Where's Obama is much like Where's Waldo?
Obama reminding me of Waldo once again!
Yesterday I heard President Obama speak. He was in Wisconsin at a labor rally for Labor Day. The speech reminded me of the “Where’s Waldo” books, that my son used to read as a kid, because I was thinking where has this guy been? The guy that showed up to speak yesterday wasn’t the person we have seen this past year. President Obama seems to be back in “campaign mode”. He hit a lot of “right” notes especially with his 50 billion dollar plan for infrastructure and his “no privatization” of Social Security.
The problem is the “believability factor”. He waits until just before the election to bring out a plan that he knows won’t be able to get through Congress before the election in November. Is this the ploy? You have to vote for “his” guys, so they can get the plan through? Why didn’t he give this speech months ago when it could have been passed before the election? This is why politics and political parties are looked at with such disgust and mistrust. Waiting until the last possible moment before an election to introduce a new “plan” makes some of us wonder if this is just a “Hail Mary” pass to save the Democrats in November, or is he really planning on going through with the plan?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYPuQBSYSUE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBLAg1CU03c
From CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/06/obama.economy/?hpt=T1
“Today, I am announcing a new plan for rebuilding and modernizing America’s roads, and rails and runways for the long term,” said Obama, who spoke on Labor Day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin — a state that has extremely competitive gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races. “I want America to have the best infrastructure in the world.”
The 50 billion is the up front money but this plan is to work over a period of the next six years. It has been my understanding that a lot of the stimulus money hasn’t been apportioned out yet which makes this additional money just look like “more pie in the sky.”
Of course Rep. John Boehner and Representative Eric Cantor have already come out against it. Eric basically labeled it with the word “stimulus” as though that’s a dirty word and said we couldn’t afford any more of that, which should tell everyone that the Republicans will not really invest in the bulk of this country. They will invest in tax cuts for the wealthy and the business class but everyone else can continue to wait for it to “trickle down”, you know like in a “cold day from hell” time! Both of these guys will send a never ending supply of money for the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq which include money for infrastructure over there, but they won’t do anything about our infrastructure over here. President Obama has labeled the Republicans as the party of “No” and they have lived up to everything he has said about them.
We, as American voters, must decide what to do and it is not an easy decision as neither party seems to have the where with all to get us out of the economic mess that we are in. The Democrats are willing to try something. The Republicans only want to take away. They will extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and then they will take away benefits like Social Security. They will develop any program or tax cut that helps the wealthy or the upper echelon of businesses but if you think they will help the rest of us. Think again!
President Obama has played his “Where’s Waldo” act too many times to be really credible. He’s been all over the place so it’s hard to figure out where he really is on any given issue. He say’s he wont “privatize” Social Security but he surrounds himself with people like Alan Simpson. He said a lot of things during the election and we have had to look all over the place for “Waldo” since he’s been president. This act does nothing to reassure the American people. The American people don’t have the energy to search for “Waldo” and carry the water for him any more. If the Democrats want to win in November they had better get “Waldo” back on track and “visible” and I don’t mean in another “vacation” moment. We’re tired of seeing “Waldo” and his family on vacation as he appears to be a carbon copy of our last “vacationing” president. Waldo has to give us more than a speech, more than just words. We must have real action so we don’t have to keep searching for Waldo as actions speak louder than words. A picture is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately, President Obama’s current picture is too close to “Waldo” hiding in a crowd of nothingness.