’)Watching my fellow liberals howl OMG BETRAYED every 5 seconds is getting kinda lame. Chill, people.
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Yea, remember what we’re coming from here– eight years of the worst of the worst, and that’s being generous about it. Let Barry hit his stride before everyone starts screaming about betrayal. And who the hell knows, if things work out right will be erecting statues of Dipya The Ass Clown and calling him the Father Of American Socialism.
I agree. The left is a circular firing squad. And we’re NOT EVEN IN POWER YET!! YAARRRRRRRGG
I’ve been thinking along the same lines myself.
If we can ever get Kucinich elected, then we’ll have a President who does everything we want.
Til then, it’s a compromise.
Meh. It’s a slow news cycle until Chimpy gets frog-marched back to Texas. And since Americans don’t care about international news (the slaughter in Gaza), we get journos making up shit.
The louder they howl and the more disapointed they are the better the chances for our poor old Republic.
Quaker thank you for your post. The light bulb has clicked on. That one sentance explains so much.
“If we can ever get Kucinich elected, then we’ll have a President who does everything we want.”
It has always been obvious that you are obtuse and naive, even somewhat ignorant. What is now clear is you are basically ridiculous. You may not have any American values what so ever. Kucinich! LOL
I’m with you, Oliver. I’ve had to take one blog I’ve previously enjoyed off the blogroll and out of Google Reader because every other comment and at least half the posts are OMG WE R BETRAYED OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH WE R DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED! Pheh. I don’t agree with every choice Obama’s made so far, but I’m not ready to pronounce his presidency a failure just yet.
This is what happens when you sell yourself on a cult of personality instead of being issues-oriented. Barack sold himself as “The One”. And when Hope and Change don’t turn out to be so different than what came before, you alienate those very people that supported you.
Oh, bullshit. Obama didn’t sell himself as “The One”. That whole “The One” malarkey was just a sneer from the right wing media because Obama could actually complete a sentence without sounding like a trainwreck. It always reminded me of some loser kid alone in his room typing furiously on his undred MYSpace page about the popular kids: “They think they’re so smart!!!! They think they’re so SPECIAL WELL THEY’RE NOT LOLLOLLOL!”
The only “One” I voted for was “The One Who Is Not Bush/McCain.”
Oh, and, AO? I’m pretty sure Quaker was going for a little irony there. Nice job not getting it.
Your comment, properly creditied, will appear as my email signatue for the next few days. Well said, brother Oliver.
Thank you Bruce for making my point: every time Obama does something that Bush/McCain would have done (back off of taxes/Iraq/Gitmo, invite Rick Warren, keep Robert Gates on, refuse to answer questions about the scandal-de-jour), you die a little inside, don’t you?
Oliver has clearly betrayed us!
No Brucie,
I think Kucinich sums it up pretty neatly. Maybe you can help me come up with some childish nickname for Obama like Chimpy McBushitler or something. Remember Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Farris:
No, no I don’t. Any more than you “died a little inside” when Bush turned socialist this past fall, or refused to join your fellow mouthbreathers in Mexican-bashing last year, or gave up his quest to gamble the SS fund on the stock market the year before that.
Don’t ever accuse me of “making your point for you”, Farris. Them thar’s fightin’ words!
Does this Farris character have anything to offer besides cut-and-paste from the wingnut blogs? Looks like the voters pretty definitely let us know that those old dogs don’t hunt any more.
Help me out here, AO. Is this the part where I say “I’m rubber and you’re glue…” or am I supposed to call you a spazz and run away?
Elementary school was quite a long time ago for some of us.
Actually, what’s even lamer are the Rethuglican trolls who were screaming that “B. HUSSEIN OBAMA IS THE MOST LIBERAL SENATOR EVAH AND WILL MAKE AMURRICA A MARXIST DICTATORSHIP BY VALENTINES DAY!” before the election, who now are now trolling by chortling “we knew it all along liberals, he’s not really a liberal, he fooled you all.”
Oliver should probably realize that he’s well ot the right of the party as a whole, so while he’s fine with this a lot of us won’t be.
It is hard to justify campaigning on fair trade, government reform, and social justice and then turning around and becomming Bill Clinton II. Had Obama been honest in his decision to be a moderate/conservative Democrat, He would have lost the primary badly. Thats why this is a betreyal, not because he’s nominating right wing kooks to everything, but because it was implicit in his running against Hillary that he wouldn’t do that while she would.
He has the ability to turn things around, and perhaps he thinks he’s strong enough to make use of their experience and not fall victim to their reflexively anti-worker, elite ideology. Perhaps he even is that strong. But right now, there is plenty of reason to be worried.
Settle down, Francis. I’m not worried. for the first time in my life, I trust the guy to do the RIGHT thing for Americans.
