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Obama was delivering the "car off the cliff" analogy quite a while ago. His stimulus was too small, according to the experts (of which I am not one). But if all things had been equal -- that is to say that the Rs weren't pathological twits with Sarah *death panels* Palin leading the charge, there are any number of things that could have been done to help right the ship: more stimulus, up taxes on the wealthy, draw-down in Iraq, tax on Wall Street transactions, etc., and therefore we wouldn't be grinding our collective teeth at this point.
The only thing I blame the current president for is not seeing the forest for the trees SOON ENOUGH. The dialogue quickly went extreme right -- practically right out of the gate -- tempered only mildly by OWS.
If we get a Romney or, gawds forbid, a Cain in 2012 -- and/or we get an R Senate -- we deserve every.last.minute.of.it. If we can hold on and Obama is given the opportunity to initiate a more leftward agenda (yes, I believe he has always had one), then perhaps we can pull Warren in, in 2016. I believe that is what he meant about his leadership being transformational. Had he come out wildly swinging, four years later we would be the pulled to the right again. He has been waiting for us to get off our collective asses. Organizing and voting for him was just the beginning. Completing the agenda is going to take YEARS.
These are strictly the opinions of one woman, albeit a completely under-informed woman until 2008. So, flame away. I will, however, defend to the death my intuition. You can come back and snark all you want to four years from now, if I'm dead wrong and you are so inclined, but net neutrality may be a bygone memory by then. Just sayin'.
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