You want the good news, or the wincingly bleak news that makes you shudder and sigh and wish you didn’t have such sad dreams? You want a bit of both? You should probably hear a bit of both.
Because here’s the thing: He did more or less what he said he was going to do – so far, anyway – which was to end Bush’s devastatingly stupid war(s), re-establish America as a respectable force in world affairs, orate in complete sentences so as not embarrass the nation on the international stage at every turn, shift the race discussion to the next level, enact at least some modest education reform, protect women’s rights, defend the middle class, slap back the GOP’s toxic plot to rule American politics for the next 75 years, and usher in an impossibly variegated, increasingly messy era of barely controlled, women-empowered, multicultural chaos in which old, fear-soaked white men no longer control every election, industry, media, cultural discussion, power source and hunk of propaganda in the nation.
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I will never be so naive or cynical to say it doesn’t matter which party is in office (God forbid we were in a McCain or Romney presidency right now) (my em), but step back far enough and it’s more of a frothy sea of inbred powerbrokers than ever, and Obama, despite all hopes to the contrary, stands right at the helm of the ship.
Not that he necessarily wants to be there. This is easily the most acidic, obstructionist GOP in a generation, a mean-spirited, leprous party full of barely veiled racists and Tea Party wing-nuts willing to sacrifice any core value, constituent, legal precedent, national monument or social service just to undermine Obama and block him from enacting even the most basic functions and services. This appears to be the one over-arcing rule: The smart black guy can never win. No. Matter. What.
It’s true, isn’t it? America has never seen a minority party so openly hateful of a sitting president, one who is at once far more intelligent and articulate than them, but somehow, infuriatingly, far less willing/able to use that intelligence to beat them back like a pack of gun-toting monkeys. Strange.
All of which is to say: What to make of the guy, really?
More.
I'm still down wid da O-Man. Has he done things I don't like? Yes. Has he done things I do like? Yes. Enough of them? No.
The things he has done were with a Democratic-controlled Senate and House. Doing anything significant with the whiny, petty, fearful, obstructionist, racist, and hater present House GOP is like shoveling shit against the tide.
They haven't drowned his black ass yet. Let's give him another Democratic House in '14 and see what happens.
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Let's give him another Democratic House in '14 and see what happens.
Exactly. Obama should be on every tv in the land saying "give me a dem congress, and we will:
pass a jobs bill
pass a budget that fully funds our govt
pass the immigration bill
raise the minimum wage
pass a bill to rebuild our bridges and schools...
And I'll pay for it with new taxes on the 1% and by legalizing and taxing pot.
The dems would win in a landslide. And, if they followed through and actually did all that, they would be the majority for the next 15 years at least.
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The decline that started under Reagan was rapidly accelerated by Bush 43, the worst and most incompetent and WEAKEST President in our history. That administration's fuckups ended forever Rove's "permanent Republican majority" and the Teabaggers sealed the deal. The next Republican President hasn't been born yet, but we need to get the House back if we want to see any progress at all.
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