The President speaks to a bi-partisan group of college students

[jefferson_dem]

Run time: 03:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CemfB_Z6elY   Posted on YouTube: July 14, 2011 By YouTube Member: whitehouse Views on YouTube: 304   Posted on DU: July 15, 2011 By DU Member: jefferson_dem Views on DU: 2020

 

[DFW]

1. He and/or his staff clearly do read the blogosphere and discuss what they read

Obama himself states that some call him a pure liberal and some call him a Wall Street tool.

"Wall Street tool?" He didn't read THAT in the Washington Post. That's blog language. They
do read the blogs, and they make a note of what they read.

So keep on posting!!

[simonmagnus]

2. Is Obama Wall Street tool?

What do we call someone that allows the rape and pillage of American wealth to go to banksters on Wall Street? What do we call someone that surrounds himself with Wall street manipulators?

Perhaps "tool" is a harsh word.

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[suzanner]

3. That was disturbing because it's a paradox...

the liar paradox (one of us always lies and one of us always tells the truth, so guess which is which). When two sides have distinctly opposite agendas, one based on either false facts or the other based on real facts, I don't see that listening to false facts will accomplish anything. I wish a psychologist would weigh in on this one.

[RBInMaine]

4. Obama is spot on brilliant and correct here as usual, and anyone who has ever actually governed

anything and understands our history and our system of government, or has been involved in an organization where tasks and goals had to be formulated and accomplished, knows that he is simply speaking the truth. Purists make a lot of noise, but rarely actually ACCOMPLISH anything. They need to get onto the planet. Thanks Mr. President for again being the adult in the room.

[JJW]

5. On the other hand

One can be too willing to compromise that one ends up standing for nothing.

[young but wise]

6. K&R.

[joeweed]

7. Obama gave up

and this is intended to fool the youth into thinking he's actually been trying to fight the good fight...
he says that you have to compromise, but where was the compromise when Bush was in office... it was "you're either with us or you're against us"... period...
Is he proud of himself? what progressive step has he accomplished? All I hear in this video are excuses for failure to deliver on any of his campaign promises, and a calm acceptance that he never will be able to... hum dum

[slay]

9. Yeah

i hear ya man - and i agree. Oh and - Welcome to DU!. :hi:

[SanchoPanza]

10. The most extreme of the Radical Republicans DID challenge Lincoln in 1864.

Though primaries didn't exist in the Republican Party at the time, a group of Radical Republicans held an alternate convention and nominated John Fremont, one of the first two Senators from California and an ardent abolitionist, to run against him in the general election. They despised Lincoln for his pocket veto of the Wade-Davis Bill and very genuinely thought he was capitulating to Southern political interests in order to gain political power for himself.

The reason why most people don't know this, very likely including the President himself, is that Fremont's challenge ended up being a miserable failure. Though many influential Republicans opposed Lincoln's renomination, like Horace Greely, the editor of the New York Tribune, Fremont got little in the way of meaningful support and ended up abandoning his campaign three months after he was nominated. Once Lincoln secured his own renomination, the dissenters fell in line and supported him. There are some accounts that the Radicals were able to negotiate the resignation of Montgomery Blair, a prominent opponent of theirs in the Cabinet, from the office of Postmaster General in exchange for dropping out of the race, but in the grand scheme of things this change had little impact and the entire endeavor to challenge Lincoln has become footnote.

And calling it a footnote is being exceedingly generous.

[Hubert Flottz]

11. Obama goes out to the college to talk to young adults.

Bush went out to the grade schools, to tell the little children about a pet goat that wasn't even fucking real.

[mhatrw]

12. The evolution from Lincoln to Obama is striking.

Lincoln compromised by outlawing slavery among his enemies and allowing it among his allies.

In contrast, Obama compromised by allying himself with the slave owners.