Obama:
--Status Quo With an Edge
--Reducing the Deficit, Whenever
--Addresses His Enemys' Needs
--Serious about Main Street, Sort Of
--A Company Guy with Style
--No Line in the Sand
(Please add your own)
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Mr President, do you know why Glen Beck and Rush have an audience? Because people will ignore their own interests if someone speaks to their core needs: the need to belong, or whatever it is. Not to take a stand on tax cuts for the rich because of unemployment insurance means you don't think your ideas can win on their own. If you had the political skills to win the presidency, can't you muster the political skills to stare down the GOP on tax cuts for the rich?
I'm angry enough today that I'd vote against you in the primaries. Sad day when I, a moderate, starts thinking "protest vote."
What a disappointment this is.
Update With the F Word
A reply to a blogger who asked if I love Obama? (I do)
"Do you know how fucked your generation will be from this deficit? Do you know that the tax cuts for the rich will add trillions? I know it's not sexy, I know it's not flashy as an issue, but it will fuck with your quality of life in the long run..."
It was a GOP deficit. If the tax cuts go thru for the rich, it's truly bipartisan--and we have no high ground to stand on.