Obama's gotten ahead by making friends, not enemies.
Via The Anchoress from a comprehensive round-up post on the Oba-media. I don't think this below is Obama telling the Mayors he's the boss, especially given his Chicago background. Do you really think he wants a Daley with a grudge when it comes time to turn that local election machine on in 2012? The time to police stimulus dollars is mostly over, especially as Obama backed a Bill leaving so much of it to the discretion of these same Mayors. It's just another Obama dog and pony show, if you ask me. You'd better buy a big shoe box if you want to collect the ticket stubs for those over the next four years.
Obama is talking to the mayors and warning them that - if they are wasteful (with stimulus dollars) - he will “use the full power of my office,” to deal with them.
May I INTERPRET for you what President Obama actually just said to the Mayors? He said “you are no longer in charge of your towns and cities; my government is. You are not the mayors - I am the Mayors - you will be allowed to remain as titular figurehead for as long as you are following my orders.”
But now he's King.
Posted by: Lala | Friday, February 20, 2009 at 09:38 PM
May I INTERPRET for you what President Obama actually just said to the Mayors? He said “you are no longer in charge of your towns and cities; my government is. You are not the mayors - I am the Mayors - you will be allowed to remain as titular figurehead for as long as you are following my orders.”
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Yep, you do have a way with words.
Posted by: WBestPresidentEver | Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 12:33 AM
And "O" is soppose to be a consitusional lawyer?
Posted by: 13yankeebravo | Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 05:37 AM