tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015108249021632388.post6976038940889189711..comments2017-03-18T08:19:09.591-04:00Comments on Straight Up the Middle: Time to end the finger pointing and fix the problemAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16684572796237463438noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015108249021632388.post-64397628743523054312014-08-14T13:08:16.253-04:002014-08-14T13:08:16.253-04:00This article is a totally unfair characterization ...This article is a totally unfair characterization of our President. Many of my Liberal friends would like to see President Obama behave more like a dictator but he is not anywhere close to the dictator the Republicans make him out to be. He is constrained by laws and an intransigent House of Representatives who block him at every step on this and so many other issues.<br /><br />I would level those accusations at the obstructionists in Congress. George Will, a conservative Republican clearly criticized his own Party for hampering any progress with dealing humanely with the refugee children, and he is not in the habit of supporting the President.<br /><br />It has become very fashionable for certain types of Democrats to criticize the President to show that they have not drunk the “Kool Aid” as is the slogan used against anybody defending this President.<br /><br />I have to admit that the Republicans have been most successful at demonizing this President, using the gridlock they created to demonstrate the President's “ineffectiveness” and whining when he uses his executive powers to actually help people in need.<br /><br />You are inadvertently playing right into their depraved hands by “piling on” rather than support his efforts to do right by people with little power. The scoundrels of this world enjoy picking on the defenseless. Our President is the only person who tries to stand in their way and hardly needs more flak from those of us who voted for him. Legitimate criticism is one thing, reinforcing the boorish among us is not the way to solve anything.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13371324530638058141noreply@blogger.com