Time to Fight and Lead

For the time being I’ve given up on politics. It is Obama who has discouraged me. The right wing is fighting and he is not fighting back. At least President Clinton fought back even though he had a lot of baggage to weigh him down. But I feel as powerless as I did when Bush was in office. I can only watch as Obama talks about making concessions but doesn’t really fight back. I still think that the thing for him to do would be to titrate up his rhetoric until he regained control of the national dialogue. I wish that he would bring to the fore a dialogue about what is appropriate in political discourse and what is not appropriate. Public talk about defeating the president, as the primary goal of the opposition, is simply not appropriate and that fact should be underscored and bolded. The president could then pick an opponent who is least appealing and set him up as the symbol of the opposition. It would probably be the leader in the house, John Boehner. He could focus sharply on the issues and attack when the discussion wandered off target. Then he could state the case for the democrats as forcefully, as eloquently and as repetitively as possible. If other prominent democrats could be enlisted to support the talking points, that would be all the better. If he could do that he could inspire the base and lead the country.