November 05, 2008
With a fast searching, I slapped together a little list, first dealing with New Orleans:
- “protecting hurricane protection got screaming ovations†[…] But his statement reflects a lack of understanding of the flood protection system's fundamental problems.
- “His mention of wetlands in the next sentence is a start, but he indicated a lack of detailed knowledge about the systematic problems.â€
- “Obama said, "We will ensure that every displaced resident can return to a home." Displaced residents - excluding, unfortunately, public-housing residents - already have the legal right to return to their homes. How will Obama go further than the expensive, complex Road Home program in helping residents return? He offered no actual solutions to the problem of residents struggling to return to
- “Certainly, Obama's pledge at the end of his speech to spend every day working on this "priority of my presidency" may be substantial. But, as he noted himself,
President-elect Obama also promised to 'remake the world':
- "This is the moment when we must renew the goal of a world without nuclear weapons."
- "This is the moment we must help answer the call for a new dawn in the
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- “My country must stand with yours and with Europe in sending a direct message to
- “The world should support the millions of Iraqis who seek to rebuild their lives, even as we pass responsibility to the Iraqi government and finally bring this war to a close.â€
Cutting military spending is one of those promises as well.
Now, what is listed so far is not my words or things I’ve made up. There is article after article of promises. Of course, no one expects politicians to keep promises, but I don’t know if President-elect Obama supporters know that. It’s already been said elsewhere that his campaign’s was recently making efforts to drawdown his ‘I promise’ level. Well, he’d been elected now, and we don’t know if his supporters got the memo.
Yes, President-elect Obama stands at an historic point, but is it a pivotal point? To keep even some of his promises, the new president is going to have to pivot and be able to pivot often. His party, presently, owns the whole shebang, but Midterm elections will come fast and furious to the unwary. The last time the electorate was displeased the Democrats lost both houses.
President-elect Obama is the new leader of the ravenously party and he’s going to have to keep them fed.
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