After President Obama's speech last night and after reading several diaries today you would have thought Obama had just lost the 2012 election with one speech.
Clearly the honeymoon is over for some on this site, but frankly the infighting and complaining by some on this site has just been completely unreal.
I am the very last person to claim to be a party man (I voted against Blanche Lincoln in the primary and I will vote against her in the general election. Sorry I see no difference in her and Boozman) but to read diaries on this site and read some of the discussions it is absolutely amazing how some on this site have completely abandoned Obama after one bad (apparently) speech.
All the other things he has done up to that moment last night meant absolutely nothing to these people if they will throw him under the bus that fast.
I understand that all of us thought that we finally had a progressive in the White House only to find more of the same from the past 30 years. But the attacks I have seen on here today are almost as bad as what the Republicans are saying. By the way if you are just now discovering that President Obama is not a progressive you have not been paying attention.
Nevermind that since he has taken office he has faced: the worst recession since the Great Depression, ending a war in Iraq, trying to convince Americans why we needed to stay in Afghanistan, ramped up tensions with Iran and North Korea, passing a stimulus bill that actually worked, passing a health care reform that while hardly fixed the problem was at least a start, and THEN after the first year and a half and oil spill caused by two different companies that he is expected to swoop in and fix immediately. He has to deal with so much crap in Congress not just from the Republicans but also from the Conservadems who required the President to bribe them just to vote for him.
Damn people, he has faced more and had to deal with more in one and half years than some presidents have in two full terms.
But apparently for the Rachel Maddows and Keith Olbermanns (both who I respect and admire) of the world that speech last night was the straw that broke the camels back. Seriously? A speech? We sound like a bunch of Republicans who try to find anything to complain and rail against Obama if we are complaining about a speech.
Instead of focusing on Obama's speech how about we focus on the Republicans who have since day one of well everything complained about all the Obama has done yet at no time offered even an inkling of an alternative.
Maybe it's just me. Maybe I have just grown so tired of hearing Republicans and TEA baggers complaining about Obama my fuse was extra short for when the progressives eventually would start complaining.
The last time I checked the man is not perfect. He is going to make mistakes. He is going to give a bad speech.
Personally I do not give a damn about speeches that is why I did not watch last night. Words can say a lot but actions say a whole lot more.
I know I will take a good amount of heat for actually speaking out against those that want to scream from the mountaintops that President Obama gave a bad speech. But those people need to take a chill pill (to use a phrase from my childhood), it was JUST a speech. The sun came up today, the sun will come up tomorrow.
For those of you who believe you are being attacked for speaking out against Obama because of a speech maybe you need to relax a little.
IT WAS ONLY A SPEECH AFTER ALL!
Oh and one more thing, can we please, for the love of all that is good stop calling this thing a leak? My faucet dripping all night keeping me awake is a leak, this thing is a volcano.
UPDATEThere is a huge difference between dissent and trolling. A lot of people on this site have seriously gotten their undies in a knot because a diarist dared to call a spade a spade and a troll a troll.
Speaking out a few times because you are upset about what is going on is dissent. I am dissenting against those that are upset at Obama for giving his first bad speech of his brief career.
Posting diary after diary or comment after comment doing nothing but denigrating President Obama or Democrats and their supporters is trolling. These people only post these diaries and comments because they know that it will upset people and that is their only goal.
Unless you have specifically been charged as being a troll do not take one diary as calling you a troll.
People, seriously. You all need to relax.