<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Obama's Self Reflection Moment: I look like the same old 'tax and spend Democrat'...should have 'let the Republicans insist on the tax cuts'<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/obamas-self-reflection-moment-i-look-like-the-same-old-tax-and-spend-democrat-should-have-let-the-republicans-insist-on-the-tax-cuts/> *Scotty Starnes <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| October 13, 2010 at 2:14 PM | Tags: Barack Obama <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/barack-obama/>, Michelle Obama<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/michelle-obama/>, Obama <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/obama/>, President Obama<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/president-obama/>, Repubicans <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/repubicans/>, stimulus<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/stimulus/>, tax and spend democrats<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/tag/tax-and-spend-democrats/>| Categories: Uncategorized <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/> | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-33L
Self reflection from Obama is a little too late. It is funny how this happens three weeks before the midterm elections, where due to his policies, Democrats are predicted to suffer huge defeats. The New York Times <http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/president-obama-looks-forward-and-back/> reports: President Obama said that he expected Republicans to offer him more cooperation after November’s elections, no matter the outcome. In an hour-long interview with the Times’s White House correspondent, Peter Baker, Mr. Obama predicted that his political rivals would either be chastened by falling short of their electoral goals or burdened with the new responsibility that comes from achieving them. “It may be that regardless of what happens after this election, they feel more responsible, either because they didn’t do as well as they anticipated, and so the strategy of just saying no to everything and sitting on the sidelines and throwing bombs didn’t work for them,” Mr. Obama said. “Or they did reasonably well, in which case the American people are going to be looking to them to offer serious proposals and work with me in a serious way.” Yes, because your policies have nothing to do with the anger in America. It wasn't the Republicans who passed the stimulus and health care bills that nobody read. It hasn't been the Republicans who have been in the majority since 2007. It wasn't the Republicans who passed the record-setting budget deficts. Again, Obama takes no responsibility and points blame at others. The president’s comments are reported in an in-depth assessment<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/magazine/17obama-t.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all>of Mr. Obama’s first two years in office that appears in the Times Magazine this Sunday. In the article, which is based on interviews with nearly two dozen of the president’s advisers in addition to the president himself, Mr. Baker offers a series of inside details about Mr. Obama’s time in the White House, including: - *According to his wife, Michelle Obama, Mr. Obama is not particularly fond of the presidential retreat at Camp David. Mrs. Obama reports that her husband, a longtime resident of Chicago, is more at ease in an urban setting *. Sounds...a bit...racists? Wonder how he felt when he was raised by those typical white grandparents when his third world loving mom and drunk-driving killer dad abandoned him? - Pete Rouse, Mr. Obama’s new chief of staff, bet the deputy chief of staff, Jim Messina, $400 that he would be gone from the White House by the end of this year. Mr. Messina predicted that Mr. Rouse would stay well beyond that date. - Mr. Obama — unlike most of his senior staff — does not have an iPad. Asked why, he said: “Because I have an iReggie,” a reference to his personal aide, Reggie Love. *In the magazine article, Mr. Obama reflects on his presidency, admitting that he let himself look too much like “the same old tax-and-spend Democrat,” realized too late that “there’s no such thing as shovel-ready projects” and perhaps should have “let the Republicans insist on the tax cuts” in the stimulus.* Continue reading>>><http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/president-obama-looks-forward-and-back/> Add a comment to this post<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2010/10/13/obamas-self-reflection-moment-i-look-like-the-same-old-tax-and-spend-democrat-should-have-let-the-republicans-insist-on-the-tax-cuts/#respond> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/11765/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/11765/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gofacebook/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/11765/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gotwitter/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/11765/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/11765/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/11765/> <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/scottystarnes.wordpress.com/11765/> [image: WordPress] WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com/> | Thanks for flying with WordPress! Manage Subscriptions<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com>| Unsubscribe<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=5d39acfd19218362d540a3fc3dc3315d&email=baconlard%40gmail.com&b=HIW%7CV%5BgcYUsNSxxyfzbX%2FIo%5D2BiUXFzL7b8%3D%26r6D>| Express yourself. Start a blog. <http://wordpress.com/signup/?ref=email> *Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser:* http://subscribe.wordpress.com -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
