I'm no Nance Greggs... but here's a scheming daemons "righteous rant"

[scheming daemons]

In January of 2008, Obama lost a shocker in New Hampshire...

... and DU was filled with posts saying

"That's it.. Hillary going to cruise to the nomination"

Obama went on to do well on Super Tuesday, and gained momentum.



In February of 2008, he was recorded making a comment about working folks "clinging to their guns and bibles".

... and post after post on DU said

"That's it... surely he's done for. He just threw away the white working class vote."

He went on to win the next 11 primaries in a row.



Then... in March and April of 2008, the Reverend Wright story broke.

... and post after post in DU said

"He's done. Toast. Put a fork in him. He'll never recover from this. The right will paint him as a radical and we'll get crushed."

He then gave the greatest speech on race in generations. A speech our grandkids will read about.



Then.... he got trounced in the Pennsylvania primary.

... and post after post in DU said

"He can't win the big states! We need to give this nomination to Hillary or we'll lose in November!"

... and he went on to secure the nomination.



Then.... after a successful convention, the very next day the McCain campaign shocked the world by naming Sarah Palin as his running mate. It sucked the oxygen from the Obama campaign and the media was all atwitter. McCain's convention bump closed the gap and even moved McCain into the lead in the polls.

... and post after post in DU said

"We're doomed. We blew it. The Republicans are going to keep the White House."

... and then McCain fucked up his response to the financial crisis and Obama breezed back into the lead.



Then.... there were credible reports that Obama's lead in the polls was phony, because of something called the "Bradley Effect".

... and post after post in DU said

"There's no way Americans will elect a black man. The general public is not as enlightened as we Democrats. America is not ready for this."

... and then Obama won the largest amount of votes, including the largest amount of white votes, of any Democratic candidate for President since 1964.



Now... after a rough couple weeks coming after pushing health care reform closer to passage than any President in nearly 100 years of trying... post after post in DU is saying

"Obama is a wimp! Where's the 'hope and change' I voted for! We're doomed as a party, as an ideology, as a people! Where's his spine?!?! 11!11!Elevens!11!11"

And I'm here to tell you.... haven't you people learned ANYTHING yet about this man? At the moment that we doubt him the most, when the media is smashing him the hardest, he ALWAYS comes through.

It started with the bank reform proposal on Tuesday. It's going to continue with the State of the Union address next Wednesday. And we're going to look back on the Massachusetts loss as the day that saved the 2010 midterms for Democrats.

When it is bleakest and everyone around him is panicking, he calmly takes charge and does what needs to be done.





The rest of you cowering doubters can continue to belly-ache about your specific pet issue that he hasn't fixed yet.

*I* know that he'll get the important shit done before his time is done.



Ridicule me with "cheerleader", "koolaid drinker", whatever insult you want.






Mr. President, I've got your back.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear scheming daemons!

I sure hope you're right!

I know, I asked if he was a wimp. I don't think he is, but........

I hope you're right.

Oh how much I do.

And, btw, you're not NanceGreggs....but this is a very good post.

[Teaser]

2. oh I think he'll regain his footing here

but I do think he slipped up this week.

It happens. Hopefully he'll recover in time to guide the House and Senate in removing their heads from their rectums (recta?)

[tabatha]

3. Thank you, I am going to copy this to refer to when I need it.

[timeforpeace]

4. Living in the past is comforting when it's all falling to pieces here in the present.

[scheming daemons]

5. I'm living in the near future, while you can sit here and sulk

[rufus dog]

18. I got your back here!

you can sit and bitch or make things better, your choice. Based on the one liners I think I know what path you will take. Surprise me.

[Mz Pip]

6. I guess the big difference

is that "candidate Obama" wasn't forced to deal with the reality that a President obama is forced to. Candidate Obama could articulate his vision and leave it at that. All those bumps in the road were nothing compared to what he has to deal with when it comes to actual governing. President Obama must deal with the Senate, the House, the courts. None of those things stood in the way of candidate Obama.

[scheming daemons]

8. It's not Obama that is the problem, it is *US*

We're the one that are tucking tail and cowering away instead of fighting.


Obama will be fighting to the end.


The squeamish among us here on DU are heading to Canada.


Not me... I'm going to fight for the man, even if it is a futile attempt.

[madamesilverspurs]

11. Yeppers, that's why I keep asking

When did "Yes WE Can" become "Yes HE Can and Why Hasn't He Done It"?


---

[sabrina 1]

25. I think it was when Rahm Emanuel told us to 'get lost'

while the WH 'admonished' people like Conyers and Dean and the 'left' and embraced Republicans and Corporate America. Somewhere around then, since according to his spokesperson he didn't need his base anymore, airc.

