Quote: (10-06-2012 11:25 AM)ManAbout Wrote:
Quote: (10-06-2012 12:44 AM)chochemonger1 Wrote:
As much as I dont like the US, it is quite inconsequential who wins the presidential election, in terms of major changes.
Wrong. For example, the Iraq war would never have happened if Al Gore had been elected.
Obama pushed through health care reform, it would never have happened if there had been a President McCain.
The plans to go into Iraq where on Clintons desk as far back as 2008.
Al Gore would of gone into Iraq. The policy was sitting there for whomever got the job.
The healthcare Reform was being drafted by the Insurance Industry prior to 2008. Obama had the policies handed to him as early as when he assembled his transition team. Obama's main job was to campaign and sell the bill. He did not write or draft anything. If selling the bill took nearly half his term I can guarantee you, promise you, it took double that amount of time to draft the the actual policy.
Presidents don't create policy they only steer and sell it.
2,500 pages was that Healthcare Bill which was probably consolidated down from 8,000 pages, with the the thousands of lawyers, paper pushers, and bureaucrats whom minded over it. These things do not get developed overnight, nor is it something that is drafted in the White House. This is out of the scope of the Executive Ranks of Government., they wouldn't have the manpower/time to do it if they tried.
Obama's job was to sell it and arm twist it into law. His legal team and the Republican legal team would minus and add footnotes to make the thing vote-able. Half the people in Congress didn't even read the thing, hell I can guarantee Obama didn't read the shit either.
I keep on saying the President is nothing more than a figure head. Its the power blocks, and factions behind the scenes whom draft and shape policies, whom all largely exists outside of the Election Cycle.
The Heritage Foundation is around regardless of whom is in office...
So is the Council on Foreign Relations...
Brookings Institution
RAND Corporation
CATO Institute
etc, etc...
All are around lurking in the background, Republican or Democrat it does not matter. These are the groups whom dance with Political and Private/Corporate interests that create the policies. Not the loosers and windbags whom sit in Congress, nor is it the Executive ranks whiten the Cabinet ranks.
The President can only direct the narrative but he does not have the words.