To all my friends who are so upset with Pres. Obama and sympathetic to this diary Oh, my President. What are you doing? please stop and think about what you are saying.
Obama has been in office for 200 days. He has snatched the economy from the brink of the abyss W. left us facing. He is rebuilding our international reputation and cleaning up the neo-con mess in Iraq and Af-Pak. He has seated the first Hispanic justice. Health care reform has made more progress in congress than it did under the last seven POTUS. And there is much more that I am to lazy to list.
200 days and he has done all this, while facing a deeply entrenched corporate power structure, did you think they would move over quietly? A GOP that has become dangerously radicalized and racially charged, and has completely abandoned reason.
Look at the fear on the faces of the screamers. They are convinced that Obama seeks to become a dictator. It is insane but they believe. As much as progressives would like to deny it will take a bit of time for the USA to absorb these changes.
What mobs would we be dealing with if Obama moved as fast as you suggest? Would you rather Obama ram legislation and burn out in the first six months? Would you like to face the proposition of Mitt, Newt, or Sarah! In the White House come 2012.
The point is the kind of change flitedocnm describes can only happen in 200 days if bullets are involved. If it is progressive change you seek Obama is the best chance we have had since FDR. I do not agree with all the decisions he makes and I have no problem with people pointing out their grievance. But the tone of this diary was abandonment and betrayal.
Perhaps this is appropriate because these are emotional words. And I can sympathize with the emotions. But stop and think about politics and history and you will realize that if you stand with Obama you make him stronger and more able to enact change. If you lament and sow doubt and reap apathy this nation will never progress forward without sliding back.
200 days and he has not made good all his promises. Did you envision he would when you voted for him? The GOP called him the messiah did you believe them?
200 days and you have lost patience, try harder. Obama has not betrayed you don’t betray him.