A President Who Is Damned If He Does and Damned If He Doesn't

There's just so much that a president with as little domestic backing as this one has can do. That's the bottom line, all, and I recall President Obama saying so in the early days of his administration, in effect, that people were going to have to learn how to come together to advocate for themselves. We need to grow up and stop expecting "daddy" to make it happen for us.

I REALLY struggle with WHY people don't get this. He's a Centrist. He's never hidden that fact, even though he knows it means politically that he MUST be attacked from both the Right and from "the Left", because Centrism draws numbers of persons out of those Right-"Left" bases, reducing their own ability to extort something out of political events.

Presidents aren't kings. The bottom line IS the number of people backing them up ON ALL OF THE ISSUES instead of balkanizing themselves into competing issue cohorts and, thus, handicapping ALL of their own effects on any given issue.

Barack Obama can't manufacture results out of thin air! To do so would risk getting it wrong and not only failing immediately, but, at best, failing eventually even after initiating something right and "successful", because, without the MASSIVELY SOLID backing that even a good new policy/program requires to survive (and that's survive despite the inevitable ISSUE TRADE OFFS that must happen in order to achieve any given issue success), that issue "success" can be de-constructed by the very next change in political winds.

President Obama knows this and it is a tribute to his strength and integrity that he does not pretend otherwise in order to impress you.

http://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5732208/the-green-lantern-theory-of-the-presidency-explained