A Transformative President

[sheshe2]

By Chipsticks

SNIP:

If it isn’t obvious to everyone now, and it should be, President Obama represents the antithesis of everything President Reagan stood for. He has repeatedly called out the GOP for continuing the failed policies of Reagonomics. His approach to immigration reform is radically different than Reagan’s blanket amnesty with no follow-up policy. He does not see foreign policy as a case of who can puff up their chest the biggest, like Reagan and his successors did. He supports unions. He supports all human rights. He abhors the policies of racism. He truly recognizes the difficulties and nuances of decision making.

Yet, as much as Reagan Presidency was transformative in a negative way, President Obama’s is becoming transformative in a uniquely positive way. In fact, it may end up being the most positively transformative Presidency in the history of our country. And this is not due to specific legislation passed with his urging, although much of that legislation will impact this country and how it views the government’s role in helping its citizens for decades to come. Nor is it due to the fact that he is, probably, one of the top three President’s in terms of rhetorical skills. Nor is it because he is the first black President. All of those are important to his legacy, but they are not transformative in terms of how the country is run or how the President interacts with the other branches of government

SNIP:

Until May 23, 2013. For probably the first time in history, a President actually came forward and requested that Congress take away some of his powers. This is a President who realizes that with great power comes great responsibility. And it isn’t that President Obama is afraid to take on responsibility, but he realizes that having that much power placed in the hands of one person is dangerous and can easily lead to abuse of those powers. Some would say he has abused those powers already, especially those who say they speak for the “left”. I would argue that point, but this is not the time to do so.

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/24/a-transformative-president/#more-120883

[graham4anything]

1. +1

[Aristus]

2. Thank you, as always, sheshe2.

I love it when I wake up in the morning and Barack Obama is President!

[Little_Wing]

3. Transformative indeed

I am constantly amazed by this man, and truly didn't think we'd ever see his like in office. Don't agree with everything he's done, but he is far and above most of the presidents we've seen in our country's history.

On the worst days, when the crazy whack jobs are screaming, and it seems like he is being drowned out by insanity, I take quiet comfort from knowing that whatever they do, whatever they say, in future days there will be no way they can erase him from the history books. His face, his legacy will live on, and the fringes won' be able to change the reality of Barack Obama.

They are stuck with him forever, and all their frothing over him will amount to nothing, in the end.

Thanks for posting this.

[cilla4progress]

8. Thank YOU for your gratifying post.

And Welcome!

[Whisp]

13. wow, what you said!

[Politicub]

4. Cool

[freshwest]

5. All true. And just what we and the world needed.

[IrishAyes]

6. We do.

And I'm getting really bugged by the self-professed Lefties who only want to vent their hatred for him because he can't and doesn't shove the nation leftward far enough fast enough to suit them. I don't claim them as fellow lefties, because they behave just as badly as teabaggers. 'Left' is supposed to mean something good, and they do everything they can to trash our good name. That's one reason I suspect some of them of being moles or posers.

God bless this president and continue to guide and protect him all his days. That's the go-to prayer I say in my heart or even aloud every time I see him on tv or even think about him. I read about a survey once which claimed President Obama's supporters were far more likely to say they'd take a bullet if it meant protecting him than conservatives would their representatives. Doesn't surprise me a bit, and the man deserves anything we can do for him.

[freshwest]

7. Thanks, Irish Ayes. Agree with all of it, and he deserves respect.

[LeftInTX]

11. Irish Ayes:

I'm also getting bugged by all of this too.

[Cha]

9. Hope has led to Change.. Great Piece from Japa at TOD,

she.. thank you!

I think President Obama is the very essence of Transfomative.

BOG

[Grateful for Hope]

10. K&R

[Whisp]

12. +++K+&+R+++