Obama To Press Corps: I Can’t Make GOP Cooperate On Budget

[GaYellowDawg]

105. Really?

How many of the pieces were important legislation? How many of the pieces of legislation represented major campaign promises?

Did the President initiate a massive media campaign against the filibuster? No, and he could have.
Did he get out during campaigns and target specific senators who were involved in the filibustering? No.
Did he delineate what could have been done vs. what was done? No.

FDR said, "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred."

Obama has said NOTHING like that. He could have. He's a fantastic speaker, and he could absolutely have riled the country up against the Senators employing the filibuster. FDR got on the radio on a very regular basis, defended his positions to the country, and aggressively campaigned against opposing political and societal forces. Obama has not, and that is the difference between a great president who accomplished more for the middle class and poor than virtually any other, and a mediocre president who has dealt in half-measure, compromises, and appeasement. Obama held 78 press conferences his first term. FDR had 5 years with that many or more. We all know about the Republican noise machine. Obama did little to counteract it, and lost the House as a result. He hasn't used the most effective tool of the Presidency - the bully pulpit - in any meaningful fashion. He rarely steps up to the pulpit, and when he does, there's no "bully" to it.

And the Teabaggers don't make doing nothing a major claim AT ALL. I've never seen a Teabagger sign that said, "Obama has done nothing." I've seen a lot of signs about communist, and socialist, and him with a Hitler mustache, and Kenya, and birth certificates. Lots of Gadsden flags, and "take our country back," and firearms. But never a "done nothing" sign. If you can show photographic evidence that that claim is anywhere near as common as the things I've mentioned, then you've made your point. But you won't, because you can't, and we both know it. You haven't just failed to make your point, you've failed miserably. You're just an apologist douchebag making a false equivalency. Which is, by the way, another major Republican stratagem, along with projection.