Negotiations.
I read that NY Congressman Anthony Weiner complained that Obama wasn’t acting like a Commander-in-Chief, but as a Negotiator-inChief. I thought, “Not really.”
Weiner was speaking as part of the rebellion by Democrats to the deal Obama was pushing to extend the Bush tax cuts for billionaires.
The tax-cuts-for-the-rich is a bad idea. And I agree with Senator Sanders, who spoke from the Senate floor for almost nine hours on Friday, calling it part of the war on working people.
But as someone with some negotiation experience, I’m not impressed with Obama as a chief negotiator. He sure