--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > <snip> > > My guess is it's quite apparent to most readers here > > except maybe for a couple of the resident right wingers > > that you have a personal grudge problem, Ms Dog with > > regard to your "Champion" Hillary losing > > Funny thing, though, how so many of Obama's most > fervent progressive supporters (and Hillary-haters) > are making the same criticisms as Raunchy.
>From Bob Herbert's NYTimes column today (in the primary, he was an Obama supporter and a Hillary critic): "...It's still early, but people are starting to lose faith in the president. I hear almost daily from men and women who voted enthusiastically for Mr. Obama but are feeling disappointed. They feel that the banks made out like bandits in the bailouts, and that the health care initiative could become a boondoggle. Their biggest worry is that Mr. Obama is soft, that he is unwilling or incapable of fighting hard enough to counter the forces responsible for the sorry state the country is in. "More and more the president is being seen by his own supporters as someone who would like to please everybody, who is naïve about the prospects for bipartisanship, who believes that his strongest supporters will stay with him because they have nowhere else to go, and who will retreat whenever the Republicans and the corporate crowd come after him...." Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/22/opinion/22herbert.html?_r=1&ref=opinion http://tinyurl.com/noogxs BTW, many of those who did *not* support Obama in the primary had *precisely* the suspicions Herbert says are now being voiced by his supporters. Many of us supported Hillary because we didn't think she was similarly afflicted.
