Before I start, I want to give a disclaimer. The following is a political analysis of President Obama. Let it be known that I am not doing this because I hate him, think he is the anti-Christ, want him to be run out of the White House by an angry mob with torches and pitchforks, or that he is a bad person. I just thought this analysis was interesting. We now return to our regularly scheduled blog.
In this political commentary, Nolan Finley, describes how President Obama is disconnecting his words from actions. He argues that Obama has, for a year now, been campaigning for his policies but has not actually accomplished anything of note. The article speaks on the President’s actions, the State of the Union address and other comments Obama has made throughout the country.
I feel that Finley is analyzing these things because he feels it is important that the public see more than they are, or hear more than they are currently hearing. His analysis enables a reader to delve deeper into this topic than normally is shared.
The commentary added interesting insight for the State of the Union address and also President Obama’s proposed budget. Finley describes the dichotomy that occurs in the State of the Union. President Obama declared several times that he was seeking to bridge the gap between Democrats and Republicans, going so far as to say he was going to meet with the Congressional Republicans to heal relations and get work done. Finley points out that he contradicts that sentiment several times by blaming Republicans for slowing things down and blaming the previous administration for the problems our nation has. It was interesting to see how Finley turns the blame for a lot of the lack of progress on Obama for not providing leadership and not accepting responsibility. On the proposed budget, Finley describes how Obama has claimed, “We simply cannot continue to spend as if deficits don't have consequences.” This provides an interesting insight when you consider that the President’s budget has a deficit of $1.3 trillion dollars.
I feel that Finley accomplished his purpose of showing his audience the dichotomy that he feels President Obama has created.
Here is the article
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It's a little weak-sauce. Obama inherited half of that deficit ($500 billion) from Bush, and even conservatives would argue that the other half is the result of the mortgage market crash, which was a problem Bush recognized in his 2007 State of the Union and didn't get fixed.
ReplyDeleteThe argument that Obama's nonpartisan rhetoric is insincere depends on whether you really believe that Republicans -aren't- playing obstructionist politics and trying to disrupt his administration.
I mean, if his actions are really just a diabolical scheme to get re-elected at any cost, he's doing a terrible job. His poll numbers suck right now. On the other hand, if the Republican Party is trying to make sure he accomplishes nothing so they can oust him in 2012, it seems to be working.