No more Obama bashing
Submitted by PPCNC - local P... on Wed, 09/15/2010 - 4:53pm
I’ve done my share of Obama bashing. He has driven me nuts in his total unwillingness to protect and defend reproductive freedom—a core value to his political base. But, enough is enough.
The alternative, my friend, is sheer insanity. Just check out the winner of last night’s Republican primary in Delaware to see for yourself.
Obama is far from perfect but he has delivered and it’s time we amplify his wins, especially for women.
Before Palin’s mama grizzlies, I always thought of myself as a mama bear when defending my young. So, I’ll match her grizzlies any day with my North Carolina black bear mama self and tell you why as a mother I am thankful to President Obama for health care reform.
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I'll bash Obama every day I damn well please
Just today we get a veto threat for the vehicle to move DADT and DREAM because the DINOs in the US House kept the Joint Strike Fighter engine contract in the Defense Authorization bill.
Hell No to any more Obama White House duplicity and DINO-enabling in Congress.
And health care for women? Seriously? You do remember the Stupak "compromise", right?
Down with Obama, OFA, the DNC, and these foolish and cowardly Congressional DINOs.
Screaming "Sarah Palin" won't scare me into submission.
You want my support? Earn it. Don't tell me the other guy is worse.
Thank you for sharing
You could have just said "no thanks." This was a request, not an order.
But just to say it, if you think your agenda is being flushed down the toilet by Democrats in Congress (and I agree with you that it is), you have no idea how bad it could get. A little redistricting here, a little court packing there, and bingo ... everything you hold near and dear will be set back decades or more.
The only upside of that scenario would be a lot more chances to rant ... which doesn't seem to have been all that productive.
BlueNC = James
Sorry about that.
Do good. Be nice. Have fun.
The upside will be the primary against Obama
What are the GOPers gonna do that Obama and the DINO Congress hasn't done?
Not let me marry?
Recriminalize sodomy?
Shred the Constitution and give Treasury to Wall Street?
We're already there, folks.
I've lived through it before. I'll survive again. Their political careers will not.
I agree that its completely fair
to call out the President on his failures.
But he's also not the one up for election this time.
For me, I'm voting Elaine Marshall who is great on LGBT equality issues, and for David Price who has the best congressional record on LGBT equality out of all the congressmen in NC (Brad Miller does well too). And for the statewide races, I think its important to vote too, not just b/c of redistricting fears, but b/c we've finally seen some movement on things like the bullying bill & comprehensive sex ed bill (however watered down) that actually became law so I think they've earned another vote.
The topic of the thread is enabling Obama
And here's the vote that both Price and Miller utterly failed on.
This JSF engine funding has been veto bait for a while. Bush-now-and-still-Obama Defense Secretary Gates has been railing against it for months.
Both Price and Miller voted AGAINST an amendment that would have stripped the JSF engine item.
If you were watching the DADT-not-really-repeal vote late one evening this past May, it was the vote right before the DADT-not-really-repeal vote.
At that moment, savvy politicos started to predict that this would be the White House's way to wriggle out of even this DADT repeal half measure -- enabled by "supportive" House Democrats like Price and Miller.
Enough is enough.
No more enabling the sitting federal Democrats.
Reasonable people can disagree
on where to draw the line between political ally and enemy. But for me, Price (who cosponsored ENDA & voted in favor of DADT repeal, & cosponsored the Matthew Shepard Act, & cosponsored UAFA, & cosponsored DOMA repeal & supported measures to fight HIV & equalize federal benefits) makes the cut on supporting LGBT equality.
And what of any of that list has come to pass?
Nothing.
Even the hate crimes law was refused to be used by the Obama Justice Dept (the same one that is filing briefs supporting DOMA and DADT) in the bashing case in Savannah.
So, of all that we've got hate crimes, but no use of the law.
That's just not enough.
In fact, it's a slap in face with the overwhelming Democratic majority we've been building and hoping for all these years.
I envy your optimism, but I know when I've been played.
I remember 1968
We "dumped the hump" and look what that brought us. Obama's record is full of compromise, perhaps too much, but he has accomplished a lot. I tend to think he wants to do what is best, but aims for the best achievable. Can we reasonably hope to replace him with somebody who can do bettter? I doubt it in 2012. If we keep pushing reform, maybe in 2016. The main things are to win and to keep the flow in right direction.