OT, does anybody know how to use the Greasemonkey script? I’ll just bet A0 likes him some pie.
Question: Where were all of these militant “liberal” howlers for the last 8 years when he was screwing everyone and taking lives?
Answer: Kissing Bush’s & Republican ass and staying quiet under the guise of “respecting the office of the Presidency”.
It’s a shame that they don’t give Obama a fraction of that courtesy even before he officially takes office.
As much as Rethug trolls and politicians disgust me there is one thing I do appreciate about them; they let you know EXACTLY where they stand. “Liberals” stab you in the back while shaking your hand and kissing your cheek. We all know that, don’t we?
Obama’s knows his roll in history and got it under control so I’m not worried.
Barack Obama is exactly where he’s always been, and it’s not his fault that “progressive” purists bought into the whole “OMG HE”S SO LIIIIBRUL!” hysteria that the MSM and the right wingers were pumping out.
He’s putting forth the tax cuts he said he would. The people who are unhappy about gay marriage seem to have conveniently forgotten that he never supported it, while supporting gay rights legislation in other areas. The assertion that he’s “nominating right wing kooks to everything” is absurd on its face.
AO:
I’ve seen a few cute little nicknames on the other side of the blogosphere. “Obamalala”, “The One”, “The Obamessiah”, “Chicago Jesus”, to name a few. Funny thing is, instead of conveying contempt, most of them reveal the name-callers themselves as victims of huge inferiority complexes. As someone else here wrote, like losers who keep saying, “He thinks he’s so smart!”
I always thought it hilarious, the whole “he’s a celebrity” schtick. As if the fact of his popularity was a net negative for Obama!
I don’t know what these people who feel betrayed projected, but I myself never thought Obama was going to grant my every liberal wish. I don’t think many people did.
I myself never thought Obama was going to grant my every liberal wish. I don’t think many people did.
Word.
It really helps if you read his frakkin’ book. You get a better sense of what he’s really all about. It helps to strip away the veneer that others have coated him with.
Pragmatism. Moderation. Common Sense.
These are not bad qualities to have.
What is now clear is you are basically ridiculous. You may not have any American values what so ever. Kucinich! LOL”
AhOle is right. A president that reflects American Values (TM) speaks like a retarded squirrel, evades his stateside-deferred military obligations, is unable to tell the difference between Shiite and Sunni, a zygote from a newborn and sits frozen with a childrens book when the nation is under attack.
Priorities, Quaker.
The point is this: there aren’t any perfect candidates. There are only choices for better or worse. The constant howling comes from people who seem to believe that their one vote entitles them to stict obedience from their chosen candidate.
As if it needs saying: it don’t work that way.
This post is a slap in the face.
But it’s still silly season. What do you expect. I think the nature of blogging, or news, or any other human endeavor, is that there is far more excitement and commentary over failure than success, especially if that success is just quiet competence.
It takes me back to the 2006/7 silly season, with the failure of the Democratic Congress proclaimed before Pelosi even took the gavel.
It takes me back to the 2006/7 silly season, with the failure of the Democratic Congress proclaimed before Pelosi even took the gavel.So, has the Democratic Congress been anything close to what you hoped it would be in 2006?
LOL,
While the executive branch in the form of George Bush has quite low approval ratings there is one branch of the government with a substantially lower rating.
I wouldn’t say betrayed. I would just say disillusioned. He kept telling us he would do things differently. And the first thing he does is throw gays under the bus by having a bigot bless his inaugeration and fill his cabinet with Washington insiders.
Pragmatism. Moderation. Common Sense.
These are not bad qualities to have.
They are shared by every successful president in the history of the Union, and probably every successful political figure in history. Ceasar was murdered for being too radical; Augustus respected and included his opposition and so accomplished more than his uncle could have dreamed. I realize that’s an old example, but it’s an old principle.
“He kept telling us he would do things differently”
You actually believed him. Maybe you will come away from this experience a little wiser.
I think the ones who are ‘dying a little inside’ are the noise machine apparatchiks who have been braying ‘He’s a ultraiberal Marxist Muslim Manchurian mole, who will nominate the rotting corpse of Che Guevara to the Supreme Court and take the oath of office with his hand on bin Ladin’s personal Qu’ran!’ for months, and who are now faced with a moderate, mainstream, centrist, pragmatic POTUS-elect who is naming people to his cabinet who do not necessarily agree with everything he says.
And AO, the funny thing about Congress’s approval rating? If you poll people and ask, “How much do you approve of Congress?” you get one answer. If the question is “How much do you approve of _your_ Congressional representative?”
you get a very different answer. Most people like their own reps, but wonder why all those _other_ people keep voting for those loser bums again and again.
Robt.,
You’re right, that is kind of funny.
Hmm, interesting.