Originally posted by really
Originally posted by SpartanKingLeonidas
My biggest problem with Obama is the fact that his speeches are only about the potential of America and what it can become, which means he is putting
the crux of our problems on the American citizens for not solving their own problems, and instead of doing his damn job he is pointing out that the
citizens can make the change themselves which is ludicrous to say the least....
Spartanking, I only cut your quote down because I'm tired of getting slammed for one-liners or quoting too much.
That being said, this post is the best one I've seen in awhile. I'm glad you threw in both administrations. Both of them were and are full of liars.
Your sentiment about the potential of America and putting it on American citizens is sooooo true. Like we can do anything. Nope, we can't. The idea
that we can is ludicrous. I'll find some time to change the country after working 45-50 hours and paying my bills.
I'm glad you didn't get partisan or talk about failed ideologies. You just stuck to the plain truth. Thank you.
[edit on 16-10-2009 by really]
Thank you.
I am not a partisan person, so me commenting is not about Republican or Democrat.
It is directly because of the person I speak about and their ability or failure to follow through.
I know we as a people can do certain things, I was never stating we cannot make a change for ourselves, but instead that the man who is in place to
make the largest change for our nation, to open up jobs, to open up a lot opportunity, is doing just the opposite.
The Cult of the
Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power
Amazon Review :
The Bush years have given rise to fears of a resurgent Imperial Presidency. Those fears are justified, but the problem cannot be solved simply by
bringing a new administration to power.
In his provocative new book, The Cult of the Presidency, Gene Healy argues that the fault lies not in our leaders but in ourselves.
When our scholars lionize presidents who break free from constitutional restraints, when our columnists and talking heads repeatedly call upon the
"commander in chief " to dream great dreams and seek the power to achieve them--when voters look to the president for salvation from all problems
great and small--should we really be surprised that the presidency has burst its constitutional bonds and grown powerful enough to threaten American
liberty?
The Cult of the Presidency takes a step back from the ongoing red team/blue team combat and shows that, at bottom, conservatives and liberals agree on
the boundless nature of presidential responsibility.
For both camps, it is the president's job to grow the economy, teach our children well, provide seamless protection from terrorist threats, and
rescue Americans from spiritual malaise.
Very few Americans seem to think it odd, says Healy, "when presidential candidates talk as if they're running for a job that's a combination of
guardian angel, shaman, and supreme warlord of the earth."
Healy takes aim at that unconfined conception of presidential responsibility, identifying it as the source of much of our political woe and some of
the gravest threats to our liberties.
If the public expects the president to heal everything that ails us, the president is going to demand--or seize--the power necessary to handle that
responsibility.
Interweaving historical scholarship, legal analysis, and trenchant cultural commentary, The Cult of the Presidency traces America's decades-long
drift from the Framers' vision for the presidency: a constitutionally constrained chief magistrate charged with faithful execution of the laws.
Restoring that vision will require a Congress and a Court willing to check executive power, but Healy emphasizes that there is no simple legislative
or judicial "fix" to the problems of the presidency.
Unless Americans change what we ask of the office--no longer demanding what we should not want and cannot have--we'll get what, in a sense, we
deserve.
I highly suggest everyone read that book.
I am not asking Obama to fix every problem, however, I am asking the man to quit mis-spending our money by giving it away to the banks, the car
industry, and the false failures who are seeking a hand-out, those industries have trillions, stuck away in research and development, or in various
other areas and us citizens do not and I am not asking for a hand-out from the man, I'd refuse it if he offered it, instead he should have already
started creating jobs and tax incentives to American's.
No more pork in our bills and no more money thrown down the drain for uselessness.
Well of course he did! That is what liars do, they lie. And do you want to know what idiots do? They vote for liars
and then defend their lies. Something else he lied about - he stated in one of his gazillion public addresses that the healthcare bill would be
debated on C-Span... Did anyone notice the CLOSED-DOOR session this week where they are debating the healthcare bill!? 
