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In reply to the discussion: Presidents should be questioned and confronted, not idolized [View all]JohnnyRingo
(18,640 posts)That's making quite a jump.
I guess you're saying that if I'm not as displeased with the president as some of those who see the NSA spying as a grave constitutional crisis, for example, then I must be putting him on an unassailable pedestal and worshiping him. If I'm not fed up to the absolute gills that Gitmo isn't closed, then I must be an Obama lackey?
I think there may be some vast middle ground you're overlooking, where people think this president is doing a good enough job and well deserved his second term. Some of the most fiery threads here call out the president as the biggest mistake since Windows ME.
Good working class democrats who were so seriously upset with Jimmy Carter's perceived lack of initiative on foreign policy and the economy helped usher in the era of Ronald Reagan. A "new morning" they called it. I admit they roped me in with the anti-Carter hype at the time, but I'll never fall for that again, nor am I willing to sit back and watch history repeat.
Live & learn.