Reply #26: The Democrats are in big trouble in the Fall. Because Obama is too DLC and still trusts BP too much. [View All]

[breadandwine]

He still doesn't get it that the ground has shifted under his DLC feet.

Midterm elections are always decided by the base. Without a presidential election droves of Americans don't bother voting in midterm elections and only the truly committed fanatics do. PERIOD. If the GOP base rabidly shows up at the polls and our base doesn't because they are not enthusiastic, we lose. PERIOD. Obama has failed to energize the Democratic base and still hasn't a clue that that is important in a midterm election.

Everyone on the left has been screaming at him for months but he still doesn't get it and invited people like Rachel Maddow to come visit him so he could beg them to get off his case.

How ELSE could he win over Republicans inside the Beltway?????

Meanwhile, there is no effort to bypass the corporate media with ads that tell the truth. I'm not talking about the recent web ads the DNC recently put out in order to try to placate and silence the netroots. I'm talking about big buy TV ads that appear on sports shows and other programs the meat and potatoes truck driver types watch. There is none of that and therefore the public has been swamped with one right wing meme after another and nobody is hearing our side. And they won't until we pay for it. PERIOD.

We are heading into a toxic Fall election environment in which the public doesn't know what Obama has achieved and the Democratic base is sick of his sleazing up to the corporatists and GOP while the GOP base is energized and ready for blood.

Democrats are about to lose Capitol Hill. In the words of Arnold Schwarzenneger, "Hear me now believe me later."

And yet Obama is being called "No Drama Obama" because while the other side screams he is as quiet as a mouse, won't pound the podium, shows no passion and acts as if he doesn't care. If I see one more speech of his placidly telling us how many feet of misplaced, poorly managed boom he put down, as if he is just being a bean counter in all this, I'm going to puke.

His passionless style in the midst of the greatest ecological catastrophe in American history is going to cost us Capitol Hill in the Fall. He acts as if there is simply no fire in his belly to get the oil disaster response right.

If Obama doesn't want to lead, he should resign. Really. Let him and Biden quit and Pelosi becomes president. She's next in line of succession. Really. Now, I can understand how he must feel. What with all those maids and servants and chefs preparing his food exactly the way he likes it, the butlers, the chauffeurs, all the security, Air Force One, Chopper One, all the secretaries, the staff, FOUR MILLION FEDERAL EMPLOYEES who answer to him. There must be days he sits awake at night thinking, "I'm SICK of being president. I want to go back to Chicago and sing around the campfire!" You do that Mr. President. Go right ahead. You don't HAVE to be president if you don't want to be. Nobody on the left will mind. Resign by Tuesday. Let Pelosi be president if you don't know how to be a Democrat.