[Mz Pip]

15. we live in a democratic republic

We turn our power over to our elected representatives to do the business of the people.

we do need to weed out the those who are standing in the way. Unfortunately, I can't vote against Steven King in Iowa or against, Coburn and Inhofe in Oklahoma.

I can only vote in cA, which may turn out to be far more interesting than I would want it to be.

[MadMaddie]

24. It is us but it is our Dem Senate and House leaders

that are failing us. It is time for both Pelosi and Reid to step aside and put in some Dems with backbone.

[treestar]

45. Amen

These posters heading toward Canada (which will supposedly want them) are the real "cowards."

[treestar]

44. That's always the way it is

Anyone who reaches that office by definition has to learn as he/she goes. Obama is smart and a great learner.

[firedupdem]

7. Rec'd!

Nice Job!

I have his back too. I didn't vote for him to trash him...his success is mine, and I need him to be successful!!

Great Post!

[madamesilverspurs]

9. Ooooooooooooo, yessssssssss!

kayed and arrred.

[FrenchieCat]

10. Love it....

and my sig says it better than I do....

[scheming daemons]

13. He should've saved that line for next week's SOTU address

...or even re-use it then.


That's a line that needs to be heard by millions... with the Repukes in the audience to hear it.

[FrenchieCat]

12. man, the recc'inc crew is out to get you.....

These days, that means you're good! :headbang:

[scheming daemons]

14. I couldn't give two shits if they unrec me.....

[Hamlette]

16. one good rant deserves another

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/20/827654/-Dont-Call-Me-A-Progressive

There's a couple of diaries sitting on the Rec List here, talking about the failure of the Democratic leadership in messaging. How "out of touch" they are. Even how the lack of accomplishments "depressed the base" when it came to turnout. Yes, they bear a part of the blame. But you know what? Take a look in the mirror. What was the messaging from the "progressive" blogs? What were prominent voices in the "progressive movement" saying in print, television, and other media?

I expected to hear a litany about how bad the Democrats were, how President Obama and his administration were terrible, how bad Congress was from Republicans. That the "progressives" would chime in, and in the most negative way, feeding the right wing drumbeat with the chants of failure? I didn't expect it, but lo and behold, there you were. If conservatives wanted to knife the Democrats in the back, you were there sharpening the blade for them, and giving them advice on the best place to insert it.

Out of touch? The divorce from reality was remarkable. We had a candidate who ran on a slightly left of center platform. No mistaking it. Somehow, you convinced yourself that he was running on a far left program. You spent years complaining about the Blue Dogs and "ConservaDem" Senators. You spent two years whining about how things weren't happening in Congress, even with Democrats in the majority. I didn't notice that the people you'd been complaining about had left office, or had made a sudden shift in their positions to the left. Yet, right around this time last year, many of you somehow managed to convince yourselves all that magically changed.

. . .

They haven't done much to recruit strong primary challengers for many races. Even worse, while they advocated strongly, they advocated dumb. You want to be taken seriously? You don't attack the very people who are working the hardest to implement your agenda. You don't waste your time trying to persuade the people who are already on your side. That was done. You persuade those who can be persuaded. Disagree with the President and various Congressional representatives? Fine. Expected, even. There's a way to do it. You're reasonable. You push saying "we can do better than this." You state disagreements in terms that appeal to the "better angels." That's smart.

Instead we got tantrums. Long screeds about how Congress was inept, a failure. Heavy opinion-making editorials and television appearances feeding into the right-wing memes that Democrats were inept, incompetent failures. Even joining up with right wing groups to help "advocate." Many blogs stating how "betrayed" they felt, and how they weren't going to vote anymore. Depress the base? Sure thing. You did a hell of a job of it. "We'll show them!" It was exactly the sort of thing that conservatives prayed for. Boneheaded. Outright fucking stupid. It's amazing that in less than a year, "progressives" have managed to do such a great job of fragging.

[Hello_Kitty]

73. Yep, it's totally the Dirty Fucking Hippies' fault.

Certainly not Lieberman or Nelson. Nope, not them. I mean , how dare the progressive blogosphere not fulfill their obligation to publish cheerful sunny propaganda for the administration?

[rufus dog]

17. There is a much more important question to be asked

It is not "have you not learned anything about the man?"

It is "have you not learned anything about yourself?"

[akel21]

19. people

worry to much

[Clio the Leo]

20. And the beauty of it is....

... he pivoted BEFORE the press was asking "is he going to pivot?" after the election Tuesday.

He knew by a week and a half ago he was likely screwed in Mass (en masse? lol) and was already shifting his strategy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=433&topic_id=137352

Of course MY theory is that this was always the plan .... the whole point of trying to pass the most controversial legislation in your first year is because that's when you have the most political capitol to spare.

[cliffordu]

21. K&R Off to the greatest....

[TexasObserver]

22. Primary rehash and flamebait.

[Zomby Woof]

48. And no italics

Dammit, I want my Nance Greggs wannabes to use italics, often.

