What follows is mostly a rant on several topics do not assume the individual points are connected by anything more then my feeling that they need to be addressed.
If I want to connected them I will say so. So without further ado let's get this started.
Let me start with the obvious:
Obama's efforts are weak tea
This is utter bullshit.
Let me just remind everyone (because apparently most of us have attention span of a fly) of Obama's accomplishments in 18 months I'll do that by linking to blackwater dog's excellent May diary and then add to that the diaries from yesterday Obama Administration to cover PTSD for all veterans and Obama's FDA quietly banning antibiotics in livestock production
Really what the hell is wrong with people? Do we not remember of conditions when Obama took office? We were losing SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND jobs a month. Do we not remember the birthers? All the racist bullshit? The nonsense that continues to this day?
Maybe if we the vaunted left flank would get off our asses and do more complain less we would have more. But then to me it seems the 'progressive gurus' are more content to complain then actually act.
Clearly to call the last 18 months weak tea or a disappointment or any of the other usual nonsense is just inane and not a reality based comment.
You are not a mind reader
All too often it seems like people seem to rather arrogantly think they have special powers that let them know what another is thinking.
This is absurd. Frankly if you don't know ask and then if you don't like the answer at least your response has some basis in rational thought and logic. But I really am tired of people acting like they know more then they do.
Really we should be all be on the same side largely but we are all different enough that we should all ask more and assume less. After all just how many positions of mine can you name? Can you tell me exactly how I feel about a random policy? I am betting 95+% can't but then that doesn't seem to stop the assumptions
Enough with the special rules for special people
This right now is fast becoming a pet peeve of mine. I am sick of it really I am. Sorry I am not a 'progressive guru', I don't have hundreds of followers, I don't know any of the front pagers. I particularly can not claim to be anything other then what most of this site is. Which is one of many dedicated to progressive causes. It's why I came here, it's why I stay even as I get called all sorts of names, have my character and name dragged though the mud and put up with behavior resembling more teenage bullying then mature and adult discussions on policy.
If that's not good enough then this site will just become an echo sphere as already people have been driven away by the blatant favoritism and in my opinion it's just a matter of time at the present pace before this site becomes an imitation of FDL. But maybe that's what this site would prefer, to be irrelevant and maintain it's 'purity' is ideals then actually get something done.
Continuing on this theme is the absolute horrid enforcing of the rules here. Frankly it is the spotty and haphazard application of the rules that contributes and inflames matters here. Incivility, lies, and insults should not be excused just because the person you baited responded in kind. It's past time people be held accountable for their actions no matter how popular or influential they are around here; at least if we ever expect things to change around here.
I am going to end this here, I fully expect the usual suspects to come around and pick a fight and to be brutally honest I don't expect things to change. But I've said my piece. The floor is now the communities