 at the Bully Pulpit; including regular press conferences and regular, and often TV broadcast updates to the American people.

YOU dear POTUS are the one and ONLY Explainer in Chief the American people need to hear.

I'm afraid you have underestimated the extreme value of the...

BULLY PULPIT...

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Reply I tend to move on quickly. The voters have spoken, and I have one thing to say to POTUS. (Original post)
 Ninga Nov 2012 OP
LineReply that's just what Bernie Sanders suggested....for Obama to get out there and talk!
 NRaleighLiberal Nov 2012 #1
LineLineReply I hope to high heaven that a second term will free him up to the point that
 Ninga Nov 2012 #3
LineReply I Completely Agree. N/T
 WiffenPoof Nov 2012 #2
LineReply Absolutely. It's time to use some of that political capital he's earned.
 Arkansas Granny Nov 2012 #4
LineLineReply takng to the Bully Pulpit on a regular basis will chip away at the crazy, horrible
 Ninga Nov 2012 #7
LineLineLineNew Reply Agree
 loyalsister Nov 2012 #30
LineReply I agree as well!
 EarthGurl2012 Nov 2012 #5
LineReply He's our employee. He needs to follow our lead.
 postulater Nov 2012 #6
LineLineReply Yes I agree.
 Ninga Nov 2012 #8
LineReply That's been my main disappointment of the past 4 years
 FredStembottom Nov 2012 #9
LineLineNew Reply Yep, and speaking directly to the American people, on a regular more frequent basis is needed. n/t
 Ninga Nov 2012 #27
LineLineLineNew Reply Directly, regularly and creatively.
 FredStembottom Nov 2012 #33
LineReply I surely hope that
 RoccoR5955 Nov 2012 #10
LineReply I agree. What do we think his priorities should be?
 rhett o rick Nov 2012 #11
LineLineReply Good questions. I think we need to hear from him as he ticks through his priorities.
 Ninga Nov 2012 #13
LineLineLineReply It would help if we could get together and agree on some priorities. nm
 rhett o rick Nov 2012 #17
LineLineLineLineReply Well, how do we employ the machnics of DU to do that? In a poll or a separate forum? I don't have
 Ninga Nov 2012 #18
LineLineLineLineLineNew Reply Move-on has a system for identifying and prioritizing the
 Danascot Nov 2012 #28
LineReply He needs to do whatever he can to get control of the house.
 Blanks Nov 2012 #12
LineLineReply The first thing that popped into my head after reading your post is for him to stand
 Ninga Nov 2012 #14
LineLineLineReply Yep, keep talking to the people...
 awoke_in_2003 Nov 2012 #21
LineLineLineNew Reply Yes but "the people" hate when he gets all "professorial" on them. God forbid they actually learn
 Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2012 #31
LineReply "I earned some capital. I’ve earned capital in this election — and I’m going to spend it..."
 Lunabelle Nov 2012 #15
LineLineReply I think the fellow who said that, got on his bike and road away, didn't he? Oh no, his gave up his
 Ninga Nov 2012 #16
LineReply One thing I have to say to POTUS - is actually 2 things
 lark Nov 2012 #19
LineReply Agree -- I hope he continues as he has for the last four years!
 NYC Liberal Nov 2012 #20
LineReply Fireside chats for the winter
 Rosa Luxemburg Nov 2012 #22
LineLineNew Reply Love your idea!
 Ninga Nov 2012 #25
LineLineLineNew Reply Roosevelt
 Rosa Luxemburg Nov 2012 #29
LineReply Hopefully you saw his fiscal cliff speech yesterday...
 ecstatic Nov 2012 #23
LineLineNew Reply I did. Is it foreshadowing? He cannot wait until the State of the Union to make another
 Ninga Nov 2012 #26
LineReply The POTUS has the power to order all of the media to cover an address to the nation....
 Spitfire of ATJ Nov 2012 #24
LineLineNew Reply We know this to be true!
 Ninga Nov 2012 #32
LineNew Reply Not gonna happen.
 UnrepentantLiberal Nov 2012 #34

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:56 AM

Star Member NRaleighLiberal (28,583 posts)

1. that's just what Bernie Sanders suggested....for Obama to get out there and talk!

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:59 AM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

3. I hope to high heaven that a second term will free him up to the point that

that he becomes the sum of his own words, and that his outward expectations turn inward and that he taps into his full potential.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:56 AM

WiffenPoof (1,088 posts)

2. I Completely Agree. N/T

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:59 AM

Star Member Arkansas Granny (14,622 posts)

4. Absolutely. It's time to use some of that political capital he's earned.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:04 PM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

7. takng to the Bully Pulpit on a regular basis will chip away at the crazy, horrible

myths about him, and will create a new reality, in that his true and consistent self will prevail.

History needs him to take to the Bully Pulpit.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 07:55 PM

Star Member loyalsister (6,889 posts)

30. Agree

I think it ceases to be a valuable if it is used with frequency.
If he's every day on every issue, he just fades into the background. When he comes out it's an "Obama said what?" Let I think it's good to make the comments and rebut journalists ask for let the surrogate's do their jobs and take the stage when he deems appropriate. I'd really like to see more assertive people out front speaking for the administration.

I'm hoping that Clinton will continue to be a strong surrogate also used infrequently.

I wonder that people said about the "speak softly and carry a big stick" strategy?

