To all who bash Obama I say this, you can always vote for Dennis Kucinich, just like righties can vote for Sarah Palin. The spectrum has bent into a 360 circle and the far left is now holding hands with the most extreme racist tea bagger. If you are truly angry at Obama it is for one of two reasons, 1) you are uninfomed and/or 2) you are simply niave.
Look back the 2008 campaign. Was Obama just pretending to be a moderate? Look at who gave Obama's invocation; Rick Warren. Do you remember when Obama said he didn't come into office all "ginned up" to spend money? Do you remember when Obama said he felt marriage was between a man and a woman? Do you remember when Obama won Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and thus the White House?
Let this year be a moment of growth for uber-libs. Understand this lefties, you are not in the main stream, and you never were. Uber-libs do not win national elections, they never have and most likely never will. (FDR did everything he could to take us to a world war by the way so don't tell me he was a "liberal").
America is not Europe and America is not California (on the verge of bankrupcy). America is not even sending Massachusets liberals to the Senate anymore...thanks to you.
If the Kossack libs can't recognize the fact that it is better to be pragmatic than dogmatic they will never get anywhere. If this website had been more pragamtic with the public option we would have major health care reform and pre-existing conditions would be a thing of the past. Think about that libs. No more pre-existing conditions. Portability. Cost controls. We would major health care reform and 60 seats in the Senate. Instead liberals wrongly dug thier feet in the sand and lost everything. Incrementalism people, that is how liberal changes happen.
Libs should look the organization and happy capitulation of the Christian right. They know thier place in the GOP (for the most part) and listen for code words. They bide thier time. They word in the shadows. If they don't get a perfect candidate at least they fall in line with an imperfect one because they know the alternative is worse. They hold the line. They take a small victory here and little win there and it adds up.
Why can't libs do the same? We could have built a health care skeleton and added the meat over the next decade. We could have calmed the right down, dropped the public option and at least pretended to be moderate while standing beside Obama...listening to his code words. By the way, he tried to give you dopes codes words but you wanted contract written in blood. Oh ye of little faith.
Instead libs ran around trying to shove the public option down Indiana, North Carolina, Virginia and Florida's throat in the middle of a tanking economy. Oh yeah, that was smart. Not smart. Stupid. So stupid, so vain and so short sighted.
Now you have nothing.
I have read diaries where people bitch about Obama setting the liberal agenda back 20 years...wrong, this website (well some users) have set the agenda back 20 years.
I often wonder what percentage of people on this site voted for Nader in 2000? What percentage of people on this website secretly voted for Kucinich? I won't be surprised to see the Kucinich crowd emerge here in 2012 and eagerly throw thier votes away to allow a hard core conservative take office.
I thought the left was all grown up or at least had smartened up. Guess not. All is not lost Kossacks. Smarten up. NOW. Play it cool. Get in line. Take you lumps and listen for code words. Trust the guy who gave you hope. Give Obama a chance. Give Obama you full throated support. Be smart and take whatever you can get and then build, because as you well know...the alternative is much worse.