3 DAYS SINCE THE MA. FALLOUT......HAS OBAMA...

[rsmith6621]

....figured out what went wrong....accepted partial blame for not being stronger in leading the Democratic party....understood that the people have him figured out on who's fence he stands behind......begun to take major corrective steps to get back on the message he spoke of on the campaign trail in 2008......

Instead of going to Ohio today he should be spending everyday on Capitol Hill until he has bipartisan support for HIS original healthcare plan that includes a PUBLIC OPTION and then revisit them weekly till the things he promised us are policy...


Yesterdays banking speech is still just a band-aid.

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Has he come to your house and mopped your floors?

I mean, really!

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. No, but he cleaned ALL our clocks

n/t

[Cha]

3. Bullshit.

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[Cronus Protagonist]

22. Lighten up

Just a bit. Don't get your knickers in a twist.

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[FrenchieCat]

5. That's alright. You can make kissy face with President Exxon Brown

pretty soon....so just hang in there criticizing everything cause you can.

Of course, you won't be able to direct Pres Exxon from the comfort of the Internet,
cause you probably won't have the same kind of Internet access that you do now,
in regard to having a forum to spew your critiques.

So keep it up.
It won't be long now.
And you'll be able to thank yourself,
and all of the rest of the stupids
that didn't give a shit in reality,
beyond being pissed at everything,
cause they always had a better way,
no matter the issue.

Good luck.

[Cha]

12. Then they'll really have something to bitch

about..it will be whine utopia.

[FrenchieCat]

16. They'll be whining will sitting on the couch at home

watching the corporate media tell them what to think....
and an Internet where all forums are corporated owned and controlled.

They can kick this President in the face all they want....
cause after that is done, they'll get to bend over for the Republican
piece of shit that they will help elect with all of the whine.

[Cronus Protagonist]

23. Thanks for your whine

Your contributions to whine utopia are duly noted.

[still_one]

6. No way it is a bandaid. the question is will Congress be receptive /nt

[ecstatic]

7. What went wrong? People are stupid.

If a so called progressive actually voted for Brown, then that person has way more issues than Obama or anyone else can address.

[SPedigrees]

15. For sure. Same goes for ALL dem voters who went for Brown.

Stupid beyond all imagination.

[kenny blankenship]

19. That's a constant across the universe, right? So in what sense did it "go" wrong?

Stupid is the first element of the periodic table. Angry people lashing out stupidly is one of the few things you can actually count on. Ignoring the likelihood of an angry self-destructive response to hated legislation - that's somewhere beyond stupid. Ignoring such probabilities when people have been urgently warning you about it for months and months - that's what cognitive researchers designate the "full retard".

[BeyondGeography]

8. Wrong

Getting the fuck out of Washington and mobilizing opinion is exactly the right move, especially now that we've taken several electoral hits from the opposition. You know what "Washington" is doing right now? Pointing outward and saying, "See, we're politically doomed." What is he supposed to do, stay put and reassure them? I don't think so. He'll put the other side of the defensive by taking his message directly to the people. Permanent campaign from now until 2012.

[MannyGoldstein]

10. Beranke Nomination Dropped? No

Geithner fired? No
Summers fired? No
Emanuel fired? No

I'm thinking message not yet acknowledged.

[tabatha]

14. Geithner and Summers are being side-lined.

What has Emanuel done to warrant the firing suggestion?

I am not a fly on the WH wall to know exactly what he has said and done.

[tabatha]

11. Do you watch or read the news, at all!!!

Or even read this board?

In fact, an email from a RWer criticized his response - that means a RWer was able to read his response before you.

"From the Washington Post:

President Obama on Wednesday blamed the Democrats' stunning loss of their filibuster-proof majority in the Senate on his administration's failure to give voice to the economic frustrations of the middle class, a disconnect that White House aides vowed to quickly address as they continue to work to advance the president's agenda."

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. One poorly run election campaign doesn't mean the end of the world...

..unless we don't learn from it.

[tranche]

17. There are no Senators who give a shit. They will fight any meaningful reform to the end.

That is what I see. Obama can give them wedgies until the straps break, but they'll never pass reform that doesn't screw regular Americans in favor of Corporate demands.

[bigwillq]

18. I think Obama has taken responsibility

At least that's what I got out of the ABC news interview. Good for him for admitting mistakes were made. I hope this is a lesson learned for our party and our leaders. Now get to work.

[NorthCarolina]

20. Obama never wanted a public option to begin with. That was campaign talk.

Why else would he come out and say "I never campaigned on a public option", when he had to know full well that within minutes the internet would be abuzz with video clips of him doing just that? Would it be wise to make such a flagrantly false claim if he weren't trying desperately to disavow any support, at any time, for a PO? His true "original plan" is likely to have been just what the Senate produced.

[WI_DEM]

21. You obviously don't watch news or read papers because Obama did accept partial blame