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In reply to the discussion: Cenk is over at Daily Kos calling for a vote against Obama (updated) [View all]highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)You really might want to examine why it is that you get so wound up when someone criticizes this President. I mean, there seems to be plenty to criticize.
Why do you take it so personally?
Why do you feel the need to defend? Defend a record that, to a traditional Democratic point of view, or even from the point of view of what was promised can seem quite indefensible (yes, promised under the duress of the primary process and election process, but promised nonetheless).
Why does it raise up such anger in you?
It does not raise such anger in me. In fact, I can agree with much of what he says.
I am not vaguely but acutely disappointed in this President, in his policies, in his words, in his apparent beliefs, in his tactics, in his principles, in his whole agenda.
I would vote for a more Liberal candidate in a second. For instance, I would vote for Elizabeth Warren.
For some reason President Obama and his handlers don't take into account that a lot of their popularity came from Liberal notions, some borrowed from Hillary, some from the Democratic Party at large. They don't believe that this is a country founded on Liberal values. Heck, we were formed from a revolution, for goodness sakes, so what's so surprising about that.
No, they are content to run just a little bit to the Left of the Other Guy, and when the Other Guy is flat-out crazy in their "conservatism", that puts the whole country in jeopardy.
Cenk. No, I'd rather listen to him than so many other commentators out there. And I find that I often agree with him.
So, who are you to say he cannot say what he says and has no reason to do so?
And again, why do you defend so personally what so many find to be indefensible?