Come on Obama, tell the American people the freaking truth.

[Elwood P Dowd]

Get on the Teeeveee thing and lay it on the line. It will only take 5 minutes.

Hold up a one-page bill and then hold up something the size of the New York telephone book that the repukes want to add to that bill. Tell the people how the repukes want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, and all the other beneficial plans that help millions of our citizens. Stop being Neville Chamberlain and become FDR.

Edit to add: Do it in PRIME TIME on Tuesday night!!

[BeFree]

1. If he told the truth

They'd want to kill him. Oh wait, they want to kill him anyway.

[DeSwiss]

30. Which ones? n/t

[abq e streeter]

2. Good post---disappointed ( But I guess not surprised)that my rec just kept it at zero.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear abq e streeter...

You laid the groundwork...

Now it's five.

Thank you!

[abq e streeter]

4. I guess i understand his more fervent supporters objecting to the Neville Chamberlain comparison

(or was it Wilt Chamberlain...or the Neville Brothers...?) Anyway, I do understand that, but the general tone was just encouraging him to FIGHT and bust the repubs big time, which i think we all agree with.
P.S.....:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Yes, and I certainly agree with you!

P.S...Nice to see you tonight...:hi:

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. You cannot negotiate with nazis, fascists, tea baggers, or racists (their base).

IOW, you cannot negotiate with the current republican party.

[abq e streeter]

9. Yep; I don't understand why any Democratic leader hasn't figured that out .

I really don't get it. I sometimes genuinely wonder if the Bill Hicks "comedy" routine on this subject was really no joke at all.

[indurancevile]

11. It wasn't a joke.

[JDPriestly]

16. So right you are, Elwood P Dowd.

That is why, assuming Obama is not trying to pull something sneaky over on the American people, he doesn't just go directly to the people and explain his proposals and the Republican proposals.

All these secret negotiations just make Americans nervous. How can we trust Obama when he doesn't tell us what is going on with these negotiations. After all, as he pointed out, he has $5 million in his accounts.

Those of us who are just getting by are getting quite frightened by the sneaking stuff going on in D.C.

[Enthusiast]

28. This is the REAL 'uncertainty' that is hurting the economy. nt

[Enthusiast]

27. That is correct.

And it isn't simple misjudgment by Obama. He knows.

[russspeakeasy]

42. He knows and he agrees. That's the scary part.

[burrowowl]

15. Come to think of it

the analogy might be appropriate. Good ole Neville, good ole Obama

[bobburgster]

22. I support Obama....

I have no problems with the OP. I have the same view.

[Petrushka]

5. This should make it 16 . . . K & R

:kick:

[girl gone mad]

8. k & r

[BlueCaliDem]

10. Rec'd. This is how he should do it. Enough with the kid gloves!

And this coming from an Obama supporter who will donate to his campaign and vote for him again. But I do feel he needs to step it up a bit.

He needs to slam them.

[Lasher]

12. Not Neville Chamberlain.

More like Philippe Pétain.

[Hardrada]

13. Or Vidkun Quisling.

[Lasher]

17. Yours is the better example.

I bow to your superior intellect.

[Marr]

14. Why would he do that? He's spent two years setting up his political cover for this moment.

It's why he's so insistent on his "grand deal".

[kenny blankenship]

24. Exactly "never let a make believe manufactured crisis go to waste"

He's getting what he wants - both the crisis and its Death Knell For The New Deal resolution.

[defendandprotect]

39. Exactly -- !!! The all powerful GOP ... the minority -- !!! Sadly hilarious ... !!

[indurancevile]

18. He should tell them we can fix it by repealing Rupert Murdoch's $1billion/year tax refunds.

Americans give about a billion a year to the murdoch empire in refunds.

suckers.

'Income tax refunds' of nearly $5 million... Murdoch's News Corp Took $4.8B from US Taxpayers over 4 Years

http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=2428§ion=Article

[Demeter]

19. "Be the First. Start a Fashion!"

Pseudolus---A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

[Cool Logic]

20. Hearing politician tell the truth would be like a going on a date with a virgin prostitute.

It would require you to traverse beyond the boundaries of reality and into the realm of the supernatural.

