We Need a Big And Successful Presidency

TW: The last "successful" presidency (defined as one the majority of folks look back upon longingly), Clinton could have been but when you screw as badly as he did with Lewinsky you disqualify yourself) would be Reagan's. Before that one could go to JFK but that one was truncated and incomplete. In other words, successful presidencies have been few and far between over the past 50 years. We need another regardless of the current circumstances.

When Obama was in the primary I supported him over Clinton because he represented the best chance for a home run POTUS, not a single or doubles hitter like perhaps Clinton would have been. There is risk to swinging for the fences but we need a homer. The fiscal challenges posed by entitlements and the evolution of the U.S.'s role in world require big time innovation and action. Unless you are a Hooverite or neo-con, Obama is the best chance for both.

From Chris Matthews:
"President Obama...delivered his most pronounced message since taking office. He wants to be a president who does more than muddle through. He wants to be a transformative president on the model of Roosevelt and Reagan. He wants to do big things...He was saying "I'm not going to be Bill Clinton and do school uniforms and family home leave, I'm going to do big stuff. Dick Morris is not advising me. I'm here to do business like the big guys, like Reagan and Roosevelt and maybe Lincoln. I'm going to be an important president or I'm not going to be a good one."

...I think President Obama has a very coherent plan: He is going to force the United States Senate to vote up or down on his budget. He's not going to let them walk away and do it piecemeal. He's going to wrap up energy, health care and education into one big casino style vote for Congress to take or leave. It looks to me like he is to insist that they take it up as a reconciliation matter where they only require 50 votes to do it. I think he's going to jam it. I think what we're seeing here day after day is this push. I think last night's speech was about President Obama saying, "I'm not here just to get by. I'm not just here to get through the business cycle. I'm going to change the American economy to compete in the future."
http://hardblogger.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/25/1865612.aspx