Just wishing that Obama isn’t being like this because he is obsessed with a second term. He should watch the first half of season one of The West Wing. Let Bartlett be Bartlett. Be the best president he can be, not obsess about being a one term president. People are hurting because of the weak job market, no universal healthcare, and the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the worsening conditions in Haiti. We need hope back!!!!!
Mr. Obama may be personally very appealing, but he has positioned himself all over the political map: the anti-Iraq war candidate who escalated the war in Afghanistan; the opponent of health insurance mandates who made a mandate to buy insurance the centerpiece of his plan; the president who stocked his administration with Wall Street insiders and went to the mat for the banks and big corporations, but who is now trying to present himself as a born-again populist.
Mr. Obama is in danger of being perceived as someone whose rhetoric, however skillful, cannot always be trusted. He is creating a credibility gap for himself, and if it widens much more he won’t be able to close it.
Mr. Obama’s campaign mantra was “change” and most of his supporters took that to mean that he would change the way business was done in Washington and that he would reverse the disastrous economic policies that favored mega-corporations and the very wealthy at the expense of the middle class and the poor.
via Op-Ed Columnist – Obama’s Credibility Gap – NYTimes.com.