http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/president-obamas-not-quite-camelot-86480.html?hp=t1
FYI neither was Kennedy's, still trying to make something dead and in the past not Kennedy but King Arthur. if people stop trying to compare and except who's there now might be different outcomes and respect.
if disturbs me how with all he has been able to do inspite of republican declarations of "do nothing" and still after 4 years of stellar accomplishments politicians, pundits, commentators and perpetrators keep trying to compare him to old dead white people who in their time did not accomplish half of what he has.
he is not like nor should or would he be like that, he is the first African American Pres. who defeated the right wing white power structure and money twice, hell that alone has earned him a place in the history books not tampered with, and yet you get these people saying "he should do like Reagan, not be like Carter" here's a heads up " HE'S NOT" he's Barack Hussein Obama two time Pres. there have been worst and not sure if any better, but they were not him either.
when we hear about what he didn't do it was not from not trying but from the congress opposition want to blame someone do not blame him this is not the 19th century blame now goes where it lives.
President Barack Obama’s new license plates may read “District of Columbia” but his head, heart and body language shout “I’m not from around here.”Local leaders believed that Obama, the first African-American president and an avowed urbanist, would fulfill his promise to embrace a many-hued metropolis overshadowed by white marbled official Washington. A few even believed he would expend political capital, as Jimmy Carter did, to back voting rights or statehood on behalf of district residents.
Yet in the four years since he has taken up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Obama has left the lightest of footprints on the town he had promised to embrace and transform, adopting the role of a suburban dad. His preference for staying in the White House residence with family and friends — as opposed to venturing out or inviting people inside — mirrors his larger political decision to distance himself from a city whose very name is a synonym for dysfunction, corruption and disconnection from the mainstream of American life.
it is unrealistic to think the first Black Pres. would be able to move into the neighborhood and not face things tantamount to cross burning and lynchings by the White establishment that in no way was going to allow him to bust up their good gov't jobs with suckers who think "we are the bosses", but last 4 years have shown who their bosses really are.
the obstruction is just rehash of what they have been doing to minorities but that change thing has opened eyes and there are new sheriffs in town no longer the minority.
it was not his job to seek out those elected to cooperate and do the job of real governing, it was their's.
Tea Party Senate Candidate Says Compromise Means Democrats Agree With Republicans
that was his welcome to the hood. still feeling he should have or they didn't?