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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
The kind of huge government spending and jobs programs Obama's people are talking about IS from the left of center. It's bigger investment, bigger government, more oversight.
What would the left have him do? Congratulate the auto unions on their contributions to the American economy? Reinstate welfare of the pre-Clinton variety?
I'm not sure what the gripe is exactly.
By the way, I'm gay and the LAST thing I want Obama to lead off with is gays in the military. Been there, done that.
The "progressives" are worried because Obama is smart enough to fill his cabinet and advisory posts with really intelligent people who already know what they're doing? Gee, I guess it's too bad he didn't choose a lot of totally inexperienced left-wing idealists who would have failed embarassingly to address any of the country's many problems. Maybe we liberals can elect somebody that stupid next time if it will make us feel better.
STOP IT! Give the guy a break. Any so-called "progressive" who expected Obama to sweep in on YOUR agenda and run rough-shod over everyone in his way, GROW UP. That's not the way the world works.
I worked for Obama because he is smart and well-spoken and thinks things through, all the qualities that have been disastrously missing in the current occupant. I remember how, all through the campaign, people (those Progressives again?) were wringing their hands and complaining because Obama was or wasn't doing what they thought he should be doing or not doing, and guess what, he ignored them and he won.
What will drive me to despair in the next months and years will be to see Obama attacked by the hate-filled right and the disappointed left. We don't need it, folks. Let him govern and save your wrath for the obstructionist Republicans.
Re the electable Obama: I knew he was not the progressive leader I want. If he were, the American electorate would never vote for him.
My constant maxim is the observation by Einstein that all things have changed except our way of thinking, and thus, we rush headlong to disaster.
This long time paradigm change observer of the staus-quo has one thought, and hope. If we survive, cough-gasp-b-r-r-r until my year old granddaughter reaches maturity, perhaps we will have achieved critical mass--and moved into productive change.
To those who are flipping out, take the time now to read Rules for Radicals.
It IS change, change, that is, from the last 8 years. There was no need for Obama to reinvent the governing wheel, simply (ha!) undo the Bush era disasters and work to rebuild the country to where it was in 2000.
There will be plenty of time to hold this administration's feet to the fire. Now is not it, imho, so let's quit the bellyaching until there are acts and facts on the ground.
We need to stop expecting that anyone can turn this mess around in a year, or, worse yet, a hundred days or so. The landscape Obama began his campaign in is not the one in which he finished... and the landscape will be bleaker still in another six weeks.
We have to stop microanalysing every tiny step he makes. He is pragmatic. And angry Lieberman will get us nowhere. It makes me sick and I am from Connecticut, yet it may be brilliant politics. If Lieberman screws up more along the way, the Dems can throw him out and no one will be able to tie it to the election. And the experienced dems ARE people who worked for Clinton, so what the bleep is the big deal? He is mixing them up some and injecting some Chicago people as well. Let's face it, neither party has been stellar in the last decade, so while we have a deeper bench, it's too soon to put the new people in the senior positions.
Obama has to lead us out of messes on every front and this will take time and patience, and, yeah, sacrifice from US. Even if that sacrifice is that some of us will be without health care for longer, which terrifies me... yet I know that there are more immediately pressing matters.
I guess I feel we need to give the man a chance. Either we trusted the man we elected or we don't. I do. He will not be perfect. He is not a god. But I trust HIS mistakes and ability to right them more than anyone else's just now.
Barack Obama won this election against all odds. He employed careful strategy in forgiving Lieberman. One of the best potentially unintended results of this decision is that Obama clearly illustrated, without having to say a word, what a jackass Lieberman made of himself in the past few months.
Obama may be hiring people we've seen before, but I honestly believe that he's one step ahead of everyone in this game and I trust him. I have not trusted a president in my adult life time, but I trust Obama to be smarter than every pundit, opinion writer and day-time cable news anchor out there. Who else is he supposed to appoint? Show me a list of cabinet appointees that will serve well in an Obama administration that is 100% untainted from the Clinton era and I'll mail you a box of candy.
I never believed that Obama could accomplish everything he told us he wanted to accomplish- but if we could get just 1/3d of that list- it would be huge. But seriously - let the guy get inaugurated, let him get his desk set up, let him take a breath before he has to go before the firing squad of the nay-sayers and the "press". If I were in charge, the first thing I'd ban is 24-hour cable news. One reason is because MSNBC keeps taking articles JUST LIKE THIS ONE and reporting them as FACTUAL, instead of as the OPINION pieces they are.
And on a final note, I didn't vote for Obama because I thought his marker was furthest to the left on the political spectrum - I voted for him because I think he's smart and I think he cares, just a little bit, about what happens to me and mine. So Obama can put Bozo the Clown in his cabinet for all I care, I think that he will be in control of these people and I believe that under his leadership, they will work towards his original goals, not their underlying self-serving ones.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
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