Reply #142: Umm, dude-Obama has done nothing BUT attempt to

[liberalhistorian]

compromise and work bipartisanship. It's the RW who are the "our way or the highway" and they haven't actually put forth anything of substance except for fomenting hatred against every single thing Obama says and does. He can't even give a fucking speech to schoolchildren about staying in school and working hard without the foam-at-the-mouthers going crazy. And don't even get me started on the birthers, the deathers, the GOPers in charge of helping to reform health care who don't even understand the basics of Medicare, the blatant racists whose opposition to everything the prez says or does boils down to the fact that they can't stand a black man being in the White House, even if he IS half-white.

Yes, civility and compromise and listening to all viewpoints are very important, especially in politics. But right now, the Dems are the only ones doing the compromising and bipartisanship, with the reward of even further nuttiness from the right and more spit in our faces. And yet we cave even more instead of finally trying to get some backbone.