Reply #57: I call BS on every single line of your diary! [View All]

I am a lifelong progressive liberal Democrat! I have fought, campaigned for and donated to every Democratic Presidential candidate since President Bill Clinton.

1st of all...your supposition that anyone on the left wants to bring down the President is patently preposterous. We don't want him to fail, that's the purview of the Republicans! We simply want what he promised us...change that we can believe in (remember that catchy little tune from '08?).

You talk about those of us who "claimed to be Democratic supporters"...well, where I come from, no self-respecting Democrat could ever, in a million years, support some of the policy decisions of this President. Extending Republican tax cuts for the wealthy that have been proven to be disastrous for this nation's economy, for example, was something that no Democratic voter should be able to get behind. If this man cuts our social safety net programs (including Social Security which has NO bearing on the national deficit), he will have abrogated his duties as a Democratic President and he will have lost many of our support. If forcing our leaders to live up to protecting the very issues that make us Democrats, is all of a sudden out of line, then I for one, will no longer refer to myself as a Democrat.

As to how we allegedly conducted ourselves during the reagan and Bushes' terms in office. Many of us were in the streets protesting things like the school of the Americas, the multiple under the radar military efforts in latin America, etc. and don't even get me started about the warnings many of us gave the centrists of the party about Afghanistan and Iraq (Iraq in particular). Regardless, your entire OP is specious at best and inflamatory as hell...I guess I just don't see the purpose of blindly supporting any politician simply because he or she has a particular letter next to their name. I find it very ironic that this man asked us repeatedly during his campaign and shortly after his victory to "hold his feet to the fire" and you folks in the "amatuer left" can't seem to handle it when we do so by asking him to uphold the things that seperate us from the other side of the aisle.