Did Obama's speech really fail?
I think it was as good as any speech could have been compared to a magic wand under this country's current circumstances.
Whether you like this president personally or politically or not...I think people should take a step back, draw a deep breath and realize that he is not the Wizard of Oz.
When presented with problems of the scope of where this country stands now his job is to pull together the necessary data from his professionals and academics and promote what he feels is our best opportunity to resolve them as they arise. There is no bag of brick-a-brack to offer the woodsmen, the tinman, the lion or Dorothy that will make it all better before he leaves for Kansas or the end of his term, whichever might come first.
Neither is he our "sin eater" who will partake of food from the chest of a deceased loved one (America) and make all the sins of our past administrations and congresses be forgiven.
This government has been run poorly for a long. long time.
Obama is perhaps one of the last few presidents this union will have that will be lucky if he can simply hang on to this country that's spiralling out of control and not have it implode completely.
It's foolish to think we can ask any more from one mortal man.
But more than a small handful of people surely are doing just that.
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