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Jen the Michigander


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I'm sorry, Hillary. Please come back. (Daily Kos 12/06/10)
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No, that title is not a misprint. And yes, it really did come from the Daily Kos. In all the time I have been here at HW, I don't think I have ever posted anything from the Daily Kos.

The worm has turned, my friends!

Oh, and click the link to vote in the poll.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/12/6/22314/5978

I gave thousands to help get him elected because I believed, but I'm done giving to Obama. Now, I'm looking for a candidate.

The problem here is narrative. Let me tell you the story I now believe.

I am a product of FDR. Go back to the 20s, and the country was as inequitable as it is today. FDR instituted a progressive income tax and the middle class grew. I'm part of the meritocracy that arose from that middle class, just like President Obama. The progressive income tax created my neighborhood, but the super-rich hated it. Ronald Reagan undermined all that, and as I've grown from teenager into adult, the legacy of RR has been slowly eating away at my country.  More growth inequity.  The sociopathic religion of Ayn Rand.

And then Obama started talking about how he admired RR, and I wouldn't hear him. I didn't want to hear him because I wanted to believe that he really admired FDR more than RR. Now, I'm listening. Obama has always been more RR than FDR. It's hard to say it, but FDR would have never let it go this far. 

At every stage, Obama talks about compromise and bipartisanship. Why didn't we start by racking up a long string of victories for the working family? Why didn't we start talking up those victories? Instead, Obama started out talking about bipartisanship and compromise and he got used. He got so badly used that we're talking about asking Democrats to vote to extend the tax cuts that got us in this fiscal mess in the first place.  You know, the fiscal mess that's threatening social security? 

And all of it is bull****, because if we focused on the economy and got it growing again, then we'd be in a position to start talking about cutting the deficits. Instead of talking about cutting social security, we should be talking about green jobs, infrastructure projects.

Instead of reaching out to the asswipe Republican Traitors, we should have been telling the American public what low life traitors they really were. 

Now, those very same Republicans are holding the unemployed and the middle class hostage so they can get a tax cut for the super rich. 

And I don't care if it's just for two years.  Where has Obama shown anyone that we'll suddenly be able to pull a victory from the jaws of defeat.  Why trust him to do that when he's spent the last two years snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? 

So, I hope the White House is listening.  I don't want to hear a recitation of campaign promises kept. The legislative victories also go to Nancy Pelosi and congress. The value of the White House leadership on this should have been the value added in getting the victories and winning the hearts and minds of the countries. Instead, we lost the midterm elections badly and we're looking at this fiasco.

It's time for the Democratic Congress to send Obama a message.  He's our president or else.  It's time he stopped crossing the aisle to compromise with the leeches across the aisle.

Oh, and about that bull**** invitation to hold his feet to the fire? 

How? 

And it's time for us to start looking for a candidate. I would support Hillary Clinton in 2012, if only she would run.

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Well, the Daily Kos was instrumental in bringing this admistration to power.  They are going to have to do a hell of alot of groveling to Hillary to redeem themselves not in her eyes, but in the eyes of her supporters.

This adminstration and this Congress are a mess...plain and simple.  Can't wait until they are all out of office.

2012 should sweep out the last of these folks.

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