[From article]
"Then, speaking in April at George Washington University, Obama said he was presenting a new budget with $4 trillion in long-term spending cuts. But there were no specifics.
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf was asked last week if the CBO had prepared estimates of this budget. "We don't estimate speeches," Elmendorf, a Democrat, explained. "We need much more specificity than was provided in that speech for us to do our analysis."
[. . .]
Obama has seemed less interested in the substance of public policy than in framing issues for the next presidential campaign.
[. . .]
As for Libya, Obama pretends we're not involved in "hostilities"
[. . .]
Sometimes it seems he's president of the AFL-CIO, not the USA."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/for_it_all_about_being_there_oNOCQRYZKCIwSkU8Ck3liM
For O, it's all about 'being there'
By MICHAEL BARONE
New York Post
Last Updated: 3:37 AM, June 27, 2011
Posted: 10:25 PM, June 26, 2011
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