HEY YOU. Come here and let me slap you silly

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Mon Apr-28-08 08:18 PM
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HEY YOU. Come here and let me slap you silly

Edited on Mon Apr-28-08 08:43 PM by FLDem5

When ever Obama is doing really well, and I feel this thing, this momentum can't be stopped - I check myself. And I say to myself. "Chill - you know what a difference a week can make."

Because things go up, and things go down, and shit happens, and blondes get kidnapped and wildfires burn, and Politicians and their advocates say stupid things, and the sun comes up and the world still turns. If its good, enjoy it, because by this time next week, it could be really bad. And vice versa.

So quitcherbitchin'. By next week, next month, this will be old news. What you should be doing, when you feel your candidate is in need, with his back against the wall, is standing up for him, and helping him out

So cut the crap. Stop the whining. And PICK UP THE DAMN PHONE and call those nice folks in Indiana and North Carolina. And if you feel ashamed at your waffling like a Congressional Democrat, exorcise your demons by dropping some cash, enough to make the SuperDelegate's heads spin.

Still feelin' like a beaten Dem with Karl Rove standing over you? Read this:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/28/165538/015/404/505047

You have gone from hope and change to doom and gloom. You people have gone from "Yes We Can" to "Obama Should..." And where you once saw the possibilities that awaits a candidate who has millions at his back, you now see an abysmal pitfall at every slight misstep. OMG!! OBAMA GAVE HILLARY TEH MIDDLE FINGERS! WHAT WILL THIS DO O HI9S POLL NUMBERZ?!?!

Jesus Christ. What the fuck happened to you people?

Has Karl Rove so conditioned you that you now accept his rules and react like whipped dogs to every shout by an opponent? Has the Clinton campaign and its supporters so thoroughly fatigued and harangued you that you now wonder whether Obama is "electable" based on the arguments of someone who should be the very last person making electability arguments--someone who is losing?

Are you so easily defeated?

Well, let me tell you, sisters and brothers, I don't believe you are that easily defeated.

Because you know that this was not going to be easy, and you signed up all the same. You know, as the man himself said, that the battles ahead would be long. That there would be a chorus of cynics who would only grow louder and more dissonant.

You knew that this man--this African American man who dared to challenge, who had the audacity to challenge existing power structures and ideas and the way of doing business--you knew that this man was going to be attacked, and derided, and ridiculed, and scorned.

You knew that his kind of thinking would make too many enemies.

You knew that they would throw more than the kitchen sink at him--you knew that their goal was to make it such that he would feel that the whole of the moon and the stars had fallen upon him.

You knew that in this primary we would see the most jaw-dropping, line-shattering, undignified things ever said about or hurled at one man. You knew he would make mistakes, and you knew those who wanted him defeated would take every mistake and twist it into a lie-filled, pointed cudgel that they would use to bash him again and again and again.

You knew all this.

You knew all this, but still you signed up.

Now go kick some fucking ass for our candidate. Because you damn well know that he is what we need right now.

"No Shock" Barack, "No Drama" Obama will take care of this - we need to take care of him.

Peace.