A reflection, in light of these words, on those who have characterized Barack Obama as "weak" or a "sell-out":
Ahem.
Wake the hell up, you craven, tactically clueless fools.
This man has principles, and character, and spine. Today he put everything on the line to protect the American people from the disastrous delusion of Republican economic theory. He said it out loud: Maybe this'll help you beat me in 16 months, but for right now, you can't make me move. I'm not going to let you kill the United States of America so you can keep shoveling money at the rich. I shall not be moved.
Obama is more moderate than I am, but to be honest, I'm sure he's a lot more INFORMED than I am on the issues he's making decisions on, and so his decisions are probably better ones than I imagine making in my abstract theorizing from the comfort of my computer chair. That applies to all you armchair quarterbacks here at DKos, too, much as I loveya.
Undermining this President with nitpicking and fault-finding and paranoid conspiracy theories has zero effect but to hamstring the only damned horse we've got to ride. He's doing the hardest job in the world at the absolute hardest time to do it, with a phalanx of certifiably insane opponents ready to render our money worthless and our families homeless for the sake of advancing an economic theory that has been proven false.
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