Maggie's Farm

Really?  The best he can?  Does he need to try harder?  Maybe that will make it all right.  I thought he was a pro, so trying wasn't going to be the issue.  That was why he was elected, because all the reasons given here were not acceptable for his predecessor.  Regardless of what you thought of Bush, it's fair to say he was also doing everything De Niro says Obama is doing, but I doubt De Niro would have provided Bush a similar benefit of the doubt.

“He’s trying his best. He’s going to do things that people feel are not right or violating one right or another. But at the end of the day, he represents, I think, the best of the type of people that I would like to see running the government,” De Niro told DuJour.  ”He has to play that game, the political game. They all do. They make statements they can’t honor because they’re impossible to honor. Once you get into that Washington machinery, you’ve just got to figure it out and swim against the current and grab onto this rock and that, and just try to maintain your course.”

De Niro is a great actor, but when he and his Hollywood cohorts involve themselves in politics, they really make a hash of it.  They reason they can do this?  Apathy.