Obama Governing Style May Spell T-R-O-U-B-L-E for Dems

I’ll give you another – one that I have maintained for some time. Obama might be clever and he might be good with a crowd and he might be clever enough to capitalize on the fact that the media will cover for him in any event — but I believe that fudnamentally, obama is a lightweight. He is out of his league and said it so eloquently before; though on a different topic, “That’s above my paygrade”. He is a superficial man. And he does not have clout with the Dems in Congress. They are using him. It isn’t the other way around.

@John ryan: Thanks John Ryan. Your comment makes a transparent attempt to hijack the thread onto some discussion about the Moonies instead of keep the focus on the Loonie in the Oval Office.

Sorry, but that’s another non starter. If you don’t have anything substantive to say why say anything at all?

“President Obama: “And we then provide, uh, the process whereby Guantanamo will be closed, uh, no later than one year from now. We will be, uh. … Is there a separate, uh, executive order, Greg, with respect to how we’re going to dispose of the detainees? Is that, uh, written?””

One would have thought he would have bothered to look into this a bit further. When he had the meeting with the 911 and Cole families, he STILL didn’t know what he was talking about. Again, Greg Craig was there to pull him through and later admitted to Debra Burlingame that Obama had the facts of the law wrong.

Worse, then Debra Burlingame had to explain to *Greg Craig* the legal facts of CIPA(?) don’t know if that’s the correct bunch of letters. It’s the law the Bush Administration tried to avoid because it allowed terrorists to see classified information while they personally defended themselves.

Numbers 1 and 4 certainly apply in this example.

OK MIke here is the same with less your source is a moonie paper http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
In Congress the Dem Cong approval ratings are soaring and the Republicans are dropping. http://www.gallup.com/poll/114670/Congress-Approval-Rating-Jumps.aspx
I believe that America is best governed when there are two viable political parties. However, the Republicans seem to have forgotten how to attract the center of American politics and are content to pander only to their base.
The fact is that when Republicans pander to the hard right they lose power to effect change in the USA

Now I’m really in the filter. P&T.

During the campaign Obama indicated in many interviews that one of his strengths was the ability to get people to sit down together in a room and hash out their differences.

Obviously from the process of putting together the “stimulus” bill, there must be a shortage of available rooms in DC.

Mike.

He isn’t governing, he’s still campaigning, who knows who is actually governing.

Check this out, there’s also a number of interesting links included:

Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency was trailblazing in its ability to tap into a network of activists around the nation to help propel him to victory. His campaign does not seem to have ended. He is again reactivating this network, but this time it is not to help him get elected. Instead, he is rounding up the usual suspects to help him advance his legislative program. The never-ending campaign has already begun.

Greg Sargent reports that a private White House cocktail reception was recently hosted by Barack and Michelle Obama for leaders of major progressive groups:

[The Obamas] signaled that their groups would play a key role in driving the big progressive changes at the heart of the White House’s legislative agenda, an attendee tells me.

The message was that these groups would be valuable as a kind of progressive outside “echo chamber,” as the attendee puts it.

The party — which was organized by top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett — signals that the White House is moving forward with efforts to build coordination with outside progressive groups in order to drive the White House’s message and beat back its foes. As I reported recently, Jarrett is at the center of those efforts.

Included on the guest list were: Labor leaders Jimmy Hoffa and Andy Stern, MoveOn.org’s Eli Pariser, Sierra Club’s Carl Pope, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richardson, and Joe Solomonese of the Human Rights Campaign.

He now has a vast database of “troops” that he can call into action when conditions warrant, whether it be to make calls to congressmen, stage protests, or circulate leaflets. That kind of free labor is priceless. We will see much more of it in the days to come.

Of course, such labor is never entirely free. Posters, air time, ads, leaflets — all these come with a sticker price. We are not communists, after all. This is where another — higher — layer of activists comes into play.

Andy Stern is head of the Service Employees International Union, which is clearly one of the most astute, politically active, and well-funded of all unions. Stern has operated on the local, state, and federal levels when it comes to helping the campaigns of favored politicians. His union occasionally has mishaps: there is a corruption issue with the Los Angeles chapter and there were discussions involving the selling of Obama’s Senate seat in Illinois between a representative of his union and disgraced former Governor Rod Blagojevich. But he knows the ropes, which levers to pull, and he (along with fellow labor leader Jimmy Hoffa) is sitting on a treasure chests of funds. These chests will be replenished by virtue of the “stimulus bill.”

Stern has a close associate who receives very little attention. Anna Burger may be the most influential woman in the labor movement as hailed by Gannet. But her influence extends far beyond labor. She is a sharp political operator in charge of Change To Win, a group formed by a bevy of unions to use the political system to enrich laborers. She is also, along with Stern, one of the labor leaders involved in a very influential, if furtive, group known as the Democracy Alliance. This is an activist group on steroids with liberal-minded billionaires and mere centimillionaires behind them. The group brings together donors and political activists to fulfill a range of liberal goals. We may not see them — they don’t leave many fingerprints behind — but we will see what it is they will accomplish in the days ahead. They have a track record of success.

George Soros, hedge fund billionaire, is one of the main powers that be in the Democracy Alliance. He is also the most generous funder of 527 groups in the nation. These groups include MoveOn.org, whose leader Eli Pariser was one of the people who joined the Obamas at the White House. Moveon.org was the group responsible for the General BetrayUs ads that ran during the campaign which sought to impugn the reputation of the general behind the surge in Iraq.

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-obama-white-house-calls-in-the-cavalry/

Be on the lookout for some interesting IPs. I believe we experienced a bit of it during the auto bailout and a lot of it at numerous sites during the campaign. Now it’s officially launched.

Maybe our moderators will get the chance to ask; did you get to attend the WH coctail party or did the dirt job just get passed on down to you?