Re: [Pen-l] Obama's speech [was: "Has Barack Obama's presidency already failed?"]

[Max Sawicky <maxbsawicky@xxxxxxxxx>]

"But I don't get the "keep your powder dry" part . . . "

I meant there could come a time when BHO does something unspeakably
bad that justifies utter condemnation and the launch of uninterrupted
criticism and denunciation.  Kind of like Clinton two months in.  But
I don't think we are there yet.


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Robert Naiman
<naiman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree with the spirit of Max's post to the effect that it's not
> one-zero - the passage of the stimulus bill, despite being too small
> to start with, having too much tax cuts versus new spending, and good
> things being cut in the "compromise," is an important partial victory.
>
> But I don't get the "keep your powder dry" part. Clearly Obama is
> doing some things that most of us would agree are good, and some
> things that most of us would agree are bad, and there is evidence that
> criticism is likely to yield more of the former and less of the
> latter: for example, he wanted to appoint someone bad to head the CIA,
> and people screamed, and he didn't do that, and appointed someone else
> who was much less bad. Why would we keep our powder dry, at this
> moment where there are important choices being made that could be
> affected by criticism?
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Max Sawicky <maxbsawicky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's a means to an end.  If it works and the end is good, no problem.
>>
>> We'll have a better fix when we see how he handles the upcoming
>> entitlement jamboree, also how the fin rescue unwinds.  While the
>> latter isn't looking so good, there could be course corrections.
>>
>> The stimulus isn't half bad, maybe one-third bad, and there can
>> be more bites of the apple, as Stan Collender explained a few
>> days ago.  Hilda Solis is going to be Secy of Labor, Judd Gregg
>> is going home, and the WH is making fun of Repugs.
>>
>> Keep your powder dry, sez I.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Max Sawicky wrote:
>>>
>>>> No class.    No populism either (the many v. the few).  He was in the
>>>> bring us together/we are one people mode.
>>>
>>> We're not. It's a damaging lie to say we are.
>>>
>>> Doug
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