Stephen Carter's Inept Diss of The President

Standard & Poor’s Was Right to Downgrade U.S. Debt - The Daily Beast

Stephen Carter is not inept if he wishes to criticize the President for slamming S and P. I disagree with him but, hey, chacque un a son gout. Where he is truly inept is in suggesting that Obama could simply tell Congress to pass Simpson-Bowles. And in saying that Obama has not led an effort to create a grand bargain. Where has Stephen Carter been the past months? No. The past years? The issue is the criminal activity of the GOP from the beginning. Hillary was right. There is a vast right wing conspiracy. Its minions in Congress are capable of blocking anything Obama proposes. And the only solution is us - the electorate. Turn the GOP out. Make them a miniscule force. I am amazed that intelligent critics of Obama cannot see this and support the President with a measure of understanding. Instead they have criticized Obama from the start as he has achieved major change despite challenges. He will continue to lead so with no help from the Stephen Carters of the world. And he will prevail. Has Stephen Carter ever heard of rope-a-dope?




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Obama's Passion is Krugman on Steroids

What Happened to Obama’s Passion? - NYTimes.com: "But the arc of history does not bend toward justice through capitulation cast as compromise." This long and tendentious piece probably should have been edited by David Brooks. It is the conventional progressive rap on the President. It demeans his past with faint praise and worn-out reporting. And it fails with practically everyone else to perceive the rope-a-dope at the heart of the Obama methodology which proceeds in Peircean Threes. That is to say, he never does not have a goal which he announces with such clarity that the progressives take it to be an unkept promise rather than something he genuinely intends to achieve. The narrative that the writer puts into Obama's mouth as a salient riposte is laughable. Were there any fresh fish left to wrap, this multi page zinger would be ideal. There is more here that elucidates the President's actual MO.

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