I don’t even think she’s really discontented about the FLOTUS role, from what I’ve been able to see of her she’s quite at ease in a lot of the projects she gets involved in and her demeanor when she has been with him has been (to me) clearly supportive but not submissive. But y’all may have a point there – people may not say so out loud, but ISTM the public does expect First Ladies and Political Wives to put on a plastic smile and put up with all the bull$#!t; be all about the The Little Woman act and avoid acting or talking like she considers herself his equal; or else to just quietly become invisible. (Then when the candidate or official screws up we bitch about her standing next to him on the dais as he tries to extricate himself. Huh? ) That is a nonsense expectation in this century IMO.
No, I mean to say that (to steal a line from*** Citizen Kane***), Nixon had a lot of opinions, but he didn’t really believe in anything except Dick Nixon. He never had a principle except Dick Nixon in his life.
Nixon had enormous ambition, but no real idea what he wanted to DO with the power he obtained.
Total loser. Our country needs a President, not a golfer or a selfie-stick operator. His only accomplishment to date has been to make Jimmy Carter look competent.
And this reminds you of Obama how? I can accept if you don’t approve of his actions as President, but Obama certainly seems to “believe in” things - such as, I don’t know, healthcare. Plainly, a dramatic sea change in how this country gets its medical treatment should count as something Obama wanted to do with the power he obtained.
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Total loser. Our country needs a President, not a golfer or a selfie-stick operator. His only accomplishment to date has been to make Jimmy Carter look competent.
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Not that I should expect much better, given your partisanship, but, for real?? Again, I can accept that you don’t approve of his actions, but “total loser” for a man who was a two-term President? No accomplishments for the man who presided over the execution of Osama Bin Laden, or the passage of a dramatic (and hugely controversial) healthcare law?
And you dismiss him as a President because he’s a golfer? I never realized that the two are mutually exclusive…certainly he’s never conducted business on the golf course while playing with a Republican Speaker of the House, for example.
But, upon reflection, you are correct - no successful President has ever posed for pictures, or played golf during his time in office. What could I have been thinking?
Yep. With all of his accomplishments related to navigating the clusterfuck combination Bush left us with, and passing Healthcare Reform - oh, and by the way, being the first African American president - he will have buildings, coins, and monuments on a level with the most respected presidents.
Yes, I am a fan, but just from the sheer evidence of what he faced and what he has accomplished, I have to stop and chuckle when folks look at the bluster of the politics of the day and think that it will matter vs. what he accomplished in a historical context.
I’d have a beer with him.
Obama would be the ideal republican politician: Christian, good family man, no infidelities, classy wife and kids. There really isn’t anything in his character or personal history that deserves hate. But, alas, he is the Other.
One thing I really like about Obama is his insistence on talking to the American people as though they are adults, and not a bunch of spoiled crybabies. If he had gone the other way, pandering with fear, fear, fear, furriners must be feared bullshit, he’d probably have a 70 percent approval rating. For some reason, Americans crave Daddy presidents telling them fairy tales about monsters in the closet.
Funny you’d say that give how intensely focused this administration is on spin and messaging. Straight Talk Express they aren’t.
Straight Talk Express = nice branding, but itself message spin. Anyone trying it for reals is not going to be President. Spin and messaging is part of the job description of head of state/government everywhere.
I know you think it’s your sworn duty or something, but absolutely nobody is hoping for your critique of their opinion.
Right.
What politician doesn’t do this?
Greatest president of my lifetime. Someone can certainly disagree with some of his policies, but “total loser” accusation says more about you than the President.