But, in the world of the angry Lefty blogger-sphere, Obama is no different than Bush (I would laugh it if weren’t so dire in consequences) If all you listen to was Democracy Now and read FiredogLake.com, you’d think Obama was the worse thing since Satan.

I think the Obama administration has tangentially reveal many flaws in our political culture. A racism reactionary right wing that is willing to sell its soul and the country to corporations just to one up minorities or gays. An ambivalent mainstream ‘center’ that doesn’t have a clue what it wants or needs and is too fickle to really make a real impact. And a dysfunctional Left with little means of political capital and organize and also rife with egomaniacs with no real sense of politics, economics or basic cooperation.

Frankly, the so-called “Emo Progs” have been a bane of Liberals’ political existence for years. Ask any sensible liberal who tried to build the Green Party in the early ’00′s or survived the meltdown of Pacifica Radio in the mid 90′s. How about other progressive movements hijacked by guys like ANSWER? Or, if you really want to go back, ask some older liberals how they felt about militant cranks like MOVE, the Black Panthers or the Weather Underground.

Yes, these movements did some great things (community clinics and school breakfast come to mind about the Panthers) – but they screwed a lot of things up. Yes, hardcore liberals have passion, but their often strident commitment to their own ideas and egos cost the entire movement.

And I find it funny that we often take the advice of people who for the most part, never won office,never worked in real policy making and frankly, couldn’t organize a hotdog stand.

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Never mind that many other nations – many of them poorer than ours – already have what we so desperately need. Let’s not even discuss the millions who are homeless, or the mentally ill rotting in a prison population that is larger per capita and in actual numbers than anything Russia or China ever did! Although those issues were ALSO in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY Platform.

Dividing what’s left of the Dems (there are now almost equal numbers of Dem, GOP and no-labels) is the final nail in the coffin. The vicious vitriol, including the very labels “emoprogs” and “firebaggers” that you dears who hate to be called “Obamabots” fling like crap, have made me determined to never, EVER vote for corporate Dems again, the opposite of your efforts to cow us into submission. Congrats! Until now, if it was a close race, I held my nose and voted for the Dem, ALWAYS. You’ve cured me! THANK YOU! Hope you’ll have better luck building unity w/the independents!

Many of we “emoprogs” are black, Latino, Asian. Those of us old enough also fought Clinton tooth-and-nail, esp against the Welfare Deform that has absolutely raised child poverty levels. The Obama I worked so hard for, for 2 yrs in 3 states physically, in ALL states by phone w/over 100 volunteers in our little city, in the primaries at phonebanks I helped organize, all together in one little Democratic Party local office on Election Day, for free (I’m on a walker, disabled, poor and in pain), ALSO was against that Welfare Reform Act.

The Obama I got elected delegate for flipped, and now APPROVES of Clinton/Newt Gingrich’s fiasco against the poor, women and kids especially. Good God, y’all.

Read the Dem Party Platform that we voted for in 2008, representing everything YOU/we asked for, then show me where Obama has honored it. THAT, not some ‘far left’ socialist utopia, is ALL we are demanding, as is our RIGHT as American citizens. Sure, he would’ve lost many of those fights, but he lost and didn’t even put up a fight. It’s astounding that the POTUS who finally got Bin Ladin looks so weak. That DEMOCRATIC PARTY platform, and Obama, were FOR all the things you call us names for demanding AFTER the election was won.

Sisters Marian Edelman of Children’s Defense Fund and Lisa Jackson of the EPA – who Obama as good as slapped today – must be emoprog. So must the Congressional Black Caucus. But wait! It’s all about racism! Or petulance! If we’re black/people of color, we’re all spoiled brats for expecting the Democratic Party Platform, that we Obama delegates voted for as representatives of activist Democrats, representing ALL the groups that are in the Dem Party, to be honored! Marian, Lisa, the CBC, are all self-important egotists. Right.

