We’re growing more and more disappointed with some in our own camp. Barack Obama is the most liberal president this country has had since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and all some on the left can do is complain, complain, complain. “Wahh, wahh, wahh … we’re going to act like Republicans and insist on having everything our own way!” Well, that’s not how the grown-ups conduct themselves.
Looks to us here at CLN like the President has it just about right. We too wish we didn’t have to compromise, but unlike Republicans we don’t think anyone should threaten to just take their ball and go home if they don’t get their own way. The idea in governing is to keep moving the ball forward.
Barack Obama has been a strong and forceful leader who has pursued the agenda that he said he would when he was a candidate. All the things that conservatives hate about this President should be reasons for my fellow travelers to strongly approve of him.
The President inherited an economy that was on the brink of disaster. Not to play the blame game, but whoever gets the blame for the economic crisis, Obama surely gets credit for the fact that the economy did not collapse.
We need to pull together now, stop whining and get to work. It’s time to stop just focusing on what we think our President has done wrong — and start reminding ourselves, and everyone else, about all the things that he has done right.
As President Obama reminded us on several occasions, “The perfect is the enemy of the good.”
And here’s an observation: We don’t see the Republicans trashing their own. When we hear liberals using the same derogatory terminology about President Obama that the GOP does (“He’s not a leader … He needs to lead.”), it stands in stark contrast to how the GOP handles criticizing fellow Republicans.
We should understand that when we undermine our President that we’re actually costing him votes. If we keep bitchin’ we’ll drive many on the left into the arms of the Green Party or other fringe parties.
Think Ralph Nader vs. Al Gore = George W. Bush.
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