In my opinion the salient point of this article is the articulation of the level of absurdity in the the opposition to Obama.
Its been unreal, have we ever seen such despicable lying and fear mongering. Its jaw dropping.
Take away Grayson, Franken, and Gibbs, and the counter to this is gone. Where is the passionate fight from the left for cripes sakes.
The Atlantic: Now Fight!
...these forces have also been so passionate, so extreme, and so energized that in a country reeling from a recession, the narrative - a false, paranoid, nutty narrative - has taken root in the minds of some independents. Obama, under-estimating the extremism of his opponents, has focused on actually addressing the problems we face. And the rest of us, crucially, have sat back and watched and complained and carped when we didn't get everything we want.
Do your duty. And grow some. Fight back. Explain why you're right. Tell the liberals they can always come back later to reform the bill. Just get this passed.
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The base is demoralized after a yr. of betrayal from Mr. Hope and Change. He's surrounded himself with party hacks and corrupt advisors and he's fooling nobody with his endless campaign speeches. He needs a good track record now and he doesn't have one. Unless, u think giving the greedy ass wall st. bankers everything and anything they wanted and it still wasn't enough ,or carrying on BV$H's wars and his State security policies, or maybe the Stimulus for Gov't employees oh that worked great unemployment is skyrocketing. Then last but not least was the absurd horse and pony show called Health care reform or is that Health Ins. reform? Barry needs a new script he's already lost 90% of his credibility. I know , I know he's so much better then BV$H, yea but come on thats as low as a bar as anyone could possibly have and he barely barely gets over it. Lets face facts his 1st yr. hasn't been an example of sterling leadership.
Its this simple, either he becomes the real deal, I believe he has the goods to do that, or he tanks and we get worse than Bush. So what do we do. We are not going to get a better Democrat in 2012. Presidential elections don't work like that. So we have to get Obama in a better direction, he may be seeing the light, I don't know. But going to Volcker instead of Geithner is good. Its a start. Hopefully he begins to realize that there is no point to attempting to create bipartisanship in the present political landscape. The asshats on the right wanted to take him down for the underwear bomber. How f-ed is that. So he gets tougher, forget bipartisanship, tackles the banks, keeps health care reform at least on the radar, and then we make it clear we want out of Afghanistan, out of neocon policy. We want democracy. I think we have to be more vocal and instead of sitting on our hands just because we don;t have Bush is not enough but a long shot. I think I am going to try to make the blog more aggressive in this respect.
I don't mean the term in the racist way, but we all know the old saying that you should never send a boy to do a man's job.
Well then you have to resign yourself to 8 more years of Bush on steroids from 12 to 20.
He sees the light or Portugal here I come. I can't hang around here for a Palin presidency. Its already a mess.
I agree. If he gets rid of the hacks and low lifes like Geitner and Summers and replaces them with people like Elizbeth Warren and Krugman , Volcker etc. maybe we'll see some changes. Oh and Rahm E. has to go, the guy is bad news.
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