OBAMA "I'm making decisions that are not necessarily good for the nightly news & next election, but

[kpete]

Quote of the Day
"I'm making decisions that are not necessarily good for the nightly news and not good for the next election, but for the next generations."

-- President Obama, in an interview on NBC News.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/08/29/quote_of_the_day.html

President: I’ll ‘make sure we get the job done’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38906337/ns/nightly

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[Bluebear]

2. That's nice. Such as what?

That's a great sound byte but I would like to hear, "...such as a) b) c)"

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[Bluebear]

6. Really, what business is it of yours? Go daydreaming.

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[Dream Girl]

15. I'll say again, what are you trying to accomplish?

What is your purpose Bear?

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[VMI Dem]

26. IBTTS.

[jefferson_dem]

28. Is BlueBear about to get tossed?

:shrug:

[VMI Dem]

29. Are they going after the mostly whites now?

:shrug:

[npk]

31. I think the poster was referring to Dream Girl

I don't agree with the persons last few posts, but I wouldn't say a tombstone was in order.

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[scheming daemons]

41. Bluebear's "purpose" is to damage the President as punishment for

..his not being quick enough in overturning DOMA and DADT.

It's called "cutting off one's nose to spite one's face".


When the GOP is controlling congress, for some reason people like Bluebear think this will result in a shift to the left in government policy.

They have it exactly backwards.

[dflprincess]

9. Stop dreaming and check out his "deficit reduction" commission

and his defense of Alan Simpson.

[quiet.american]

20. Dream Girl, many of us on this board have been wondering the same thing for a long time.

Hope you'll stop by the Barack Obama Group forum. We're focused there on supporting our Democratic President at Democratic Underground. Cheers.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. Saving Social Security from his own commission

The commission that Congress refused to create.

Amazing.

[laughingliberal]

34. +1 nt

[Nite Owl]

5. Right, the next generations

of the wealthiest. He isn't talking about the average working American that's for sure.

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[MannyGoldstein]

7. We need a New Deal

Somehow, FDR was able to make decisions that helped working Americans RIGHT AWAY, turned the broader economy around, and made the Democrats so popular that after four years, only 17 Republicans were left in the Senate.

[Overseas]

23. Yes Please! //nt

[Bluebear]

27. THAT'S what I'm talking about!

[Beartracks]

37. Wow, and what followed was...

... the longest (peacetime) economic expansion the country had ever seen, plus the rise of our great middle class.

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[CTLawGuy]

39. umm the Great Depression didn't end until WWII

it's not like it ended immediately after the New Deal was passed.

[MannyGoldstein]

40. Things turned around immediately

This was huge. But, yes, it didn't end entirely until we had the largest public works program of all, WWII.

[Stevepol]

49. Precisely!

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[Bluebear]

13. LOL, you must be "mostly white"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9041563#9041701

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[LooseWilly]

14. Heh... I'm sure I'll appreciate W in hell...

[npk]

17. Actually I believe he said

After he was dead and gone, we would all appreciate him. You know kind of like how Picasso's paintings only became valuable after his death.

[rug]

18. Does he mean the troops in Aghanistan who were 10 on 9/11?

[LiberalAndProud]

25. It seems to me that Obama's vision has narrowed.

Deficit reduction. I could be wrong, but I may be right.

[MannyGoldstein]

32. That was his focus earlier this summer

When he thought this depression was over.

Now I think he's just really confused.

[davidinalameda]

30. maybe he should worry about the next election

since we're going to have our asses handed to us by the republicans

if you don't have a majority in congress, it's hard to do implement any decisions he might come up with

[ibegurpard]

35. Next generations of what?

CEOs?

[Cha]

36. President Obama is making sure we

have a strong infrastructure for our country.

Of course the stupid asshole gNOps don't want this to happen..they didn't spend the 8 bush-cheney years tearing it down for nothing.

[JoseGaspar]

38. That is an astonishingly delusional and egotistical thing to say...

It is a democracy of sorts, or doesn't that matter?

The statement is either very defensive ("I am no good at explaining anything"), very elitist ("nobody at present is able to understand my BIG wisdom") or, it is simply wrong. It also echoes Bush on Iraq and the "War on Terror".

In any case, this ain't any kind of "man of the people" talk.

"History will prove me right, even though you don't get it"...

Yeah, sure.

[malaise]

43. Huh?

I suggest you watch the interview

[JoseGaspar]

45. Here is your interview...

"He seemed intent on casting himself as above the political fray, saying he had more important work to do than to engage in the back and forth of the political “silly season.”

For example, Obama said he did not watch any of Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally Saturday on the National Mall.

“It’s not surprising that somebody like a Mr. Beck is able to stir up a certain portion of the country. That's been true throughout our history,” he said. But “what I’m focused on is making sure that the decisions we’re making now are going to be be not good for the nightly news, not good even necessarily for the next election, but are good for the next generation.”

"He seemed intent on casting himself as above the political fray...", may sound OK in an echo chamber but nowhere else. I realize that is NBC talking but I heard the same thing. Detachment may appeal to middle-managers but it appeals to few others.

Whatever is good for the "next generation" should also be good for "the next election", unless the administration is unable or unwilling to make its case. If the "nightly news" or the "silly opposition" are the problem, then where is the mobilization to overcome that? There is no more "important work" than communicating with the people, especially in the midst of a Great Recession.

Only birds and flying squirrels are "above the fray".

[spanone]

47. wrong. Obama should stay as far away as possible from the cable bullshit.

[Inuca]

44. What on earth are you talking about????!?!? n/t

[Arkana]

46. You're right--he should just compress all the complexities down to nothing

and govern by poll-tested bromides! Surely that will fix the country!

[JoseGaspar]

48. No... he should tell the truth... and get into a two sided conversation...

... with the country. You are the one who implies that what will "fix the country" has to be hidden from the country. If I look at your previous posts, are there many references to the stupid electorate?

This is a quasi-democracy, not King for a Day. The right-wingers fill a vacuum created by insider politics and "nudge, nudge" policy.

Let me repeat, Obama will not generate any support by claiming he knows "better"... and, it has the further disadvantage of not being true.

[MadHound]

42. Well, we knew that many of your decisions weren't good for the news or the next election,

And many of us are convinced that their not good for the next generation either. Your education decisions is the first thing that jumps out at me in that regard, but there's much more.