You mean like removing the public option from the healthcare reform bill because Republicans didn’t like it?
And keeping two high-level appointments from the previous administration; Ben Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve, and Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense.
And appointing Jon Huntsman as Ambassador to China.
I think that’s really slicing it thin, with some opposition in his own party and republicans jumping on him hard he gets half a point for caving.
RobotArm I’ll have to say not really. Keeping a few appointments and diplomatic slots doesnt fit with the “bending over backwards” to work with the GOP argument that was made up thread.
I know I shouldnt be, but I remain surprised that there is anyone left to defend the president’s leadership style. It surely isnt what he promised Americans.
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Obama is like the Roman empire?
Hand me a bib and pass me the cup I want some of that.
Fine, name any Republican in the last twenty years who has done half as much as Obama has in terms of appointing members of the other party to high-ranking positions, or of implementing their policy ideas.
IntelliQ, your contention that Prez Obama and/or the Democrats in the House and Senate didn’t reach across the aisle enough for you or the Republicans is really off point as to this thread, which is supposedly about whether or not a businessman would make a better president than one without business experience. When a Republican such as Mitch McConnell says that the Democrats didn’t reach enough to satisfy him, to me that’s like the wolf complaining that the rabbit wouldn’t lay down in front of him. 
Pssst. Joke. Life of Brian?
Here let me try to communicate with you, y’see, talkingpoint talkingpoint, and because talkingpoint, talktalkapointpoint? So like, talkingpoint, point.
Clear now?
If only!
No kidding. It snowballed after I rebuked the notion of democrats “bending over backwards” to please republicans. Now someone is trying to hand me a homework assignment on the 20 year history of presidential appointments. :-/
Don’t forget that the Dem opposition, and most of the public dissatisfaction with Obama’s health-care reform package, exists because it didn’t go far enough.
Yes, thank you. I really enjoyed that. 
Wow, a thread talking about Romney’s qualifications for president has devolved into a discussion about how much the right wing branch of the SDMB hates Obama. How…shocking.
There’s likely to be daily repeats and similar spin-off episodes until November so dont worry about tivo’ing it.
No, someone is asking you to back up your opinions with some facts.
You’re one of the biggest contributors of this spinoff bullshit, so I can think of an easier way to avoid seeing it besides just not turning my Tivo on.
Nope. You posed a question unrelated to anything I claimed. Then you expect me to dig into it. No thanks, it’s just not interesting or relevant.
Gee whiz, I was just trying to make light of the derailment which Im partially responsible. :-s
(In my defense it’s sometimes difficult to stop the ball rolling in the wrong direction without coming off like Im ducking questions, like with the last guy who didnt want to let it go.)
Obama has worked harder to reach out to Republicans than any Republican in my memory has reached out to Democrats. I say that counts as bending over backwards; something you said he didn’t do.
So, yes, it is related to something you claimed.