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Our current President learned some very valuable lessons from the Clinton administration.
Bill Clinton put Hilary in charge of Health Care Reform and took a leadership role pushing for it and suffered the consequences of not getting "his" agenda item approved. Clinton also took an outspoken leadership role in the AWB debate and suffered the consequences for that as well.
This time around, Obama said, "I want comprehensive healthcare reform..." and let others design it and ram it through Congress. He had plausible deniability if there was a public backlash and could simply say, "This isn't what I wanted but this is the best we could get from Congress". Up until the last round of presidential debates he wouldn't even call it Obamacare but took that on like a badge of honor when Romney used the term.
He is now doing the same thing with the new push on gun control. "I want comprehensive, sensible firearms law reform and I'm appointing Joe Biden to head the team..." He will get what he wants without having his actual fingerprints on it so he maintains plausible deniability if it goes sideways.
Clever man.
Bill Clinton put Hilary in charge of Health Care Reform and took a leadership role pushing for it and suffered the consequences of not getting "his" agenda item approved. Clinton also took an outspoken leadership role in the AWB debate and suffered the consequences for that as well.
This time around, Obama said, "I want comprehensive healthcare reform..." and let others design it and ram it through Congress. He had plausible deniability if there was a public backlash and could simply say, "This isn't what I wanted but this is the best we could get from Congress". Up until the last round of presidential debates he wouldn't even call it Obamacare but took that on like a badge of honor when Romney used the term.
He is now doing the same thing with the new push on gun control. "I want comprehensive, sensible firearms law reform and I'm appointing Joe Biden to head the team..." He will get what he wants without having his actual fingerprints on it so he maintains plausible deniability if it goes sideways.
Clever man.