Reply #30: Once again, HE is the problem, too

[PurityOfEssence]

The argument that he's princely in his ways, yet befouled by creepy corporatist operatives really doesn't hold any water after any real observation. Even if true, it makes him little more than a vacillating waffler of a figurehead who's being controlled by others. I credit him with much more character and strength than that, and this leaves one with the unmistakable conclusion that HE IS AT LEAST A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM HIMSELF.

Personally, I think he's far too concerned with how he comes off to critics and far too Clintonian in his baffling need to be loved by all.

Sorry to be shrill, but the apologists have been there since early on in the primary race, dispelling any irritating accommodation or enabling of the powers-that-be with sops of "it's just his bad advisers" and other flimsy excuses.

Giving him the benefit of the doubt, I think he actually believes the need to allow unfettered power-mongering by the very few, but that doesn't dismiss the culpability. The studied silence and evasiveness about things like the whole health care embarrassment is hard to swallow, yet the true believers have truckloads of excuses at every turn.

It is impressive how he has inculcated the feeling in so very many that we deeply owe him something and that we must all fling ourselves into the fire to save his beatific being; his legislative and political record is simply not impressive when viewed through the prism of the common good. He's the ultimate inside straight, and somehow we are constantly harassed into not only betting the farm on him, but to shut the hell up and not even make suggestions.

This isn't meant to be an attack on you; it's just frustration at a tiresome and accepted "truth" that he's all for us and anything bad is from others. He's the man. He's the boss. It's his administration, and with all of the benefits of the doubts he's been given, it's his responsibility.

Hell, the world gave this man a Nobel Peace Prize on the strength of nothing more than vague suggestions of possible neighborliness, and that says a lot.