What in the name of all that is good and decent is wrong with Democrats? Why is it that when something goes right our first impulse is to try to figure out what bad could possibly become of it?
Our guy becomes only the third sitting US President in history to receive the Nobel Peace Prize and what do we get?
"It's premature."
"There are still two wars going on."
"I don't know if he really deserves this."
"I'm a progressive and I voted for him, I gave money and worked for him, but . . . "
For crying out loud! What in the hell is wrong with us? Buy a bottle of champagne, toast Obama and the Nobel committee, mock the GOP and play OFFENSE damn it!
When something breaks your way, you do not navel gaze. You do not give legitimacy to your opponents' talking points. You do not snipe about how your guy should be doing more than he is.
You press your advantage. And you press hard.
You continue to attack your enemies for their anti-American attitudes. You use this to help you construct your narrative about how the GOP would attack Obama if he walked on water. You point out all of the reasons that it IS deserved (i.e. Obama scrapped the expansion of the ABM plan in Europe and got the Russians to relax tensions with Poland, Obama opened dialog with the Muslim world and helped to oust the extremists in Lebanon, Obama opened a dialog with America's enemies and helped to reduce tensions, Obama inspired an entire generation of young Iranians by admitting to America's past mistakes. That is to say that all of the stuff that the GOP has been criticizing him for mercilessly has had an incredibly beneficial effect on the standing of this country in the world at large. There is a reason that we are now the most admired country in the world and that reason is Barack Obama).
Stop wringing your hands and learn how to press your advantage. It's time for us to say things like "EVERYONE IN THE WORLD EXCEPT THE GOP gets it."
It's time for us to use the political capital this grants us to push our agenda and get a greener energy policy.
It's time to use this as a means to delegitimize the constant caviling of the GOP and ask them why they aren't with the program.
If you think that this is premature, then don't tell people that. Figure out how to use it to make sure that Obama and all those who support him achieve everything that is necessary to make sure that generations from now this seems like such a no-brainer that the GOP is a historical laughingstock.
Now would be a good time to start.
Laugh in their faces.
Act like it was completely obvious that our guy got this.
Look contemptuously on all who question it.
In other words, it is time for us to learn how to strut.