Yes, change IS coming

[LuckyTheDog]

Is it just me, or are the rest of you tired of hearing Republicans smirk and say things like "well, where's the change, huh"?

Damn it, change IS coming. They can try to stop it, but they will fail.

Unless the Republicans and a few bought-off Democrats are able to stop it, the biggest change from Obama's first year could be the beginning of universal access to decent, affordable health care for all Americans. It's something the rest of the developed world has had for decades -- in Germany, it's been about a century. It's time. If the rest of they can do it, so can we.

I am amazed that some people think it is "patriotic" to assert that Americans can't do something that the Europeans, Japanese and Australians can do.

Something else I find funny is this: The people most likely to deride Obama for failing to change everything wrong with America in a mere 11 months are the same people who never wanted change in the first place. You can't keep your foot on the brake and then criticize the car for not moving forward -- at least not honestly.

Real change takes time. We're moving in the right direction, in spite of all the efforts to move us backward.

Unless we let the GOPers make us cynical, we will keep going that way.



:rant:

[Oregone]

1. Will it be riding to us on a Predator Drone?

[DJ13]

3. I thought it was the carnivorous battle robot?

:shrug:

[Clio the Leo]

2. I'm MORE sick of hearing fellow members of my party say it.

;)

[Cha]

4. Thank goodness I don't have to hear

what the gop has to say about Obama's White HOuse.

[cry baby]

5. I like your optimism! nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. They were hoping that Obama would be a magician

but he is an ordinary man who is taking a colossal task on. I don't think that there are many who could cope with this. The change will come but not with a magic wand.

[QC]

7. I was just hoping that he would be a Democrat.

Too much to ask, apparently.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. He is a Democrat

not a socialist

[tridim]

10. Are you freaking serious?

[LuckyTheDog]

17. He IS being a Denocrat

I think what you want is for him to be a democratic socialist. He never claimed to be that.

[cornermouse]

19. "democratic socialist"

What ...interesting... terminology you use.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

21. social democrat/democratic socialist could be different

[QC]

20. Good morning, Mr. Cohn. n/t

[Double T]

9. Change comes from getting rid of ALL the perpetrators.

Replacing every single member of the do nothing congress is a great start.

[BeatleBoot]

12. Let's start by voting out the Republicans FIRST

Rather than eating our own.


Just a suggestion.

[izquierdista]

11. Thank goodness!

After all the money that has been poured into Afghanistan, it will be nice to see a handful of nickels and pennies for it! :bounce:

[dflprincess]

13. How forced purchase of health insurance

gives us access to "decent, affordable health care" is something I don't see.

We're still going to be paying more and getting less than people in any of the countries you mentioned and the insurance companies have been given a few years to continue upping their prices at will. It's a lot like the credit card "reform" they passed.

States will be allowed to opt out of the weak public option being offered but they won't be allowed to try and find their own solutions to the mess as that might hurt the insurance companies.

[democrat2thecore]

14. Thank you. This is the truth whether some who worship at the throne can accept it or not -nt

[Techn0Girl]

15. Change HAS Come !

Change is already in the wind.

Instead of thousands of young Americans dying in Iraq they will now die in Afghanistan!

Instead of Savings and Loans being bailed out we will be bailing out Banks!

Instead of not having health care for everyone we will all be required to buy crappy health care policies!

Instead of having Industry shills in the FDA and Bureau of Land Management destroying our health and giving our land away to oil companies we will have Industry shills in the Fed , destroying our pensions and giving our homes away to banking companies!

Instead of "Don't ask Don't Tell" , we have "See no Evil, Speak No Evil, Hear no Evil"!

Change has come to America - you can smell it in the wind.
You can smell it for miles and miles and ...

[democrat2thecore]

16. aka: Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtain

We'll just call it all change, hug, love it that he's a different skin color and, and, finally....realize it's all just business as usual simply all dressed up in a marketing package.

[cowcommander]

18. "Unless we let the GOPers make us cynical..."

No, I'd say the people we voted for are doing a much better job at that than any repug ever could.