Seeing Obama in the Town Hall -- I really like the guy but not the pussyfooting

[Armstead]

Listening to President Obama, my impression was that

1)I really like him, he's smart, and on specifics I basically agree with him

But

2)He keeps avoiding the core problem and the core struggle by refusing to be "ideological."

I'm not in favor of raging ideology in a president. But the fact is that we are in a death struggle between two opposing visions today -- The Conservative view that government has to get out of the way and let the markets and private sector (i.e. the Oligarchs)continue to run roughshod, and the Liberal view that we have to amp up government to actually get these Big Bastards under control and reorient the system to serve poeple at all levels.

Maybe he's frustrated at being branded a "socialist" by the Fux news crowd. But rather than pretending there is no competing ideology, he ought to be championing liberalism as the antidote to the rapacious greed and concentrations of power that have driven us all into the ditch.

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[Armstead]

2. No -- But not confrontational enough

It's the Bill Clinton approach, when the times need someone more willing to pick a fight.

(Especially when the opponents have already picked the fight.)

[TheKentuckian]

3. The post-partisan Schick prevents aggressive tactics and proper placement of blame

The refusal to indict their bogus philosophy is a huge failure as well. He lets Reaganism stand and it will undo us. He will not go to the roots.

[Armstead]

4. Exactly -- We need to lance the boil of that rancid ideology