Reply #47: I ask you to understand ... I don't feel I bash Obama. I question him. I bash

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everyone who pushes the DLC agenda. If he enables it, I bash which I call criticism. When his policies push my buttons I trace it back to where I think it's coming from and I deal with rationalizing it in various ways.

I am still holding out hope that he has a stragegy.

For me the worst thing he could do is perpetuate the Cheney-Bush legacy in some areas - and he has. And some of his own unique declarations about rights are a horror to me.

I don't think it is bashing
I think it is expressing
how distressing it all is.
When I am left dreading and worrying.

I dread a perpetuation of Cheney-Bush.

Bashing is what trolls do to him and to us.
Bashing is also a one line message filled with disdain.
I don't bash when I pinpoint my fear and state why I fear.

The worst thing I can do is bury my head in the sand when I'm on DU.

(I can't stop to give all the examples - they are all over this forum when they happen, but he has done some things that are beyond Cheney and Bush - such as bringing Geitner, Bernanke, etc., then keeping them and re-nominating Bernanke - nothing has been started on the voting machine problem, other rights decisions are an abomination.)

I wanted him for his brains, his persuasive ability, what I think/thought his ideology is/was. And I wanted him for his seeming respect for women and children. It was a very big deal to me that he broke the minority ceiling/clutch on Protestant whites). But, when he does things that make him a corporate/DLC/Republican-lite patsy, I will speak out.

It's the issues, not the persona.

Which did you mean?

Edited to change the first paragraph.