Let Obama Be Obama
Jan. 25th, 2010 05:10 pmApropos this piece in yesterday's NYT -- this piece says nothing like what the epiphany I had reading it says -- I thought it's time to give Obama a break.
I think we can agree that the Republicans have run the country into the ground since Howard Jarvis came up with the revolutionary idea that you shouldn't have to pay taxes to maintain the infrastructure of the democracy. Since the Powell memo, the rise of Weyrich single-issue [abortion] campaigns, the Republicans have not only owned but stipulated as political issues which are not political, to their strategic advantage. We see it again as health care goes down the drain as poor ass American conservatives parrot the truly suicidal and reprehensible conservative rhetorics -- death panels, my ass! that's what we have now. I am thinking of a hideous tale told by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
garrity the other day about a child having a psychotic break for whom there was, literally, for over 24 hours, no treatment, no hospital, no care and no food until she was brutally sedated and sent home -- the alternative being taken in cuffs, in a squad car, to the local adult bin. You think Haiti is a third world country?
It is time to give Obama a break for this one reason. His victory -- impeccably played, I think, to such a degree that some aspect of Obama campaign ethos I haven't yet figured out is anathema to the office it has purchased for Obama, and has ruined his presidency so far -- showed that the rhetoric can be taken back from the Republicans. The left can define political issues and strip the reprehensible rhetoricians of their victories.
What happened in Massaschusetts, may, I fear, be a sexist thing. I don't think anybody without a penis could have won against anybody with one. What's shocking is that Coakley was permitted to run and permitted to lose. Really, somebody had their head up their ass.* I believe it is less a commentary on Obama's presidency, as the pack now claims, than it is a commentary on Massachusetts and how, for a change, the Democrats DROPPED THE GODDAM STRATEGY BALL for the one hundred thousandth time. Honest to God. I have to check with my Boston bureau chief, who knows all the answers to this crap, but were I a wagering man, I'd bet the ranch on this one. Why would any reasonable citizen of the republic vote for Brown unless....Coakley was an impossibly bad choice? Horrifyin'.
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* And I think we know who it is. The same smug space cadets who thought gay marriage could never fail on a referendum in California:
An Arkansas friend of mine sent around a blast e-mail posing the question, "Can you imagine a Republican winning in that bluest of states?" I answered, "Of course, Mitt Romney won statewide election there not too long ago." Massachusetts is no longer the reliably blue state it was during the height of Camelot.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/19/why-coakley-really-lost-massachusetts-health-care-reform/
( WH to pick up the pace )
I think we can agree that the Republicans have run the country into the ground since Howard Jarvis came up with the revolutionary idea that you shouldn't have to pay taxes to maintain the infrastructure of the democracy. Since the Powell memo, the rise of Weyrich single-issue [abortion] campaigns, the Republicans have not only owned but stipulated as political issues which are not political, to their strategic advantage. We see it again as health care goes down the drain as poor ass American conservatives parrot the truly suicidal and reprehensible conservative rhetorics -- death panels, my ass! that's what we have now. I am thinking of a hideous tale told by
garrity the other day about a child having a psychotic break for whom there was, literally, for over 24 hours, no treatment, no hospital, no care and no food until she was brutally sedated and sent home -- the alternative being taken in cuffs, in a squad car, to the local adult bin. You think Haiti is a third world country?It is time to give Obama a break for this one reason. His victory -- impeccably played, I think, to such a degree that some aspect of Obama campaign ethos I haven't yet figured out is anathema to the office it has purchased for Obama, and has ruined his presidency so far -- showed that the rhetoric can be taken back from the Republicans. The left can define political issues and strip the reprehensible rhetoricians of their victories.
What happened in Massaschusetts, may, I fear, be a sexist thing. I don't think anybody without a penis could have won against anybody with one. What's shocking is that Coakley was permitted to run and permitted to lose. Really, somebody had their head up their ass.* I believe it is less a commentary on Obama's presidency, as the pack now claims, than it is a commentary on Massachusetts and how, for a change, the Democrats DROPPED THE GODDAM STRATEGY BALL for the one hundred thousandth time. Honest to God. I have to check with my Boston bureau chief, who knows all the answers to this crap, but were I a wagering man, I'd bet the ranch on this one. Why would any reasonable citizen of the republic vote for Brown unless....Coakley was an impossibly bad choice? Horrifyin'.
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* And I think we know who it is. The same smug space cadets who thought gay marriage could never fail on a referendum in California:
An Arkansas friend of mine sent around a blast e-mail posing the question, "Can you imagine a Republican winning in that bluest of states?" I answered, "Of course, Mitt Romney won statewide election there not too long ago." Massachusetts is no longer the reliably blue state it was during the height of Camelot.
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/19/why-coakley-really-lost-massachusetts-health-care-reform/
( WH to pick up the pace )
