Unfounded Disdain for Obama

Once again I come back to author Julia Schwartz of the blog How’s Obama Doing? who wrote an article on August 3^rd entitled “Obama? Really?” in which she criticizes Obama and how America is falling apart because of his administration. Schwartz’s disdain for Obama is palpable. In this article she claims several things: that Obama was only elected because he is black, that his health care bill is unsuccessful (which I have already commented on), and that Obama only cares “about winning the next election”. Schwartz has a lot of opinions with very little evidence.

Only Congress can pass legislation, as stated in our Constitution. To give all the credit for a failed piece of legislation to the President displays a lack of understanding of our government. As Schwartz writes about the withdrawal of troops and health care reform, she claims broken promises and failed legislation without providing how there was failure. She then compares Obama to Bush, losing credibility when she states, “he extended the amount of time they will be over there, showing Bush and his team knew exactly what they were doing and no one could do it better.” First, citing opinion as fact is inappropriate for political discourse. Second, there have been several articles on Obama’s promise of withdrawing troops and how he is following through. For example an article by Scott Wilson, “U.S. withdrawal from Iraq will be on time,” provides clear evidence that refutes Schwartz’s claim. Schwartz, once again, claims that when it comes to health care reform Obama has dropped the ball. Similar to her last article, this is completely unfounded.

Schwartz moves from talking about failed legislation to talking about Obama himself. She makes claims that he was elected solely because he is black and that “all he cares about is winning the next election” with no supporting facts. There are numerous polls that refute her claim showing many other reasons Obama supporters voted for him. To claim that “All he cares about is winning the next election” just shows the writer’s ignorance of what is happening in Washington. Obama just stated a week ago on “the View” that it is a shame that Congressmen are clouding their minds with the upcoming election and that he is just trying to do what is best for the country rather than what is best for his political career. Schwartz needs to answer this question: if all Obama cares about is winning the next election, then why is he trying to talk and act on controversial issues?

The last statement of the article begins with “Where did the days go of keeping your word, being truthful and honest?” which, if I recall correctly, was taken directly from a speech by Obama. Obama has argued that government needs to be more transparent and truthful. Those days are coming back because of Obama. All in all this article proves to be an unsupported rant about Obama. Some supporting articles and details would make Schwartz’s claims more credible.