Four more years, oh thank God, Mark Morford

[madokie]

Seekers! Heathens! Darlings of the new constituency! It’s Inauguration Week! You know what that means, right?

That’s right: ridiculous, bordering on gratuitous, hell let’s just say it outright: fawning unfettered gaspingly unhinged heaps of unbridled, open-throated gratitude.

That’s right, gratitude. For what? For Obama, of course. For the general wonder of another four years of this guy who is tremendously flawed and makes some infuriatingly weak decisions and for some reason refuses to unleash any serious, go-for-the-throat whoop-ass on the GOP, but who nevertheless will go down as the finest and most unfalteringly intelligent president we could have hoped for in this here generation, and maybe the next.

Grateful is exactly the right sentiment, too. Because I think we’ve forgotten. I think we on the left, despite the heartfelt surge right up to the election itself, we sort of let our attentions wander, let our relentless cynicism and single-issue annoyances get in the way, let all the various reasons Obama failed to live up to his impossible 2008 hype block us from seeing the larger picture at play.

The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/01/22/four-more-years-oh-thank-god/

[lamp_shade]

1. Thank you. That was excellent.

[malaise]

2. +1,000

It’s simple gratitude for knowing cooler heads will almost always prevail. It’s the deep thanks that can only come from realizing the pilot can land this thing no matter what. It is the profound pleasure in understanding you are in confident and capable hands for four more years, as opposed to clammy and trigger-happy, dishonest and dead like a neoconservative fish.

Is that too simplistic? Too lacking in all the complaints you can so easily list about Obama’s various botched issues and congressional battles, his failure to support universal bike lanes or dolphin rights, his ridiculous support of “clean” coal and drone warfare? I don’t think it is. I don’t think the wide view is the slightest bit useless. In fact, it’s downright essential. Complain all you want that the water is murky and the temperature’s uncertain; at least we’re in the right pool.




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[ReRe]

3. Great article....

but, you must read the entire thing. Thanks, madokie, for pointing us to the article.

[sheshe2]

4. That is one amazing article, madokie!

I am tempted to highlight the last two paragraphs, and announce a spoiler alert. However, I will not.

This is definitely a must read!

Thank you,
sheshe2

Four more years!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. reading it....excellent!! nt

[Cha]

6. Thanks madokie!

I am so eternally grateful, too, that we have Four More Years of President Obama.

[madokie]

7. Your sig line says it all

I do admit that I was worried that the un-stiff man and his handlers were going to steal this one. No way were they going to win on votes alone.