Getting Smarter About Politics

[tularetom]

30. The sad part about the Obama term is not that he didn't accomplish more

It's that he DIDN'T EVEN TRY.

The republicans announced the day he took office that they were going to block everything he tried to accomplish, and he more or less accepted that. He allowed his opponents to define the limits of his presidency.

He was smart enough not to push the Bush/Cheney war crimes thing, it would have torn the country apart. But he should have put a few thug bankers in jail, and he damn well should have made an effort to implement a single payer health care system, or at least a government option, instead of a system that really does nothing more than force millions of Americans to give money to insurance companies.

The man is a wonderful orator, he could have taken to the stump and rallied millions of voters to any cause he chose to push. But apparently he never felt strongly enough about anything to do that. He could have gone to congress once in awhile and twisted a few Democratic arms, but the only thing he cared about enough to do that was a godawful trade agreement that will result in a job hemorrhage.

He will emerge from his two terms pretty much unbloodied, because he never put up a fight.