Quote of the Day

Posted on 10/10/2009 at 9:28 pm by Bob Cesca

“All I ask of those who voted for Obama is to not pile on him too quickly. Yes, make your voice heard (his phone number is 202-456-1414). But don’t abandon the best hope we’ve had in our lifetime for change. And for God’s sake, don’t head to bummerville if he says or does something we don’t like. Do you ever see Republicans behave that way? I mean, the Right had 20 years of Republican presidents and they still couldn’t get prayer in the public schools, or outlaw abortion, or initiate a flat tax or put our Social Security into the stock market. They did a lot of damage, no doubt about that, but on the key issues that the Christian Right fought for, they came up nearly empty handed. No wonder they’ve been driven crazy lately. They’ll never have it as good again as they’ve had it since Reagan took office.

But — do you ever see them looking all gloomy and defeated? No! They keep on fighting! Every day. Our side? At the first sign of wavering, we just pack up our toys and go home.”
—Michael Moore

No, the president hasn’t fixed everything wrong with America yet. Curse him for not doing everything yet! However…

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  • Stranahan

    I love Michael Moore and broadly, I agree with this.But it should be pointed out that many many Republicans have, in fact, packed up and gone away. That’s why there are less Republicans now then there were eight years ago. That’s why they are marginalized now.Why did they leave? For the reasons MM states – they were ignored.President Obama needs to learn this lesson. The HRC speech? Good. Health insurance reform with a weak ‘public option’? That would be bad. His handling of the banking and finance industry? Bad bad bad.The reality is this – people don’t like being ignored or having campaign promises broken. That’s not a sign of weakness. It happens to both parties.The problem of Democratic capitulation is not the base turned off by compromise – the problem is the actual compromise that the Democratic politicians do. The White House has capitulated too much already – hopefully, they will start to turn this around. Otherwise, they only have themselves to blame for attrition.

  • Bull Schmitt

    Howdy, awesome blog and awesome commenters!

    many Republicans have, in fact, packed up and gone away. That’s why there are less Republicans now then there were eight years ago.

    I thought it was worth signing up to point out that some of us became Democrats.

    (Although in my case, I left somewhere around 2000 because I was never one of those culture warriors, I was what I think used to be called a ‘Rockefeller’ Republican. I imagine Rush and Fox Propaganda Channel keep the 22%ers mostly in line, I would think it’s more the moderates abandoning the GOP.)

  • http://www.electricpolitics.com/media/mp3/EP2009.09.18.mp3 Terri

    I was reading the first post and wondered who the insightful author was! Of course, it was Lee Stranahan! Well said, Lee.It is my wish that every one of the Cescans — including Bob Cescan himself — pay some attention to historian, blogger, policy analyst, journalist, author Paul Street.He is a lefty that has done much work analyzing Barack Obama and knew Obama back in the 90′s in Chicago.The Obama narrative which has been established, televised, and fed to the public is just that: an orchestrated narrative. (They — the politicians — all do it. Not just Obama.)The thing is is that the Obama-loyalists are buying it hook, line, and sinker.Everyone seems too afraid to hold Obama accountable (including waffler Michael Moore who goes back-and-forth from being a dem to speaking out against them in short breaths) because if we do, we might get the crazies in again.And, we just might. And if we do it won’t be because the crazies “won” it will be because the Dems didn’t deliver: as Lee suggested.The Dems are definitely not their answer.Here, check out this terrific audio by Paul Street and his other writings too:http://www.electricpolitics.com/media/mp3/EP2009.09.18.mp3

  • LK

    I was reading the above post as soon as I saw it mentioned Paul Street and how cescans should pay attention, I di not need to wonder who it was writing, I knew it was Terri and I stopped reading.

  • likala

    Shorter Terri…single payer, blah blah, Obama sucks, blah blah, Kucinich office blah blah, met Grayson blah blah, look at all the crap I can dig up to prove my point blah blah, single payer wah wah wah!