Reply #10: The problem that we have is that Obama has been getting pummeled every which way for so long [View All]

[FrenchieCat]

(since the beginning of his presidency), I don't know if it isn't too late
to reverse some of the damage done that would start encouraging folks to vote,
instead of them holding on to the disappointment card all the way till next year.

You see, although a lot of people believe that Internet voices don't matter,
I don't believe that at all. In fact, I believe that the reaction of the general
population is delayed, but a lot of it is generated by what the choirs sing on the
internet combined and on a consistent basis (I call it a pile-on soundtrack),
along with what the media has been doing just about every day for a really long time,
which has all added up to 90% 24/7 negative against this President, in general.

It is true that many care but can't help themselves in their zeal of criticisms,
and others don't really care anyways, because for them, what they personally feel as an affront
trumps the future. And then, others still, don't want this President reelected, no matter what he has done because they are Republicans. So it will not be an easy task, because various voices have communicated different things, but they all add up as one big negative for a large portion of this President's term.

In the Tea Party’s America, families must mortgage their home to pay for their mother’s end-of-life care. Higher education is a luxury reserved almost exclusively to the very rich. Rotten meat ships to supermarkets nationwide without a national agency to inspect it. Fathers compete with their adolescent children for sub-minimum wage jobs. And our national leaders are utterly powerless to do a thing. - CAP
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/09/16/320688/what-happens-if-the-tea-party-wins/

I don't know what the future holds, and many, if a nightmare scenario comes to pass will be too busy blaming this one President, to come to terms that they actually made a difference as well, but just in negative terms.

We can start to rally now, and unite in the goal of reelecting this President, but the damage may have already been done. Sure, perhaps Pres. Obama didn't help himself or us as much as some would have wanted....but I will always believe that he has been judged much harder than anyone else in our history; by both sides.

So we will see what we decide is to be our future, because as it has always been, it is still about us and what we do, much more than about any one man.