He has not done a good job of debunking the bullshit from the other side, or just being tough with them in the first place.
That's why I wanted Hillary. It is the classic difference between a law professor (Obama) and a litigator (Hillary). I am only 6 weeks into my three years and already I walked out of a workshop, in disgust, taught by one of my professors because of his theoretical pontificating about "flow-charting" in the law office. Having ten years of actual legal experience, which is eight years more than him, I knew he was full of bullshit. I'm attending a pretty highly ranked law school, so the vast majority of professors have Obama's personality. They are mostly Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, Georgetown, etc. grads, INCREDIBLY well published, schooled, and groomed.
But, they teach because they can't practice! They are all theory, and philosophy, and ...puke. Hillary, on the other hand, was a flippin' bad-ass litigator (only a small percentage are female). She knows how to pick up the legal sword and kill the opposing side.
She understands that when you have the power hand, like Democrats did in 2008, you PUSH. Obama is all let's just play nicely together. No..we should have (and Hillary would have) played hard-ball WITHIN our own party, threatened into submission the Bluedog Democracts, pushed health care reform, with a public option, down the Republicans' throats, and moved on to the next item on the agenda.
Hillary was hung out by high-ranking members of our party, including Harry Ried, who verbally promised to support her, and then turned their backs on her in favor of a man...eerily reminiscent of the early feminist movement when white men sided with black men against white women. Democrats are reaping what they sowed.
However, with as much anti-Obamaism as there is out there...Republicans are doing pretty badly. With his high negatives, they SHOULD be sweeping both the House and Senate, but instead, will impotently get probably just the House.
BTW, can one of you Republican's inform Sharron Angel about how the Constitution works? She is telling everyone that you guys are going to repeal "Obamacare." But, you won't. See...even if by some chance you were able to get something through, Obama would just veto it,...and you will not have the votes to overcome a Presidential veto. ;)
