President Obama must move beyond rhetoric and acknowledge yesterday's Democratic loss in Massachusetts by making substantive policy and personnel changes, Arianna told Ed Schultz.
During an appearance on The Ed Show Wednesday night, Arianna explained what President Obama must do to reconnect with not only his Democratic base, but also with Independent voters, and Republicans.
She called for Obama to demonstrate his support for Main Street, not Wall Street, by dismantling too-big-to-fail banks, dropping economic adviser Larry Summers, and by scrapping a health care bill that has become a giveaway to big Pharma and insurance companies.
Arianna believes that it's time for President Obama to be "ruthlessly honest" with himself. He's facing a "substance problem," not another communications problem.
Jeffrey Feldman: The Lesson of the Lunch-Bucket Democrats
The story of candidate Obama's failures in presidential primary states like Pennsylvania and Massachusetts was remarkably similar to the story coming out of last night's loss in the Massachusetts Senate race.
Robert Creamer: Lessons From the Massachusetts Defeat
The Massachusetts Senate race is a watershed event that has enormous implications for this political year. The media is making it a referendum on Obama and health care reform. But that interpretation is just flat wrong.
After the unfortunate results of the Massachusetts senate race tonight, it's clear that feelings of demoralization are particularly intense because they are rooted in the most powerful emotion of all: humiliation.
Jennifer Donahue: Bungled Health Care Process Gets Blamed on Scapegoat Coakley
he balance of health care reform passage would not hang on Martha Coakley unless Washington had made it so. What will it take to put something up for a vote?
Massachusetts Senate race; "The Hangover"; No RIP for Health Care reform
A majority of Americans (according to the polls) WANTED a public option health care reform bill.
The party proposing this reform occupies the presidency AND has a majority in both houses of Congress.
The WHAT the F***?!!!!!!
The Republican MINORITY and Big Business are clearly the real power brokers here. And have apparently ALWAYS been. The concept of America as a representative democratic republic is a farce.
Why try to change anything, when the best, most hopeful and altruistic of efforts smash like insects on a windshield of the juggernaut called "corporate special interest married to theocratic fundamentalist oppressors determined to control every individual's personal choices in the name of a desert nomad god'.
We are f*****.
A whole country held hostage by reactionary neanderthals determined to keep us mired in their fantasy vision of an America that never existed in the first place.
More years of deadlock.
More generations owned and kept chained up to minimum wage work without benefits as wage slaves to the corporations that very obviously and clearly are the REAL government.
I'm done.
Been fun talking with you all.
Goodby.
I'm going home now to bunker down and entrench for the new American Dark Ages.
A "business" is NOT a "person", let alone a voter - regardless of what that misbegotten SCOTUS of long ago permitted to be inflicted upon the American people; their interests should NEVER be allowed to overrule the interests of the American people and thus the nation.
I am still infuriated when I think of all of the CEOs and politicians who spoke of free trade with the words "Some sectors will be hurt..." WTF? Policies that everybody acknowledges will HURT huge segments of the American people championed even by American Presidents?
And when I say "hurt", I don't mean it like the Republicans do, where they cry when their constituents might lose 10% or even 50% of 6 to 9-digit annual incomes, leaving them "only" 5 to 9-digit annual incomes.
I mean it like hurting Americans to the point where they are losing their pensions, their ability to educate their children, their health care, their savings, their jobs, their homes...their very lives,
The things that have been done to the American people in the name of "Business-with-a-capital-B" are criminal - and Indepencents, at least, have noticed.
If you can, I will vilify it.
If you cannot then try to say "We are the problem, and WE are the solution.
President Obama himself needs to change his style of leadership, the open all embracing hand must become a ironclad clenched fist, become a leader, not a servant of big business!
"People are angry, they are frustrated. Not just because of what's happened in the last year or two years, but what's happened over the last eight years," Obama told ABC News on the anniversary of his first year in office.
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What a pity. When will he learn that you have to stand up to playground bullies? They aren't interested in joining the Astronomy Society. The only stars they want to see are the ones spinning around their victims' heads after they've delivered a cowardly punch.
Maybe some of personnel changes could include adding you-know-who to the Obama administration as a top advisor since she has everything figured out.
i am tired of fighting
our chiefs are dead
healthcare is dead
finance reform is dead
the left wing is all dead
it is the bluedogs
who say yes and no
he who led the liberals is dead
it is cold and we have no heating money
the little children are freezing to death
my people some of them have ran away to the independents
and have no self respect no class
no one knows where they are perhaps in a chowder cafe
i want to have time to look for left wingers
and see how many i can find
maybe i will find them among the greens
hear me my senators, i am tired
my heart is sick and sad
from where the sun now stands
i will vote no more forever.