So four years and five months into his presidency, Obama is
reported to have told aides he’s tempted to “Go Bulworth,” an allusion to a
1998 Warren Beatty movie about a politician who decides to stop playing
political games and be brutally honest. Whether this will actually happen seems
unlikely, but the sentiment reflects the President’s frustration with a
recalcitrant Congress.
The question that I have is what the hell took so long for Obama's pot to boil?
Obama is not a dumb man, and yet it seems to have taken the Prez nearly five
years to figure out that Republicans do not care about what’s good for America,
but are only concerned with symbolically lynching the black man in the Oval
Office.
I still don’t understand why Obama has chosen to take the
path he has so far. Why has he been willing to give up so much to a band of
yahoos in Congress who made it crystal clear years ago they were not going to
support anything he proposed. Was it stubbornness? Lack of backbone? Bad advice
from his cabinet members? It’s a mystery to me and many others.
If he really does have the courage to “Go Bulworth,” I will
be the first to congratulate him on finally waking up and seeing the light. If
he continues down the road he has been on for the past four years, he will end
up having little to show for having spent two terms in the White House.
