Do you think that Pres Obama and his team are aware that he is being criticized as a weak president?

[Poiuyt]

And not just by us in the loony fringe, but also by the MSM. If they are aware, do they even care? Do they think that capitulating to the republicans will help his reelection? Or are they not monitoring the opinion pages and don't know what everyone is saying?

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Is there any limit...

...to the appetite for rhetorical questions at DU? Do those asking them expect answers? Are they actually going to listen in the unlikely event they get one?

[villager]

9. Rhetorical questions to admonish perceived rhetorical questions?

:shrug:

[TheMadMonk]

25. It's not a rhetorical question. It is however the WRONG question.

BTW, He knows.

The proper question is: What payoff is he getting for being the punching bag of the facist right?

[Autumn]

2. Of course they know. Do they care? Probably not.n/t

[bananas]

6. He said he was going to make a lot of Democrats mad at him for giving away things in the debt deal.

So he knew he was going to piss us off.

[defendandprotect]

21. Looks like that was the plan ... wasn't it? You don't end up corporate by accident ... do you?

[Skittles]

3. LOL

at this point I am not sure he is aware of ANYTHING

[fascisthunter]

4. I think it's mainly ideologically driven

so no, I not think they care what we say or how we feel.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. I have no fucking clue what they're doing, what they think and I highly doubt they give a rats ass

what WE and the general public thinks.

[Angry Dragon]

10. then how can he say he is representing the people when he

does not listen to them??

[in_cog_ni_to]

27. He can't say that because he isn't representing us. He made that quite obvious when he

put SS and Medicare "on the table." He does NOT have our back.

[Vanje]

7. I learned right here at DU

that Predident Obama is so very urgently interested in the views, of regular folks, that he reads 10 (TEN!) citizen letters a day, hand scrutinized, individually selected , and fully edited by his Wall Street derived Staff.

[Tx4obama]

20. Those 10 letters are only the ones that he personally writes out replies to.

The letters are not edited, and they cover various issues.

He listens to more folks than only ten a day.

Please don't try to spin it into something that it is not.

How many handwritten letters is President Obama, in your opinion, supposed to write each day in order to gain your approval?

[gateley]

8. My eyes were opened after the Health Care issue. Here we were

bitching he gave up too much, and Robert Gibbs was stunned. THEY were looking at it as a hard-fought accomplishment, first health care reform in years, did what he vowed to do during his campaign, etc. etc.

They look at it from the inside, they're the ones going through all the machinations, and to be fair, it always seems simpler to those outside looking in. But it struck me as a Venus/Mars type of disconnect. We often think the other side knows exactly how we feel, yet they are interpreting it through their own filter.

Just an observation. No comment on whether Obama is aware or cares about the "weak" charges, because I honestly don't know. Because I'm not on the "inside". :7

[defendandprotect]

22. Many eyes were opened after the trampling of single payer health care .... 2010 -- !!!

But don't there is a disconnect --

Think was intended to be and is very much so a corporate administration -- !!

[gateley]

24. Well you're certainly not alone in that view, but I'm one of the

ones who doesn't quite buy it. Don't know for sure, but that's my sense of it. :shrug:

[Armstead]

11. I think they know but are too arrogent to care

"Those naive leftists out there will see the truth, as our three- dimensional chess comes to fruition."

[Gin]

12. IMO he sees himself as right....and any criticism is seen as "taking the heat"

from dems....his mind is made up and closed to any other way of doing things...sometimes what he says is condescending...as in we have to eat our peas...that is a clue into his mind set...smarter than all the rest...and more mature since we all need a parent.

[Armstead]

14. Yes, something like that.b It's very frustrating.

[EFerrari]

15. The New Paternalism.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. Some here admire his "Father Knows Best" style of governing.

While some of us are fond of the "Of the people, by the people, for the people" style. A rather archaic notion but it still has it's adherents. Poor souls just don't understand, or appreciate, "practical" politics.

[emilyg]

13. They know. They don't care.

[Ruby the Liberal]

16. "I take John Boehner at his word - neither party wants to see the full faith and credit of the US

questioned"

Paraphrase from December 2010.

[McCamy Taylor]

17. They both know and care. But they lack the political strategy to deal with it.

Frankly, I am starting to blame Bill Clinton. As far as I am concerned, as the husband of the Secretary of State, he has an obligation to help his wife in her job, and one way he can do that is by giving some sensible advice to the folks in the White House. Either he is not talking---which means he is still in a snit about 2008---or they are not listening. Anyone know which it is?

[DURHAM D]

18. What in the world makes you think Obama wants to hear from Clinton?

They would slam the door in his face. Obama would never take his call.


Blaming Clinton... Really? Really? Usually you are smarter than that.

[in_cog_ni_to]

28. LOL! It's Bill Clinton's fault now! G-d. How did we ever miss that one?

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::

[marlakay]

19. I think this black woman was right on tv with what she

said about him, that he is a man pleaser all his life trying to fit in and get the white guys to like him. It won't work but he has been this way his whole life so she doesn't think he will change.

[uponit7771]

26. Few adults take DU bashers, FUDrs and professional left seriously

[jtown1123]

29. They are aware but it only forces them to move further to the right...for some reason they find

moving to the left as a sign of weakness

[ThomWV]

30. Obama seems to think its a badge of honor, a show of strength to beat up on his own base

He says he knows it will make a lot of Democrats angry - and he sees his strength as being directly proportional to that anger. He sees himself as a brave super hero willing to stand up to his own party - and he assumes if he does that somehow things will work out to the best - not because he has a plan for the future, but because he won't accept yes from his own party as an answer worth seeking out.

You vote for him if you like, I tried it once and it didn't work out for me.