Reply #83: I think that be diminishing the good that has been done alienates them [View All]

[Liberation Angel]

as well as the bad policies.

You make very valid points

BUT

the rhetoric of disillusionment and the platitudes of the posters who say NOTHING good and give Obama NO credit for positive change and actually continually are beginning to rant in a hateful way HURTS the progressive cause.

It is like Stalinist policies where leaders who did not tow the party line were executed. Obama isn't doing what WE might do but he is doing what he believes will work best under the circumstances: in many ways Obama is in a triage situation where he is saving the patients he can save and sacrificing some ideals to salvage others. We may not approve of the choices he makes but my point is that he is TRYING to do as much as he can given his belief systems and his ideals. We may not agree with them but they are better than the alternatives of a republican nightmare where they ONLY serve the corporofascist elites.

MAYBE he is a really smart man who has a plan for the long term which will work out for the best.

But none of us can stop crying for what has to be sacrificed for what may be the greater good: BECAUSE BUSH put us in a crisis and what Obama has to deal with is a critical situation. He can't save us all at once. And he can't save us all.