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Ace, this is not an Obama creation.
Yes, the current Standard Operating Systems stay in place.
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I have a good memory, and I am amazed by the rhetoric Obama used against the systems and the people in charge of them compared to now.
That is the starting point - understand that most of my rants against Obama is just my way of venting frustration. I just don't like b.s. artists, and he is a master at it.
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Are you expecting Obama will/can make an FDR move,
given the state of current, & much more complicated political affairs?
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I expect a Reagan approach. Use the office to inspire great things, and get out of the way and let it happen. Some consider FDR one of our greatest Presidents, I don't.
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What wand do you see magically waving away decades of past decisions that have placed us where we now stew?
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Assuming, I was Obama, and I actually believed the words that came out of my mouth - I would have made major change in every institution of government. In the context of the spill, he admits his administration acted too slow in changing the culture of the regulatory agencies. If I believed the regulatory agencies were corrupt I would have spent time fixing that before doing a lot of things he has done.
And, if I felt I could not trust BP, the wand I would have waved would have been to "fire" them from plugging the leak and the clean up (simply send them the bill), reinspect all their rigs, and start canceling contracts if their performance was substandard across the board, and move to freeze assets until the matters got resolved. That would have happened in the first week, and at any other point in time if I ever felt they failed to maintain my faith and trust in their performance and ability to get the job done. Otherwise, they would be my partner, we would work as a team, under my leadership, with me being accountable. That's how I roll, perhaps that is not Obama's thing - if not perhaps he should have stayed in academia teaching Constitutional law.