I may not think Obama has done everything I want him to do, but I also realize that he is not the king, or a tyrant, or acting in a vacum. The presidency does not come with a magic wand that can get rid of 20 years of misguided, neo-con thinking on government. Our government has been run on the principal of what is good for business, is fine. This led to unethical, irrational behavior on the part of our leaders. No ideology spurs on this kind of capatlalism; this is pure and simple do what you can get away with. Now, we have a president who thinks like the left, and the world is a hell of a lot better off...
The left is right to criticize Obama, or course, because that is how concerns are expressed. Feeling like we are disappointed by our great Christmas present of a president is natural. The real world is filled with people trying to derail Obama's legislation, and he has to take his wins and losses like everyone else. BLAMING HIM FOR WHAT THE RIGHT HAS STOPPED HIM FROM DOING PLAYS INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE. Given time, I know this president is going to change the world.. he has already changed the attitude of large portions of the world with his government and that is how the new day starts...
More than likely, we are still seeing the ramifications of the present lock that lobbyists have on government; Obama did not invent this system, he still has to navigate it though. He cannot just throw these people out of the room, because they have politicians in their pockets that Obama hopes to get on his side.
In the end, as his campaign seemed to be running neck and neck with MCCAIN, Obama took the big money from the corporations. Perhaps he believes this is what truly won his race? The fucking Johnny Come Latelies who donate to whoever the hell they have to smooze to get their way. Obama ran outside of it at the beginning of his historical campaign, taking the smaller contributions that his popularity drove into the biggest election coffer the Dem's had seen in forever -- for once, the republicans were outspent.. but not only outspent... but wiped out. Period. The good people have left that bankrupt party or consider themselves a splinter group
Now he has to be the president for the very people who fought tooth and nail and lie and lower to keep him out of office. Has to try to reason with people who are pandering to tea baggers who call him the anti-christ. I do not envy the kind of nutcakes he has to try to appease. When M. gets home from the train at night, I ask her sometimes, "Any nuts on the train?" She sometimes launches into the most bizarre tales.... I can imagine Ms. Obama asking the Prez something like this, and his ranting on so long that she tells him they have to change the subject again... reminding him he only gets to bitch about his day for fifteen minutes, a rule they set up years before he got into politics,
More than likely, we are still seeing the ramifications of the present lock that lobbyists have on government; Obama did not invent this system, he still has to navigate it though. He cannot just throw these people out of the room, because they have politicians in their pockets that Obama hopes to get on his side.
In the end, as his campaign seemed to be running neck and neck with MCCAIN, Obama took the big money from the corporations. Perhaps he believes this is what truly won his race? The fucking Johnny Come Latelies who donate to whoever the hell they have to smooze to get their way. Obama ran outside of it at the beginning of his historical campaign, taking the smaller contributions that his popularity drove into the biggest election coffer the Dem's had seen in forever -- for once, the republicans were outspent.. but not only outspent... but wiped out. Period. The good people have left that bankrupt party or consider themselves a splinter group
Now he has to be the president for the very people who fought tooth and nail and lie and lower to keep him out of office. Has to try to reason with people who are pandering to tea baggers who call him the anti-christ. I do not envy the kind of nutcakes he has to try to appease. When M. gets home from the train at night, I ask her sometimes, "Any nuts on the train?" She sometimes launches into the most bizarre tales.... I can imagine Ms. Obama asking the Prez something like this, and his ranting on so long that she tells him they have to change the subject again... reminding him he only gets to bitch about his day for fifteen minutes, a rule they set up years before he got into politics,
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