Jon Stewart describes Democratic Party’s midterm strategy as ‘D*ckless H. Chickensh*t’

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29. On a side note Obama looking weary

Is it just me or does he look increasingly worn down and grumpy.

I just hope, HOPE, that some of that weariness is an inner realization that his third way (more like 4th way) approach and shutting out the progressive wing of his party may have been a huge mistake. Together with his negotiation method of card playing of folding before one round had happened in hopes that the other side would throw him a chip or two, his catering to Wall Street and protecting them from prosecution, his appointments to high positions going to Republicans, his decision to only listen to corporate shills for advice in his inner circle from Rahm on down, and his laziness or fear of using the bully pulpit to explain the very real benefits of things like the ACA, flawed though it is.

One of the greatest orators in the line of Presidents ever seemingly refused to take advantage of it to actually explain his and fellow Democrats accomplishments. I'm sure I'm not alone in having much higher expectations of having a real communicator-in-chief for a CHANGE, after that brilliant "no blue states, no red states, but the United States" speech in the convention before he ran, and also the many great speeches he gave in his actual run and then the awesome election night acceptance speech.

As Bernie Sanders said:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/217668-sanders-obama-should-use-bully-pulpit-more

Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sanders said while the president “has done some very good things” and “the level of obstructionism that he has had to face has been unprecedented,” Obama should’ve been more aggressive in using the bully pulpit.

“I think he should’ve understood from day one that the Republicans were not going to cooperate with him. I think he should’ve gone to the people in a more aggressive way” and issued a call to action for supporters of the minimum wage increase to descend on Washington, he said.

He “just can’t sit in a room and negotiate with people who refuse to negotiate,” Sanders added.


If he had been more "aggressive" in that way, even DINO Dems would have had to think twice about slagging him in their own ridings.