NYT/Bruni: Pass, Fail and Politics

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Op-Ed Columnist

Pass, Fail and Politics

By FRANK BRUNI
Published: September 3, 2011

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I’m less troubled by how thickheaded Perry may be than by how wrongheaded we already know he is on issues like evolution, which he says is just a theory, and homosexuality, which he has likened to alcoholism.

President Obama has those issues right. And can talk authoritatively about them and most others. A former editor of the Harvard Law Review, he has that kind of mind, that kind of fluency. In this one poised man, erudition and eloquence join hands.

But they don’t save him. Last week, he set himself up once again to look like the nation’s deferrer in chief by proposing a date for his jobs speech that had the possibility of provoking Republican opposition and did precisely that, at which point he retreated. Is this the Mother-May-I presidency? With John Boehner in the role of paddle-wielding matriarch?

That many Republicans will viciously seize any opportunity to defy and undercut Obama is a lesson he should have learned by now. Regardless of who was being unreasonable, it was he who actually ended up sending an e-mail to supporters with the one-word subject line “frustrated.” The president of the United States is supposed to salve our frustrations, not meekly bemoan his own.

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Read full article at: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/opinion/sunday/bruni-pass-fail-and-politics.html?ref=opinion

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Chamberlain showed the policy of appeasement doesn't work ,and they are his enemies.

They have shown from day one their agenda has nothing to do with problem solving.

[aquart]

2. So far as I'm concerned, Bruni helped get W elected.

I have a very low tolerance for Bruni.