How dark is our future?

[FLyellowdog]

HCR is going to be repealed..
DADT is going to be blocked.
START is going to be blocked.
All minorities are going to lose ground in their pursuit of equal rights.
Republicans are going to take over both the House and the Senate.
Creationism is going be the only science taught in public schools.
Religion is going to become a required practice in public schools.
The wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and possibly Pakistan are going to escalate.
Sarah Palin is going to be elected president in 2012.

And this is going to be OUR fault.

I am so tired of the negativism on DU and having those who voted for Obama swear they will not vote for him again. This outrage is going to cause the fall of our country and allow the bigoted, self-righteous conservative fanatics to take over the government. If we don’t rein in our misguided rage, we will only deserve what we get and it’s not going to be a pretty sight.

I’d much rather stand with President Obama and try to work with him on fixing what is wrong than to move away from him and guarantee that what is wrong will be magnified tenfold with no hope of reclamation in the near future.

Is that accepting the lesser of two evils? Maybe so, but the alternative is to allow an evil with far greater implications run rampant over our country, and that’s an option that will surely destroy us all.

Our strength is in our numbers. If we let them dwindle, we lose everything…all things… with nothing left to lose.

It’s true that whatever we draw attention to, increases. So let’s stop the blame game, give the POTUS a little more credit, trust that he knows what he’s doing, and support the man while he does it. Let’s find the good that’s being done (and there’s a LOT to be thankful for now that Obama is President) and herald that instead of any real or perceived shortcomings. He promised us HOPE, not a GUARANTEE. If we who elected him desert him, who will stand with him? And who will stand for us? Not the Sarah Palins, not the Karl Roves, not the Rupert Murdochs, not a single shortsighted conservative.

I know President Obama hasn’t done everything we wanted him to do. I know he has done some things we DON’T want him to do. But we can’t give up before the race is over. We’re still competing and we still have an excellent chance to bring the victory home…all the victories.

The things listed at the beginning of my post don’t have to happen. We have the power and the strength to prevent them from becoming a reality.

President Kennedy said,”Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” I think we can. All we need to do is to stand tall, stand firm, and stand with our President.

[Phx_Dem]

1. Exactly. I cringe when I hear people say "act like a Democrat."

Do they mean the kind of Democrats who constantly attack their own party? Or the kind of Democrats who are such chickenshits they run away from all the great things they and President Obama have done, like passing HCR, American Recovery Act including tax cuts, financial reform and mucc much more.

I'll take Obama any day over the spineless Democrats in Congress or the whiney-ass progressives.

[FLyellowdog]

2. I'll take him any day as well. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

8. Of course, calling people 'whiney ass progressives'

isn't attacking Democrats.

[Phx_Dem]

16. None of those are people are elected to represent us. They are

bloggers, posters and the "professional left" cable hosts who's only service to is bitch about and tear down the very people they voted for.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Am I still allowed to say 'bullshit'?

These are the people who are speaking out because the people we elected are choosing to NOT represent us. I'd rather hear the truth from a blogger than a lie from an elected politician - color me funny that way.

[RichGirl]

21. Well...

"Whiney ass progressives" is just a fact...plain and simple. No attack. And if they don't want to be called that, then STOP THE F**ING WHINEING!!

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. "And this is going to be OUR fault"

LOL!

The OP is nonsense. The fact is that the Obama Admin. has shown repeatedly that the ONLY thing they want from progressives is obedience. The OP is also offering a limited choice for progressives in regard to the future. It does not have to be Obama or the evil GOP. We can and should fight very hard to elect PROGRESSIVE Democrats and then hold them accountable.

[treestar]

4. It's the progressives that want obedience.

Their way or they won't play.

[daleanime]

7. "Surely you must be joking,"

"I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirley."

Progressives unwilling to compromise?:spray:

[RaleighNCDUer]

9. Unlike Ben Nelson. nt

[FLyellowdog]

5. I simply don't see how joining forces

with those who would have our President fail will help anything. It's a little like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But that's just my opinion. :hi:

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. Those who would have our President fail?

Who was it that blocked Democratic legislation, enabling a Republican agenda, hurting this President? The progressives? Or the Blue Dogs?

[FLyellowdog]

11. Please don't get me started on the Blue Dogs.

Shuler lives in my hometown in NC and I'm soooooooo embarrassed.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Lot of folks not Democrats are on these boards.....

and they believe that both parties are the same,
and are currently working for the other party,
since to them it makes no difference.

That's the mindset of many, and so reasoned appeals for sanity won't do it,
cause reason and sanity has nothing to do with their daily complaints and put downs....
Never has and never will.

[Kaleva]

23. +1

[Hardrada]

29. There are too many counter-revolutionary capitalist fascists on these boards.

And they are whistling past the graveyard of their historical errors on their way to the dustbin of history.

[Peacetrain]

12. Depends on who you are talking to actually.. Libertarians are negative

100% of the time about everything..they will never stand with any party longer than 20 seconds..

[grahamhgreen]

13. HCR, in it's entirety will not be repealed - the mandate will be left to stand.

Obama is headed down the same path as the other side, only more slowly and insideously.

Unless we head down a different path - the FDR Democrat/ progressive path, we are in big trouble

[FLyellowdog]

14. I'm still glad I didn't vote for McCain/Palin. nt

[grahamhgreen]

15. me too, now if we could just get rid of their policies...

[Fruittree]

18. Great Post!!

I couldn't agree more..

[damntexdem]

19. Hey, in our likely future, we'll be lucky if we can AFFORD dark.

;-)

[KeyserSoze87]

20. C'mon...

Sarah Palin is not going to be elected president. There are too many smart people in this country to let that happen. Obama will win in 2012. Trust me.

[FLyellowdog]

22. The republicans would vote for a rock

rather than not vote at all. Trust me...there are too many right wing nuts in this country who will do just that. You just can't fix stupid.

About the 2012 election....I hope I am wrong and you are right. I mean, I hope you are correct. :hi:

[KeyserSoze87]

24. Obama will win in 2012 if...

he continues to make progress on the economy. If he does, 2012 will be the Republican Apocalypse.

[FLyellowdog]

25. From your lips.....

[KeyserSoze87]

26. GOBAMA 2012!

[awoke_in_2003]

28. "There are too many smart people in this country to let that happen"

are there? I hadn't noticed.

[SKKY]

30. My response to that is...

..."All those smart people voted for and elected George Bush TWICE. How smart are they?"

[mikekohr]

27. OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 nt

[midnight armadillo]

31. Tired of "negativity"? I'm tired of FAILURE

I am so tired of the negativism on DU and having those who voted for Obama swear they will not vote for him again. This outrage is going to cause the fall of our country and allow the bigoted, self-righteous conservative fanatics to take over the government. If we don’t rein in our misguided rage, we will only deserve what we get and it’s not going to be a pretty sight.

I'm tired of an administration that has demonstrated a phenomenal gap between campaigning ability and governing ability. They're all policy and can't do politics, which is why the GOP has kicked Obama around for 2 years. And I am pretty convinced at this rate that they will succeed in defeating him in 2012 after 2 years of skillful obstructionism and political mischief while Obama flails around trying to get them to cooperate with him.

Obama. The Jellyfish in Chief.