--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@...> wrote: > > On Aug 22, 2009, at 7:48 AM, do.rflex wrote: <snip> > > Obama IS going to get a decent health care reform > > bill passed and the economy IS starting to gradually > > turn around despite your self-revealing and self- > > defeating incessant bitter carping. > > Amen. It's clearly become a personal issue for rd, > she's basically lost all self-control or sense of > perspective as far as Obama is concerned.
Actually, Raunchy (and I) had the sense of perspective way back during the primary that Obama's supporters are only now beginning to wake up to. From Bob Herbert's column today: "...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
