From Colin Rule’s blog.
Daniel Schorr on NPR: “The president tends to seek conflict resolution rather than drama. He has been compared to Franklin D. Roosevelt, confronted with an economic crisis. But Roosevelt closed the banks to avoid a run on them. Obama, on the other hand, joined in on a rescue effort for the ailing financial institutions. FDR enlisted 8.5 million of the unemployed into a federal workforce. The incumbent sponsors a complicated stimulus, or recovery package, intended to work through the states and localities.
Faced with Democratic objections to elements in his 10-year budget, he invites suggestions for alternatives. And he doesn’t appear to be perturbed when House Republican John Boehner calls his budget “the most irresponsible piece of legislation” he has seen.
There is a sense that Obama is employing his skills as a community organizer, bent on conflict resolution, seeking the common ground. Tuesday night he said, “When each of us looks beyond our own short-term interest to the wider set of obligations we have toward each other, that’s when we succeed.”
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