All Barack Obama had to do to be outrageously successful was simply do what he promised to do during his campaign.
Instead, he squandered one of the greatest political mandates in history. Can he recover?
Our nation was in crises when Obama was inaugurated. America needed him to step forward with a clear, compelling plan:
- Stabilize and Stimulate the Economy
- Create Jobs at Home
- End Tax Breaks for Outsourcing American Jobs Overseas
- Motivate Banks to Modify Loans to Troubled Home Owners
- Rebuild our Ailing National Infrastructure as a Job Creation Program
- Reform Wall Street and Banking Regulations
- Reform Health Care, Expand Coverage, Reduce Explosive Cost Growth
- End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and Exit Gracefully
- End DADT
Instead we heard little and saw Max Baucus posturing to TV cameras.
Leadership means identifying and articulating the nation's most pressing problems and then presenting and pursuing plans to resolve them.
Health care reform, while important, was not perceived as among the nation's most pressing problems.
He forgot the words that elected Bill Clinton: "It's the economy, stupid!"
They bailed out banks and Wall Street and ignored Main Street. We wondered if the Obama Administration knew what was truly important to Americans and if they had a plan to fix it.
They spent their time with wealthy, powerful financial services players and ignored the people who depend most on our nation's prosperity.
Rahm Emanuel's profane criticisms of progressives and labor unions and Robert Gibbs' quips about whining showed they clearly didn't understand or care about the people who put them in office.
Can Obama Come Back?
If he comes up with clear, compelling steps to end America's pain and solve our problems. State simple goals everyone can agree on.
Who is against creating good, permanent jobs at home? Who is against containing exploding health care costs? This is what the nation must do, in clear, simple, compelling terms.
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