[Suich]

23. Great post! Thanks!

Recommended!

:fistbump:

[OnyxCollie]

26. Then.... he cast a vote to expand domestic surveillance

and give immunity to telecommunication carriers.

...and post after post on DU said

The Republicans would have attacked him for being soft on terror. He'll change it once he takes office. He's playing three-dimensional chess!

...and then we find out in the same week that the FBI and telecom companies collaborated to routinely violate federal wiretapping laws for four years, as agents got access to reporters’ and citizens’ phone records using fake emergency declarations or simply asking for them, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Communications Analysis Unit — a counterterrorism section founded after 9/11 — which relied on so-called “exigent” letters to get carriers to turn over phone records immediately. The letters were a hangover from the investigation into the 9/11 attacks in New York and promised telecoms, falsely, that subpoenas would follow shortly. And following Obama's vote for surveillance expansion and telecom immunity, the inspector general also reveals that the Obama administration issued a secret rule almost two weeks ago saying it was legal for the FBI to have skirted federal privacy protections. And to top it off, the U.S. District Court rules that mass surveillance of Americans is immune from judicial review, with U.S. District Court Chief Judge Vaughn Walker ruling that the privacy harm to millions of Americans from the illegal spying dragnet was not a "particularized injury" but instead a "generalized grievance" because almost everyone in the United States has a phone and Internet service.


What a nice, shiny bubble you have.

Edit: typo.

[Name removed]

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[burning rain]

28. You're right: he was a great campaigner.

Governance, however, requires more than a prodigious talent for self-promotion.

[lamp_shade]

29. Bravo !!

[eridani]

30. The health care bill has already cost us two Senate seats

How many more do you want to lose?

http://workinprogress.firedoglake.com/2010/01/22/afl-cio-poll-union-members-voted-for-brown-over-coakley-in-working-class-revolt

A post-election poll by the AFL-CIO shows that more Massachusetts union members voted for Republican Scott Brown than Democrat Martha Coakley in what the labor federation dubs a “working class revolt.” Union voters, concluded the AFL-CIO, are dissatisfied at the slow pace of change and perceive Obama and Congress as doing too little to help the middle class.

Republican Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts Senate race was lifted by strong support from union households, in a sign of trouble for President Barack Obama and Democrats who are counting on union support in the 2010 midterm elections.

A poll conducted on behalf of the AFL-CIO found that 49% of Massachusetts union households supported Mr. Brown in Tuesday’s voting, while 46% supported Democrat Martha Coakley. The poll conducted by Hart Research Associates surveyed 810 voters.

Let’s pull that out to be as clear as we can. Margin by which union members voted in MA-Sen on Tuesday:

Scott Brown: 49%
Martha Coakley: 46%


http://www.pnhp.org/news/2010/january/a-wake-up-call

The measure is so unpopular that Republican State Senator Scott Brown has built his entire surge against Coakley around his promise to be the 41st senator to block the bill -- this in Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts. He must be pretty confident that the bill has become politically radioactive, and he's right.

It has already brought down Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, a fighter for health care and other reforms far more progressive than President Obama's. Dorgan championed Americans' right to re-import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, a popular provision that the White House blocked. Dorgan, who is one of the Senate's great populists, began the year more than twenty points ahead in the polls of his most likely challenger, North Dakota Governor John Hoeven. By the time he decided to call it a day, Dorgan was running more than twenty points behind. The difference was the health bill, which North Dakotans oppose by nearly two to one. The fact that Dorgan's own views were much better than the Administration's cut little ice. He was fatally associated with an unpopular bill.

[secondwind]

31. Thanks ! I'm hopeful that a bill with a public option will be served up through

reconciliation, with only 51 votes......!


We need to push back.........we don't need get dispirited!

[shellgame26]

32. Recc'd

[TankLV]

33. That was then - this is NOW...

So far he's ALL TALK and NO RESULTS...

bleah...

[Puglover]

34. "Cowering doubters"

Just in case you wonder why a few folks might take issue with your OP.

[scheming daemons]

36. I would be disappointed if THOSE folks did NOT take issue with this OP

[monmouth]

35. I will finally buy ink for my printer and put this on my fridge door. Righteous!!..n/t

[livetohike]

37. Good job! Rant away

:thumbsup: Change is never easy or quick. Some people have never had much change in their lives and they like it that way. Some of us thrive on change. I believe he will make things happen, just not overnight. One year is hardly enough time to make the big changes he wants to do.

[NYC_SKP]

38. K and R. AND: The unrc feature is full of FAIL. It's made DU more angry, I'm certain of this.

:kick:

[Tailormyst]

39. If that is what you want to believe then more power to you

But your name calling, jerkish and disrespectful behavior towards others who see thing differently is pretty childish.

