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His stance on weed is absolute shit.
I tend to fault presidents what they do and do not do with the time they reasonably have available, relative to the importance of the initiative. For example, I was and am pissed that Obama didn't walk in with a more detailed plan for Obamacare. It's what the Clintons did, but it didn't work then. Perhaps he took the wrong message. He was largely elected for that plan, so it should've been there.
But we have to bear in mind that there is only so much attention, will, and time. It is not reasonable to demand a politician move on all promise/initiatives, and downright insane to expect they can. Circumstances dictate. Covid and now the war against Ukraine loom huge, and he's still done far more than I thought he'd be able.
The pot stance is absolute shit. But he's an old drug warrior, and that was one reason my only vote for him was in the general election, not the primary.
That's much briefer than either blog/post, so perhaps I'll have to go back and go through in more detail. But it really should be flagged: we all know politicians make "promises" and we all know they don't keep them, even the majority. Some is because they needed the votes. They had to get elected to do anything. But a ton of it is simply because of what is possible in politics. It's a world of wheeling and dealing, greased elbows, and a horrifically massive sprawl of interests and the people they employ to both lobby congress and infiltrate exec agencies.
"Swamp" frankly insults the situation. So does "labrynthine" and "byzantine". It's a ****pocalpyse of a mess, but it also probably couldn't work with anything approaching reasonable efficiency.
Well I feel like no small part of my post was spent critiquing their political strategy and had nothing to do with any lack of keeping campaign promises.
Well, I feel that I explicitly flagged that this is a multi-post OP and then there's the other thread that I have to go back through, so to make a complete response I'd have to go back through it all.
I also feel that when someone says. . .
Biden has quietly set aside many of his campaign promises, not with a vicious fight where the GOP and middling senators like Manchin were dragged through the dirt; made clear by the administration that it is their fault his goals weren't accomplished. No, he abandoned many of these fights almost immediately before they even began. Not only that, but he has been almost infuriatingly unwilling to drag the GOP for blocking what moderate reforms he does support.
. . . they intend to say something about campaign promises.
I don't know what the issue is. I flagged that I was responding to parts of the opening post and did that. Part of the response is to tell me you talked more about other stuff. Ok. The part I really don't get is telling me you said it all had "nothing" to do with keeping campaign promises when it mattered that he quietly set them aside.
Campaign promises depend heavily on congress.