But but but Obama has no plan for the FUTURE..

[SoCalDem]

What a crazy "argument".

What he's been trying to accomplish, takes TIME..

People don't show up at their home-site and harangue the builder/contractor for being slow to get on with the painting & interior-decorating.. Foundation first, then the "guts" (wiring, plumbing, framing, roof, flooring etc).. There is a progression to things, and only a small child cannot understand how things work.

I remember when our son was 4 and I was pregnant. Every morning, he ran into our room to see if the baby was there yet. He could not wrap his young brain around the fact that 9 months was a very long time.

The plan for the future is the same as it was in 2007, when the president was running for his first term.. CLEAN UP THE MESS. A mess as big as the one we are in, takes time.

Anyone who has ever been in debt understands how it works. Just "deciding" to work on paying down debt, is not enough. Every month SOMETHING will some along to thwart your best plans, and even end up adding to the debt sometimes.

A promise/plan/hope is just that... a basic framework to follow and aim for, but real-life (aka recalcitrant congressional saboteurs) can cause the best of intentions to remain unrealized.

[chille1]

1. Very well put and on point !

[flamingdem]

2. Some democratic pundits were pushing this on msnbc a bit ago

Can't remember which, but there is not that much to attack so they picked lack of future plan

[Skidmore]

4. Chris Matthews and Howard Fineman.

Need we say more. Chris descended into douchebaggery trying to be kingmaker and Fineman should apply for a job as a research assistant in some college department. Just hang it up. Fineman was hammering away on the race is tied, mind you, at 47% each.

[flamingdem]

5. You've got them both right, Fineman said some great things today but he descends

into his punditgodness and now Chris has the stamp of having Obama say he listened to him!?! That story was on here earlier .. could it be true..

[pointsoflight]

3. He does, of course, it just doesn't have a catchy name and bullet points.

Obama's plan is more detailed than anything Romney/Ryan has offered.

A little bit of marketing of that plan for the future over the next three weeks wouldn't be a bad idea. I suspect that's part of the plan. You take down your opponent and expose them. Then you bring it home at the end by going positive and selling your plan for the future.

[Raven]

6. Obama's plan has been on the table for 3 1/2 years, the assholes

have blocked it.

[ejbr]

9. + 1 n/t

[Whisp]

7. The President talked about plans for the future last night.

Plans for education and energy and fair trade deals and jobs.

Those guys must be just itching for another bruising - the idiots. I guess they want some FOX overflow for their ratings since theirs dropped because Tweety blew his stupid stack at Debate 1. I haven't been back there since and I'm sure many others are just as disgusted as I am with that lot. I am surviving fine without the hysterics and fucking repetitiveness all day and all night long. They get one little kibble of news and that is all the whole bunch of them chew on all day long, every day, for days - like there is nothing else happening in the world.

I am glad to be free of NSNBC.
I am free of FOX,
and CNN
and now another gets on my list.

[SoCalDem]

8. Like ruminants...they chew it..regurgitate it and chew some more

[MiniMe]

10. It took 8 years to screw it up as bad as it was

I will take longer to fix it, especially with the repub congress.

[Jisis]

11. Agree with you

People need to be in it for the long haul.