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发帖数: 15246 | 1 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama promised to change Washington's ways.
Yet he's as caught up in them as ever.
As the week began, Obama kicked off his re-election bid with a sunny video
of people talking about their hopes and needs, the very image of life
outside Washington politics.
By week's end, Obama was mired in budget negotiations, canceling trips and
scrambling to stave off a government shutdown that could only undermine the
public's faith in his leadership.
It was the messy business of governing, and how it's going to be in this
long campaign for incumbent Obama.
Beyond the vision for economic competitiveness he wants to talk about, Obama
is chasing a second term while trying to make a deeply divided government
work. He got bogged down in legislative tactics in his first two years, even
when he won fights on health care and other issues.
The goal now is to avoid all that. He can't.
In this test of leadership, the White House says Obama wrangled the budget
compromise he wanted, spending cuts he supported without shelving his
priorities or accepting unacceptable policy changes.
His administration portrayed it as an example of bipartisan cooperation of
the highest stakes.
Yet the government was on the brink of closing, and many people were
wondering how that could happen, or why.
This is change? |
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