He has taken bold steps to fulfill his promises; but6 rather than accept these in context, Sawz and his cohorts wish to beef about the progress being insufficient. This kind of thoughtless absolutism is just unrealistic.

I appreciate your reasonable approach. My view is that rhetoric aside, changiung things in the real world always happens on a gradient, whether steep or slow, and absolute conditions are unobtainable. ALl I can say is, so far, I am grateful for the huge improvements.

As for his hard stance vis-a-vis Detroit, maybe he is drawing a line int he stand because they have NOT corrected their inherent rot for so long and have become a public problem of national scale. Sure lkooks that way to me.

I can tell you this much--he has taken on more than any President in my lifetime, head on, explicitly and overtly, and is far less slimey in his operations than any of his predecessors in my memory (well, to be honest, I wasn't paying much attention to Ike, or even to KEnnedy before he got assassinated).

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