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In reply to the discussion: GOP to White House: What's your ObamaCare backup plan if we win? [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)Haven't you heard?
I'm not a big fan of Maureen Dowd for her past snuggling up to the previous admin, but she's spot on in this article about his efforts to pass stricter gun laws after Newtown:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/opinion/sunday/dowd-president-obama-is-no-bully-in-the-pulpit.html
Couldnt the president have given his Rose Garden speech about the shameful actions in Washington before the vote rather than after?
There were ways to get to 60 votes. The White House just had to scratch it out with a real strategy and a never-let-go attitude.
Obama hates selling. He thinks people should just accept the right thing to do. But as Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, noted, senators have their own tough selling job to do back home. In the end you can really believe in something, he told The Timess Jennifer Steinhauer, but you have to go sell it.
I just don't get it. One of the best orators in Presidential history but he refuses to use this gift, at least as much as he could.