Obama Booed at Netroots! Some Liberals Frustrated by Pace of Obama's Change!

Impossible job period! I didn't vote for Obama, but I can tolerate him. Isn't that one of the qualities of a good leader? You have to admit if John McCain said or did some of the things Obama has- this site, the press, and Jon Steward would all be a screaming. I missed the show where the Afghan deaths under Obama equaled those under Bush. Was that funny Jon? The Bin laden strike, the Libya thing, fiscal responsibility...every speech right out of the conservative handbook. So why don't we all just pretend we are all soldiers in the military sworn to follow the trials and tribulations of the commander in chief and see what has or not improved during his first term?
Every liberal lost is a moderate gained. Any practical Democrat knows that much.

I asked my right wing friend what was the best thing W Bush did for him. He said he cut his taxes, I believe he was correct. What is the best thing he did for me?
I dont know? I did some good for others. Guy rights, children on parents until thier 26. I guess he let me be a prouder american than I was under W.
My wish list:
Single payer health care, close Guantonimo, hold Bush and Chaney accountable for thier actions, end the wars and the patiot act, remove the limit on income paid to social security, another housing tax break, hold wall street accountable. Grow a pair! Deliver to us like Bush did for his group.

Who controls the House? As long as Democrats don't control the Senate and the House it really doesn't matter......People need to vote in all elections not just in Presidential years......I don't care if GOD himself is president...nothing will get done!! Damn idiots!

Guess its true what they say: "Reps' fear their base, Dems hate their base.

Interesting...

I saw Obama starting to flip before the election,I then voted for Nader.Republican? hardly.To not discuss how Obama has slipped is to say Amy Goodman is a Republican too,again,hardly.No one deserves blind allegiance,you have to earn support.

If you can bash Obama after what we went through with the Bush administration, you may be either getting paid to do it, or you have been misled. Or for some reason, the welfare of the people in the US (or the world) doesn't matter to you.

What do you do when you've been conned? Obama surrounded himself with the wrong people.He didn't lead the party as is his job.He reversed so much had so many secret meetings with the entities that screwed us all,and continue to.Making excuses for him is lame.he's ok with one term he just said.He may well get it.Let the people have the GOP horsemen of the apocalypse at it again,only then will the people wake up shut off Fox news ,Limbaugh,after they have been whacked once again.God help us,Obama didn't.It takes a leader the times called for a FDR we got laid back Barry and his corporate bankster trickle down free trade cronies.Thx for nutt'n Barry.

Thanks to everyone for your comments, this was the post to get it off your chests. I fear sometimes our memories are short, Ziggy gave us all somethings to try and remember, and we must never hand over the strings of power to the crooked Republicans until they gain their sanity again. Two years ago we stayed
home and it cost us the House, another road block in progress. We are all to be held responsible for letting that happen, tyrants all those rethugs have proven to be. How many JOBS has Bonner with a big B created with his band of idiots at the pursestrings? Hey we've got about 7 more comments to make 400, lets get er done!!!!!

First year in office.

More at source.

Source: ehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/11/19/805925/-90-Accomplishments-of-Pres-Obam...

"Professor Watson writes

Hi friends,

I am always being asked to grade Obama's presidency. In place of offering him a grade, I put together a list of his accomplishments thus far. I think you would agree that it is very impressive. His first six months have been even more active than FDRs or LBJs the two standards for such assessments. Yet, there is little media attention given to much of what he has done. Of late, the media is focusing almost exclusively on Obama's critics, without holding them responsible for the uncivil, unconstructive tone of their disagreements or without holding the previous administration responsible for getting us in such a deep hole. The misinformation and venom that now passes for political reporting and civic debate is beyond description.

As such, there is a need to set the record straight. What most impresses me is the fact that Obama has accomplished so much not from a heavy-handed or top-down approach but from a style that has institutionalized efforts to reach across the aisle, encourage vigorous debate, and utilize town halls and panels of experts in the policy-making process. Beyond the accomplishments, the process is good for democracy and our democratic processes have been battered and bruised in recent years.
Let me know if I missed anything in the list (surely I did).
Robert

Robert P. Watson, Ph.D.Coordinator of American Studies
Lynn University"
Originally posted to bacalove on Thu Nov 19, 2009 at 03:59 AM PST.
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Maybe the frustrated Progressive Liberals should ask the former Democratic controlled Congress why they didn't enact a whole shit-pot load of Progressive Liberal legislation for the short time they thought they were in control. There is where the problem lies, not with the President, but rather with the incompetent, lazy, cover-my-ass, disloyal Congressional Democrats. The President probably is having a hard time remembering he is there to drain the swamp because he's up to his ass in alligators, from both partys. No other president has faced the challenges he's had to face in the past two years, right out of the gate. Even Roosevelt had a breathing space, but not Obama. I, personally , feel he's getting the shitty end of the stick from both sides. Perhaps it's his way of handling events and people that make him seem like an easy tatget, or perhaps it's racial. At any rate, I feel that the criticisim of him is largely unwarrented and snarky, especially from within his own party. I'll probably get a lot of snarky personal attacks for this, but ....eh! screw it.

We forget too quickly what we had before him. This country deserves the presidents it votes for. If we vote out Obama, then it will be what this country deserves.

