Obama is trying his best folks. Back off

[Liberal_in_LA]

:yoiks:

[WeDidIt]

1. I no longer believe that. n/t

[apocalypsehow]

34. Who're you trying to kid? n/t.

[WeDidIt]

35. If Barack Obama is willing to cower at the feet of Joe Lieberman

He's a weakling and doesn't give a shit any more.

[apocalypsehow]

40. "Eagles UP!!!1"

:eyes:

[flvegan]

2. I'll believe that when he refuses to sign this and sends it back

telling Congress to stop dicking the fuck around.

[rateyes]

3. If this is his best...

well, you know.

[Gman]

4. The DU purity trolls are out in force tonight to unrec good posts like this

K&R anyway.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. Thanks.

[HarveyDarkey]

17. Hey, my rec got it back to zero

briefly

[laughingliberal]

26. ROFL!!!

oh...that wasn't a joke? Sorry. Carry on.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Sorry, I no longer buy this.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. !

:cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. I'm sorry, sweetie...

I really am.

But what Lieberman has done is the worst, and we are letting him do it.

And Obama is letting him get away with it too.

:cry:

:hug:

[Cerridwen]

29. My dear CaliforniaPeggy, when I read your reply, I'm afraid LBJ's words

ran paraphrased through my head...

"If we've lost CaliforniaPeggy, we've lost the party."

It about broke my heart. And I am hardly a party loyalist.

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. I"m sorry...I didn't mean to break your heart...

It's just that mine is breaking too.

I had so much hope, so much confidence that this time we would get something really good...

And we're not.

I'm still a Democrat, though......I will ALWAYS be a Democrat.

:hug:

[Cerridwen]

33. Please, no apology necessary.

I know that your heart is sore, too. That was the part the was hard to read. I'm one o' them damned "bleeding heart" types of liberals. I think my heart is held together with "bale-ing wire and chewing gum."

I've been through this a few times; as I'm sure you have; so for me, it's harder to see someone else's hope bruised.

I need a teary-eyed smiley.

[Raine]

7. I can't believe that any longer

my hope is all gone. :-(

[VMI Dem]

8. Bullshit.

Not even close.

[dysfunctional press]

9. his BEST?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

apparently his "best" sucks total ass.

[spanone]

11. k&r

[branders seine]

12. I don't doubt that for a moment.

It's *what* he's trying to do that has me pissed off.

[DJ13]

13. I agree

He's doing his best to give the corporations whatever they want.

[inna]

64. yep, pretty much.

:kick: for the OP btw. :eyes:

[dkf]

14. That is a pretty pathetic best effort.

Makes me kind of scared what else he'll come up with then.

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. You're on the wrong board...this is the "SHITTY POTUS" (that's a quote) board

Welcome.

Don't bother with a detailed argument for your position. A snippet from an column or some general sentiments will suffice.

[asdjrocky]

16. This is his best?

Gee, A+++++++++++++++!

[Individualist]

18. He's trying his best for DLC,

not for the people.

[ezgoingrl]

19. B.S.

Hell, at least when Bush was in office, I didn't get my hopes up. Status quo was well, status quo and that's just what I expected it to be, no disappointments. This whole year has been an exercise in constant compromise. It kinda reminds me of when I got divorced, I compromised until it hurt and still got screwed over in the end.

[NorthCarolina]

21. He has a bully pulpit...if he was serious about Comprehensive Health Care Reform

he would USE IT. He's proving to be just another typical Corporate Owned DLC Democrat.

[rug]

22. OK, as long as he's trying.

[Kablooie]

23. His best isn't working. -- AT ALL!

[Stinky The Clown]

24. So what are you saying? Like hje gets a gold sticker or something?

[MUAD_DIB]

25. I'm having a hard time understanding why the Dems aren't standing

together on Lieberman's balls right now?


If they screw this up then I might just walk way from the Democratic party.

What would be the reason for staying if they are ineffectual with a simple majority?

[ribrepin]

63. From another site

Dems already gave him the whole USofA by way of Homeland Security Chairmanship. He wants more. He wants Mr Reid's job. Heck, why stop there? He may want Mr Obama's job.

Sums up my feelings to a tee.

If Reid loses his seat in 2010, Rahm might consider it a perfect opportunity to slip Joe into the Job. Of course, if the dems lose the Senate, Joe will jump to the repubs.

