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Sure, I do think we need to keep pressure on, after all, that will be the best weapon Obama can use, just as it was the best weapon LBJ and FDR used. However, the antics of many on the left here sadden me. I am not talking about those who criticize, I am talking those who obviously were never for him from the beginning, who want 2012 to be some crowning of their person, be he St. Dennis or Lady Hillary or Dr. Dean.
Of course, these are the same people who forget how much FDR was hated for "compromises", and JFK, and let's not forget, the same LBJ they want him to act like was the same LBJ they hounded out of office, after all, the Chicago riots were cool, and Nixon was not that bad, right?
There are those who define a center as the middle of the road, and some who realize the center is not the middle of the road, but the spoke of the wheel that actually make it possible for any work to get done. Do not get me wrong, the public option must stand, and I will admit, Obama and his Clinton era aides seem to think middle of the road equals balance, which is wrong when the GOP has so obviously bent the scales, But acting like a bunch of children that keep threatening to take our ball and go home to uncle Ralph only makes the GOP gladder, because they know, as much of a mess as they appear to be, we will be less organized, which of course means they do not have to do the work of actually destroying us.
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