You think Obama is regretting that he didn't do a better job of exposing

[The Backlash Cometh]

Bush's failings in the beginning of his term when people would have accepted it better? Because, I don't think that looking back and pointing to Bush now is going to give him much leverage. Why? Because people know we're fucked. We just want to know how we're going to get out of it. If Obama could have made a point of exposing where Bush failed in the beginning of his term, at least he wouldn't have to expend resources trying to go back to dismantle the foundation of disjointed logic which today is called the Tea Party.

[vi5]

1. Can't have it both ways.....

Can't say "We've got to move forward and not backwards" when it comes to avoiding doing the hard stuff of holding people accountable for their disastrous policies and plans, but then say "Hey, look back there 3 years ago!!! Bush was doing stuff!!!!" and expect people to buy it.

Just like you can't encourage supporters and liberals to get out there and help with the hard work of convincing people Republicans policies are bad and the Republicans are dangerous for the country and Democratic policies are good an good for the country, while at the same time praising Republicans and condemning liberals and undermining that very same case they want us to make.

That doesn't stop people from trying to have it both ways, and enablers from enabling such stupidity. But it definitely needs to be pointed out.

[OHdem10]

2. Of all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these--It

might have been.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. I don't know what that man is thinking. The fact that he won't attack back when he's

trashed constantly by the right wing, but, instead, is NICE and conciliatory, makes me so angry I can barely stand it.

[phleshdef]

4. He ran and won an entire election on Bush's failings.

No one man can be expected to solve the country's short term memory problems. It takes a responsible news media to make that happen and our hasn't tended to that duty since before the mid 90s at the least. Obama has brought up the fact that he inherited a lot of the problems he is dealing with, many, many, many times. But it only carries weight if that point continues to get reaffirmed by the media. And that has not been the case.

[Bluenorthwest]

5. I think he lacks the retrospective consideration of his own

choices. That is, if he does it, he simply assumes for all time that it was the best and only possible decision, thus he does not consider how he could have done better.

[daa]

6. Obama has made his own mistakes, it has nothing to do with Bush nt

[nenagh]

7. I think when Pres Obama got HCR done.. he enraged the Repub righties &

their corporate backers who built the TPers.. who ranted about Death Panels.. and he lost the majority in the House.

As a Canadian, I see great advantage to HCR.. because our system took a long time and a number of legislative changes to get it to where it is now.

The enraged right, like that hot-air popped popcorn, has continuous heated rhetoric from the MSM for its fuel.

A little bit of encouragement, Ali Velshi yesterday on CNN said that he wished he had his own network...he'd have put up different graphics.. showing, I think the bond market.. anyway.. he felt that the huge red graph with dramatically tanking numbers was in itself enough to spook the market.

[Safetykitten]

8. I do not think he has any regrets of any kind. The fact he is happily running again says so.