I have been rubbing elbows with many
right wingers lately. At work my buddy John is an "evangelical catholic" with a love for Glenn Beck. On
Facebook I have been spanking
righties as seen in the last post. Of course during the
Mehlville debacle I was surrounded by them. Surrounded!
As a way to gain some common ground and break the ice with them I have been using this line, "I don't know why your upset with Obama because I see little change from the past administration. We are still torturing, still illegally eavesdropping, we still have troops in Iraq, we are escalating in Afghanistan, what is the beef?"
We know what their beef with Obama is, *whispering* he's black.
I have to say it was Michelle that got me to vote for the President. She was in rural Illinois giving a speech and I saw it on CSPAN. She was talking about how Obama said he wanted to run and how she said yes. He was shocked she related and he asked if she was afraid. Her reply was, "You have to run because I am tired of being afraid." BAM!! That knocked me out, I got misty, I got online, I got out my CC.
He did, however, seal the deal. Remember when all the Reverend Wright nonsense, and the saluting nonsense, and the lapel pin nonsense, and his middle name nonsense was swirling through the media, when bloggers, pundits, anchors, editors and even sportscasters were questioning his patriotism? When article after article, newscast after newscast tried to smear him, he said in one sentence what none of the aforementioned assholes could ever hope to express. "Everything that I am is because of this country." Pwnt! Uberpwnt!
Progressives never really thought he was a progressive and knew he would not meet their expectations. But Joe Democrat was hypnotized. The glassy eyed cheerleaders were in LOVE! And I can see why. Even the mainstream media started treating him like a man. But six months into his first term the man on the street who backed his play is starting to question his overall plan. Frank Rich wrote
this in the
NYT and hits the nail on the HEAD! This is the key paragraph from the article...
"No president can do that alone, let alone in six months. To make Obama’s goal more quixotic, the ailment that he diagnosed is far bigger than Washington and often beyond politics’ domain. What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand, from commercial transactions as trivial as the sales of prime concert tickets to cultural forces as pervasive as the news media."
That's it! It's a
WWF match, a three scene farce at the theater of the absurd, a monstrous passion play of deceit and denial? No, it's reality. His reality. He is doing what he thinks is right and can fly. But he is seriously blowing it on health care. Susie
Mandrak sums it up
in this post from
Crooks and Liars.
I want the man to exceed my expectations. He is barley meeting some of them. He is my President and I salute him. Everyday!
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