Blaming Obama Is Easy and Irresponsible

By Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News

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http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion/75-75/2201-blaming-obama-is-easy-and-irresponsible

- Sun Tzu

Well-placed. :thumbsup:

Which means we need to do more than be armchair generals.

He's wise in knowing that he cannot do it alone. The ONLY way things change is if enough people step up and speak up together.

Somehow, I don't think Obama wants us as partners anymore.

He obviously hurt your feelings but fucking get over it.

They're just not into us any more. Relationships end, I understand.

get speaking time on national television and before Congress,

order the National Guard and other military branches,

make a few back-room political deals for (supposedly) the greater good...



I've been waiting quite a while.



When those with power blame those without power for not fixing problems, that is just mother-fucking sick.

Stop it.

I'm losing track of all the ways that everything is the progressives fault, and Obama is blameless.

We are whiney children that demand too much.

We are lazy children that don't work hard enough.

We have excessive expectations for Obama meeting his promises.

I'm just curious, when does Obama have to start taking responsibility for his own actions?

I'm sick of being told it's my fault - WTF

a progressive! He is a conservative Democrat.He is what they called in the 1970's a Rockerfeller Republican.

The more room on the right there is for people to call themselves democrats.

In the long run the best thing for the country, and the democratic party is for all the Rockefeller republicans to go back to their party. I'm dubious that Obama would go with them though.

Pretty good piece.
I understand the need to push Obama left, but merely complaining that he should do more is a missed opportunity. First, it's misdirected because Congress is the main barrier to more progressive legislation.

More importantly, it's a missed opportunity to build mass movements with a President who will respond to the people. We should be organizing instead of merely stoking cynicism and disappointment. The left should be doing what the tea party is doing by organizing in communities. The only group coming close is Organizing for America. It's embarrassing.

The authoritarian mindset that expects the President to solve all problems for us is destroying the left. Obama spent the entire campaign saying that we need a mass movement of the people and I'm disappointed by how few activists listened.

and early 70's.

We (left) spent all our energy destroying each other until we pissed off the rest of the populace w/ our whiny demands on any and everybody we could.

Enter Reagan and here we are....

Some of these folks will not be content until we truly do come under the bootheel of the most evil people on the planet. :evilfrown:

Unless you think Oswald, Sirhan, and Ray were "leftists", the right spent the better part of a decade killing off our leaders. In the meantime the left was integrating the democratic party, passing civil right legislation, and stopping a war. NONE of those things were easy, and people also died doing them all. They shot us, bombed us, and beat us to death.

By the early '70s, the GOP had started the "southern strategy" to leverage our civil rights accomplishments against us with the racists. That's how we got Strom Thurmond and Jessie Helms into the GOP. And out of that rose the "moral majority" that wasn't much more than closeted racists finding new people to hate (mostly gays).

Where in that you find us "tearing each other appart" I'd be curious to know.

do you think that you're under now? Compared to Jimmy Carter Obama is a Republican. Carter was the most conservative Democrat ever elected. Bill Clinton was to the right of Carter and Obama is to the right of Clinton.

And while we are at it, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights restored.

Corporations again limited and regulated to serve the greater society.

And taxes on the Obscenely Wealthy to prevent hereditary debilitation by wealth.

I vote for all that, and the immediate shut-down of these obscene wars. Instead let's have those moneys put to work for the people of the United States and for our communities.

Most of us celebrated and waited for Obama to do the heavy lifting.

The country was facing a devastating financial crisis while conducting two wars.

We were celebrating the victory, but not looking at the overwhelming challenges our new leader was facing.

We expected sweeping change, but for the most part we left the battlefield and expected Obama to bring us that change.

but who is there for him to lead? Have we all been calling our Senators & congress people? Have we demanded that they get on board with his agenda? We do have to help him in every way we can.

nor oversaw regulatory or law enforcement policies at the federal agencies.

this is all our fault, as Obama was making a deal with the pharmaceutical and hospital industry to make sure the public option wasn't in the final health care bill I should have been saying, "I support you Mr. President."

When Obama helped GM and Chrysler to void their union contracts cancel dealerships and void retirement benefits. I should have been saying, "I support you Mr. President."

When Obama helped GM and Chrysler to dump their toxic waste sites on to the public with an estimated clean up cost of $3 billion dollars,I should have been saying, "I support you Mr. President."

When I was losing my house to foreclosure and Obama was giving $8,000 to people who in a depression can afford to purchase new homes, I should have been saying, "I support you Mr. President."

When Obama let the Employee Free Choice Act get sliced up like a salami in Congress you guessed it, I should have been saying, "I support you Mr. President."

It's all our fault! We didn't wish hard enough and now Obama has gone down the corporate road. When Obama lifted the drilling moratorium in the Gulf and allowed BP to use the Bush administrations environmental plan do you know whose fault that was? Not ours!

It's like they taught me in a fundie church when I was growing up. "You don't have to understand it. Just believe it"!

when the majority of the citizens are against you.We as a nation are guilty because we listen to nay sayers,Limbaugh,Beck and their ilk who are on public record as opposing any and every thing Obama try to change.

Nay sayers, I know Republican ideas from Democratic ideas