Hello everyone,
I have been visiting this site since 2007 and I visit it a couple of times a day to get a feel for what is really going on. . I wouldn’t dare listen to or believe anything that MSM says unless they admitted that they are working for the GOP and always have been. That being said, I have rarely commented on a diary let alone written one myself, this is my first diary. But I can’t take it anymore; somebody’s got to say it.
WE are our own worst enemy! I have watched as this community has gone from euphoria during the presidential elections to hysteria surrounding Super Tuesday, and Super Super Tuesday back to euphoria during the Inauguration and now back to hysteria. But this is a different kind of hysteria. It’s more like the kicking and screaming tantrum of a spoiled two year old in the supermarket. If we don’t get our way (which is to have everything right now) then we will simply take our ball and go home! President Obama has been fighting from day one. He has been taking shots from every angle and from everybody all the time. There is no pleasing anyone these days, not even his base (If you believe that bullshit from MSM). The thing that really amazes me is no one is willing to speak the truth. The Republicans are using the fear of the so-called unknown (how in the hell do you call a man that was born in this country, to a mother that is a United States citizen the unknown) to scare the shit out of poor, uneducated white folks who really believe that the Republicans give a damn about them. John McCain and Sarah Palin started this nonsense and I knew then that since no one called them on it, it was going to fester into the monster it has become today. .
You see for poor ignorant tea baggers who just happen to be all white are ready at the drop of a dime to call our President; a Nazi, a Fascist, a Marxist, a witch doctor, illegitimate, an illegal alien, a Muslim, a baby killer and anything else they choose to believe all because they simply refuse to give this black man the respect that the office of the Commander-in-Chief deserves.
All because they were taught, and some still believe that black people are inferior and should not ever be in a position of power, especially over white people. They refuse to admit that President Obama was elected, unlike George W. Bush who we all know stole the election. Make no mistake about it, the Karl Roves and Dick Cheney’s of this country know exactly what they are doing. They have managed (with the help of the MSM and our willingness to whine about everything) to turn the election of what I believe to be one of the greatest Presidents this country will ever see, into a referendum on the Democrats. We can blame Massachusetts on no one but ourselves. How many times have I logged onto this site to see the vileness and total ridiculousness directed toward each other or at President Obama. (I love saying President Obama) You see the problem with us Democrats/Liberals/Progressives is that we haven’t learned a very basic fact, one that my mother taught me when I was just a child and the one thing that the Republicans, Conservatives, Tea Baggers have mastered:
Never air your dirty laundry! Never ever put on public display your disagreements, it shows weakness, it shows that the team is divided and gives the opposition an opportunity, however small to exploit that weakness.
We all remember how totally unqualified Sarah Palin was is. I can’t even count the number of Republicans that were are willing to go on TV and proclaim her competence and their complete confidence that not only was she qualified to be Vice-President but that she was is more qualified than both then Vice-Presidential candidate Joe Biden and Presidential candidate Barack Obama. But all is not lost, it aint over until it’s over! I have tremendous faith in the President. Having said that there are some things that we must come to grips with. No one including President Obama thought this was going to be easy. The special interest that have run the country forever are not going to simply roll over and allow this president to change the status quo. If you thought this then you were not listening to candidate Obama or President Elect Obama. He knew it was is going to be the hardest thing he ever did. He knew that he was going to get battle scarred, and left to spin in the wind by his so-called base at times, that’s why he always said:
"I’m not perfect, I am going to make mistakes, but I will always be honest and listen to the American People".
I believe he knows that this comes with the territory and that sometimes you have to compromise or lose the battle in order to win the war in the end. It has only been one year since President Obama took office and change is not going to happen overnight. Are we going to disagree sometimes, yes? Are we going to feel left out sometimes of course, but you never, ever let the opposition think for one moment that you are ready to throw in the towel, that you give up and just don’t care anymore. You take the victory no matter how small until you have so many victories that you gain momentum, and with that momentum come more victories, bigger victories. So stop whining, stop your hand wringing, stop airing your dirty laundry for the entire world to see and come together for the greater good of all.