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You are telling it like some kind of joke but both Trump and Obama were publicly castrated in office. The power of the president seems greatly exaggerated.
by rightbyte 2y ago
You are telling it like some kind of joke but both Trump and Obama were publicly castrated in office. The power of the president seems greatly exaggerated.
- mindslight 2y agoBut yet they both did actually do a bunch of other things, especially exercising the power of the bully pulpit. Or alternatively if we do take it for granted that presidents are quite constrained in what they themself can do (aka "separation of powers"), then why is the original comment talking as if there would be some massive sea change next time when there wasn't one last time? This seems like another bit of Schrödinger's Trump. Like how he's both the most powerful most successful person, and also just an unfortunate victim that other people are always doing mean things to.
- cholantesh 2y agoI think that, at least in part, this meme is how parties excuse their inability to deliver once they secure power. In Obama's case specifically, I don't know how a guy who had been a community organizer since the 80s, who'd been a senator since the late 90s was so caught off guard by the legislature once he had executive power at his disposal.
- rightbyte 2y agoTrue. I think the problem might be that I don't have any possibility to differ between a "I want to" and "I can do". Politicans talk like that they are the same. Probably since pretending there is consent tips the scale in a lot of cases. But it makes the rest of us that donmt do full time political analysis confused.