I'm about as left wing as you can get around these parts, of course we can do better as Dems

MrScorpio

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Fri Jul-09-10 01:26 PM
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I'm about as left wing as you can get around these parts, of course we can do better as Dems

But frankly, I'm not buying all of the "Obama is as bad as the other guy" bull that I see all the time.

And the reason is pretty simple: I've never expected President Obama to do it all alone.

He can only do so much, and even that so much has limits. He can't enact laws, for that he needs Congress. So, if Congress drops the ball, which it frequently has, because the Democrats are following fifteen different agendas and Republicans are using every obstructionist trick in the book, how in the hell can Obama succeed (100% of the time as some us are apt to demand)? And don't get me started on the courts. OH boy.

President Obama doesn't own the media. It's the corporations that does and they have their own agendas. They're working overtime to distract and deceive, in order to affect or destroy popular support for Obama's efforts, which have the potential to change the existing economic structure. If that structure had collapsed, things would be much worse than they already are now, we all know that. If it were possible to prevent a collapse and yet reform the system to a more community based process, in lieu of the current corporatized apparatus, why didn't the media express those kind of solutions as a whole? The reason is simple: Because, the owners of the media depend on the corporatized apparatus, so they went along with triage without reformation. They'd be cutting their own throats if there was a well informed electorate demanding that Congress and the White House reorganize the economy. Without that demand, there is no political clout to reorganize. Save first, fix later has to be the way to go for now.

Besides, most Americans feel that they're are entitled to be pissed off at the Government, whether it's constructive or not. And there are people who object to everything, merely because they feel entitled to be obstinate. The media and the politicians play these people like a card game all time. This is just obfuscation to muddy the waters, sow doubt, mistrust and anger. It makes people unreasonable. How would you like to try and govern a nation full of unreasonable people? I know that I wouldn't. Yet, President Obama is keeping his head about him under those conditions... Give him some credit, will ya?

The American political system was designed to be slow and arduous. Bush cut through a lot of Red tape to enact his own agenda. And many here rightly called him on it. Such red tape cutting is an anathema to President Obama, because he believes in the proper processes of doing government, and unfortunately that means that he has to continue and defend some previously enacted policies. All presidents have had to put up with this kind of crap. Two years in office is not long enough to reverse every wrong made by Bush. Especially, with a lack of necessary political clout, and also especially for someone who believes in following the rules. Wait a while, whatever your concern is... He should get to it, if he can.

Yes, Obama makes wrong decisions. He's human. He knows he's not perfect, frankly if anyone else didn't know this, I don't know what planet they're living on. When considering the alternative, I think that we do ourselves a favor by cutting him a little slack. That doesn't mean that we have to follow along like little automatons, not at all. It means that we have to educate ourselves on how the system actually works. And it works when he is afforded some added momentum to help him make better decisions. Of course, there's going to be resistance. He's the head Chef, and too many cooks spoil the soup. So when people pout and complain that they want to take their marbles and go home because your feelings are hurt, first off I call into question their maturity level and I declare that this is no way to get the job done. You want to get results? ELECT A MORE LIBERAL CONGRESS.

Yes, there are too many things that haven't either been addressed or the solutions are less than perfect. Well, I really don't understand how ANYTHING can be expected to be perfect with the initial manifestation. That's why things are amended over time. That's the way the process works. Guess what, A MORE LIBERAL CONGRESS is just what we all need to fix those problems and the imperfect solutions in the long run. That takes work, not a magic wand.

And lastly, I know that a lot of people think that he's let us down. I'm not one of those people. He has done a lot for this country to make to make things better. He's won some and he's lost some. He has stood tall and he has stumbled some as well. And yet, he has done so very much while he was very much ALONE with no one else in his corner.

So, you won't hear me saying that Obama has let us down. Because, when I don't see as many as he needs of us to back him up, like both those missing out of Congress and the regular, angry guy on the street, all I can say is that WE HAVE LET HIM DOWN.

Our focus should be on keeping the batshit crazy GOP from regaining power. Now is not the time to be Debbie Downers and let down the one guy who has the responsibility of standing between them and us.

Yes, I know that I just pissed some of you off.

So, what else is new?