Reply #103: Don't forget on the same vein [View All]

[apnu]

There are a lot of people here venting heaps of unnecessary abuse on Obama. The door swings both ways here. There are just as many jerks for Obama as there are against it seems. Much of it is high drama hysteria from what I can tell.

Having said that, I have no problem with people highlighting faults on our side. Even Obama admits his own imperfections and appreciates it when they are shown to him. I think it is good to discuss this stuff. But to fall into name calling and other snarky nonsense instead of constructive criticism is just like Freeperville. So in that, the OP is sort of right. But I don't think, on the whole DU is just like Freeperville, I think folks here need to chill out a bit and get some perspective.

We (no matter what your particular political pet project is) will not get 100% of what we want out of an Obama administration. That will be impossible, even with a Democratic super majority in the House and Senate. Even if we had the most progressive candidate we could offer, and they won the Election, we still wouldn't get 100% of what we want. Disappointments are going to happen with the Obama administration. There's too much work to do fixing stuff that 4 years or 8 years is just not enough time to get it all done.

However I think the hysterical on DU are borrowing trouble before we have it and makes us all look like dolts.