Reach Across the Aisle….
….and smack YOURSELVES, Obama and yer minions….. NO ONE should be treated this way, much less on the word of Faux News.
…the mishandling of the Sherrod affair only added to the sense of unhappiness held by many of Obama’s most ardent supporters. That’s obviously not a situation conducive to energizing voters and getting them out to the polls for the mid-term and beyond.
The White House’s problems were only compounded by compelling details that kept emerging about Sherrod’s past. Her father was killed by a Ku Klux Klan member in 1965. She herself was involved in the civil rights movement. She and her husband won $13 million as part of a larger settlement of a lawsuit by a group of black farmers who won a landmark discrimination suit against, wait for it, the USDA.
Then there was the little problem of the white farmer who was the subject of Sherrod’s story about the mixed feelings she had about helping him 24 years ago. The farmer and his wife both sung Sherrod’s praises on national TV.
The idea that the Baracky Horror Show heard this on Faux News and overreacted without checking the facts is just astounding to me. BO is not afraid of Faux. He LOVES Republicans, so he LOVES Faux. He’s not reaching across, he’s reaching around.
Come on, people, they think we’re stupid, they think we will actually say it’s OK for them to DO this crap! We DO have a choice, we DON’T have to follow like sheep over the frigging cliff. I’m sorry, but I’m not buying it. This is NOT supposed to be a Rethuglican presidency, and this reaching across crap needs to stop NOW.
It’s already degraded Shirley Sherrod enough, and now she gets to be the champion of Beck, Flush, and the other lug nuts on the other side. I wouldn’t blame her if she decides not to come back, not at all.
You other liberals/leftists/Democrats out there, you cannot truly think this is what our party stands for. DO you? So what do we DO about this??? SOMETHING has to be done. Rahm has to be out, maybe we need to bust on the DNC to find us a BETTER candidate for 2012?
Moi ;) on July 21st, 2010 | File Under Assholes, Guvmint, Idiots, Incompetence, News, Politics | 4 Comments -
i actually think its really great how it blew up on the obama administration’s face. usually when they crumble to the republican noise machine they don’t suffer any criticism, aside from a on few blogs. this time, condemnation was pretty widespread and i’m glad they offered sherrod her job back so quickly.
i think this kind of debacle can only be good for the obama white house. they really need to learn that giving into the right wing without even looking into it first can be a dangerous thing.
I wish there *would* be more criticism from the dem bloggers. They are still too chickenshit, I guess, afraid to say anything, because they don’t want the right back in power. But they HAVE to start talking about it. It’s the only way we will ever get TPTB to get back to reality.
You hear the talking heads ripping him for reaching, then doubling back. It makes me ill. But – one thing – they didn’t “give in” to the right wing here – they jumped willingly and gladly into their frigging lap. Opened their arms (or whatever) and said “come on down!” WTF, ya know??!!
The only way this will be good is if they actually *learn* from it. Otherwise, we are just SO doomed. The tea party might split the right, but they will still win, because Dems tend to get disheartened and just stay the hell home come election day….
are you saying that “dem bloggers” are not criticizing the president? that’s not my impression at all. I can’t say I read all the big name bloggers, but I still read a lot of them and they’re all pretty critical these days IMHO.
It’s not that they aren’t criticizing him at all. But they aren’t as far as the “aisle” thing goes. And if they do, a few days later something else happens, and it’s forgotten.
I do hear a lot of complaining in the comments, though!