Reply #30: Prove it

[zipplewrath]

"What Obama wants out of government is likely far more progressive than what the current national landscape will allow."

I don't really mean that in the hostile sense it sounds. But over the last two years, I've really come to question that. Based upon alot of choices that he has made, choices that were not dictated by congress, I really do question the assumption of that statement. I've read both of his books. I don't find alot of support for the assertion that he would like to be more progressive than he has been. Again, quite the opposite, if you look at areas where he is relatively free to act independently of congress, he isn't all that progressive.

Again, in a friendly way, can you point to what you see/hear/read that would lead you to such a conclusion? And what really begins to occur to me is that it is insulting in a way. It suggests he is unable to accomplish his own agenda, and instead is force to impliment an agenda with which he doesn't agree. I think it is probably a more reasonable conclusion that he is accomplishing the agenda he wants to pursue. It's not that he would be particularly hostile to a more progressive agenda. But I suspect he would seek to moderate one.