We suggest that Obama has given more than 720 speeches, announcements, personal appearances, and international presentations. Some may have taken no more than an hours time to write, review and deliver. Others include many hours of travel time (i.e. the Cairo speech, the speech in Germany, Copenhagen). If we allow 3 hours on average for each speech, we are looking at 2160 hours of time spent in the flapping of the gums -- a total of 9 months if we figure an 8 hour day. Add another half month for 30 rounds of golf and you have 2 1/2 months remaining in the first year for this man to actually get something done --- which to date has been next to nothing if we measure "getting something done" in terms of measurable accomplishments. " We give you these comments because "talk, talk, talk" is the criticism of the Libs against Obama in the following sampling from the Huffing Post.
From the Huffington Post:
". . . . . . . . Do you think Americans ought to have one choice of health insurance plans the insurance companies don't control, or don't you? I don't want to hear that it would sort of, kind of, maybe be your preference, all other things being equal. Do you think we ought to use health care as a Trojan Horse for right-wing abortion policies? Say something, for God's sake.
He doesn't need a chief of staff. He needs someone to shake him until he feels something strongly enough not just to talk about it but to act. He's increasingly appearing to the public, and particularly to swing voters, like Dukakis without the administrative skill. And although he is likely to squeak by with a personal victory in 2012 if the economy improves by then, he may well do so with a Republican Congress. But then I suppose he'll get the bipartisanship he always wanted.
No Vision, No Message
The second problem relates to the first. The president just doesn't want to enunciate a progressive vision of where this country should be heading in the 21st century, particularly a progressive vision of government and its relation to business. He doesn't want to ruffle what he believes to be the feathers of the American people, to offer them a coherent, emotionally resonant, values-driven message -- starting with an alternative to Ronald Reagan's message that government is the problem and not the solution -- and to see if they might actually follow him. . . . . . . . " end of Huffington quote.
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