{"id":2051,"date":"2010-06-27T04:24:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2010-06-27T04:24:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T11:24:09","slug":"editorial-should-we-cut-obama-a-little-slack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/27\/editorial-should-we-cut-obama-a-little-slack\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Should We Cut Obama a Little Slack?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tom122007_Painting_Painting\"<\/a> I\u2019m the first to admit that I have criticized those areas of Obama\u2019s policies with which I disagree.  I shall continue to do so.  To do otherwise would be dishonest.  However, I consider condemning Obama, because he has not delivered everything we want both misinformed and dangerous.<\/font><\/p>\n

Never before in my lifetime has an American President faced such a broad panoply of crises, left over from the Bush\/GOP regime and beyond: addiction to foreign oil, crumbling infrastructure, declining education, the greatest imbalance of wealth in our nations history, a federal bureaucracy gutted of talent and replaced with ideologue GOP loyalists, global climate change, thousands dying monthly for the lack of health care, the worst economic crisis since the great depression, and two wars, to mention just a few.<\/font><\/p>\n

Never before in my lifetime has an American President faced a minority party so intent on regaining power that they have taken every possible opportunity to undermine the steps Obama has taken to address these crises.  GOP use of the filibuster and individual holds in the Senate exceed previous records far and away.  Their intent is simply to exacerbate our national suffering so that they can blame Obama for what they have caused.<\/font><\/p>\n

Never before in my lifetime has an American President accomplished so much, and he has done so in spite of all the above. Rachel Maddow spelled this out on Friday night.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Like she said, there are many things we progressives want and have not gotten: single-payer, TBTF breakup, etc.  Nevertheless, as she also said, that last time a President accomplished this much, booze was illegal.<\/font><\/p>\n

So do we forget the things we want?  Hell no!  We continue to fight for them, demand them, lobby for them, and educate for them.  Never give up!  But in the meantime, let us recognize how much this administration has accomplished for us.  The reality of US politics dooms an all or nothing approach to failure.<\/font><\/p>\n

To my progressive friends, who take the opposite view, whom I respect for their dedication and love for their idealism, I ask this.  Where would we be today if John \u201cMcConJob\u201d McCain and Sarah \u201cDrill Baby Bimbo\u201d Palin had won?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m the first to admit that I have criticized those areas of Obama\u2019s policies with which I disagree.  I shall continue to do so.  To do otherwise would be dishonest.  However, I consider condemning Obama, because he has not delivered everything we want both misinformed and dangerous. Never before in my lifetime has an American […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","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\/2051","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=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}