Marco Rubio is the latest to note the lack of a Presidential agenda. But why listen to this from some righty when we have the NY Times making the same point? This is from their coverage of the second Romney-Obama debate:
But [prospective voters] have not learned as much about what the next four years might look like. With tens of millions of Americans tuning in to the debates, the four candidates for president and vice president have spent most of their time on the biggest public stage of the campaign fighting more about what happened in the last term than what should happen in the next.
Mr. Obama and Vice President Biden defended their record but gave only a modest sense of their agenda should they be re-elected, beyond arguing for staying the course because the other side would return to what they called the failed policies of the past.
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Over the course of three debates, the two sides have provided clues. Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden, in effect, asked voters to ratify the path they have already set. They promised to finish carrying out the health care plan passed in the first term and to seek higher taxes on the wealthy to whittle away at sky-high budget deficits. They vowed to continue clean energy initiatives and fight erosion of women’s rights. It has sounded like rear-guard actions preserving what they see as their accomplishments.
There was little of the sweeping ambition envisioned four years ago. Mr. Obama made clear on Tuesday that while he still wanted to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws, Republicans stood in the way. The words “climate change” were never uttered by a president who in 2008 vowed that his watch would be remembered as the time “the planet began to heal.” He spoke only once, in passing, about building roads and bridges, once a key part of his jobs plan.
Obama's agenda? Four more years of blaming Bush and failing to work with Republicans.
Obama's agenda seems to be to continue the high-life as a figure head while putting as many of his left wing cronies on the gravy train with him.
Posted by: peter | October 21, 2012 at 01:33 PM
Wine shortage in Europe. Now we do have problems. lun
Posted by: peter | October 21, 2012 at 01:39 PM
If your agenda was to turn the US into a Venezuela or a Cuban clone would you seriously want to have that get out to the voters before the election
Posted by: pagar | October 21, 2012 at 01:42 PM
As in the emperor has no clothes, Obama has no agenda. We are down to same old, same old. Frustratingly enough, people will actually vote for a non-agenda.
Posted by: maryrose | October 21, 2012 at 01:44 PM
Agenda? We don't need no stinkin' agenda.
I'll tell you the 2nd term agenda: More arugala and Maine lobster. Travel and Leisure to the max and I don't mean the magazine. More date nights. More Comedy Central, The View, The Late Night roundup. More DJ interviews and a new Herb garden for Moochelle.
That's just for them. For us:
Taxmaggedon, another Arab spring but this time with Nukes and the end of health care in America as we know it. But there will a fun part to the 2nd term - Biden will have no excuse to be a political hermit - he can live big and give us one grin too many as we sit in our doom and gloom.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | October 21, 2012 at 03:20 PM
Likely the House of Saud, would fall this time, to some new Ikwan manifestation, in a repeat of how the Hashemites were ousted in the last century, 'electricity prices will
necessarily skyrocket,' as coal goes the way of whale oil,
Posted by: narciso | October 21, 2012 at 03:29 PM
Easy, he conceals his agenda.
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Posted by: One and Twenty blackbirds. | October 21, 2012 at 03:44 PM
RG3 converts a 4 and 10 to Paulson with 2 minute warning up. Unbelievable. But they need a TD. FG does nothing.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | October 21, 2012 at 03:53 PM
A German proverb is "Lies have short legs." Durbin's delusional uttering--"Issa's dump of diplomatic documents"--puts him in Biden territory.
Poor Morgan Freeman: "Our enemies have been vanquished..."
Posted by: Frau Hefte-Frauen | October 21, 2012 at 04:22 PM
Poor Morgan Freeman: "Our enemies have been vanquished..."
Not really. We're still here.
Posted by: PD | October 21, 2012 at 05:14 PM
Fabulous comeback, PD!
Posted by: Mark Folkestad | October 21, 2012 at 05:27 PM
Actually, what they wrote for Moleface to say was "our enemies have been brought to justice". "Vanquished" sounds so violent.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | October 21, 2012 at 05:31 PM
Great line, PD !
That would be Morgan Freeman, who said last year “The tea partiers who are controlling the Republican party ... their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What underlines that? Screw the country. We're going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here."
On the strength of the tea party, he said: “It just shows the weak, dark, underside of America."
What a guy.
LUN
Posted by: Patriot4Freedom | October 22, 2012 at 01:13 AM
Ah Lucius Fox would say that was a very foolish sentiment, so would 'Easy Reader'
Posted by: narciso | October 22, 2012 at 01:38 AM
Happy Birthday, dearest narciso!
I like to think of this as Palin Revenge:
http://www.gossipcop.com/julianne-moore-sweating-problem-sweaty-smelly-sweat/
Posted by: Ann | October 22, 2012 at 08:38 PM
Whatever the agenda it still needs to validated before sharing to the public to make sure that we are giving the truth and not bias to other.
Posted by: Garage Equipment | October 23, 2012 at 08:24 AM