Everyday, I see a diary go up bashing the most progressive and accomplished President of my lifetime and I am sick of it. This site is supposed to be about how to make things better, looking forward, gather support for making progressive causes better and all I see are SUPPOSED democrats bashing the President. Great, talk about your disappointment. Talk about what should and could be done better that this President can do, but don't sit here and call yourselves Democrats and call the President a traitor to Progressive causes!
I might as well be over at Red State or that garbage Drudge Report for all the support I see from SUPPOSED progressive democrats! What is the point of all this bashing? Can someone please explain why this goes on daily like we don't know what the President could have done better? Like we are some ignorant peasants that don't understand how the world works so the self rightoues and morally high grounded "progressive" can tell us peons what we should be angry about. Great, you are angry and I get that. But since you all are SO progressive and forward thinking can you tell me what the next move is cause I already know the bad parts? You have hammered those away everyday for the last 6 months or longer making me and others want to run and hide like the rest of the ignorant population until elections time!
I have not heard ONE good idea as to how to go forward and MAKE this Presidents presidency a success or are we saying screw him and let him go down with the ship? Because if we let this President go down with the ship, it will be AMERICA's failure to have believed in the unbeleivable. Americans failure to have believed in a skinny black kid from an exotic locale could become President. That we were all DUMB to have wanted to believe in him and what he wanted to accomplished. From some of the comments I have heard over the last few weeks, some you have lost your GD minds on this subject and have turn into tea bag lighters!
If you know what can be changed to represent Progressive causes better, GET OFF THE BENCH!! If you can walk in the Presidents shoes and gauge his INTENT, pull that crystal ball out!!!! Sick of all the bench players not seeing that the other team has hidden bombs all over the playing field and Obama has seen those a mile out and can't go straight to goal like we PROGRESSIVES want! Progressives...huh. What Progressives, all I see are a bunch of sideliners, not ready to play hard ball.
President Clinton I think once said if you don't want to get hit, don't suit up or something similiar. I second that. Obama suited up, Hell he manned up, big time!! You people act like it was easy for him to run for that job, knowing at least a quarter of the country hates the very SKIN he walks in!!! Yet, the people supposedly on his side, that thought he should get A's instead of getting B's or C's, calls him a whinny, wimpy, loser President. That makes my blood, HOT! when I hear that crap from people here who call themselves PROGRESSIVE! Makes me start to not like people like you just like I can't stomach Palin, taking jabs at the President every chance she gets, just like here!
He WANTS to play for OUR team. Yet the PROGRESSIVES wanna move to the other teams side because they can only see half the field, THEIR SIDE!! With friends like these, he doesn't need enemies. He's got you guys to help bash him in the media. Who the hell is supposed to blow his horn other than us about the good things he has done?? Apparently, according to you all, they can't message worth crap in the WH. SO who is left to get out the good things this Presidency has accomplished? Nobody cause he is being bashed by the Tea Party, Republicans and his supposed democrative brothers and sisters who are supposed to tell him what hes doing wrong but not BASH HIM MERCELESSLY, all day. Wake up and get a grip and stop being SO enraged at your democratic brother that you allow the neighbors to step in and BEAT HIS BRAINS IN! Wake Up!
I think Obama began to see the limitations when he walked in the door after he got that FIRST military briefing. I could see on his face when he walked out that things were not gonna go the way we PROGRESSIVES wanted with the war. But I believe his intent for us is good and I know he is not superman, so I don't hold him ABOVE any standards I have set for other Presidents. The reality hit him like a brick wall, no wonder he has grey hair in two short years.
When he got elected I said if he did 5 things that I really wanted, I would support him until his wheels fell off. Can many here say he has not done ANYTHING they wanted? If you wanted EVERYTHING, then you were a fool and you did drink the kool-aid. If you were like me and had little if any expectations since poor people don't get jack they want anyway, you should have been good. Having nothing then getting nothing,leaves me where I started, except I got some good eye candy in the WH.
I also have to think we were not dumb, million were not dumb. I have to believe that we on this site have a better grasp of the issues and can see some of these mines on the field that Obama has to navigate and give slack, because if the guy I root for is crappy and no better than the other side, I might as well and others on here, might as well be INDEPENDANTS and I don't want to be independant. I want to stand for something, but I also want to let my guy know that I support him to try to do the right thing, which is what I think Obama has done.