The White House: The AMATEUR LEFT !

[activa8tr]

If you haven't watched Keith Olbermann tonight, you DO NOT HAVE an opinion about what the last 19 months have shown us.

Such arrogance from the White House.......and so little commitment to progressive agenda's.


Talk me down.....tell me how Obama's White House could have done less than bow to Republican Health Care demands, and how the most we could have gotten out of the White House was promises to reward health insurance and drug companies, with little or no restrictions, and lots of profits.

Obama should have declared Health Insurance for profit Constitutionally illegal from Jan 20, 2008, onward.

[Poboy]

1. KO laid it out. -nt

[babylonsister]

2. Go away. Ugh. Tell me how McCain's wh might have done better. nt

[emilyg]

5. Tiresome line.

[babylonsister]

9. Ya think? Then 'someone' needs to stop inspiring it. nt

[Goldstein1984]

6. The issue isn't what McCain would and wouldn't have done.

That's the same old false dichotomy the White House is hoping the people accept.

It's what Obama has and hasn't done.

Do you understand. The point isn't what a Republican would have done but can't, it's what a Democrat should be doing and isn't.

[babylonsister]

13. No, the problem is what the Democrats have done that hasn't been

acknowledged by the thick-headed hacks that know only how to disavow this admin instead of how to acknowledge what the positives are and constructively criticize the negatives.

I have no problem with criticism, but for crying out loud, to be on DU, this prez is junk, and that just isn't true.

[Missy Vixen]

31. To this administration, there is no such thing as "constructive criticism"

Any questioning of their policies or decisions comes with a heavy price for the person who chooses to speak out.

[havocmom]

15. And that Democrat has told us several times to hold him responsible

But every time we try, people attack us, call us names, and now suggest we are chemically impaired.

They aren't even listening to what Obama told us to do. When ever we do as he asked, they bring up McCain or Palin. It's pretty weird.

[babylonsister]

21. Chemically impaired? Please. That's a line you folks are using

way too often.

Gibbs said those who compared Bush to Obama must be on drugs. It was a throwaway line, but I guess not; it's gotten a lot of mileage.

[havocmom]

24. hey, we did not originate the snide remark

and we damned well won't forget it.

[izquierdista]

27. Throwaway line

Well, at least now they are throwing away lines to all the people who have been thrown away....

[havocmom]

33. throw away or tell tale?

The latter, I think

[Individualist]

Hear, hear!

[maryf]

10. tell me how they could have been much worse?

why do you think they selected Palin to be McCain's running mate, to guarantee a loss (a shaky bet in the end); the moneyed power brokers wanted Obama, don't you see that yet?

[babylonsister]

17. Are you serious? You think palin was involved because of

Dems?

:rofl:

OK, maybe. :shrug:

[OwnedByFerrets]

18. What I have been saying for a long long time. High Five for getting it.

[maryf]

20. Follow the money...

maybe you'll get this article too (read it all, gotta edit too much here!)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8920281

[FreakinDJ]

25. Kind of a "Flawed Study"

since more affluent people (Wealthy Americans) are also more racially tolerant too.

[maryf]

26. are you serious?

really, are you serious?? Where do you get that from?

[Lorien]

14. Once again: opposition to right wing policy does not mean that we would have

preferred a right wing candidate. It's like insisting that all vegans who don't want a cheese pizza would really prefer a cheeseburger.

[activa8tr]

16. Go away yourself, if THAT is what you think young people of America deserve from a

President.

I was alive with Truman and Roosevelt

You want to fuck with MY view of "porgressive"?

Like I would EVER vote for Palin, that's all you got?

Try to study the issues, it's no longer 2008, it's 2010....Obama has NOT DELIVERED, get that through your skull, ok?

[Steely_Dan]

32. Nice Rant!......n/t

[muntrv]

3. Old Gibby doesn't understand that the problem is the professional RIGHT,

not left.

[Capn Sunshine]

12. Exactly

aside from a few websites, no one is raking in the bucks as a professional leftie. Contrats that with the right where even a third stringer makes over 100k per year.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. A President can't declare anything "constitutionally illegal."

Only the Supreme Court can do that -- Civics 101. We've got this separation of powers thing going, and as much as we'd like the President to just DO stuff, most of the time he can't. Congress has to pass laws; the SUpreme Court rules on their constitutionality, and the President can only veto them. Bush tried to ignore the other branches of government, and we didn't like it and we complained that he was disregarding the Constitution (which he was). And if our guy does it, it's still bad. I don't want Obama to be a "unitary executive" like Bush wanted to be, just because he's a Democrat.

[havocmom]

7. the problem is the amateurs have not left

:evilgrin:

[Fire1]

8. Keith was on a roll, tonight! n/t

[Lorien]

11. More like the Amateur Right

I'd love it if the embraced policy that is left of center, but that VERY rarely ever happens.

[Monique1]

22. I am a progressive and was a leftie

but I am being turned off by the self right of the lefties and almost the progressives.

[TheKentuckian]

19. They need lots of practice for sure

[Robeson]

23. Saw that from Keith. The White House being "Amateur Left" was pitch perfect...

...excellent commentary from him tonight.

[Pisces]

28. All of your posts are anti Obama. Seems to me you have a certain agenda on this board.

[JoeyT]

29. So far instead of arguments you've gotten

a stupid strawman that never stood up on its own (McCain wouldn't have been any better), and an ad hominem attack.
I'm starting to think the hardcore supporters don't actually HAVE an argument.

[Barack2theFuture]

30. LOL