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....
When Obama signs Health Reform that is at least half a loaf (which is better than none), he'll have done something no one other President had the courage or leadership ability to pull off since FDR. Period. Yet the previously mentioned -- especially here -- will not just complain, they'll sabotage the rest of his (their) agenda with more withering, holier-than-though attacks and cries of BETRAYAL!
Part of me quietly hopes that for his own sake, Barack Obama serves one term because I simply don't know that America is mature enough to handle two terms. That would require seeing a bigger picture. He's not perfect. But neither are we. I have a hunch we're less perfect than we think we are and deserve less than we think we do.
Thoughts?