With this being the last term I expect he may be less cautious.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 11:59 AM

EarthGurl2012 (80 posts)

5. I agree as well!

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:00 PM

postulater (3,350 posts)

6. He's our employee. He needs to follow our lead.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:06 PM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

8. Yes I agree.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:35 PM

Star Member FredStembottom (2,803 posts)

9. That's been my main disappointment of the past 4 years

Our newly refreshed Democratic leaders must finally see that the real enemy is the hysteria purposely induced into the American populace by the Radical Rightie media.

Nevermind who is in the House or not. Win the war against the mental disease of hysteria.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:04 PM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

27. Yep, and speaking directly to the American people, on a regular more frequent basis is needed. n/t

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Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:17 PM

Star Member FredStembottom (2,803 posts)

33. Directly, regularly and creatively.

Here's an example:

Fox News: you are a Muslim to millions of people in this country.

Pres: no. That's not true. A vast majority know that I am a Christian and always have been.
Speaking of ingrained un-truths..... Did you report that the deficit has actually gone down over the past couple years?

It did.

I'm sure, as a news organization, you did report that to your viewers, right?

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:43 PM

Star Member RoccoR5955 (6,489 posts)

10. I surely hope that

Obama has "grown a set" since he got elected by a MANDATE for his second term.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 12:57 PM

Star Member rhett o rick (26,643 posts)

11. I agree. What do we think his priorities should be?

Pardon Siegelman.

Toughen election laws. No more unverifiable electronic voting.

Reform campaign finance

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:29 PM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

13. Good questions. I think we need to hear from him as he ticks through his priorities.

I think it is our responsibility to listen to his priorities and then give him feedback regarding issues we see as important that he champion.

But it starts with the Bully Pulpit. He needs to be the face and the voice of the peoples movement, he needs to put a fork into the ugly and wrong messages put out by detractors...the Bully Pulpit can be his friend, and ours too.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:44 PM

Star Member rhett o rick (26,643 posts)

17. It would help if we could get together and agree on some priorities. nm

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 02:04 PM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

18. Well, how do we employ the machnics of DU to do that? In a poll or a separate forum? I don't have

a clue.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 05:37 PM

Danascot (1,920 posts)

28. Move-on has a system for identifying and prioritizing the

issues they want to pursue. Could we do something similar here?

Also, it's up to all of us to keep up the pressure on Obama, and the rest of our elected officials, to do the job we want them to do.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:27 PM

Star Member Blanks (1,351 posts)

12. He needs to do whatever he can to get control of the house.

If that means bully pulpit; then I'm all for it.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:35 PM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

14. The first thing that popped into my head after reading your post is for him to stand

at the Bully Pulpit, be that press conference or nationally televised talk....to INFORM his supporters of how bills are being moved through the US House of Reps.

Voters need to know how the issues that speak directly to their best interests are being supported or NOT, by the US House of Reps.

He can use the Bully Pulpit to speak directly to obstructionism and then....campaign for those candidates who will replace the obstructionists.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 02:55 PM

Star Member awoke_in_2003 (18,490 posts)

21. Yep, keep talking to the people...

they obviously like what he has to say. 332 electoral votes prove that- it wasn't a mandate, it was a thumping of epic proportions.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 09:30 PM

Star Member Dark n Stormy Knight (1,176 posts)

31. Yes but "the people" hate when he gets all "professorial" on them. God forbid they actually learn

something.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:38 PM

Lunabelle (433 posts)

15. "I earned some capital. I’ve earned capital in this election — and I’m going to spend it..."

Last edited Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:38 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Who's got the political capital now, bitch?

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 01:41 PM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

16. I think the fellow who said that, got on his bike and road away, didn't he? Oh no, his gave up his

"earned capital" to his evil VP.

Yep, our POTUS can do the "political capital" dance if he so chooses!!

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 02:34 PM

lark (2,096 posts)

19. One thing I have to say to POTUS - is actually 2 things

First - Congratulations
Second - Be the person you campaigned as, bold and for the middle class, not the person you appeared to be at times - no backbone when it comes to standing up for the middle class against Republican intransiegence.

Don't knuckle under just to gt a deal - tax cuts for the rich ARE NOT GOOD for the economyl! You know this so take a stand.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 02:35 PM

Star Member NYC Liberal (15,599 posts)

20. Agree -- I hope he continues as he has for the last four years!

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 02:57 PM

Star Member Rosa Luxemburg (21,986 posts)

22. Fireside chats for the winter

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:00 PM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

25. Love your idea!

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 07:33 PM

Star Member Rosa Luxemburg (21,986 posts)

29. Roosevelt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireside_chats

would love to see Obama on a comfy armchair in front of a log fire addressing the nation. Roosevelt did it by radio but TV would be more effective!

Maybe for the summer it could be in the Rosa Garden or in front of the vegetable garden?

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 03:01 PM

Star Member ecstatic (18,598 posts)

23. Hopefully you saw his fiscal cliff speech yesterday...

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 04:02 PM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

26. I did. Is it foreshadowing? He cannot wait until the State of the Union to make another

address, moreover, he needs to do regular press conferences and speak directly to the American people.

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Sat Nov 10, 2012, 03:12 PM

Star Member Spitfire of ATJ (7,355 posts)

24. The POTUS has the power to order all of the media to cover an address to the nation....

He needs to use that power to force Republicans to pass specific bills.

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Sun Nov 11, 2012, 10:38 AM

Star Member Ninga (4,622 posts)

32. We know this to be true!

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Sun Nov 11, 2012, 03:22 PM

Star Member UnrepentantLiberal (11,700 posts)

34. Not gonna happen.

 

Leopards don't change their spots.

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