If you are the quarterback, and your teammates refuse to catch the ball

[SoCalDem]

or they hand it off to the other team when you give it to them, or they turn and run to the other endzone with it, can you really be held responsible when the team loses?

A president is like a quarterback...but the team cannot "win the game" unless the rest of the team participates too..

In Obama's case, the "team" he had to work with may have had a few near him who tried to keep him from being tackled, but the rest of the team were actively avoiding carrying, catching the ball... all the while yelling about what a shitty quarterback he was...and when they lost..it was all his fault...even though when he was put into the game, the previous quarterback (who WAS a shitty quarterback) had them down 30 points before the new quarterback came in..

[renegade000]

1. yeah it's pretty galling that

they're going for the "we wanted him to succeed, but he disappointed us" line of attack

[jody]

2. In your analogy if Obama is QB, then who are his teammates? Certainly not Congress or SCOTUS. His

teammates are his staff in the executive department and if they are failing a president then he/she has the authority to replace them.

Perhaps another analogy is appropriate to make your point.

[SoCalDem]

3. The "US government" is his team

Quarterbacks do not get to choose their teammates.

[jody]

5. I disagree. Our Constitution is explicit on separation of the three branches. To that end our

Constitution allows a president to veto a bill that each house can override only with a 2/3 majority.

In no way does our Constitution suggest that "The 'US government' is his {president's} team"

[SoCalDem]

6. In America we can disagree..

[jody]

7. "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." Daniel Patrick Moynihan

[trof]

4. Good analogy . K&R

[Scuba]

8. Can't you just get your supermodel wife to blame it on your teammates?

Analogy fails because clearly the Republicans aren't on America's Team.