Chinu if the President has to go and stand in the picket lines, then it is an insult to the Presidency. It is a tacit admission that the Presidency is not powerful enough to get things done. Obama has sympathized with those folks. Besides, Michelle is probably smarter than Barack. She knows that is not for a President to stand in picket lines.
That's an interesting angle....I'll have to think about it....My thoughts:he would have been applauded by not only those in WI but by an entire country of middle class people(Ds and Rs alike) who are struggling to get by.
Who cares how the GOP paints him. They've been busy painting him in all kinds of ways since the election campaign......
He's good at threading the needle----he could have used this opportunity to make it clear he supports business innovation, etc, etc at the same time he supports the middle class...that they should not be funding a crisis whose genesis was on Wall Street.
As Metacomet said so eloquently in one of his posts, even if taking this stand cost him a term, he would have gone fighting for what is right, what is moral and what is a POTUS job.....imo..
what it takes to understand him in its totality and not merely instance by instance such as not standing in the picket lines in WI.
Oh, this was one of several different important instances in which he could have shown what he stands for.....Can anyone really say with certainty, this far into his presidency, what he stands for, what is it that he'll risk his presidency because it's the right thing to do? Instead of governing while in campaign mode. All prez do this...not singling him out here but I wish for once in my lifetime, I can witness a president who is governing without regard for re-election.
I'm hoping that after his midwest tour, and how the R's are being treated back home, he gets it that the middle class is fighting for its life right now....that he finds his inner Truman.
A rambling post...sorry! |
