Obama urges disgruntled liberals to "keep up the good fight" and elect Democrats in November

[Bluebear]

If you are gruntled, this does not apply to you :)

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LAS VEGAS – President Barack Obama made an election-season appeal Saturday to disgruntled liberal activists and bloggers, assuring them his administration is committed to their causes and urging them to help elect Democrats in November.

"Change hasn't come fast enough for too many Americans. I know that," Obama said in a surprise video appearance at the annual Netroots Nation convention. "I know it hasn't come fast for many of you who fought so hard during the election."

In a year when Democrats are expected to lose seats in Congress, party leaders have grown concerned with malaise in the left wing. Liberals who helped elect Obama in 2008 have grown disenchanted on issues from the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the failure to create a government-run insurance option in the health care overhaul, and many believe the White House has been too accommodating with Republicans.

In his remarks, the president said the combat mission in Iraq would soon end, and that the administration is working to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy for gays and close the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay.

"In ways large and small we've begun to deliver on the change you fought so hard for," Obama said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100724/ap_on_el_ge/us_democrats_liberals

[RetroLounge]

1. Changealiscious!

RL

[Dinger]

8. Ya, Woo Hoo And All That!!!

Pffft

[LWolf]

2. If it were only true.

:(

[Desertrose]

36. Yeah...if only.

:hi: LWolf
:hug:

[LWolf]

38. .

:hi: :hug:

I hope you are well and keeping cool this hot summer, friend.

[rocktivity]

3. Well, good for him--for deciding to "show up," I mean.

I'd bet anything that he wasn't planning to a week ago. It means we're really getting through!

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Bluebear]

4. Well, actually he didn't show up. It was a "suprise" video.

[rocktivity]

32. That's exactly why I put "show up" in quotes.

This is as close as he's come to acknowledging the netroots--and as I said, I doubt it was on his agenda before the Sherrod-gate swung open.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Bluebear]

35. Gotcha :))

[Vincardog]

5. Hey O why not issue an EXECUTIVE order Stop loss and quit executing DADT? Where is the

CHANGE Not at the treasury.
Not at Justice.
Not at the DEA.

Why not give Rahm the boot?

[Imperfect]

6. "Change hasn't come fast enough for too many Americans."

I agree, Mr. President.

[Dinger]

9. Change Hasn't Come At All For Too Many Americans

That is all.

[femmocrat]

13. +1

Some changes we could have done without.

[tularetom]

7. Yup, they're so concerned with "malaise in the left wing"

that they panicked and fired a good and honorable public employee because they heard a story about her was gonna be on Glenn fuckin Beck.

I'm not going to abandon the Democrats, as sorry as they are, because they are marginally preferable to any alternative. There really is simply no choice.

But the cynicism they display to those who have been their strongest supporters breeds cynicism in those supporters. I don't believe a word the bastards say.

[jah the baptist]

10. count me in neither the cheerleader nor pony club

i supported the president and still do

he has accomplished some important things but needs to start fighting harder

the whole usda firing episode was indicative of a genuine fear of the right wing media which will attack him at every turn no matter what he does.

he could cut the capital gains tax and require prayers to jesus in public schools and they would still call him a commie muslim blah blah blah

shit on fear!

start kicking their asses!

the best way to get a second term is to govern like you dont care if you get one

[ibegurpard]

11. FAST enough?

I'd settle for change...

[glitch]

26. I will settle for nothing less than change in the left direction.

More change in the right direction we don't need.

[Chan790]

12. Sorry...

for me to believe him, I need him to do one thing. Just one thing that unilaterally pleases and placates the liberal wing of the party without capitulating, incrementalizing or horse-trading...he needs to take the ball and shove it down the opposition's throats even if it means alienating moderate Republicans, blowing-up bipartisanship and running over intra-party opposition from obstructionists and blue dogs. Just to show us he's serious, this isn't lip service and he's capable of it.

If he wants a win, we need one first. He can pick the issue...those of us on the left need something we can hold up as a win and take to the bank.

[USArmyParatrooper]

21. You want him to cede NO ground with a filibuster everything GOP

Sure, that's reasonable.

Not to mention that one or two Democrats who inevitably break ranks.

[Chan790]

27. If he can't...

then he has no right to ask for our support.

He'd certainly do wonders for himself on his attainment-ability to please the liberal portion of his base if he leaned on Reid to make the GOP actually filibuster instead of allowing them to get away with a procedural filibuster. You know, make them stand up there and read the phone book for 72 consecutive hours filibuster...I could see a few of those fat evil miserable fucks dropping dead of the strain of something like that.