Note the diff between an LGBT broadcaster, Rachel Maddow, and black broadcasters. Rachel put LGBT issues front-and-center, boldly demanded Obama keep his campaign promises. Black broadcasters, for the most part, say we must not demand anything for OUR communities. Who got the most out of Obama’s tenure so far? Mmmm-hmmm. Latino broadcasters slammed Obama for not pushing harder for immigration reform – and we got an executive order that all but establishes the Dream Act.

If you think settling for a choice between a moderate corporate Republican aka Dems like Clinton and Obama, and a teabagger corporate Republican is fine, good for you – you’re in the perfect country! Don’t ask Obama to do a damned thing for you or yours.

Nations that took what America established – but took it farther – have more than 2 parties. They have real choices. They have proportional representation for the poor and working people. They’re called Labor Party, Socialist Democrats, and a few other names you all are as reactionary against as the teabaggers – and THEY are why ALL other developed nations have universal government-provided health care, tiny numbers of prisoners compared to us, lower poverty and crime, no death penalty at all, and no mega-normous military “expenses” aka payoffs.

But you call us, who want what you want and dare demand it, self-important egotistical “firebaggers” who won’t stay in our designated place. Because Democratic Party POLITICIANS lie, for their own benefit, and ignore Democratic Party VOTERS and the ACTIVISTS who most strengthened the Dem Party and turned several states blue FOR OBAMA.

Guess what, dears: Most of us don’t read, often or at all, the fire-whatever blog (found it, firedoglake, whatever that means), though I emailed them once, objecting to Jane Hamscher calling Obama devotees names on Twitter. You’re welcome. Yeah, right! As if.

The ideological ones are staring you in the mirror. Your ideology: OBEY, no matter how much they serve multinational corporations and screw you and yours, so long as they’re Dem and especially if they’re black (except you MUST diss black activists, black broadcasters and black administrators in Obama’s administration who challenge him, and the Black Caucus members, some of whom marched with Dr. King, if they criticize the New King – but wait, he’s not a king, that’s why he can’t do anything … What?!).

That’s what’s known as: The soft bigotry of low expectations. And it won’t do a damn thing for the next black woman or man who runs for office, especially if it’s for the Dems. Why would anyone vote in another Dem black POTUS, when you who most make excuses for Obama claim he can do nothing because he’s black?

Want rational thought? Here’s one for you: To serve our own self-interest, we must never elect another person of color to the presidency. omg. That’s so f//d up! But what other conclusion can be drawn, based on your own arguments?

Your argument makes the next person of color candidate as unelectable as a Socialist Democrat or Labor Party candidate. Welcome to the club. Enjoy the irony.

This blog’s aptly named, but it’s missing one word: corporate. It’s the 1000% corporate politics in the USA that makes the USA the most murderous country in the world, with the most exported weapons (our biggest export, matter of fact!), and the only civilized developed country with a death penalty, never mind a death penalty that murders child-criminals and the mentally disabled. Thanks to the nastiness of your critique, you practically guaranteed that Perry, the most pro-death-penalty gov in the USA, wins in 2012.

Because name-calling does not build unity. Most kids on the playground could’ve told you that.

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President Obama’s base is strong because they know what he’s accomplished and don’t sit around the internet whining about everything.

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“What most Liberals do possess is respect for President Obama and the difficult conditions he labors under with an obstructionist Republican Party and cowardly, unsupportive faction within the Democratic caucus. One would think the remarkable legislative achievements President Obama pushed through Congress in a hostile environment would be enough to win over the professional-left ideologues, but as petulant children are wont to do, nothing short of blind obedience will satisfy them. In that sense, EmoProgs are exactly like teabaggers. Regardless what the president accomplishes, unless he grants every wish far-left crybabies demand, they will continue showing the president the same disrespect
teabaggers do.”

Excellent job!

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I think politicususa understands only too well what the President was handed and what they’ve gotten done so far to clean up bush’s mess with extreme opposition.

And, I thank politicususa for their work in getting out the facts!

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