Jordan Loftin
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"He's the first Nobel
peace prize winner with a kill list" (repeated twice)
-What Nobel prize did he win? What do they mean by kill list?
*He was a state legislature 4 years before presidency
*The president making promises he can't keep: "we will get through the worst financial/economic crisis in America"
*"he had to start thinking about this crisis the day after he was elected"... Yeah, work starts early and they are constantly busy
-Do republicans/democrats normally get together to "take on" the president of the opposite political beliefs?
*weird.. why do the president and First Lady dance in front of everyone?
*"what does Obama need to do?" -news lady.. Everyone depends on the president and puts blame on the president immediately when something goes wrong
*Advertising by visibility and going to the senate go trying and sell his argument to the republicans representatives
*roll call votes!!! bills can pass without any minority vote at all
*"being president is understanding the constraints and working the system rather than hanging the system"
*political advisors have a lot of influence
-Is Obama's leadership style more like Clinton's chaotic style or Bush's too decisive style? If neither, what is his leadership style? Seems chaotic...
*loans have strings attached
*advisors can be divided on decision making
-What did they mean by "things have a way of slowing down in congress"?
-What is a summer recess for congress?
*HE HAS ONLY BEEN IN OFFICE FOR 8 MONTHS AND: health care reform stalled, bipartisanship had collapsed, and there was still trouble with the economy
*this is a very stressful job, can you imagine getting "you lie" yelled at you in front of thousands of people?
*define caucus: a group of people with shared concerns within a political party
*one arena the president can act on on his own: military
*dealing with congress is simply too difficult, along with understanding congress
*"it was the right thing to do" -Obama he was thinking he is a delegate or trustee
-What Nobel prize did he win? What do they mean by kill list?
*He was a state legislature 4 years before presidency
*The president making promises he can't keep: "we will get through the worst financial/economic crisis in America"
*"he had to start thinking about this crisis the day after he was elected"... Yeah, work starts early and they are constantly busy
-Do republicans/democrats normally get together to "take on" the president of the opposite political beliefs?
*weird.. why do the president and First Lady dance in front of everyone?
*"what does Obama need to do?" -news lady.. Everyone depends on the president and puts blame on the president immediately when something goes wrong
*Advertising by visibility and going to the senate go trying and sell his argument to the republicans representatives
*roll call votes!!! bills can pass without any minority vote at all
*"being president is understanding the constraints and working the system rather than hanging the system"
*political advisors have a lot of influence
-Is Obama's leadership style more like Clinton's chaotic style or Bush's too decisive style? If neither, what is his leadership style? Seems chaotic...
*loans have strings attached
*advisors can be divided on decision making
-What did they mean by "things have a way of slowing down in congress"?
-What is a summer recess for congress?
*HE HAS ONLY BEEN IN OFFICE FOR 8 MONTHS AND: health care reform stalled, bipartisanship had collapsed, and there was still trouble with the economy
*this is a very stressful job, can you imagine getting "you lie" yelled at you in front of thousands of people?
*define caucus: a group of people with shared concerns within a political party
*one arena the president can act on on his own: military
*dealing with congress is simply too difficult, along with understanding congress
*"it was the right thing to do" -Obama he was thinking he is a delegate or trustee
*national security team:
gives their advice on security issues and deal with security crisis: Members à vp, p, and sec. of state and defense
-Only the president could make the final decision on whether
to send troops? I thought that was the Patriot Act.. With consent of congress??
-debt ceiling? What does that mean?
*leaders (speaker of the
house and the president, etc) must be deal makers and able to persuade
*define bipartisan: of or
involving the agreement or cooperation of two political parties that usually
oppose each other's policies.
-Grand deal/bargain?
*”dealing with the white
house is like dealing with a bowl of jello” –boehner
-“refuse to be serious”
*Grand bargain failed and was
turned to the fiscal cliff
*”if I sad the sky was blue,
they said no.” – Obama talking about the republican party trying to get Obama
to fail (wow)
*incumbents normally do
better the second time around, “he did worse”
*his big line “we are the
united states of America!!”
