Yes, I was a pretty surprised by it as well. I knew he was presumptuous but I didn't realize how presumptuous, who would have thought he was going to use the honorary title of president-elect and turn it into an "Office of the President-elect." And then issue a weekly address as if he were president, complaining about the economy, issuing orders to Congress and sounding like he's still making stump speeches (promises to spend, spend, spend us into further debt) all before he takes the oath of office.
Someone might want to remind Obama that there's only one president at a time (words that he's mouthed but evidently not taken to heart). We don't need a shadow government.
BTW, I think that's the last one I'll listen to, that was the longest three minutes of my life!
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Thanks for the link, now I can hear my President elect and hear his speeches regularly. It's about time I wanted to actually hear what our President (to be) is saying.....
Well, no-one cares about lame duck President Bush- and it was evidently so in the G-20 summit during the weekend too.
Plus, he wasn't in Washington for the summit in person. If he was there, then that would be indeed presumptive of him to do so.
Americans need reassurance anyway- and President-elect Obama is the guy whom most will listen- because a majority of Americans did. I mean when John Howard was voted out in Australia(I'm in Australia) last year, who did Australians listen to the day after the federal elections? Certainly it wasn't John Howard(who lost his Prime Minister post); it was Kevin Rudd, who was elected the new PM.
Well, some of the press are saying Obama's jumping the gun, but many more are not, focusing more on what Obama says, than what Bush has said.
Even the House and Senate are looking at what Obama says and do, and not what Bush is doing. This has all got to do with Bush's approval ratings, and overall ability.
I mean, at least when Clinton was the outgoing President in 2000, many more gave him due respect due to his high job approval ratings. Now its different; Obama's approval ratings now range from the high 60s to the mid-70s as President-elect.
That's a lot of political ammo.
Michele:
A lot of serious constitutional scholars are noting that having a two-month transition period is far too long generally, and especially in a national crisis. (Indeed, it was the agonizingly slow four-month transition from Herbert Hoover to FDR in 1932-33 during the Great Depression that got the Constitutional rules on transition changed from four months to a little over two months.)
Anything Obama can do to accelerate this transition isn't presumptuous; it's smart. And I can promise you that, despite my disappointment in an Obama loss, I would have said the same of McCain.
Wow, too bad your post was infiltrated with the Obama loons, including a proud Wegro.
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