now normally I do what else on the show and the
set up for myself I'm no don't really need to share other people's analysis
with you
that's my job right they said they were brown which was a professor literate
Yale University
Mac did our park by great
announces a president obama: now look for five years
at least while he's been office and longer than that where you taking
into account him running for office we try to figure out President Obama what
see apollo
why did seem to think that he does is so frustrating he says all these
wonderfully progressive things and then he turns around and as these
unbelievable so-called compromise that in John beaners word
words give ninety-eight percent or the republicans want to that
right and yes one many many examples you can use
and I think that Bromwich really nailed it in
figuring out who Obama s and so I wanted to share some with insight with you guys
press while he talks about how President Obama
is a politician that really had almost no record to speak O
enhance as a person whose open interpretation on both sides and this is
something that other people have said but there were some packs in there
actually did not know until I read this
are for example I didn't know that he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review
without publishing a single
article analog Journal that's amazing
that's how you get a new law revue du me there's a lot of different ways again
but that's what's important. parcel
to be the edible or without published an article because you see polished an
article
you'd have to have a strong position on something got her body should ever have
a strong position on anything
and how he got there was is a media okay all bring the conservatives and liberals
together and will hash it out
and I want to position on any side but you know mediate media
okay I and then in his search short legal career Bromwich points out
arm there is no remark remarkable group that has ever been cited
sup say didn't write any Bruce but nothing you know that has been cited by
anyone
is an amazing a beleaguered you don't write a
it's amazing right during his senate career
first in the Illinois a legislature remember
the one thing that I give their problems credit for when Obama was running in
2008
Obama would keep loading President not yet not yet a
present pay that's such a classic politician moved to say
well I'm here I want you to criticize me later for saying I didn't vote
I motored reason body away and in the US senate
you know he said Armando's telecommunication companies
trying to get immunity for the illegal warrantless wiretapping I let up know
about that they got together immunity
that was in the primers after the primaries are over year ago had given
nude
playing both sides so now all people know the plays both sides
a but again some facts you might not have no that this idea leading from
behind
is not just something the republican star within I have said this before the
show as well
that so rare criticism over him from the right
that's actually true now the right-wing through such nonsense and I'm that the
big deal was help 'em
because they fear they got all these stupid because spirit CP reasons
canciones mas let me share with the birth certificate
heey say ate his hamburger the wrong way literally something Shawn Haney said
and so it winds up helping him because he's such crap
the you can't see the real criticism what it is justified
and 10 things is this leading from behind but its ironic as it came about
in Libya and anxious poor Libya policy and I think it was fairly sensible to
say hey you know what we're gonna lead
but nato lead on this yes is going to be our airports are logistics et cetera
but we don't want it putting ground troops we don't wanna seem like we're
dating a third Middle Eastern country
and a border that and then when it didn't work and boxes beat 'em
up on a they withdrew but its actually a bigger policy for President Obama
throughout his entire career leading from behind so for example on health
care policy
the most important one the one that was Obamacare that's what resulted in this
is already the five different committees
in the in congress I wanna sit back and let them deal with
its was eventually called
all but my care you can't leave from behind on that and for a while I created
a huge mass
and took so much more time a time in which he
almost losses filibuster-proof majority and of course
there was huge issues with that when the final vote came
to play now but it's not all here's the thing I didn't know
in his book Dreams from My Father talks about a situation
where he was a community organizer and yet these two women were complaining
about a very legitimate issue that need to be resolved
with a person who can resolve it from the housing crunch and President Obama
talks
in the book it's his book he writes about it how he told a woman what to do
then he went to the back
over the gem and watched and then the women didn't quite
carried out the right way but it's a stepping up and see here we let me
resolve this or bring as you know
or may be better yet advocate for that
said the bag a chips and he's a guy yet in carried out right so they lost
I'm in bed literally leading from behind
right so he's been doing this for a long time now third-party this is frustrating
sooo President Obama's been doing is a story about
how he was approached before the 2000 election by labor leaders community
organizers
for policy dissenters and groups conservative minority rights and
