Rising Hegemon
Administration aides spoke of scaling back expectations. Obama, who is already showing a willingness to compromise, bristles at suggestions that he is caving in to the GOP.
Well then maybe, goddammit, you should not have Axelrod out there acting like you'll cave in on the Bush Tax Cuts.
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What's Obama to do? "Everyone" is convinced he, his spokesmen, are all caving.
This sort of mental disillusionment is the softening up, the artillery and air support, necessary to making a putsch acceptable even to libruls.
Can't we draw a line and say No more of this horsepucky?
time to fight back, but who's paying for the airtime? Staves and pitchforks!
vox
Hey, we made him bristle!
Quick everyone: make a derisive chicken noise and maybe we can give him a pang of some kind.
There are some (many) elected Democrats who think they can govern as they please without regard to their parties principles because "where else do Democrats have to go? Who else would they vote for except someone with the "D" by their name?" Maybe we need to pick our own "D's" to send a message to those Democrats
It seems like Obama has always thought he's just one injudicious comment, one reactive moment away from being cast as the "angry black man", which he feels would end his ability to govern. He has a point, and that's a big problem with the country that elected him.
But you go into an administration with the country you have -- not the country you might want or wish to have at a later time. I'd honestly like to know if Obama expected different results, if he expects different results over the next two years by doubling down on his method of governance, and most importantly, why he ever ran for president to begin with if he couldn't use the powers of the office.
obama is compromised. we all know that. a caller pointed out this entire ordeal is akin to the scenario laid out in the book: confessions of an economic hitman.
it sure does. corporations are holding the economy hostage.
no matter obama's failings, we are stuck with him, between a rock and a hard place. obama has to be reelected. thom hartmann reminds us we cannot afford the supreme court to be weighted down with more conservative jurists. even if obama does nothing else for the rest of the term (even if we're reduced to living under a bridge,) preserving the left's prerogative to pick and replace the next batch of retiring justice(s) must be a priority.
stony, MLK lived in even more restricted environment. he didn't self muzzle himself in order to avoid being called an uppity negro.
there is power in righteous indignation. obama's a fool to cast aside such a powerful weapon.
look what's happened. filling a vacuum, the reich has claimed the mantle of populist anger when they have no right to it.
You're absolutely right, omen. But I'm trying to read tea leaves here, and figure out motivations for obviously bizarre passivity. My explanation makes sense, at least. And if this continues for another two years, it will be his epitaph --
He was a fool to cast aside such powerful weapons.
this is the media framing this. for their OWN ends.
pansypoo
He was a fool to cast aside such powerful weapons.
And with his exceptional verbal skills, this is even more infuriating. He could have re-framed every debate in America.
But now the bamboozled segment of this country are so thoroughly in the tank that they'll vigorously help to destroy their own standard of living.
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