Dear Heritage Foundation: Here is what I think. I have heard endless grousing from conservatives, of all stripes, ranging from those who strangely seem to believe that Obama is Satan Incarnate (or is it Santa) to those who just lambast his campaign slogan Hope as somehow inherently defective. I will not even dignify some of the other things I have heard or read, directed at him (empty wagons rattle the loudest). I differ with that kind of ideology. Obama does not have answers for every question, nor solutions for every problem that besets this nation nor the extensive list of issues that some of our comrades imagine to be actual problems. He is a visionary. He leads like one. That is why I hired him, and the fact that he has accomplished anything at all, with such a recalcitrant congressional leadership attests to his determination and stamina, but it is also wearing on him as it did with the likes of Jimmy Carter, Jack Kennedy, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt and Lincoln (please note that not all of them were Democrats but all were visionaries). He isnt supposed to make things happen all by himself. There is this other body called Congress and yet another known as SCOTUS with whom the President (according to a document called the US Constitution) must SHARE POWER. Nobody can make all of the decisions in a vacuum, and nobody can carry out policy in a vacuum either. They all have significant power, but that power is, by design, limited by checks and balances, which the SCOTUS has pretty much affirmed as being the way it was intended to work but not necessarily the most EFFICIENT way that it could work. These bodies must collectively have an inexorable trust in the wisdom of that system, and work within it. The potentially-questionable trust-decision could rightly be called Hope. And without it, you cannot govern. You did ask.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 17:43:43 +0000
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