Reply #89: There's a pattern of Obama encouraging the left to push him

[Radical Activist]

and organize people's movements on the ground. That's a call too much of the left has ignored. Writing inflammatory columns in your monthly progressive magazine may help, but it isn't real organizing.

The other pattern I see is of people trying their best to find comments they can take offense to and hold a grudge. The fact that people STILL bring up Rahm's stupid comment on a daily basis at DU is just childish.

Obama has already pulled Congress and the nation to the left of where we were under Bill Clinton. In fact, many of his reforms are reversing Clinton-ere deregulation. And no, I haven't seen Obama undermine the left in Congress the way Clinton did. Obama invites the left to be stronger and pull things in that direction. How can you argue that Obama is pulling us right when everything he proposes IS TO THE LEFT OF WHAT CONGRESS WILL PASS? There's a reality disconnect with your argument.

You seem to think that Bill Clinton is still President playing triangulation games. Get out of the past. It's a totally different situation this time.