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If you would have passed an executive to put a stop to DADT and put pressure on Congress to start working on DOMA the rePigs would have shifted gears, gotten off the economy and started attacking you for blasphemy.
By trying to be bipartisan you cleared the roadblocks for your political enemies. Good job.
He is not FDR -- He is Herbert Hoover. We need an FDR. Obama was the best of a very bad lot. Or, more precisely, he was the "least worst candidate."
Real progressives like Paul Krugman warned that it was too watered down to have a significant effect.
Too bad this admin doesn't listen to the likes of Krugman, but instead relies on the same recycled hacks who played a key role in bringing down the economy in the first place.
My friends are telling me that he is really really in his heart of hearts a Republican. That he is conservative and more interested in being liked that making changes.
The odd thing about today's email (or was it yesterday) from Obama asking the faithful to join him for whatever is that the whatever is always so murky, so tentative, so . . . please support me in whatever it is that I might end of doing, though I can't tell you now and I may not even know then until I've actually done whatever.
Reforming the Wall Street banks should have been easy as we'd already done it for decades before Clinton/Bush undid the New Deal. He couldn't.
Clearly there will be no true reformation of the nation's health care system without a public option. He cannot do that.
Vast majorities of every category including Republicans, conservatives and church goes support the repeal of DADT. But somehow, that too is impossible for this President.
Apparently this Administration, like the media, doesn't believe 80% of the American people actually exist.
How quickly we have forgotten all of the horrible things that have happened to this country since Reagan took the oath of office in January of 1981. And while Clinton's eight years may have marked prosperity for many of us, there were very few long-term advances on most fronts, and it turns out that even the prosperity was just a shell-game or a hall of mirrors. And then, of course, the unspeakably horrid eight years of rule by Cheney and Addington and Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld and Feith and their corporate cronies, aka the Bush administration. They brought us torture, an illegal war, the dismantling of the Bill of Rights, domestic spying, environmental degradation, corporate hegemony, executive branch aggrandizement, ignominy on the international stage, bankruptcy, the collapse of our financial system, etc., etc., etc., etc.
As a nation, history has never been our best subject. And patience has never been a virtue that we have cultivated, unless you care to see our ability to close our eyes to and ignore what is happening around us as patience. (It's not; it's simply willed ignorance.) We are good at that.
There's a lot of work to do, and it takes an educated and active citizenry to do its share. There are letters to write, and emails to post, and phone calls to make, and rallies and meetings and protests to attend. And I'm getting truly truly tired of those who complain and sit on the sidelines, wondering why President Obama has not solved all of the country's problems in his first five months. He said he would need our help. So let's do it.