The words were extracted from a Front Page diary right here at DKos. I am bit amused (not really) with all this talk on the site lately, for example that the President of the United States is not or should not be obliged/bothered to speak up about the Wisconsin War, where a thug like Scott Walker is in power and his agenda is to massacre the working class of that state, hard working families that live from paycheck to paycheck and care about their neighbors as much as they care about their mortgages or the grocery bills or their jobs.
No, He should not talk about it because that..."would be bad."
Then again, this is a political site and the community here is a reality based community (with notable exceptions). In this world, when you keep on cutting taxes for the Richest of Americans, you will lack revenue to fund everything else.
In this world, if and when you say that Social Security is an "entitlement program" that "can't be funded" but you have the nerve to say that the Military Industrial Complex (and the Corporate Media) is "deserving" of receiving and securing 1.2 trillion dollars each year like that huge sum is popcorn, you and I have nothing in common, simply because I deal with reality and you eat talking points.
Furthermore...
No, no, let's be real, shall we:
"As a candidate, Obama seemed to promise more to organized labor, among the Democratic Party's most loyal constituencies.
"If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself," Obama said at a speech in 2007. "I'll walk on that picket line with you as president of the United States of America because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner."
Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, the nation's largest nurses union, called Obama "largely a bystander" in the debate over collective bargaining. "I think we're feeling a sense of betrayal from him and not liking it much," she said.
Doug Schoen, a Democratic political strategist, said Obama's strategy seems to be "keep your distance, avoid direct engagement, say most of the right things most of the time, and hope for resolution through sources other than your own."
Link:
http://abcnews.go.com/...
And those final words summarize quite well Obama's Presidency up until now:
"...say most of the right things most of the time, and hope for resolution through sources other than your own."
But make no mistake, this President will win a second term, not because he has earned it or he deserves it or as a result of merit, he will win simply because the Republican Party version 2011/2012 is so beyond intelligent description that when the alternative is poison, a dose of empty rhetoric, talking points and platitudes "do not taste as bad..."