This seemed to be a huge flare-up when Huffington Post ran an interview with David Axelrod who stated what sounded pretty much like Obama was indeed caving in to repube demands that the wealthy get to keep their budget busting deficit causing taxcuts
If you read the comments to the article you would have seen a firestorm of liberal dems calling Obama a spineless coward who caved in like a $5 lawn chair and everyone vowing to never cast another vote for him. Very telling, showing much of the the base of the party has just about had it with Wimpy Obama. If this was a trial balloon by the White House, it crashed like the Hindenberg
I for one have turned really sour on Obama over the past year and for this very reason. He is a wimp who won't fight for his base, instead chooses to follow the Rahm Emannuel playbook of surrounding himself with right-leaning advisors and Wall street scum
Ethan and the Whig responded by saying they have had enough with living in the US if this happens. I can relate in some ways, myself living overseas in Brazil for the past year.
The problem with that is that even watching the carnage from afar is kind of like being outside of a prison but your loved ones are still inside getting ass-raped by the guards and other prisoners. Lucky you for not being there but still it sucks to see this happen to your friends, family or just decent people in general.
I've been taken to task by some of the rather dimmer members in perspectives for living outside the US. I find it quite odd, seeing that we don't consider Koreans or other nationalities visiting and living in the US to be "traitors" to their fatherland. There's kind of a provincial attitude about many Americans, that america is such a superior swell place that leaving home except on vacation is sort of unthinkable and they take it as a slap in the face.
Opinionator had a problem with it, saying he is so much better because he "sticks it out here' rather than me 'running away". Oh niggga pleeez. What exactly is the diff if I live here or there? the only way to effect change is to 1) vote and 2) advocate. Well, I do both from 6000 miles away. What else am I expected to do, demonstrate with a bunch of smelly anarcists, burn tires in the streets? Hey, I don't have to live around the mistakes and stupidity by people I have no control over, anal rape doesn't appeal to me
I advise anyone who can get a better deal with work or healthcare in another country to grab it. You can get a sweet house in Costa Rica to retire in, complete with maid service for about for less than $20,000. You can't buy a garage in Detroit for that kind of money. So these dimwits expect me to live in poverty without decent healthcare just to make them happy? Don't think so
Anyways, if Obama caves like he did on off-shore drilling, investigating bush war crimes and the public option, he sucks and we should dump his ass in time for the 2012 primaries. Either that or take my earlier advice and let the repubs take the whole thing back, destroy what's left and THEN a Progressive party takes over. Obama had that chance and blew it
I think Obama got the message loud and clear. He backtracked big-time today.
ReplyDeleteThat kind of shows the difference between the repubs, who cater to their base's wishes and demands, and the Obama camp who take their base for granted and condensend arrogantly towards them. I guess with 2012 looming maybe that should signal them to take notice- repubs win when they cater to their base
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