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Hoping Against Hope

The latest story coming out of Washington D.C. about Shirley Sherrod, the African American Agricultural Department official, who was humiliated and forced to resign her post after a douche bag conservative blogger named Andrew Breitbart released a terribly misleading video that supposedly showed her admitting antipathy toward a farmer who was Caucasian. To make a long story short, instead of investigating the claims of Mr. Breinart thoroughly, the Obama administration tucked their tail between their legs and ran scared. As egregious as the handling of Ms. Sherrod’s story by the administration is and was, that’s not the point of this post. The thing that set me off about this story was the details coming out about how the Obama administration had to make sure that Ms. Sherrod got the boot before Fox news went on air about the story and made them look bad.

Not long after Ms. Sherrod was asked to resign, she went on CNN and said that a White House liaison told her to resign, “because you’re going to be on Glenn Beck tonight.” This is the most ridiculous and cowardice thing that I have seen so far from the Obama White House. When the President of the United States of American is afraid of Fox News and Glenn Beck, you know something is wrong. Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama consistently drops to his knees and bows down to right-wing conventional wisdom. How many times can this administration screw things up before we acknowledge the fact that they have no idea what they are doing? I’m so sick of the Obama supporters (of whom I was one) telling us that we just don’t understand the administration, and that they are very intelligent and know what they are doing…I call bullshit.

This website is no longer anonymous, my name is in the title, and I’ll tell you upfront, I supported and
voted for Barack Obama. If you have read this blog in the past then I’m sure you’ve already figured this out, but this Shirley Sherrod story is the straw that broke the camels back with me. I’m sick of this administration constantly making decisions out of fear from Fox News and the right-wing pundits. President Obama is a coward and has chosen to screw his supports up and down. Say what you will about George W. Bush being an idiot, but at least he had a set of balls. Do you think that Bush gave a shit about MSNBC and what the progressive blogosphere thought about him? If you do, then you must have been in a coma the last ten years. Even when Bill Clinton was in office, and Newt Gingrich said that he was going to, “shut the government down” because he was mad at the Clinton administration, Bill Clinton basically told him to bring it on. That is why Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were so beloved by their supports, because they had courage of their convictions.

What is it going to take for Obama to step up and do his job!? Something is going to have to happen that is so jarring, where he thinks his ass is on the line, before he does anything that we were promised in the election. The question I’ve been asking myself lately is why is President Obama not fulfilling any of his campaign promises? The conclusion that I’ve come to is that he knows that the liberals and progressives are not going to vote for a Republican come next election no matter what, so he does whatever the right-wing wants to try and appease them and get some of their votes, since he already has the progressive vote no matter what. This, I think, is a terrible way to run an administration, and a decision that is going to bite him in the ass in the long run.

If you look at the polling from the 2008 election, a major reason why President Obama won was because he energized the younger vote. Never before in a Presidential election have college kids and people under 30 come out to vote in such record numbers. The thing is, they came out to vote because they were fed up with the Republicans and the war, they were energized and excited to get out the vote. I was living in New York City at the time of the election, and I remember a friend of mine’s girlfriend went to Philadelphia to canvass for votes. If you remember, at the time Pennsylvania was a big swing state, and this girl drove hours away from her home on a Saturday to get people to vote for President Obama. She did this because she was excited and had hope that Obama was going to be different, he was the one who was finally going to get some progressive change in this country. Well the joke was on her, because Obama has done the exact opposite of what he was elected to do. Do you think that come next election these same people are going to fight anywhere near as hard for Obama to win as they did in 2008? There is no way! President Obama has been so disingenuous towards these people, he has screwed them. Sure, the liberals and progressives who do decide to vote surely will vote for Obama again rather than vote for a Republican, but what’s going to happen when the under 30 crowd says, “I’ve had enough?”

I personally guarantee you that after the mid-term elections this year, after the Democrats get their asses handed to them by the Republicans, they are going to blame the voters. They will blame their huge losses on the voters being lazy and not coming out to vote. Well guess what, that’s what happens when you don’t do your fucking job. President Obama had one job to do when he got in office, do what your supporters asked you to do by supporting you. But no, instead he spat in their faces, Rahm Emanuel called us, “fucking retards.” The Obama supporters (myself included) should have known better. We should have known what was coming the moment Obama announced Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.

I’m not an idiot. I know that they’re all just politicians and we should expect this kind of bullshit from them, but let’s face it, Obama put a lot of hope into a lot of people’s heads. President Obama energized a large group of people who usually don’t give a shit about politics, and then he screwed them over. If you look at the current polls, when you factor in all voters, the Republicans and Democrats are virtually tied. The problem is, when you look at the polling of “likely voters” the Republicans are ahead.

If you wonder why I shut this blog down for a while and got sick of the political posts, this administration is the reason. I’ve become so disengaged by the actions of this administration. President Obama is the epitome of a greasy politician. Make no mistake about it; President Obama has one concern and one concern only, TO GET RE-ELECTED! I don’t know about you, but I’m sick and tired of hoping against hope.

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