An ABC Nightline Interview with President Obama

5 comments on “An ABC Nightline Interview with President Obama”

1. Kendall Harmon says:

   January 21, 2010 at 7:09 pm

   I caught this on the morning run–tried to be sympathetic, but there still seems too much imperviousness to me.

2. Henry Greville says:

   January 21, 2010 at 9:24 pm

   Americans expect too much hand-holding from American Presidents. The country was set up with legislative, judicial, and executive branches in order to avoid monarchy in every way possible, yet Americans turn on chief executives of the executive branch less for governing and foreign relations policy disagreements than for not satisfyingly acting, as Britain’s monarchs are expected to act, as figureheads of the state who go around in public as pastoral comforters to the nation. In just one year’s time, President Obama and Congress have had had enormous problems fall into their laps in addition to the economic collapse that began many months before the beginning of the Obama administration. Americans should thank God for Obama’s cool head and long-term thinking, both much to be preferred in crisis than emotional reactivity to each day’s headlines.

3. evan miller says:

   January 22, 2010 at 1:12 am

   Right Henry. Keep whistling past the graveyard. Thank God people are waking up to the magnitude of the federal government’s encroachment into ever more aspects of people’s lives and are saying enough is enough. It is the arrogant over-reach of Mr. Obama, Mr. Reid and Mrs. Pelosi, and their blatantly corrupt partisan deal making that has revolted the man in the street.

4. Kendall Harmon says:

   January 22, 2010 at 1:18 am

   I think #2 is right that there is too much focus on the President and the responsibility lies with all three branches. We seem no longer to elect legislators who can legislate in the congress, alas.

5. Dilbertnomore says:

   January 23, 2010 at 5:32 am

   Actually, Kendall, I think we have three branches of our government that want to either take on responsibilities of the others or push off difficult Constitutional obligations to others. The Executive (of both parties over many administrations) wants to control things not authorized through enacted legislation by regulation via Executive Orders. The Legislature seeks cover from actions it should take legislatively through commissions or serving up softballs ripe for regulation or judicial interpertation and also attempts to micro-manage the Executive on a selective basis. The Judiciary, since Marbury v. Madison, has sought to inject itself more deeply into the running of the government than described in the writings of the founders.

   And of course, We The People bear ultimate responsibility because we have not defended and preserved our Constitution as our Founding Fathers had hope and prayed we would.