Name: Anonymous 2009-11-12 11:50
It looks like Obama is going to do Health Care. Bill Clinton couldn't do Health Care. Obama just opens talks with Iran. No recent President has ever done that. Haven't done that since the revolution, right? However, he pretends to be religious, he's an ivy-leaguer, his wife is racist, and I'm not sure what his basic ideals are. Maybe someone that's read one of his books can enlighten me as to what he thinks in terms of ideals.
In all the interviews of Obama that I've found, he's very evasive of tough questions and vague when answering them. It gives me the impression that he doesn't know all that much. A lot of the journalists call him a "pragmatist". Is that basically what he is? A dude who doesn't know that much but looks at problems realistically and critically, gets some good advice, and tries to solve it in the best way?
I get the impression he didn't have a very solid ideology when his presidency started, but he must be forming one as it goes on. He seems to be very much an interventionist economically (though we're yet to see any introductions in terms of economic regulation, I believe), open and practical in terms of international relations (but what about Cuba?), and he's increased focus on racial imbalance in the workforce (apparently this part of the government had been used for religious aims during the Bush administration). To me that's all the big stuff where I can clearly see his view on the issue, but they're still not as clear as I'd like them to be.
In all the interviews of Obama that I've found, he's very evasive of tough questions and vague when answering them. It gives me the impression that he doesn't know all that much. A lot of the journalists call him a "pragmatist". Is that basically what he is? A dude who doesn't know that much but looks at problems realistically and critically, gets some good advice, and tries to solve it in the best way?
I get the impression he didn't have a very solid ideology when his presidency started, but he must be forming one as it goes on. He seems to be very much an interventionist economically (though we're yet to see any introductions in terms of economic regulation, I believe), open and practical in terms of international relations (but what about Cuba?), and he's increased focus on racial imbalance in the workforce (apparently this part of the government had been used for religious aims during the Bush administration). To me that's all the big stuff where I can clearly see his view on the issue, but they're still not as clear as I'd like them to be.