http://frank-schaeffer.blogspot.com/2009/12/obama-will-triumph-so-will-america.htmlA lot of Democratic women left where I'd been posting since 2000 and voted for McCain in spite. It was one thing to have an enemy of the other party in the White House, another thing to have a Democrat who inherited that mess.
Suddenly, all the vitriol aimed at Bush, became Obama's burden. But what is going on in D.C. is not the result of any one man. A POTUS is a person who believes they can do something for those who elected him, but not only them. Obama is a hard-working man and if the left continues to attack him as viciously as the right does, we can expect he will compromise to get done what he can.
Obama has been bashed on a level I have not since the era that saw the deaths of Evers, the little girls at the church in Birmingham, the freedom riders, JFK, RFK and MLK. It's been deja vu for me since I saw Palin and the crowds she inflamed, and the Tea Party is the fruit of that.
Perhaps some here haven't seen the way that lefties treated Obama with everything they consider a failure on his part. But these voices are unfair or ill-informed, IMHO. And their energy *feels* to me, exactly the same as that put out by the RW.
How many followed the Congressional and Senate races closely around the time that Obama got elected? Did people really think that when Obama got into office, he would be able to wave a magic wand and do all he wanted to do?
Obama was left with a nation bankrupt, just as Bush intended, to promote the interests of his global cronies. He did what he could within minutes of being sworn in to overturn a lot of Bush orders, before the public celebrations. He came into office without a clear majority in the Senate, but Democrats blamed the Party and Obama for that without knowing the details. It's easy to condemn when you refuse to acknowledge the depth of the opposition.
People were frustrated and wanted results fast to turn things around. The GOP has been consolidating their base state by state for almost 20 years. You don't turn a country around without help and he didn't get it from the meager numbers of lefties in office. He has had to work with what he had to get things done. I've seen some far leftists who act as thin-skinned as the GOP when criticized or not getting their way.
Remember the GOP fighting to keep Franken from being seated? Their attempts to toss the guy with the brain problem? That's how narrow the majority was, and then there was Lieberman. The guy who gave them their technical majority, but insisted on playing the hawk and getting his conservative agenda, or else he would have handed the Senate back to the GOP. Does anyone think that didn't play a part in what has disappointed us so much?
Formerly Democratic strongholds have fallen to the side state after state. The DNC sucked badly, but they weren't the first blow against the much needed strong Democratic base to win elections and get the results progressives.
Right now, I'm not happy with Obama's results, but they are really *our* results. Does anyone truly believe that Obama would oppose a Senate full of Al Frankens and Bernie Sanders' if he had it? No, he wouldn't. But that's not what he has to work with. I believe strongly that if there is a full progressive majority in both houses soon, he will be able to live up to all of his promises. Some people don't want to hear what he has done, period.
That reminds me of the GOP. They won't hear of any Democrat doing anything good. They refuse to admit that Democrats have any good ideas. They have been attacking Obama since Day One and have not stopped. Is it a mistake on their part?
I rate people sometimes by what they do good, and also who is against them. It's said that we are known by the company we keep. We're also known by the enemies that we make. Consider the enemies of FDR, JFK, RFK and MLK. What did they want to stop them from doing? Why did they hate them so much?
I give the example in Michigan with Bobb. Look what this man did in the years that he had for a boss a Democratic Governor and now look what he's doing now. Do we believe the man suddenly turned into a GOP? Would he do what he's doing with a governor from the Democratic Party? I don't think so, although economic realities hit in every state, regardless of party. The situation in the GOP states are due to GOP policies.
Bobb's probably trying to save what he can in a state that probably didn't want Obama in the first place, or Democratic policies, or they wouldn't have elected Snyder, would they? We have to look at the reality, the strength of the opposition. Because Obama has.
I know what I'm saying won't mean anything to those who thought Obama was going to change everything overnight. I've cited on other threads details that people who'd kept track would know. I'm not unaware of what we haven't gotten done. I believe it will get done in time, but *not* by *not* voting and saying it's no use.
Democrats who say they are too disgusted to vote, well, they aren't part of the party, are they? Be real. Because being a Democrat is not mandatory, it's a choice. It's a choice to believe, that working as a group, certain goals can be achieved.
The GOP and the RW machine, conspiracy talkers, pundits and the MSM, say the entire system is worthless. But then they promote the 'new, improved' political solution, the Tea Party. If it's all worthless, why do they vote?
Because it's not, and they know it. If as so many people on the left say, that there is no difference, why does the GOP do anything and everything to stop us from voting? Why do they defame us day and night, even calling for us to be killed? What is the power of the Democratic Party and by extension Obama, really?
I wish folks would think what we have, that MSM works so hard to tell us we don't. What I think, is that we actually do have a great deal of power and what we do, and who we vote for does make a difference. The teabaggers certainly think so of their candidates.
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