Barack Obama and the Wall Street cavalcade he surrounds himself with would have you and I believe he is caught in an untenable position, "...It's those darn Republicans fault." The facts do not, in the remotest sense, bare this out.
He uses the Republican Party as his "beard" so to speak, a convenient foil to hide his true character, government and economic philosophy and intent.
He would have us believe...
_His frustration led him to oppose mortgage cram-down resulting in countless 1000's of foreclosures?
_Said frustration forced him to (with his CoS, one Rahm Emmanuel) force down the public option through a filibuster? This had nothing to do with a trade-off to get Rep support, as there never was such support or votes.
_His back was to the wall?, forcing him to send anti-teacher's union, pro-school privatization advocates (Michelle Rhee, a friend of the President and Hari Sevugan, Obama's pick as the Democratic National Committee spokesman) to Republican governor controlled states, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, Utah, to mentor the architecture of school privatization. HE HAD NO CHOICE???
_He had no choice but to appoint Eric Holder, A Wall Street attorney and advocate as AG and said AG "just had to" double the potential prison sentence of Don Seigelman as retribution for appealing his highly questionable conviction by the Alberto Gonzales Justice Department?....and Mr Holder "had no choice" but to collude with Cisco in seeking a 500 year prison sentence for a former Cisco employee whistle-blower? (see David Sirota's piece in SALON). The Obama "Justice" Dept was forced by Republicans to prosecute more whistle-blowers--contrary to a campaign promise--than ALL previous presidents combined? This "Justice" Dept HAD TO (those damn Republicans made me do it) seek more indictments, arrests and prosecutions of medical marijuana growers and users in 2.5 years than the Bush previous 8 years? Somehow the Rep forced him on this?
_The Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (now the Obama tax cuts for the wealthy) were forced on him? BUT, with Bill Clinton at his side, explained said tax cuts would stimulate the economy and create jobs (sound familiar?). Poor Barack, he was forced to "suddenly become" a supply-sider? Likewise, he was coerced into freezing the wages of modest income Federal workers? (with inflation = a pay cut)...a slap down to demand-side economic theory. Milton Freedman somehow came back from eternity and "forced" our hapless President into this economic theory conversion? WOW a miracle!!!
_Likewise the Rep Party shoved, pushed, coerced Barack Obama to become an enabler and protector of torturers and sociopaths, even threatening the Spanish and Italian justice dept not to prosecute our crimes against humanity...OR ELSE!
_The fact that he was the 1st president in over 20 years to propose to the International Whaling Commission the resumption of the hunting and slaughter of whales was the Republican's fault?, even though this WAS NEVER a part of the Rep agenda. Huh?
_Every time he kisses up to Wall Street, every time he ignores their complicity in destroying our economy and nation' future, every time he refuses to speak to demand-side economists like Nobel Prize winners Krugman and Stilitz, every time he tells his base to "sit down and shut up you fucking moronic liberals" (thus spoke his brain, Rahm Emmanuel), he really doesn't want to...look close and you'll see a Republican with a gun to his head. How many "R's" are in fat chance?
Barack Obama, right now, is putting together Wall Street friendly proposals to start the process of privatizing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and our nations educations system (as you will see with his "compromise" over the budget). He lied to you/me/US during the 2008 campaign and will do the same this time around. He is the HOOD-WINKER-in-CHIEF, and a supply-side, trickle-down advocate. His flowery speeches lead to nothing but aromatic crap. He may not be a Tea Partier, but he IS a Wall Street Republican. Don't be fooled by the "D" behind his name.
The Democratic Party must be purged of this fraudulent ilk. They take space on the tickets and force to the wings real Democrats. Barack Obama will not GET MY VOTE IN 2012, and, if it is the only way to send an unmistakable message to the Party powers-that-be, god forgive me!!! I may vote Republican in 2012. THE TRAVESTY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS FOISTED ON US MUST BE CONFRONTED, ADDRESSED AND REBUFFED!!!
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I think Obama was just another guy who thought he could change things and than went into office got smacked with the tidal wave that is our government the rest is history. And to any one that runs for office good luck with that.

Those "some liberals" seem like they're the ones that know there own rights, but not the rights of others. Thinking their own opinion is the only one, and that things just get fixed over night.

Poor guy. He's been given the task of making all Americans happy. It's an impossible fete. Good luck Obama. My advice is get your family out of politics. You're to good for this nonsense.

This is where I think Obama is being treated unfairly. Because if anyone looks at at any of the last POTUS's record on gay rights since Stonewall (which I was there) Obama has done far more for gay rights then any other potus in the history of the US.

And there is only so much Obama can do as POTUS like Barney Frank said the gay community need to be contacting their local politicians if they want change. And I just don't understand why the gay community has never made the demands on any other POTUS like they have on Obama.

I just wish the younger "armchair" gay community activist would stop listening to Dan Choi, Hamsher and Aravosis they are only out for themselves.

My partner and I support Obama 100% and pay absolutely no attention to the aforementioned people since they do more harm then good. Those of us who are older and who have been around from the beginning know that Obama has done more for gay rights and we respect his own personal views which hasn't gotten in the way.

The younger gay community need to realize that getting what you want starts from the bottom up.

Obama, change? That headline is an oxymoron.

Pissed off, so what are you going to do, vote for a Republican?

Go a head, elect Romney, Gingrich, Bachmann, Herman (Mr. religious test) Cain or any one of the other clowns...what the hell, let gets Cheney back in there, that will teach Obama a lesson.