[winyanstaz]

27. No he is not doing his best for the people...

he is doing his best to continue the same stuff that made this mess.
If it was wrong for Bush..
It is wrong for Obama.

[libertypirate]

28. I don't really care if he is doing his best.

I never expected his best. I expect everything he has and nothing less. I expect him to kill himself trying. Why? Because that is the kind of person who deserves the kind of power we all afford him. Not a trying his best, losers always try their best.

I expect arrests, I expect accountability, I expect my president to respect his oath, and most of all I expect him to do everything he can to understand who it is he is screwing when he chooses ineptitude. Thank you Chief of Flaccid Staff power brokering Obama into a compromised presidency.

[Mari333]

31. unrec.

[NJmaverick]

32. Yeah he is, but there are many people that refuse or can't understand that

[sendero]

36. You are a fool..

... if you actually believe that. I suppose Bush was trying his best so we should give him a pass also. I don't think so.

[phasma ex machina]

37. Don't conflate two separate branches of government by blaming the President for Senate failure. nt

[jgraz]

53. The failure to lead is all Obama's.

All of it.

[tkmorris]

56. He's being awfully passive about their failure.

Don't you think?

[phasma ex machina]

57. Granted, Obama pledged to work with Senate Democrats "in any meaningful way he can."

OTOH Reid made it quite clear that he doesn't work for Obama. Reid (quite naturally) jealously guards his Senate's constitutionally mandated power.

IMHO the President can only re-iterate his original pledge.

[choie]

38. bull

[budkin]

39. LOL.

[DainBramaged]

41. If he was trying his best, Guantanamo would be closed, DADT would be history

Lieberman would be sitting alone and neutered in the Senate, health reform would have already been passed, the banks and Wall Street would have been reigned in, and unemployment would be normalizing.


We have NOTHING to show for his first year. Zip. Nada. Zero. Except a lot of nice speeches and a dog.

[Hatchling]

42. OH! Thank you.

I needed a laugh!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:















Edit: Unrec anyway, just in case you really mean it.

[jgraz]

43. Hey, being president is HARD WORK

Want some wood?

[Deja Q]

45. So when you were president, what was it like?

[Cerridwen]

50. Newsflash! We elect those whom we think are better qualified than we

to run our country.

Your argument is the equivalent to saying sarah palin would be a good v.p. because "she's just like me." Or that shrub was someone to vote for because "I'd have a beer with him."

I don't want someone "just like me" or a drinking buddy. I want the smartest and most capable person on the freaking planet to run this country.



That whole "if you think you can do better, do it" crap is just that...crap.

[jgraz]

52. And we're usually wrong.

[Cerridwen]

55. Not all of us. n/t

[jgraz]

51. As lame and undemocratic as your question is, I can now say with all sincerity

that IF I were President, I would be doing a fuckload more for the people who voted for me than the current one is. Of that I am absolutely certain.

[Deja Q]

44. K&R

The problem isn't explicitly him and, for issues like war, it's no fantasy...

We have to do our part too.

I'm doing mine.

Michael Moore tells others what to do. He won't be bothered to do it. Neither will the people he tells.


Another reason I'm proud to go back to college and improve myself instead of pandering to Limbaugh's alter-ego...

[Starry Messenger]

46. He did great.

I'm sure the corporations are icing champagne as we speak. Mission Accomplished.

[Luciferous]

47. Bullshit nt

[Alamuti Lotus]

48. This is true, he is doing his best and a fine job at that: "Business As Usual" ain't easy to keep up

[HughMoran]

49. Don't say that here - you know Obama is the enemy

Shame on you.



















:sarcasm:

[donheld]

54. "Obama is trying his best" to do what?

I'm not thinking he is when it comes the economy for a start.

[taught_me_patience]

58. If this is his best... his best is pretty weak.

I needs to make a stand and lead. Sitting back isn't accomplishing anything.

[upi402]

59. flame bait is yummy!

lol

[amborin]

60. in a way, your post insults Obama; b/c if this is his best, well....

[NuttyFluffers]

61. his best to... do what exactly?

:evilgrin:

uh-ohs, i revealed i don't know the finer points of Star Trek Chess! better go run away from the righteous angry hordes!

:hide:

[cali]

62. If this is his best, it's pathetic.

[Hekate]

65. KnR and good luck

:popcorn:

Hekate