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SleeplessinSoCal

(9,123 posts)
2. I'd love to be as optimistic as our amazing president.
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 07:12 AM
Jan 2016

I couldn't watch the address without clocking the stoic to weary expressions on the faces in that chamber. And the outright disgust from those so-called "Christian" women guests - the nuns and the gay hater.

But then I listened to commentators, friends, a few idiots, and found out the whole address was intended for us and not those in the chamber. It made me feel better.

Then tonight I read how Brownback is cutting all funding for Planned Parenthood and blaming the Obama economy for Kansas' financial woes. How does Obama reach people who so relentlessly attack poor women? As well as those who refuse to listen? Do we have to do ALL the heavy lifting and shifting from center to right so that there's an even further far right?

The media is worse than useless. I've stopped watching MSMBC. I miss Obama already. It's excrutiating. We're being deserted on the battlefield. First Olbermann and Randi and Ed Schultz. Then the Colbert Report and Jon Stewart. Then the whole of MSMBC got Trumped. And soon we'll have some Republican POTUS and a mess to beat all messes. Dems hate HRC. And middle America hates Socialists. We need Biden or Warren or a miracle. And where the heck are the young Dems???

Sorry to kill your buzz. I'm terrified and don't want Obama to go even though I know he absolutely must.

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