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barelynangel -> RE: Remember when Obama said....... (12/26/2011 9:28:16 AM)
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January 28, 2008 -- SC
“...This election is about the past vs. the future. It's about whether we settle for the same divisions and distractions and drama that passes for politics today or whether we reach for a politics of common sense and innovation, a politics of shared sacrifice and shared prosperity. There are those who will continue to tell us that we can't do this, that we can't have what we're looking for, that we can't have what we want, that we're peddling false hopes. But here is what I know. I know that when people say we can't overcome all the big money and influence in Washington, I think of that elderly woman who sent me a contribution the other day, an envelope that had a money order for $3.01 along with a verse of scripture tucked inside the envelope. So don't tell us change isn't possible. That woman knows change is possible. When I hear the cynical talk that blacks and whites and Latinos can't join together and work together, I'm reminded of the Latino brothers and sisters I organized with and stood with and fought with side by side for jobs and justice on the streets of Chicago. So don't tell us change can't happen. When I hear that we'll never overcome the racial divide in our politics, I think about that Republican woman who used to work for Strom Thurmond, who is now devoted to educating inner city-children and who went out into the streets of South Carolina and knocked on doors for this campaign. Don't tell me we can't change. Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.
Yes, we can heal this nation. Yes, we can seize our future. And as we leave this great state with a new wind at our backs and we take this journey across this great country, a country we love, with the message we carry from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire, from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast, the same message we had when we were up and when we were down, that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we will hope.
And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words -- yes, we can.”
― Barack Obama (emphasis mine)
The man has failed to keep the BIGGEST promise he made, that of leading our country. He is one of the main players in the drama and division in our politics, our country is not being healed -- it's wounds keep getting ripped open.
Yes, did he have a bitch of a country status to come into -- yep. However, he is the one who indicated to the American people he can lead this country. He isn't.
When you have a congress that is sooo divided pretty much in everything and the bickering and drama that ignites between the two parties and a President who is INCAPABLE of being a leader but seems to me to be playing right in the mud with them all, that to me is one of the worst folly's a President can do.
He likes blaming the Republicans for the state of a lot of problems in Congress -- but where is HIS responsibility as a President, as a Leader, whereing HIS PARTY AFFILIATION needs to seriously be melded in with the other party becuase our county is pretty much based on a TWO PARTY congress. It is HIS responsibility to pull these two parts together and instead it appears that through his whole Presidency thus far, he hasn't. Instead of rising above the two parties AS THE LEADER, he is just as bad as the rest of them.
Yes, i get he is a Dem, and he has a loyalty to his party, but i am sorry when he put on that Presidential hat, his loyalty to the dems comes in second to his leading at times yes as an unbiased party.
To me, that is the biggest and most important promise he has failed to keep and without his leadership, the rest is simply nonexistant.
People want to give him the props for finding Bin Laden -- that's all fine and dandy, if that is the case, then you also have to give him the "props" for the state our government is in and the lack of any unity and the drama and such all he claimed we shouldn't settle for in our American politics. He is right in the fray of settling for it....
I am not Dem or Rep, i tend to go with the person i think is best for the job -- i do however lean more towards Rep based on my voting history. But when a President is in office, to me, he is no longer D or R, he is the Leader of the U.S. I could care less what his party affliation is. When Obama was elected though i don't like the guy due to i think he is a lot more talk than he is action and he manipulated the People of the U.S. based on their desperation for change, i was happy for people becuase i said, if he is capable of achieving and leading this country as he SAYS he can, then good things will happen. To me, that bolded part above said a lot to me and to many people, and i gave him the benefit of the doubt. But based upon the bolded language -- in that, he was and still is all talk.
Obama has shown that while he talks a good story, is personable, and yes, i do believe he cares about the Country and it's problems -- he hasn't shown he is capable of LEADING the country and he sure the hell isn't capable of CONTROLLING an out of control government.
Yes, you can blame the children for their behavior - and i do believe a lot of seats in our government will be in for a surprise next election of same -- however, if a leader is incapable of leading them -- to me, that person is incapable of leading them and our country as a whole.
angel
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