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2 Responses to Critiquing Obama While Defending Him on O’Reilly Factor [Fox News]
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Your segment on “The Factor” demonstrates why the chasm continues to exist in the American political arena. You failed to insist that members of both political parties are to blame for the obvious disconnect from problem-solving in Congress, and you failed to strongly pin the ultimate blame on the president. As an independent voter (and a union member), I can readily see the hypocrisy of your stance. It is important for you to ponder and digest that the intense stalemate and reticence to cooperate, although not new in Washington, was exacerbated by Obama when he made and continues to make polarizing statements and policies. Take from this group and give to that group, bring the bottom up, close down the coal-driven economies of entire areas, the police acted stupidly, the previous administration did this or that—all of these things created “class warfare” that this newly minted, self-appointed “messiah” is now trying to blame on others. He has never been a decision-maker of any note; he voted “present” a majority of the time while in the Illinois Senate; while the head of a US Senate committee, he never held a single meeting; he has failed to lead Congress from his presidential pulpit. Remember, too, that instead of making his first two years–when Democrats controlled both houses and the presidency–a time when tackling the economy should have been his main objective, he foisted social engineering, like the Obamacare fiasco, upon the American people. He misrepresented who he was to both extremes of the political spectrum, and now he is paying the political price–no one believes him or in him–and understandably so. Too many Americans heard the siren voice calling them to “hope and change,” and they landed on that beckoning island, only to wake up to the fact that the voice had no soul and the island on the sea of government had no compass.