I am so utterly sick of this Third Way shit.

[JDPriestly]

277. I remember the Truman and Johnson administrations.

Franklin D. Roosevelt used his veto (pocket and regular) 635 times. He was president for 2 and more than 1/2 terms.

Harry Truman used his veto (pocket and regular) 250 times in a little over eight years.

Johnson used his veto (pocket and regular) 30 times in close to six years.

Obama has used his veto only twice in 3 1/2 years.

Ronald Reagan used it 78 times in 8 years.

GWB used it 12 times in 8 years, and he had a supposedly Democratic Congress part of that time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_vetoes

The veto is one of the constitutional powers of the president. If Obama didn't like what Congress was doing it, he should have used his powers to veto what they wanted to do. Instead he uses his power to decide who gets droned.

Obama knows how to use power when he wants to. He just does not want to use the veto because then he would have to take a stand and maybe offend the Republicans and Blue Dogs. Yet he wants liberal Democrats to support him in November.

A certain portion of politics is about the theater of it, and Obama is a great speaker but not good at the theater of politics.