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In reply to the discussion: Why the arguments of Obama's defenders leave many cold. [View all]green917
(442 posts)The President himself asked us to hold his feet to the fire and to let him know when we're displeased with his course of action. The original poster may have been a little overly vitriolic in his contempt for those enabling and condoning some of the more (imho) egregious things done by President Obama but that doesn't change the fact that this President has not been honest with large subsections of his base and the American people in general. When President Bush lied to us, there was no one here (or on any other, ostensibly, Democratic blog that I read) that came to his defense because he's a part of the other side. Now that it's a Democratic President who has been less than honest with the American people in general and the liberal wing of his base in particular, there are those here who feel the need to justify his actions by chiming in what a "powerless" position being the leader of the free World is simply because he's on our side and has a "D" next to his name. This is the phenomenon to which the OP refers and, although, his rhetoric may have been a bit overly harsh it doesn't mean that he's not, in some sense at least, correct. Many of us in the liberal, progressive wing of the party (the damn "dirty" hippies) feel as though we've been marginalized and sloughed off by a man that many of us spent a lot of time and money getting elected when the very same President makes every concession to individuals who have overtly stated that their sole purpose is to see that he not be re-elected. Pardon us but, many of us are not inclined to take that slap and turn the other cheek (probably because many of us are Atheists but, that's another discussion for another time). Speaking only for myself, I will vote for Barack Obama to continue being the President of the United States but I will not stop chastising him when he commits what I see as egregious errors in judgment regarding the direction our Country is moving in....last time I checked, the Constitution guarantees me (and the rest of us damned "dirty" hippies) the right to redress grievances with our Government. In short, quit telling us that we have to shut up and clap louder while the modern iteration of our Party's leadership sells out our core beliefs as Democratic party members!