Sunday, February 07, 2010
What Now?
onward Progressive community organizer
This is about the time Barack Obama becomes bored with his job.
He’s in his second year as president, and he’s discovered that even with all the powers of office, he can’t do everything he wants to do, like remake America. Doing stuff is hard. In the past, prosaic work has held little appeal for Obama, and it’s prompted him to think about moving on....
At a Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Day event at Washington’s Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Obama brought up the fact that many people see him as almost preternaturally calm. “I have a confession to make,” Obama said. “There are times I’m not so calm ... when progress seems too slow ... when it feels like all these efforts are for naught, and change is so painfully slow in coming, and I have to confront my own doubts."
“Painfully slow”
Diane Sawyer asked whether Obama would sometimes “sit and confront your own doubts.”
“Yes,” the president said.
Anyone buyin’ that?
throughout his life, his reaction to frustration has been to look for a bigger job. What does he do now?
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