Obama Saved Michigan and My Family

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/18/921524/-Obama-Saved-Michigan-and-My-Family

(The whole piece is EXCELLENT. One of the best Daily Kos diaries I've read in the four years since I joined there. So I had to share some of it with you.)

for posting it!

honestly, it made me cry. to hear someone appreciate what our president has done, and to appreciate it so passionately, swells my heart. in face of all the vicious hypercriticism and unbalanced judgments of him....

gratitude.


peace and solidarity!!

that can't be criticized and condemned. I bet you couldn't find a single post that is complimentary of President Obama without finding dozens of un-recs. It is unbelievable to me and I am teetering on the edge of being done with DU. OP's like this keep me hanging on.

There once was a time, unless I am being a romantic, where democrats would celebrate a democratic administration's successes that brought fortune to others, even we we, ourselves, were in dire straits; because it gave us hope that someone was out there working for our interests ... It gave us hope that our day would come.

But it seems that of late, we here at DU, slid into the selfishness of the larger society. We expect that everything to be done is to be done for us right now! No matter that others are being benefitted by this administration, if it does benefit us, right now, directly, then we grouse and complain that nothing is being done.

The sad thing is ... we are acting in the exact same way that we have been so critical of the teapartiers and the rightwing. We seem to want the appearance of strength ("why won't He fight back") over the real strength of accomplishment (list of administration accomplishments here).

We want the President to act as a dictator, mandating what can't be easily accomplished through the political process ... a process that by it's very nature requires compromise.
We want what we want as we want it and nothing else, as if we've forgot the lessons we learned in kindergarten about getting along in the world.

But more, we want to blame this President for the failure of our congressional representatives to act in our interests - They are the body that drafts, proposes and votes on legislation; the President has no vote. I have said this before ... largely to a crickety audience ... that the Office of the Presidency can cheerlead, cajole, offer reward and threaten punishment with respect to a progressive agenda; but it is congress that does the work. Criticizing President Obama for much of our legislative disappointments, when the democratic majorities in the house and senate refuse to propose and fight for a progressive agenda, is a lot like criticizing Friend A because Friend B won't lend you her car. Friend A can ask of, advocate for, offer rewards and threaten punishment to Friend B. But at the end of the day, it is Friend B that hands over the keys or not.

but it could be so much worse here without the recapitalization of GM. Too bad it was done on the backs of the workers and retirees.

on MSNBC this a.m. He thinks you workers are crybabies expecting the federal government to "bail out" every one of you! You should just buck it up and face the "real world."

These people are evil haters. Americans are sucking it up right now, though for the life of me, I don't know why. Talk about BETTER angels? These people are provoking our UGLIER angels across the board and it is WORKING.

If I weren't an atheist, I would believe it's the DEVIL at work...