[quote=AustinRanter
It's The System, Stupid...by Doug Thompson...check it out...see if it makes sense... Ardy...please know that the title of the article is not intended to be a slur against you. It does contain some viable points.
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Yes, I mostly agree with all that Doug wrote there....
and, IMO, if you follow the logic.... there is not a whole lot that Obama can do.... Maybe someone can interpret Dougs piece for me in a way where I can see that he would have the poswer to do something REALLY siginificant... other than perhaps launch a nuclear strike on Iran. But other than the. it seems to me that the powerful interests have well protected positions from which they cannot be easily evicted.
And if the point of this thread is....
OK, Obama is essentially powerless (because of the systemic problems that Doug identified).... and Obama has not accomplished much to change the system (because of the systemic problems that Doug identified)... even though he actually could not accomplish much (because to the systemic problems that Doug identified]... and therefore we define him as a failure (despite the systemic problems that Doug identified).
Is this what passes for trenchant political analysis these days? You see, it is not that I disagree with whether or not so very much has been accomplished. I am just looking at what is possible to be accompished (given the systemic problems that Doug identified) And if really not that much can be done by one individual (because of the systemic problems that Doug identified) ... then my standard for evaluating that person as a failure is apparently much differnt than Doug's standard.
