If all those who oppose President Obama on any and everything that comes out of his presidency based not on the facts but solely on ideological bias, you squander the only real hope this country has.
For, to maintain America's relevance in an evolving world, America must embrace its sons.
To describe President Obama in any way which equates him with the low, inane betrayals currently emanating from a right wing is to finally acknowledge and openly embrace what the world has always known: your sustenance flows from toxic corporate interests which hate people, hate progress, hate truth.
It is that simple.
The opposition cannot use truth to refute this. They must, based on the desperate tenor and spittle-flecked ferocity of their vitriol, use terror to distract, misdirect and confuse. Because that is what the success of their agenda depends on.
Obama's agenda -- and the nation's -- depends on hope.
And so in the coming months and years, the real war (as opposed to the manufactured ones favored by the right wing) must be fully funded and furiously waged.
Because it is a war for truth. Armed with a successfully enacted program for progress and led by an articulate, capable and intelligent leader, the war for truth being waged against the corporate funded right wing hate machine and its ragged army of misinformed, terrified bigots will be won decisively.
The passing of health care reform, imperfect though it may be at this all important nascent stage, is the first step.
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The passing of health care reform is a powerful sign progress is being made. But my life experience tells me that as greedy, immoral, and ignorant people feel they are beginning to lose grip on their pious world they pump up their fight to even crazier levels.
Prepare for more outrageous re-writing of history and of hard facts. Right-wingers are masters of convincing themselves and others that if you say something enough times it becomes true – even when it is absolutely false.
I don't mean to be negative. I am still quite hopeful. But people interested in a better, more just, more equalitarian society should prepare for a struggle that will pale in comparison to what we have already experienced with tea-bag, right-winger tripe.
You libs are simply incabale of taking an honest look at yourselves, your smarmy arrogance, your intolerence, your knee-jerk reaction to all opposition, your ego-driven belief that you are more enlightened, elevated, sophisticated, and more caring about people. It's all a desperate fantasy.
Do you think Obama could be realected today? Have you seen his poll numbers? Have you heard about the anti-incumbent fury that is directed primarily towards Democrats?
Do you think you have the right to have things your way over the will of the majority?
Have one day of fun. Then all the battles begin again. And every day brings us onr day closer to November.
Talking points. Hmm.
There is a wide world out there beyond the carefully patrolled borders of Fox News (and to folks such as yourself it is filled with scary, backward people and customs) and it backs up all the things that you and your ilk desperately seek to trivialize as "talking points". From Day One of BushCo (which I assume you supported wholeheartedly) the talking points were issued and distributed to the point of absurdity and that tactic continues to this day, with every member of your ideological fraternity parroting the same, well, TALKING POINTS i.e., "Let's start over", "Death panels", "Not born in America", etc., etc.
The fact (not he talking point) is your ideology has, especially after the eight year reign of Republican governance under Cheney/Bush, absolutely no credibility. Zero. Yes, you are loud and hard for civilized people to deal with, yes you present a possible danger to society and to yourselves (attacking programs and policies you have benefited from but are apparently just too beholden to comforting archetypes to figure out) when you allow fringe lunacy to provide cover for your hypocrisy. But because you can hog attention does not make you right.
Or relevant.
You did however, make one sterling point: "Do you think Obama could be re-alected [sic] today?" Honey, you are on the money with that one. I'm 62, and so far as I know no one, in the history of this nation, has ever be re-alected. Or alected at all.
As to knee-jerking, evil this, evil that propagandists, "Evil" is not the Progressive mantra. It's the right-wing theme song. From Reagan's "Evil Empire" to Dubya's "Axis of Evil", we have been led to xenophobia, sanctioned conspicious consumption, the canonizing of Big Business and the wealthy (and their Trickle Down generosity which would take care of all the "evils' of the poor and working class if we'd only deregulate, lower their taxes and get out of their way...and it worked so well, didn't it?). Fear and greed are potent motivators.
Your personal "majority" might well be anti-HCR. But the American majority agrees we desperately need it; the only question has been how to go about it. The GOP argues for tweaking the status quo. We progressives argue for joining every undustrialized county on the planet in providing health care to all citizens. Even right-wingers.
To the Libertarians: it's time to walk away from the party of Know-nothing. Push your own agenda. Nobody mistakes Republicans for the fiscally responsible government shrinkers they claim to be. Just remember in your budget slashinng fantasies that our defense budget is larger than the rest of the planet combined.
To the Republicans: welcome to the ash can of history. You gambled on a scorched earth tactic. You used the ugliest sorts of demagoguery and hysterical fear-mongering. You sided with the racist, psycho tea-baggers. YOU LOST.
Steven, as usual, your post was lucid and to the point. Loved it!
Thomas Jefferson is spinning in his grave.
All I see is a bunch of whiners with their hands out. What a wonderful welfare state we are. The first reply to this will no doubt be "what about social security and medicare?" Did anybody notice that Social Security is NOW, not in 10 years, up side down. As will medicare be. Did anybody not know that this plan CUTS medicare by $500 bil? Used to be dems would scream bloody murder and say the repubs want to KILL old people because the repubs wanted to cut the rate of annual increase. Now the dems will actually CUT but 500 bil. Where is your indignation now?
Read the brit papers. They are full of horror stories about their medical system.
Is that what the 15K IRS agents will be doing? Policing my insurance fees?
Anyone that sings the tune for car insurance mandates like it's a good thing is already on the wrong track.
Let me see if I can work this out Rupert.
The Labour Party in Britain does not have your support. So revelations concerning their involvement with lobbyists, is worthy of exposure by your media (strong) arm there.
The Republican Party in America has your support. So revelations mentioning the encouragement of lobbyist activity in that country, are fastidiously avoided by your media (withered) arm there.
Lucrative lobbying in one democratic country very very good. Lucrative lobbying in another democratic country, very very bad.
Umm, umm, umm, umm, ummmm. Its a moral dilemma, even for the likes of Janus. (B.B.)