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In reply to the discussion: Presidents should be questioned and confronted, not idolized [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)car salesman."
They called him a leader.
When Eisenhower was motivating Americans to eschew the Military-Industrial-Congressional complex, no one called him a "piece of shit used car salesman."
They called him a leader.
When Kennedy said "We're going to the moon," no one called him a piece of shit used car salesman. They called him a leader.
When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, some assholes called him all sorts of names, including ones that began with the letter N. But people with intelligence, guts, class and a place firmly on the right side of history called him a leader.
The nation has, in one way or another, been trying to improve the health care delivery system for all Americans. The POTUS has started us down that path, a difficult path, one that will have plenty of twists and turns, but it's headed in the right direction. For his trouble, he's catching all kinds of hell from wingnuts, racists, clueless jerks, vicious shitstirrers and not-so-clever "wordsmiths" who think that calling ANYONE a "piece of shit used car salesman" is a "finest hour" for them. Pro Tip--it's not.
In time, people will realize that what Obama has done in starting us down the road to improved health care for all Americans will be viewed as one of the greatest acts of leadership in the last thirty or forty years.
And the ones who high-fived and cheered and "right on'd" that disgusting "piece of shit" comment will DENY that they ever opposed him. "Oh, I was with him from the beginning....it was hard, but I BELIEVED!!!"
Yeah, sure ya did...