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I've been following this board, and reading political pieces for years, and one thing that always gets on my nerves is when people place the blame on the President.
There is a thread on here about Obama's immigration policy- implying that problems with the policy are strictly Barack Obama's fault. I heard something the other day about mass incarcerations due to policies enacted during the Clinton presidency. Not too long ago we had a serious recession and everyone was looking to blame Bush..
It seems that people don't understand that the President is not all-powerful. Presidential nominees run on these campaigns making all kinds of promises, yet, each proposal would have to pass through Congress.
Whether people are voting because they "want to make America great again" or whether they want to see "a political revolution come", in the end they will be disappointed with the results four years later when their nominee only manages to enact a handful of those campaign promises.
The media is fully aware of people's ignorance of our government's system of checks and balances, and they make it even worse by giving so much time to presidential elections and practically ignoring local races and the races for Congress and the Senate.
Does this bother anyone else?
There is a thread on here about Obama's immigration policy- implying that problems with the policy are strictly Barack Obama's fault. I heard something the other day about mass incarcerations due to policies enacted during the Clinton presidency. Not too long ago we had a serious recession and everyone was looking to blame Bush..
It seems that people don't understand that the President is not all-powerful. Presidential nominees run on these campaigns making all kinds of promises, yet, each proposal would have to pass through Congress.
Whether people are voting because they "want to make America great again" or whether they want to see "a political revolution come", in the end they will be disappointed with the results four years later when their nominee only manages to enact a handful of those campaign promises.
The media is fully aware of people's ignorance of our government's system of checks and balances, and they make it even worse by giving so much time to presidential elections and practically ignoring local races and the races for Congress and the Senate.
Does this bother anyone else?