It is nice to see that President Obama is being flexible and pragmatic about his policies, but we have already seen an awful lot of backtracking from him and we are not even into February yet.
The questions this raises for me are the following:
Did Obama fail to recognize the ramifications of using highly protectionist rhetoric during a time of a global economic downturn?
Does he understand that if we enact protectionist economic policies that our trade partners would retaliate?
Was he hoping to just slide this measure through, hoping no one would notice it was in there?
After his inability to express the content of his first two Presidential orders to the media, did he even know that this measure was part of the bill?
Again, it is nice to see some flexibility from President Obama. However, I am beginning to wonder how much of this backtracking is flexibility and how much is ineptitude.
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