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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (295597)3/9/2009 1:48:59 AM
From: Nadine Carroll2 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 793841
 
I admit, though, that I too misread Obama. I thought that for him, it was race that predominated, not policy. I thought that his number one concern was his status as the first African-American President, and that his top priority would be going down in history, on a consensus basis, as a successful President. Above all, I thought he would avoid risking a Carter-type, one-term abject failure. I expected such considerations to push him in the direction of caution, i.e., moderation. Some of his early appointments were consistent with this view.


Everybody was guessing about Obama's priorities because he had so little executive experience. I have a simpler explanation than the race vs. policy tradeoff Powerline puts forth: Obama doesn't have enough experience to know that he is spreading attention too thin with the omnibus+the budget with cap and trade and health care+more bailouts. He's confusing even his staunchest allies.

Obama is like the young prince who comes to the throne after years of the country waiting through the last years of the old tight-fisted king, who tries to do too much and spends too much in the first years of his reign. This is an old & often repeated pattern in monarchies.
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