I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack’s big day. Did I — and others on the left — do the same? <\/font><\/p>\n We are weary, weary of war. The trillions that will have gone to these two wars have helped to bankrupt us as a nation — financially and morally. To think of all the good we could have done with all that money! Two months of the War in Iraq would pay for all the wells that need to be dug in the Third World for drinking water! Obama is moving too slow for most of us — but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around<\/strong>. Who could do that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell? <\/font><\/p>\n Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted<\/strong>. What keeps us from forming the same local groups we put together to get out the vote last November? C’mon! We’re the majority now — the majority by a significant margin! We call the shots — and we need to tell this wimpy Congress to get busy and do what we say — or else<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <Huffington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n Upon reading this, I stopped to ask myself if I have also been too critical of Obama. I decided I have not, because I have never put him down. I have criticized specific things, which I consider mistakes, while standing behind him. As Vigilante likes to say, I\u2019m in his corner, just not in his pocket.<\/p>\n The election of Barack Obama represents the best opportunity for real change we\u2019ve seen in many years. Will we whine like Repuglicans and do nothing? Perhaps \u201cearning\u201d his Nobel Prize isn\u2019t such a bad idea, after all. It\u2019s up to us to earn it for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Michael Moore has been rather hard on Barack Obama, due to the lack of progress on progressive issues. He\u2019s had a change of heart. Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don’t think […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"michael_moore\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/MichaelMooreGetOffObamasBack_27CF\/michael_moore.jpg\" "\\"michael_moore\\"")
<\/a> Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama i<\/font>n my letter yesterday<\/a> congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don’t think so," I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he’s now conducting the two wars he’s inherited. "Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, ‘Now earn it!’? Give the guy a break — this is a great day for him and for all of us." <\/font><\/p>\n