Daily Kos: Political death by a thousand cuts

[budkin]

Good read from Daily Kos about Obama's current troubles. I completely agree with pretty much everything said. It's time to get a god damned spine and start kicking some ass.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/11/17/921164/-Political-death-by-a-thousand-cuts

[Demeter]

1. Self-inflicted, no less

Somebody get a straight-jacket and a shrink!

[Safetykitten]

2. They have their own agenda.

[ProSense]

3. McConnell and Boehner

backed out because they have no plan. They did not want to be exposed as frauds.

Still, why would anyone try to attribute weakness to the President because the Republicans backed out?

That's like giving the team that forfeited the game the win because they didn't show up.

[budkin]

4. Because what they did is pretty much the equivalent of slapping Obama in the face

And he needs to make it clear that he's not going to take their shit. HE is the president.

[ProSense]

5. Maybe that's how people will see it

Maybe they knew that was how it would be interpreted, but they are the ones who backed out.

Call them out for being rude, but why should their rudeness (and again, I believe they had no plan) be used to portray the President as weak?

[Milo_Bloom]

6. Because it is because of his weakness they were able to do it.

[ProSense]

7. No, they did it because

they're assholes without a plan.

[Milo_Bloom]

11. They had a plan.. take advantage of his weakness.

guess what? It worked... AGAIN.

[ProSense]

12. No, it's apparent that their plan

was to play on anti-Obama sentiment.

[Milo_Bloom]

13. Wonder why that sentiment is so easy to play on?

[BklnDem75]

10. Precisely!

They should have been forced to attend at gunpoint. :eyes:

[phleshdef]

8. Some have become so obsessed with looking for potential ways to "call the President out"...

...that they are spending way less time, if any, calling Republicans out.

And they do this while ironically yelling about how Obama isn't calling them out enough.

Its pretty sad really. I can understand if some of us on the left side of things want to speak out against things we don't approve of. But those are our own battles to fight within the Democratic party. We can do that, from time to time we should do that and we will do that.

But when Republicans are acting so completely hideous towards our President, who we KNOW has reached out to them, despite some of our protests, thats a moment where we should have his back. You wanna go at him over something that didn't make it into the healthcare bill or over some person he hired into his cabinet or for not living up to your standards of ambition on gay rights or what have you, go ahead. But when the Republicans are coming at him like he is a dog, as they have done, are doing and will continue to do, its beyond me how anyone that claims themselves a Democrat can join in on the stone throwing.

This is especially troubling when its something like this, where he was just trying to get a meeting going so that he can continue to earn his tax payer funded paycheck and GOVERN. The President did nothing wrong by attempting to do his job while the Republicans are going the other direction in that they are continuing to find ways to not have to do theirs. And when thats all said and done, the loud, cynical sect of the left prefers to channel its "wrath" towards Barack Obama. With a base like that, who even needs Republicans?

[TwilightGardener]

9. I've learned that every action, every facial expression, every word from

Obama will bring out detractors here. Obama Derangement Syndrome.

[FrenchieCat]

14. Yep....it's all Obama's fault, and only he can solve it......

he is also responsible for the Runaway Train in "Unstoppable"......if something really
bad would have happened.