Further, he has a defection problem because defection goes unpunished. A caucus is only a well-ordered machine as long as those inside the caucus know that breaking with the caucus is a great way to see your pet projects killed out of spite and your offices relocated to the cafeteria-wing mens' crapper on chili day in the middle of a DC heat-wave. Of course, everybody should have known we were fucked when the President brought pressure to bear on Reid that Lieberman go unpunished for his shit out of fear that asshole might defect to the GOP caucus...because that right there would have been a fucking tragedy.

[dflprincess]

28. He's hasn't suddenly seen the light and he's not really looking for our support

he and Rahm have made it clear they don't give a damn what the left thinks.

He's just setting us up for the blame if things go badly this year or in 2012.

[Chan790]

29. Oh, I know.

I know it well. I just never get tired of debunking the President can't do it meme by showing how Obama created this problem for himself.

I'm under no illusions he's changed his stripes.

[USArmyParatrooper]

43. Same goes for you

All Obama did was sign all of the legislation you despise. But don't leave out all of the Democrats in Congress who wrote and voted for those bill. And they refuse to hold him accountable. Who's left for you? You should leave the party immediately.

[USArmyParatrooper]

42. You're right

Not to mention all those Democrats in the House and Senate how are also backing his right wing agenda. The Democratic party has given up on you. I think you should defect immediately.

[90-percent]

14. 2010 Election choice

permit me a hyperbolic analogy.

Choosing between a Democrat or a Republican in the upcoming election is like being a jewish person in World War Two give the choice between going to Auschwitz or slave labor in Peenemünde.*

We get to pick the slightly lesser of two horrible evils.

-90% Jimmy

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peenem%C3%BCnde

PS - maybe too drastic. Republican's to Democrats is like brain cancer vs. an ulcer. Or - they will shot you, no questions asked, in a Republican Police State, but a Democratic Police State would read you your Miranda Rights and then rendition you to an unnamed country instead.

[Jakes Progress]

31. Sort of like the Annie Hall quote:

Alvy Singer -- "I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable"

So come November we get to choose between horrible and miserable. Then if we win, we get told over and over how lucky we are to be miserable.

[bobbolink]

15. When they take action on poverty and homelessness, they can get back to me.

Until then....*yawn*

[havocmom]

16. Feeling like the message is ' hold still while we're pissing on you'

And frankly, getting tired of being pissed on by my own party.

[Brickbat]

17. Oh, I'll keep up the good fight, all right...I just didn't know it would be against what Obama

seems to want.

[mmonk]

18. Now that they are sensing we do have power, what do we get in

return for putting them in office again?

[Autumn]

23. More of the same

would be my guess.:shrug:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. Hold on! How can the Left be simultaneously irrelevant and powerful enough to swing election???

I guess we'll have to check with Chuckles to find out.

[AzDar]

20. Maybe if someone would fight for us....

:eyes:

[Autumn]

22. I thought we already did.

In 2008. Problem is, they bend over back wards to get along with the republicans, including the President.

[meow mix]

24. mmmmmm. hope-carrots on a stick... soooo delicious!!

cant quite get a nibble

[flvegan]

25. Oh, I'll vote for Dems in November.

Not because Obama urged me to with more spare "change" hustle.

[Foo Fighter]

30. Sure thing. I'll keep up the good fight.

As for electing Dems, well, that's not in my plan.

Throwing the left under the bus and then begging for our votes every two years just doesn't cut it for me. I need a little more reason to vote for someone than "But...but...but...I have a "D" behind my name!!!111!!!

[VMI Dem]

33. This bullshit ain't working any more.

Earn my vote or shut the fuck up.

[Zhade]

34. I'll vote for liberal Dems -- with proven track records. Conservatives? Fuck 'em.

NT!

[Missy Vixen]

37. I thought the left-wing were "f_____g r_________d"

There's a lot to say, but maybe I'd best get up from the computer and take a deep breath first.

[Stinky The Clown]

39. "Gruntled"

Hahahaha

:thumbsup:

[NorthCarolina]

40. The problem with that for me is that Obama considers anyone with a "D"

after their name to be a Democrat, whereas I do not consider Blue Dogs or DLC New Dems to be Democrats.....not even in the remotest sense.

[conscious evolution]

41. I would love to vote for Dems in November

Too bad there are so few running.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

44. All of a sudden I'm relevant? That train has left the station. When

he called me "Far Left" when discussing health care, that was the final straw.