environmental protection
and he did but what FDR had done back in the day
he literally cut is elect this and said I can't hear you
okay meaning oh you're gonna have to
big get accrue such power and
influence that I can't help but react to what you're doing
and so you're gonna have to force me into action
he brags about that but what is that
that's leading from behind I will go ahead and say I'm gonna stick up for
labor rights
on a stick up for minority rights a mistake up progressive principles
you're going to have to force me to come behind you
on these issues and by the way it's on NPR's date
press room which makes a great point backing appears easy-to-use were
incredibly strong
any could make create such events that would force president and action
we're not in those days so Obama says bankers welp
the big business groups a really powerful they made me do a lot of things
you guys
aren't as powerful so I didn't do anything that was progressive
bold leadership we really appreciate that and it's not that he is hostile to
those groups
it said he thinks that's my leadership
ice in the back a German hope for the best okay
the other part of this that's important is he thinks that
symbols and gestures and speech is are as important as actual
action which of course they are not but finally we get
and I'll in compass that in the in the last point here cuz the last point i
think is the best one
he says press room which those in this article perhaps if in connection between
Obama's words in his action
does not support the use of the word conviction
at all let us say instead that he mistook his preferences
for convictions while that when I read that I was like
okay that said I don't know why I never thought of it in that way
but he mailed it that's exactly right President Obama doesn't have convictions
he has preferences that's why it's in the back to the gym you like well okay
if that's what the committee is this I def the labor you
movement makes me do that I'm if that's what nato's decided
okay I mean I would prefer to do XY or Z but
says I'm any real convictions also OK instead they're
chamber commerce in their problems maybe do this okay then I'll do that oh well
he goes on to explain he is still be trusted tells what he would perfer to do
which he does often he could costly give speeches about when he would prefer
remember during the health care debate I would prefer to have the public option
although I couldn't get the public option what can I do
he says press run which those reviewed the record and will show that is for
statement
on any given issue generally lays out what he would perfer
later on he resigned himself to supporting a lesser evil
which she tells us is temporary and necessary
I would prefer to close Guantanamo Bay all but I had to keep it open because
what the evil republicans dead
so but don't worry it's temporary will eventually cause I'm Guantanamo Bay in
missiles which
it's necessary to protect us because there's certain people in there that I
will hold
indefinitely just like Dick Cheney did and never give them a trial
but don't worry it's temporary and necessary
and a Bromwich continue such as Obama's belief in the power in significance of
his own words
the judges own case saying the right thing is a decent second-best
to doing the right thing
once again devastating President Obama thinks well
I gave a great speech about that I told you that eventually will stop using the
drones
I'm not gonna stop using the drones but I told you was a bad idea
does not count look I'm kind of going in the right direction
I said the right thing on the abuses of civil liberties
I keep a clean speech about it I continued any
and actually adelantado the bush-cheney policies in that direction
but I give a nice speech
hey also explains that he
fits whichever room he's n in this I've said many times before
and Brownwood says he talked like hard part when he was in high party talks
like Citigroup
when he's at a table with Citigroup he enjoys blending in
that's what this president is about you wanna know what he is that's what I
years he's a political chameleon
and whatever room he's then and right now unfortunately he's in the bottom
bubble a washington he will conform to it and that's exactly what he's done
he's washington conventional wisdom 101 at this point
and he's so afraid a wide brown which cause the horror
over on success oh my god also about successful %uh gotta be successful okay
how do I prove it to you depending on which ever room I'm in
has as a in adapter to think you meant a power Obama was a quick study
and I agree with that finally the end of the article is
the hard judgment a posterity maybe that in addressing
the greatest threat over the age Barack Obama talk
America dimly work part-time and half-measures
was silent for years at a stretch and never tried to lead
his hope must be that his read iterated preference
will count more happily lyn is positive acts
that last part perhaps a touch to tough on him
I think taught American him when he is a bit much I know that he didn't do the
right framing
and I would agree with that but the rest a bit unfortunately is 42 true
half measures maybe that's too kind to him usually they're far less than half
measures
and a lot of speeches but not a lot of action
and he's gonna leave with very little change and say
up well I tried it was my preference to do more
but I just couldn't and that right there is a difference between preference
and conviction the difference between a president who takes action
and President Obama