President Obama may be shy or timid, a "compromiser in chief", but Obama has a superb Intelligence and great Intellect. That type of guy becomes stronger with time, and he finds unexpected ways to do great things and to pursue a vision, in this case a vision of economic recovery

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We should expect a lot from Obama's Resilience and Inner Hidden Strength. Don't forget that he is a Law Professor and outstanding scholar in Constitutional Matters. He can even do things with the super conservative U. S. Supreme Court that practices Conservative Judicial Activism and Legislates from the Bench.

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There are more people drunk with Religion and Fanaticism than Osama Bin Laden and the beturbaned agents of Satan. Just look at the Tea Party. As someone observed Abraham Lincoln didn't have a Congress of Recalcitrant Confederates in Washington obstructing all his ideas, projects and actions. But Obama has a bunch of stubborn bigots in Congress.

These Tea Party fanatics spend more time in Hysteric Religion Rites and Cults than studying Economy, understanding Keynes and what is necessary in the middle of a Recession or Depression when everybody and his aunt is afraid of investing to produce new jobs.

They are parrots repeating what a stupid pastor or articulate crazy politician like Michele Bachmann brainwashes in their poor empty heads. They are so stupid that they have to be constantly listening to demagogues like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, so that they are confirmed in their prejudices, ignorance and resentment against life, because they carry a big load of frustration and failure.

A super energized Barack Obama giving Hell to Republicans in 2010 and the first 8 months of 2011 could have rocked the boat and could have caused bigger troubles for the nation. But I don't discard that the aggressive Obama in the 14 months before the November 2012 election may be useful, so that people understand the gravity of the Jobs Paralysis, and lack of Economic Dynamism to generate jobs. That Harry Truman is given as an example to follow makes a lot of sense to me.

I don't believe that the electorate is a mathematical "Black Box" that only answers to a number : the unemployment rate, or the the percentage of underemployed people. Voters are not a machine but have intelligence and many interests, aspirations, ideals, hopes, beliefs and also negative things as fear, hate, religious fanaticism, etc....

The position of negative critic is extremely easy : That Obama is a Sissy before the Republican Bullies. - That Obama is a weakling before Osama Bin Laden and the Terrorists of Al-Qaeda or the beturbaned agents of Satan.

For people reared as simpletons in Jingoism and False Patriotism, it is very easy to believe that Foreign Policy is being the Super Cowboy and the Macho Macho and give orders to everybody at the International Level. In practice things are not so easy, and for example Pakistanis just tolerate the Americans in order to avoid more conflicts and the breaking of peace with Foreign Armies inside their territory. The Pakistanis are masters of restraint and being quiet and I admire them for that.

People are extremely naive and believe in polls made in Battlegrounds where everybody answers with fear or with false expectations, and where you are betting your head with every decision. And the sample is always super biased in favor of the Pollsters or the nation that these Pollsters represent or that pays for the Poll.

Before Tim Pawlenty was eliminated from the Republican Primaries he gave a super stupid speech saying that his Foreign Policy was going to be threats for everybody, and that Obama was a wimp, that is a feeble ineffective person that feared the enemies of America. It was manifest that Tim Pawlenty was a total ignorant and fool, not only of Foreign Policy and its intricacies, but also of Human Nature.

Prestigious Think Tanks should be ashamed of inviting and paying such fools and cretins to formulate American Foreign Policy.

Please do an homologous mathematical transportation or a geometric homology between Foreign Policy and Domestic Policy and see that things are not so easy for President Obama and that he does not have a magic wand to impose the necessary taxes for the Super Rich and Wealthy and that he can not dictate the necessary spending to create jobs by fiat, by ukase like a Russian Tsar, by Imperial Decree like Julius Caesar or Emperor Augustus.

Vicente Duque

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