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Originally Posted by crockett
I agree Obama shares some blame, but really would his involvement help? I think Obama kinda has to distance himself because the right outright hates him. It's clearly not just political agendas at play because Obama could say white the right will say black. Obama could then say black and they would say white.
Whatever the rights issue is with Obama, be it racism, them being sore losers or thinking he's a evil socialist, there is really nothing he can do to appease the extreme right. Personally I think Obama should have used Biden more in this and used the vice pres as middle man.
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It's funny you mentioned Biden (I was literally discussing all of this with someone at the bar on Friday). What Obama should be doing is positioning himself as a mitigater and not taking sides, and showing the public he is doing everything in his power to get them working together (Thus making what the GOP is doing seem even worse, and perhaps even so to some of the right wingers, and distancing himself from the problem). Biden is the one who should be taking up the anti-GOP stance and talking about the evils of their doing to the public. It's been done in the past (especially by right wing presidents when the Democrats have cornered them) - the president puts himself in a non-affiliated position, acts like he's doing everything in his power as a mitigater, and then his pupils within the administration do all the one-sided publicity stance stuff.
btw - it's very stupid "mitigater" isn't a real word
