Or what many of us thought it was going to be!!!
I have been trying to figure out not only my emotions of late but those of other members of the DailyKos community. I think different people are in different stages of grief over the Obama presidency – the difference between what we expected and what has come to pass. In that spirit I offer what I see as the five stages of grieving the Obama presidency,
Stage 1 Denial
I can’t stand how they trash Obama on this site. I thought this site was supposed to be about electing democrats. What the hell do they expect from Obama? The man has gotten so much done, more than anybody else, and they want more. Obama will be another FDR by the end of his term just you wait and see. The people who trash Obama here are just a bunch of haters.
They are trashing Obama so they can get some attention and get on the recommended list. I can’t stand them and I wish they were going somewhere else. And Oooooooh I hate that Jane Hamsher. She is a bad woman who just wants to destroy the presidency because, well, let’s just not go into that.
Stage 2 Anger
It’s Rahm’s fault. Obama should have never hired Rahm. He didn’t know what he was doing. That Rahm is always selling Obama and the democrats out, every time. He makes deals with the Republicans when Obama is asleep or playing with his dog or something. And that Jim Messina, how did he sneak in the White House. Why couldn’t he stay with Kenny Loggins where he belongs? If Jim Messina were in front of me right now I would give him such a slap you can’t imagine. And Robert Gibbs, what the hell is he doing talking about the professional left like that. Does Obama even know what this guy is saying? Obama should fire Robert Gibbs. And Tim Geithner, well we all know he is the one behind all this economic stuff. You know what, I bet he has pictures of Obama somewhere, him and his skuzzy friend Larry Summers. They are all betraying Obama and I wish they were all dead and broke, and not necessarily in that order. And by the way, I hate that Jane Hamsher even more because she doesn’t understand any of this. She reminds me of those girls from high school – enough said.
Stage 3 Bargaining
Okay, Obama is making some odd choices but it is all part of eleven dimensional chess. He is actually tricking the Republicans into the public option but he is doing it in a sort of roundabout, super double secret way so they don’t even know what’s happening. You have to do game theory to figure out what Obama is doing because it is so amazingly complex. You wait and see, in a couple of months A will be B and B will be A. You just have to see all the angles. Like for instance I know he put Alan Simpson of the deficit committee because he wanted to delegitimize it. And he is figuring out a way to get out of Afghanistan without anybody even realizing we are going. We will wake up one day and we will be gone. Just wait and see. Obama is soooo smart. And I still hate the Jane Hamsher, but it’s just you know, because actually she can’t see all the angles. I’m not saying she’s a bad person but if she was as smart as Obama she would understand what was going on.
Stage 4 Depression
Oh my God, I can’t stand it. Politics stinks, life stinks. I just want to go away somewhere. I’m going to write a GBCW diary on DailyKos except say in the title it’s not really a GBCW diary because they’re not allowed. But I don’t know what’s going to happen. Obama seems to be caving all over the place. The democrats have no backbone. Sarah Palin is going to take over everything and we are all going to have to wear Spandex and say "You Betcha." Can anybody be so stupid as to vote for Republicans after what they did to our society? I’m in pain. I hate being a democrat. Sometimes I got over to Firedoglake.com and just cry.
Stage 5 Acceptance
All right, Obama is not who I thought he was. I should have listened to Paul Krugman. He’s always right about everything. Him and Nate Silver except Nate is just right about number things. Krugman seems to be right about everything. Okay, we have to figure out what we are going to do. We have two choices – force Obama to be a better president no matter what we have to do or run a primary opponent against him in 2012. We can do this, we can pull ourselves out of this. I just called Jane to have lunch to discuss this whole thing.