Obama is out on the campaign trail trying to help the Dems keep Congress blue. One of the things that appears to be creating a little backlash for the president, is that his reforms are not nearly as popular as he thought they would be.
When asked about that, the president responded, “We had to move so fast, we were in such emergency mode, that it was very difficult for us to spend time a lot doing victory laps and advertising exactly what we were doing because we had to move onto the next thing, …I take some responsibility for that,” said the president.
Obama, you douche, you are the leader of the nation, you get to take ALL responsibility for that. First rule of leadership, “Everything is YOUR fault.” (source) Do you honestly think the CEO of BP had anything directly to do with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? No, of course not. But is he responsible? YES!
And here we are at the usual problem I have with a lot of the government programs, especially those pandered by the Democrats (but let’s face it, you Republicans are not innocent of this either): Personal responsibility for your actions and the actions of your subordinates should be a foreign concept. In a country where school teachers are trying to be parents, even dictate what medications the children should be on, is it really shocking the liberal president tries to dodge some blame? Don’t worry about doubling the national debt either, Mr. President, that is someone else’s fault too.
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- 10 Signs You Might Be A Douche (coedmagazine.com)
- “Republican calls Obama campaigning a wrong turn” and related posts (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
- Obama says he should have advertised policies better (cnn.com)
- Obama at backyard gathering: I didn’t sell policies well (seattlepi.com)
- Steven G. Brant: Did BP Just Blow Up The Obama Presidency? (huffingtonpost.com)
- Obama says he should have sold his policies better (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
- BP CEO hits back at media and politicians (sfgate.com)

If you work in the US, you get these letters every so often from the Social Security Administration to let you know what your benefits will be, or would be, based on wages, taxes paid, etc. They are just depressing, since in my tax bracket, I actually put more money into SS than I will get back if I die before the age of 132.

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