Posted on 12/06/2010 10:59:09 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Is it time for President Obama to go black on his opponents? Time to put his hand on his hips, and let it rip? Thats what I am hearing from liberal friends and political activists. Get some backbone, Mr. President. Dont let the Republicans push you around. Get mad, then get even.
Democratic loyalists saw their party lose big time in the midterm elections. They are teed off and want the sparks to fly. Obama fought the election with one hand tied behind his back, and a low dose of enthusiasm and testosterone. Now, the lame-duck congressional session is a splendid opportunity for Obama to make up for lost ground.
He will have a congressional majority for only a few more weeks. The Democratic base wants him to pick up his agenda. They want some movement on the New Start treaty, Dont Ask, Dont Tell, the offshore drilling ban and tax cuts. These are the issues that will get liberal Democratic voters cheering again.
For example, Evanston-based Democrat U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky has dug in her high heels in the raging congressional debate about deficit reduction. Schakowsky serves on the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, a panel Obama created to devise ways to trim the federal budget and curb the nations skyrocketing deficit. Schakowsky refused to sign off on the final report. The proposals do not attack the growing disparity between the incomes of the rich, poor and middle class, she recently told Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet. The plan will not get money into peoples pockets.
Meanwhile, Obama needs to get tough on the rich, goes the liberal mantra. The long-term tax cuts for people earning a million dollars or more sticks deep in the craw of the lefties. They plead: How can the president let unemployment benefits lapse yet extend tax cuts for millionaires? The heat is on.
David Axelrod is the presidential adviser who prides himself on letting no opportunity slide by to say nothing. Yet even Axelrod could not restrain himself on this issue.
On Tuesday, when Axelrod appeared on the PBS NewsHour, interviewer Judy Woodruff asked, We know the president would prefer that [tax cuts] not be extended for the wealthy. But if the Republicans insist on that, is he prepared to go along with it? Axelrod responded: Well, look, the presidents position is very clear. He thinks there ought to be a permanent tax cut for the middle class. The middle class had had a not just difficult time in this recession, but its been battered through the last decade, where incomes have actually declined, while incomes at the top have actually have grown exponentially. So that makes sense. What hes also said is that we cant afford a permanent tax cut for the wealthy.
Woodruff pushed him: Is there give, is what Im asking. Axelrod replied: Not on those issues.
The liberal voters who helped put Obama in office are craving some red meat. Maybe they would like to see a little more Medea in the White House. Thats Medea, Tyler Perrys brassy, bossy, larger-than-life character who knows what she wants and gets it. Medea does not play.
Memo to the liberals: Its not Medea time. Obama is no angry black man. You elected Obama because he is a cautious, cerebral pragmatist. He always opts for the head, not the gut.
At this crucial moment in the negotiations with his Republican opposition, thats a good thing. He is not letting anyone look at his cards. Meanwhile, hes looking ahead to 2012.
when are these idiots going to realize that olbablo does not care about them or their issues. he does not care about anything except his own advancement. he got the highest office, he won, he loves the perks but has no interest in the actual job. and he does not care if anyone else gets re-elected, gets a job, gets anything from his election to the white house. oblabo is all about himself and nothing else. no one else matters. these people need to understand that and stop expecting him to “get mad and go black”. HE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT YOU OR YOUR ISSUES, PEOPLE, SO GET OVER IT.
“Who are they kidding? Hussein will always never have a large dose of testosterone...”
He is a Coward and a punk.
They equate black with masculinity and threaten to sic 'their' black people on their enemies like a high school girl threatens to have her boyfriend beat up other guys who irritate her.
“Why does his (Oblama’s) jersey say 23 in one picture and 25 in another?”
That’s his IQ.
23 was before he learned that water is WET.
moonbat wigout bump for later.......
Didn’t Sandra Bernhard state something about hoping Sarah Palin got gang raped by a bunch of blacks in Manhattan?
I don't know what it means but it sounds racist to me as well.
Michael Moore once wondered aloud if it would've been better if black males had been aboard those hijacked airliners on 9/11. Presumably because THEY wouldn't have meekly been led to the slaughter.
Michael Moore once wondered aloud if it would’ve been better if black males had been aboard those hijacked airliners on 9/11. Presumably because THEY wouldn’t have meekly been led to the slaughter.
To which some smart-aleck comic would likely say that the terrorists would just have announced that there would be some cold Colt 45 40’s and government checks waiting for them back at the terminal when they landed....but I won’t say that...because saying that would be racist....
They really have no clue who this guy really is!
I think they are really trying to provoke “Cooter” into “going white”, they want an excuse to take away the little bit of freedom we have left but if “Cooter” ever has a flashback and goes crazy it may not be possible to put the cat back in the bag.
LOL EXACTLY.
This is classic liberalism/leftism. When your train-wreck policies have bought about the expected disaster, start shouting and screaming and hurling blame and invective all around. Yup. Brilliant strategy. Works all the time.
Well, if Barry lets it rip, he just might be able to blow his head out of his butt.
Go black? So Dems want Obama to eat fried chicken and chitlins?
After all, going ‘black’ involves a stereotype. The stereotypical ‘black’.
Talk about racist...
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