{"id":2515,"date":"2009-12-07T13:36:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2515"},"modified":"2009-12-07T13:36:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T18:36:03","slug":"obama-the-admonisher-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2515\/obama-the-admonisher-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama: The Admonisher-in-Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0108\/Clinton_and_Obama_Johnson_and_King.html\" target=\"_blank\">presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said<\/a> that while Obama\u2019s likening himself to Martin Luther King, Jr., was nice, it was really President Lyndon Johnson who changed civil rights from a rhetorical dream into legislative reality?\u00a0 As usual, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/us_elections\/article3173652.ece\" target=\"_blank\">Clinton was criticized<\/a> for speaking truth in public.\u00a0 But her observation \u2013 and comparison \u2013 still rings true today.<\/p>\n<p>Flash forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D9CE0CAG0&amp;show_article=1\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama\u2019s remarks to Senate Democrats<\/a> on Sunday.\u00a0 While his midday sermon was long on admonishments to find common ground, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/06\/AR2009120602676.html?hpid=moreheadlines\" target=\"_blank\">it didn\u2019t give any direction<\/a> on how on to find it.\u00a0 The lack of setting down definitions or benchmarks for success, or even support for moderates needing a safe harbor during tough re-election campaigns, indicates that Obama has no clue how to line up 60 votes in his own caucus.\u00a0 LBJ never seemed to have that problem.\u00a0 Hillary Clinton&#8217;s recognition of this indicates she may have learned more from her failures as First Lady health czar than Obama has over a lifetime of risk aversion.<\/p>\n<p>This is a trend.\u00a0 Since at least his time in law school, Obama has studiously avoided even the appearance of a paper trail.\u00a0 He\u2019s also managed to spend a decade as an elected legislator without authoring a single consequential piece of legislation.\u00a0 Simply put, the man doesn\u2019t know how to horse trade, cajole, and get a bill on his desk for signature.\u00a0 One wonders how much less effective he\u2019d be without a majority in both chambers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when then presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that while Obama\u2019s likening himself to Martin Luther King, Jr., was nice, it was really President Lyndon Johnson who changed civil rights from a rhetorical dream into legislative reality?\u00a0 As usual, Clinton was criticized for speaking truth in public.\u00a0 But her observation \u2013 and comparison \u2013 still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,118,597,598],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-lbj","tag-mlk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}