From the Left - We've Seen This Movie Before

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From the Left – We’ve Seen This Movie Before


When Bill Clinton first took office as president, he was swept in on a wave of the promise of a new direction. He was seen as a fresh face, not a Washington insider. He was well spoken, handsome, charming, and he spoke of new and progressive ideas about how government should work for the best interests of all Americans. He was a liberal intellectual with a knack for presenting himself as the common man and had an especially unique relationship with African-Americans who went to the polls in record numbers to support him. Toni Morrison, an African-American author would one day call him, "the first Black president."

In 1992, Bill Clinton was a liberal wet dream.

In announcing his support for Clinton, Dick Gephardt said, "Bill Clinton will be the kind of president the United States needs to recapture our economic strength and leadership in the post-Cold War world," and Clinton "has demonstrated resilience and decency."

Clinton also built a strong following of antiwar Americans, who believed America had been tricked into going to war in a place called Iraq by a man named George Bush. The man named Bush was also leaving America massive debt, a faltering economy, and had an administration full of corruption and shady characters. Clinton's victory was due in large part to an American electorate tired and angry at the man named George Bush. Americans were so tired of George Bush that democrats won victories all over the country and Clinton went into office with a solidly democratic House and Senate.

However, soon after Clinton took office, the left began to question Clinton's selection of his cabinet and the people who surrounded him. Although the left was largely responsible for pushing Clinton into office, the direction he seemed to be taking was sharply to the right and by the time he had served his first year in the White House, he was no longer Clinton the progressive, no longer the wet dream he first appeared to be. In fact, he created the right-wing wing of the Democratic Party, the DLC. Once in office, welfare reform, war, and harsh drug penalties found their way to Clinton's table. He would become the greatest incarceration president in American history .. and the majority of those incarcerated were African-Americans, the same group who so fervently supported him. Toni Morrison never considered that Clinton had used Sista' Souljah to prove to white people that he was not black.

Clinton also became best friends with corporate America and lobbyists were all over him like flies on shit. Buoyed by a reviving economy, Bill Clinton remade himself and got cozy with the very elements the left so despised.

By the very next election after Clinton had so triumphantly captured the White House, the American left was no longer as enamored by him and republicans stormed back into control of the Congress .. and they stormed back with a vengeance. Clinton went on to serve two terms, but he never recaptured the Congress and the DLC, with their centrist politics, would lead democrats to embarrassing election failures for many years to come.

Fast forward to the present day, replace the name Clinton with Obama and you have much of the exact same movie. "Fresh face", "eloquent", "inspiring", "change", and a liberal wet dream. He rode that same wave of antiwar, anti-Bush sentiment into office and became an instant hero of the left. Obama will enter the White House with almost the exact same advantage in Congress that Clinton had.

Obama has not only rounded up much of the old Clinton regime, he's also rounded up his wife. It seems the only person missing is Bill Clinton himself. Many within the Jewish community are calling Obama the first Jewish president, and, like Clinton, once the primaries were over, he turned sharply to the right, then once elected, he pitched his tent firmly right of center.

Now once again, the grumbling among the left begins. Once again, they've been played for fools and left abandoned. Their voice is nowhere to be found among Obama's inner circle, which is especially frustrating given there is indeed a place at Obama's table for former supporters of a man named George Bush. In fact, they have several places at the table. Even those who help to orchestrate the economic disaster America is faced with today have a place at Obama’s table. If, as Obama claimed, that “good judgment” was knowing the invasion of Iraq was a bad idea, why hasn’t he made a place at his table for those who had that good judgment? Everyone around him supported the war..

We've seen this movie before and we should have already have known how it was going to turn out. It's not as if Obama didn't leave plenty of clues about where this was heading. But, once again, full of hope and promise and a desire to make a better America and a better world, the left closed it's eyes and refused to look at the clues, refused to listen to the words of the song he was singing.

It's way past time for the American left to recognize that it has no political party that represents their interests. The Democratic Party is a party of centrists who only use the left to get elected. Once elected, they will run to the center and abandon anything remotely bold or courageous. This is why democrats are such failures in national elections, and why Obama becomes only the 3rd democrat to occupy the White House in the last 40 years for a grand total of 3 terms up to now. Even though the force to get our troops out of Iraq, and universal healthcare, and tighter regulation of corporations and the banking industry, all of which the entire country now overwhelmingly supports, are all ideas that came from the left, democrats continue to push the politics of centrism to their own detriment.

Republicans aren't centrists and once in office they tend to the business of their constituents, right or wrong, they understand the nature of politics much better than democrats .. thus, they'll be back. Ushered in by the weakness of centrist politics and the anger, frustration, and lack of enthusiasm by the left, republicans will be back.

If Obama continues down his present course, it may be as soon as the very next election that republicans will once again be in control of Congress .. just like with Bill Clinton.

Barack Obama, the Sequel.
 
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Wow Black, its not that I don't hear some of the things you're saying, but its like you hate Obama already and he hasn't even taken office/pass a bill. All of your thread starters are in complete difference with him, is there anything you can say positive about him?
 
