To: koan who wrote (28849 ) 9/26/2012 9:03:37 PM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to There are specific issues and Democrats aren't talking about them: Presidents do not deserve to be reelected by default . If they did, why would anyone expect that a second term to be any better or wiser? And elected leaders need to be held to account -- pinned up against the wall, so to speak -- if citizens aren't to become utterly disillusioned with the idea that we live in a system of democratic self-government. ... Unless I missed it, the president has yet to give a detailed answer to why he has failed to meet or even come close to his promises about reducing the unemployment rate . Saying that the task was harder than he initially thought isn't (or shouldn't be) a convincing explanation. He hasn't given a detailed answer as to why he and his top advisers, led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, failed to focus sufficiently on reviving the housing market, rather than just bailing out banks. He hasn't explained why his own administration is now saying that at least 6 million Americans, most of them in the middle class, will indeed face a tax increase (penalty) in 2014 if they do not buy health insurance -- a new estimate substantially higher than earlier ones. He hasn't explained whether he shares any blame for the failure of budget talks on a grand compromise. And if the art of presidential leadership is to cajole your foes into doing deals they don't want to do, what are we to make of his famous charming effectiveness?minx.cc Believe it or not, but there are heavier issues than whether we know everything about ten years worth of Romney tax returns ...