[Daphne08]

21. FDR would hang his head in shame if he were alive today! n/t

[Creideiki]

49. More likely, he'd point and laugh at the latest Republican challenger

he trounced handily by telling the American people that he's on our side and that he welcomes the hatred of the entrenched business and financial concerns.

[kenny blankenship]

23. Honestly - why can't people face what he really is?

If he cared about Social Security and Medicare you wouldn't be pleading with him to take the case to the public. That would be his whole strategy.

"Become FDR"? My God, SNAP OUT OF IT, MAN!

[SSDA]

34. Cult of persona

Cult of personality politics at it's worse. Same as the thugs who defended bush no matter what he did.

[RVN VET]

35. Obama '12 will still be the lesser of 2 evils

But that's a real huge plunge from Obama '08. He's not the hero of the working and middle classes that we all thought he was back in '08. He is unlike the GOP in that he doesn't want us to be beaten quite as badly as does the GOP. At least that's the story I'm hearing from him (by his actions and inactions) so far.

So I'll probably vote for him in '12. No, actually I won't vote FOR him. I'll just vote against whoever the Repubs run against him. And then I'll go home and drink myself into a coma. :-(

[russspeakeasy]

43. Christ, he appears weak.

[grahamhgreen]

25. The solutions are simple. Kick!

[Enthusiast]

26. He won't use the TV thing

to help Democrats.

[Fearless]

29. If he told the truth he would have to explain why he's giving the wealthy a tax cut.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1525277

[russspeakeasy]

44. and it would be a 3 hour lecture that I would not understand

when he was finished...I may not even be able to tell when he is done.

[DeSwiss]

31. It'll never happen. The MIC runs this country, not Obama. Not congress. - K&R n/t

[Raster]

32. Truth!

And the MIC would never permit any level of honesty that might jeopardize their cash flows.

[SSDA]

33. Huh???

Do you really buy into this Obama = good. GOP = bad. Nonsense.


Both of these parties and playing us for abject idiots. Obama is getting away with murder here that gab never could and gets a pass because he is democrat.

[Mosaic]

36. Truth

Something he obscures all the time, from ignoring the base on bush prosecutions. From his moving forward meme, meant to say don't punish past evil deeds of war criminals. He is a master manipulator. To selling out the middle, and lower classes to the rich. To trashing progressive values on war, which goes against peace that we stand for. I will not vote for him or support him under any circumstances.

[bertman]

37. It would take a person of immense courage and no fear of death to do what you asked, Elwood.

Too bad our President is neither.

But it's nice to fantasize about it every once in a while.

REC.

[tomp]

38. just fucking stupid.

did the republicans create the catfood commission?

did the republicans put ss and medicare on the table?

obama owns all this bullshit.

obama is bullshit.

the corporate coup is complete.--hedges

if voting made a difference it would be illegal.-berrigan

[Stinky The Clown]

40. That's what an actual leader would do.

Sadly, he is not a very good leader.

[CoffeeCat]

41. At this point...Obama is either complicit in crimes...

...or he's going to do something about it.

Yes, I understand--the big, bad neocons and the scary Grover Nordquist, James Baker and
Henry Kissinger will be mad if you speak out.

But what choice does Obama have?

To watch this country slip away into a sick, dark state, or do something?

The dynamics of this are no different from a bunch of junior-high-school bullies picking
on someone and intimidating them with fear and power.

Just tell it like it is. If you don't, soon or later, everyone will know that you said
and did nothing when you could have saved this nation.

Silence is the abusers best friend.

[deaniac21]

45. Please don't hold your breath. You are too old and it would be

dangerous.

[ddeclue]

46. How about he reads section 4 of the 14th Amendment instead?

It's just ONE SENTENCE but it says it all: The public debt of the United States is not to be questioned.

WHY IS OBAMA ALLOWING THE REPUBLICANS TO QUESTION IT THEN?

He should simply get on TV, read the amendment aloud, and read from the Executive Order he is giving to Treasurer Geithner to PAY the debt and dare the Republicans to take it to court.

Doug D.

[valerief]

47. I think the communities the prez is now organizing are all gated. nt

[mckara]

48. The Republicans Won the House in a Landslide

Could you do better than the President?

Elections have consequences!

[WillyT]

50. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

:bounce:

:kick:

:hi:

[obxhead]

51. Do it in prime time EVERY night.

If a lie can be repeated enough to become the truth, imagine what the truth repeated every night could do.