Wow Black, its not that I don't hear some of the things you're saying, but its like you hate Obama already and he hasn't even taken office/pass a bill. All of your thread starters are in complete difference with him, is there anything you can say positive about him?

He's already made decisions to show he's not going to make good on his promises. It's hilarious.
 
Wow Black, its not that I don't hear some of the things you're saying, but its like you hate Obama already and he hasn't even taken office/pass a bill. All of your thread starters are in complete difference with him, is there anything you can say positive about him?

Sure, there are some positives .. but highlighting his positives do nothing to illustrate where I think he's dangerous.

We've had more than a year of highlighting his positives .. the election is over and America is in crisis. Time to sweep up the confetti and get down to the business of saving this country.

I have children.
 
Sure, there are some positives .. but highlighting his positives do nothing to illustrate where I think he's dangerous.
We've had more than a year of highlighting his positives .. the election is over and America is in crisis. Time to sweep up the confetti and get down to the business of saving this country. I have children.
You just watch and see. Obama's gonna' keep the tax structure in place as well as keeping the rules for "rough interrogation". I'll bet he shit himself when he saw his first threat briefing!
He's looking less like "Carter II" and more like "Bush III" and that's fine with me. Now all we need is for the Republicans to take back the Congress!
 
Sure, there are some positives .. but highlighting his positives do nothing to illustrate where I think he's dangerous.

We've had more than a year of highlighting his positives .. the election is over and America is in crisis. Time to sweep up the confetti and get down to the business of saving this country.

I have children.

Yes, but those positives were prior to numerous things that he has only had a short time to deal with(aka the economy). Obviously he's had to adapt his original plans to the current issues, and yes, I do agree with you that he hasn't made the greatest choices in terms of a few of his positions, but I'm at least going to give him his 100 days before I rate anything.

Also, just cause his cabinet looks one way doesn't mean it plays out that way. He's still the man making the final call and it will be completely up to him. I still believe he will do a fantastic job, you just wont see it till 20-30 years after his presidency ends
 
If he starts buying cuban cigars, then the women in the white house are in trouble.
 
You just watch and see. Obama's gonna' keep the tax structure in place as well as keeping the rules for "rough interrogation". I'll bet he shit himself when he saw his first threat briefing!
He's looking less like "Carter II" and more like "Bush III" and that's fine with me. Now all we need is for the Republicans to take back the Congress!

He's got marching orders from KOS, Close Gitmo and end the war! Both of which he promised them he'd do..it'll be fun watching him splain a thing or two to them
 
Yes, but those positives were prior to numerous things that he has only had a short time to deal with(aka the economy). Obviously he's had to adapt his original plans to the current issues, and yes, I do agree with you that he hasn't made the greatest choices in terms of a few of his positions, but I'm at least going to give him his 100 days before I rate anything.

Also, just cause his cabinet looks one way doesn't mean it plays out that way. He's still the man making the final call and it will be completely up to him. I still believe he will do a fantastic job, you just wont see it till 20-30 years after his presidency ends




so we can start now saying "he's the worst presidente in the history of the world" can't we?
 
Yes, but those positives were prior to numerous things that he has only had a short time to deal with(aka the economy). Obviously he's had to adapt his original plans to the current issues, and yes, I do agree with you that he hasn't made the greatest choices in terms of a few of his positions, but I'm at least going to give him his 100 days before I rate anything.

Also, just cause his cabinet looks one way doesn't mean it plays out that way. He's still the man making the final call and it will be completely up to him. I still believe he will do a fantastic job, you just wont see it till 20-30 years after his presidency ends

The left has no seat at the table .. thus, when Obama convenes a meeting about the problems, only those who have participated in the failures that got us here will have a voice.

I hope that you're right and I'm wrong .. but facts get in the way of that hope.
 
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It isn't just the American left alarmed by some of Obama's choices.

Jewish Left Pressing Obama On Peace

Inauguration Day is still two months away, but President-Elect Barack Obama is already being pressed by Jewish doves to fulfill his campaign promise to make Israeli-Palestinian peace a top priority from day one of his administration — despite a deepening economic crisis that has swept most other issues off the table.

Anxiety on the left was heightened after the recent appointment of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) as White House chief of staff and amid rumors that Sen. Hillary Clinton could be appointed secretary of state. Both are seen by many on the left as too tied to hardline pro-Israel policies.

“The Jewish left has to keep up the pressure and to not concede that there are other issues that will keep Obama from fulfilling his campaign promises,” said Rabbi Arthur Waskow of the Shalom Center in Philadelphia

In a message to supporters last week, Rabbi Waskow wrote that “the serious possibility that Hillary Clinton might become secretary of state” has “alarmed many progressives who fear that as president, Obama will deliver not change but much the same foreign policy.”

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Jewish Left Pressing Obama On Peace

Imagine that .. Jewish people getting anxious about the appointment of Rahm Emanuel .. and looking for Obama to fulfill his campaign promises.

Imagine that.

Wonder if they're anti-semitic?
 
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