I hate us all -- the "progressives", the "left", the "media" -- Keith, Krugman, Maddow, Arianna.
8 is Enough. 8 months is apparently what DialyKos and the previously mentioned give you if you're a newly elected progressive president.
8 months beginning with the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression to undo 8+ years of neglect, corruption, waste and dysfunction. 8 months to figure out how to end and/or proceed with two wars. You tell me -- what the hell is your answer in Afghanistan? Pull out now? Then what? Solve it. Now. Right? That's what you expect from Obama -- right?
You and they (the holier-than-thou purists -- the columnists and talking heads) want it all -- and now -- because you and they deserve it...not over time, not in a couple of years (doesn't real and lasting change take time, isn't democracy in a capitalist economy messy and complicated? Aren't all major policy shifts multi-layered, affecting so many different segments of the economy and population?), but NOW! And if not....
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