[azmouse]

40. Well said!

:thumbsup: I'd rather go down fighting then turn tail and run away.

[boppers]

41. Negativity is a cheap substitute for work.

+1

[lunatica]

42. If Obama can articulate what we want him to do by saying it publicly

Then he knows what he should do. It's that simple. I believe he knows what he needs to do and my fervent hope is it's possible he also wants to do it. His first year's approach of bipartisanship has failed because he gave the Republicans credit for caring about the country. The party of NO surprised all of us with it's infantile dedication to destroying him personally no matter what the cost to the country and the American people. I'm curious to see what he does now.

[treestar]

43. Wonderful job putting that together!

K&R

:yourock:

DU is the Land of the Drama Queens, always ready to declare Defeat For All Time immediately!

No persistence, no staying power, no ability to continue when things go wrong. That's why they are not President. That's why Republicans can gain so much while being a minority.

[Jennicut]

46. If I had a dime for everytime someone on DU told me Obama was done for

I would be rich now.
He has made mistakes but some here are ready to slit their wrists and throw in the towel. I have to much fight left in me.

[Zomby Woof]

47. I think for myself

I don't need Nance Greggs or anyone else "speaking for me!" with "righteous rants" or any other type of lectures, sermons, or rhetorical masturbatory fluff. Jesus H. Cheeseslice, what's with the need for a "leader" to "speak for us"? Especially in the Discussion Wasteland that this forum has become.

[Spazito]

49. Righteous rant, indeed!

Well done!

:thumbsup:

[Patsy Stone]

50. K&R

for positivity.

[Fire1]

51. I'll second that! n/t

[last1standing]

52. It's apparent you have his back, but who has ours?

It has become obvious for some time that Obama does not have it, nor do the centrist Democrats in congress. So who has our back, SD? Who?

You can rant (your word, not mine) about how Obama has been able to pull himself up from probable defeat in another hundred threads, and you probably will, but until you answer when, and if, he is going to begin working for the average American instead of funneling trillions into the offshore accounts of the uber-wealthy, it means nothing. Nothing at all.

I don't care about Obama and his wonderful bounce-back ability. I care about moving this country in the right direction - something Obama has not bothered with to date.

[Cha]

53. I got my President's back and so do all

the actual people who voted for him that I talk in my daily work life.. and most of the DUers who I've grown to respect over the years.

[goclark]

54. k

[Cha]

55. ...

:)

[goclark]

67. k

[Nedsdag]

56. K&R

[rug]

57. The difference is he now has a record.

[scheming daemons]

63. a not-so-bad one too, if you ask me...

..much better than he is getting credit for.

[BumRushDaShow]

58. K&R

:kick:

[Silver Gaia]

59. K & R ! Thank you! Great post! n/t

[Ohio Joe]

60. K&R - nt

[butterfly77]

61. Kick &Recommended!

:thumbsup: :dem: :dem: :dem:

[akbacchus_BC]

62. I miss Nance Rants, however this is a close substitute. K&R.

Thank you for this post. I too have your President's back!

[spoony]

64. Melodramatic. Didactic. Venomous. And, more than anything, wrong. You're right.

It's a pretty close approximation.

[jonnyblitz]

65. exactly. just as lame as what's her name. nt

[MissDeeds]

68. +1

Agree on all points.

[Bobbie Jo]

77. Those who can, do....

Those who can't, criticize.

:rofl:

[Skittles]

66. you are way past parody status

will Obama do a turnaround in the future? I don't know. Should he have accomplished more by now? HELL FUCKING YES.

[scheming daemons]

70. I would have been disappointed if you liked it....

The fact that you don't tells me I hit a home run.


Thanks.

[Skittles]

78. like I said, a fucking parody

[spiritual_gunfighter]

69. and in your OP you made the same mistake NanceGreggs made

which she got called out on and left the board. When you put something in quotes it means it was a direct quote taken from another post. It is obvious from your OP that no one specifically said these things, but you want us to believe that was the case. Your OP is dishonest and you want to dredge up the primary wars again.

Pretty pathetic.

[Bobbie Jo]

76. Your post is the very definition of pathetic.

Oh, and...nevermind. (it wasn't very nice) self-delete.

[niceypoo]

71. Name calling and insults against people who respond to you...

...make it impossible to take your OP seriously.

[NashVegas]

72. Even Before That

All the bullsh*t makes it even harder. Try doing a search on those select dates ...

[Hekate]

74. Scheming Daemons, that is a righteous rant second to none. And my fave pic of the Prez, too.

Pass me a couple of those pop-poms, kid. ;-)

Hekate

[Bobbie Jo]

75. Hell of a righteous rant!

Too late to rec.... but here's a big ass kick!

:kick: