An Overriding Need for Reform Now
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 11th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
An Overriding Need for Reform Now
Eugene Robinson, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — There’s no objective need for President Obama to visit the Texas-Mexico border and see the immigration crisis first-hand, but he shouldn’t have claimed that “I’m not interested in photo ops.” The line about photo ops was so absurd that it’s a good thing he wasn’t under oath. Every president since Abraham Lincoln has been interested in photo ops. Posing for the cameras amid artfully chosen people and props is something presidents do every day. Obama is very good at it, and there are times when he actually gives the impression that he enjoys it. Not all photo ops are created…
Looking Off-Key on Tour, Obama Changes Tune in Texas
Alexis Simendinger, RealClearPolitics
His rhetoric was mocking all day long. But by Wednesday evening in Dallas, President Obama donned a gray suit jacket, stepped to a presidential lectern, and asked GOP lawmakers in a subdued voice for help. “This isn’t theater,” the president told a pool of reporters before flying to Austin for another in a series of Democratic fundraisers. “I’m not interested in photo ops. I’m interested in solving a problem.” A presidential visit to the border, urged by pundits of both parties as well as Republican critics including Gov. Rick Perry, would have served…
