The President Shouldn't Have Caved To Republican Demands

The President made a huge mistake when he caved in to right wing Republican demands, which he's done a lot of lately.  This has become a disturbing pattern in which he caves without standing up for what he claims to believe in.  Either the President doesn't care about anything or is afraid to stand up for what he believes in.   .  I'm sure his advisers told him that doing a complete reversal of his own policies was the right thing to do politically, but I disagree.  Any one with half a brain knows that cutting spending with a weak economy doesn't work or create any jobs.  If it did, then former President Bush's policies and tax cuts would have created jobs.  What the President did was let the narrative in the media drive his decision making.

The sad part about the whole cave in is it's going to hurt the very people who voted to elect Mr. Obama.  He sided with the Tea Party and Republicans who have sworn to make him a one term President.  He's doing everything he can to help them make their wishes come true.  I can't imagine President Ronald Reagan caving in because the Democrat controlled the majority in the House of Representatives.  Why didn't the President simply stick up for what he claims to believe in and not give in to the demands of a few extremists?  The President caved in just days after announcing he'd run for reelection.  You can't win an election, if your campaign theme is "me too" or "I caved in and I agree with the Republicans".

The President can't stand up to the Republicans now, when will he be able to?  What he's doesn't get is they hate him and no amount of butt kissing or caving will change that.  The bottom line is, the Republican party has two things against him, he's black and he's black.  His being a Democrat comes in a distant third when they oppose him.  There has never been any Party in history that opposed every single thing a President from the other party did.  We see the Republicans even oppose things they once supported or suggested until he  he changes and agrees with them.  If that's not overt racism, I don't know what is.  He should stop worrying about them liking him and start standing up for something.