Last night, it seems I touched on a nerve with my (since regrettably deleted) diary entitled "30 September 1938", wherein I compared Barack Obama to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.
There were some passionate responses, to say the least.
Another diary from the angry and ill-informed. Yay.
You've been shown your lack of historical perspective below and just because you don't understand how government works doesn't mean Obama is wrong.
I am so disillusioned about this President and his administration that it actual hurts, but this is an unfair comparison.
you might want to reread the historical context of 1938, before you go spouting RW memes. Or not, I don't much care. But an informed diary would be more relevant.
This is just wrong. This is taxes. That was war. Got it?
please delete.
After having 24 hours to think about it, I'm sorry to have made the comparison.
If anything, Neville Chamberlain's actions in 1934 were rooted in the hope that in being a pragmatist, he might avert war and actually save lives.
Barack Obama's actions in 2010 were rooted in the fact that his opponents would not move one inch, so in the hopes he might mitigate future political attacks he would try to take away some ammunition.
So yes, I apologize to Neville Chamberlain, for sullying his name with a comparison to Barack Obama, whose cowardice far surpasses that of which people accuse Chamberlain.
They weren't at war then, and we are now. We are in the middle of a class war that the middle class has been losing for 30 years. 45,000 Americans die annually due to a lack of health insurance, and our politicians continue to defend and enable a rigged system that becomes more and more rigged.
Imagine the death toll among senior citizens and our poor citizens if the President follows by caving on Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.
And why should we have any hope that things will be any different with this President? Obama and the Dems have continually ceded ground to the Republicans, who have absolutely no incentive to work in good faith. And for what - the hope that they might be satisfied?
We know that's foolish, because every step we take to try to meet them in the middle, they take two (or three) steps back to the right and demand all over again that we meet them in the middle.
Obama is an appeaser. He caved when it was time to fight. He deserves the label that was wrongly applied to Chamberlain. And if he can't fight the Republicans, how can he fight the enemies who would attempt to kill us from beyond our borders?
And we need to stand up and fight - if we don't, the body count will continue to grow. We need a primary challenger, because he obviously is too arrogant or too foolish to see the writing on the wall for 2012. His move to concede yet again to the Republicans cost him re-election.
Let's face it, even if Obama wins, we lose. He's enabled the Republicans at every step. I'd rather have a Republican in there acting like a Republican. Maybe, like in the case of George Bush, then the right people will get blamed for messing things up rather than the misguided anger that has been directed at people like Nancy Pelosi.
Say what you will about Sarah Palin, but at least we know that she will fight for what she stands for. And as much as I hate it, it's no mystery.