Obama and Liberals

Love is so Fleeting

To hear the president's latest condemnation of the liberal wing of the party, you would think that we were nothing but ungrateful slobs who haven't the slightest idea of how hard he has worked for the things he said he was going to do. Hmmm. Do we really need to get pedantic and delineate all that he didn't do? I don't think so. It might be easier to say, he gave us absolutely nothing, nothing at all save speeches and explanations of how what he did do was the best he could do. Hmmm, sounds like a good ad.
Well, if he is so disenchanted with us liberal types, why don't he return all our contributions to his campaign no matter the amount. I promise to spend mine immediately on some useless imported junk, which should spike the gross national product, and help this dismal economy by employing another person in a substandard retail job.
The problem he is having with us liberals is that we looked behind the curtain. Suddenly the sonorous voice once so powerful and promising is little more than the utterances of a pup of a politician who pompously goes about listening to those who thought his candidacy was a joke. From the generals to the economic advisers, he followed the path blazed by W and his henchmen. For two years, the country listened and the only thing we got was what we heard. He talks of what can be done, but he didn't do anything. After two years, we still had the wars (bigger than ever), the unemployment rate higher and higher, inflation more and more, a health care law that few understand, in short, all we got was words. Then the election, which showed just what the people thought of his administration. Now, it wasn't the liberals who lost the election, hell we didn't get anything. So it must have been him and what he did or what he didn't do. Oh, it is so hard to confront one's failures.
So, I guess liberals need to re-group and find a new leader for our causes. The president is on a trajectory that will lead him to one term. It wasn't the middle that embraced him and propelled him beyond the “also-rans” in the primaries, heck they were with Clinton. If he thinks that the middle and those who follow Fox News are going to embrace this pitiful attempt at appeasement, he is delusional. The arrogance displayed in his penchant remarks about the politics of the country is but another example of hubris. The man who told us we were the ones who made a difference is now telling us we are irrelevant. Fox news and the middle, which is as amorphous and undefinable as “normal,” will jettison him and his ideas in their attempt to go back to a time that never existed.
By the by, Ronald Reagan was never anything but a B actor. It is likely that his term office will someday be judged for what it was, a period of years presided over by a man suffering from senility and Alzheimer. Obama, like Carter, will fall to the forces of his own character. He should realized that the election of 2010 was not about what the democrats did, but what he didn't do. He let the other side, which wasn't the loyal opposition, remember the “you lie” comment and the drone of a justice shaking his head, frame the arguments, and we Americans like a good explanation, even it is completely false. We must remember Mencken's observations, No one ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the American Public. Obama has gone over to the dark side, and no amount of his rhetoric or admonishments can make the body politic anything than what it is – a reactionary world of “know nothings” who will get what they really want, his defeat in 2012. He should have stuck to his guns and gone after what he said he was going to rather than following whatever he was following. We thought we had in him a leader, one who would alter the course of history. All we go was another politician who was trying to keep his job by reading tea leaves. Perhaps he wanted us liberals to keep drinking his brand of kool-aid, but something is happening here Mr Jones, and you don't know what it is.