| Ooey-gooey centrism. His State of the Union address should have been more muted and strategic. How would the president get the GOP behind his agenda? Where's the common ground he and his political opponents could use to work together? Obama offered a little of that middle ground Tuesday night, but even more, he doubled down on the strength and wisdom of his own message and hammered away at GOP talking points.
When, exactly, does the president get to make his speech and present his agenda? I hate to generalize here, but why is it that whenever an elected Democrat gives a speech that presents the agenda that the Democrat wants to see followed, that he or she is criticized by the so-called liberal media for not presenting the agenda that the Republican Party has laid out? Stephen Henderson is mad that the president left very little common ground to work on with people who think that allowing everyone to pack heat into schools makes kids safe, who believe that cutting taxes for the very wealthy makes everyone else more prosperous by way of osmosis and who continue to insist that climate change is a communist plot. Why should a president with a working understanding of reality be expected to offer common ground to thinking rooted in fantasy? |
