As leader, Obama going to seed

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinio ... id=1348594

Which past leader does Barack Obama most resemble? His admirers, not all of them liberals, used to compare him to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

But no one seriously compares him with Lincoln or FDR anymore.

Conservatives have taken to comparing him, as you might imagine, to Jimmy Carter. But there is another comparison I think more appropriate for a president who, according to one of his foreign-policy staffers, prefers to “lead from behind.” The man I have in mind is Chauncey Gardiner,

Hugh Hewitt agrees with you about the Chauncey part.

He does seem to be more a thinker and delegator than a doer. And some times this is OK for the President, someone working on a long term solution, like Eisenhower's highway plan. But since we are currently in the worst economy since the Great Depression, America needs a man of action.

There are couple Governors running for POTUS with executive experience in both the business and political world I think would be better for the country right now regardless of their party affiliation.

The American Presidency is a horrible place to be learning on the job.

It looks to me he will not be running on his record. He will run against "millionaires and billionaires" , big oil,

oh, and r's want to starve and kill you.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/270739

The current deficit and slow economy is the product of a financial crisis created by deregulation and huge tax cuts for the rich. The solution isn't likely to be deregulation and huge tax cuts for the rich.

The slow economy was caused partly by huge tax cuts for the rich? Which economists besides Krugman are saying this? Were those the tax cuts for the rich, that are now tax rate cuts for everyone, that now only the part that was for the rich should expire (top rates)? It really does get confusing sometimes.

Oh never mind, I see you said deficits and slow economy now, I read it wrong at first.

WayneH wrote: The current deficit and slow economy is the product of a financial crisis created by deregulation and huge tax cuts for the rich. The solution isn't likely to be deregulation and huge tax cuts for the rich.

How about both parties combining with Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac to destroy responsible decades olds mortgage rules like minimum down payments? Making too many people home owners drove prices up to unsustainable levels. Some people were financing with 50 year mortgages.

At the current rate NY foreclosure courts will need 65 years to finish the backlog, but you keep using your talking points that it was huge tax cuts for the rich and deregulation.
BTW, your hero Obama kept this awful Bush tax code and his justice department hasn't been locking away very many of these Wall Street scoflaws, has he? Maybe he doesn't want to attack his donor base?