gut;1438416 wrote:I think even many liberals are starting to wake-up to the fact that Obama doesn't lead, he campaigns.
Forget the issue, but the comment he made the other day about "not my job to make Congress behave and do their job" was, quite honestly, one of the most shocking abdications of leadership I've ever seen from a POTUS. And as if that weren't bad enough, he's been the most partisan and divisive POTUS in recent memory, He's taking abject failure to new heights.
Obama acts like he's the first POTUS ever to be confronted by "gridlock". It DOES speak to his skill (perhaps his only skill) as a campaigner to not only be accountable, but get re-elected. You're the recognized leader of the Democratic party and you completely run from that responsibility.
Still believing in the Green Lantern Theory of Leadership, eh??
It's very simple. The Republicans in Congress are a stone's throw away from being QuakerOats in ideology. General Patton, George Washington, Spartacus, Jesus Christ, Alexander the Great, nor any other great leader from history could get guys like Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, etc. to agree with things that Obama has proposed...despite their being more conservative than policies endorsed by many republicans in the past.
There is no amount of Leadership (TM) that can overcome the fact that Republicans get more points/praise by being as hostile toward Obama as possible.
Just look at what Frank Luntz said about Rubio getting killed on Talk Radio and by folks like those on this board for even considering an immigration bill.
You need to open your eyes. Even if we accept that Obama "doesn't lead" as you suggest....no amount of Leadership (TM) can persuade the unpersuadable Republicans who will do anything to undermine Obama.