If Democrats got off their asses, here's what they'd be doing now - Robert Reich

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34. Everybody was against the Bush administration, then overnight some of the most vocal were suddenly

against Obama. I felt stupid not to have realized that it was show business or just being against whoever was in change or other things.

"But even before he was elected, I was driving with friends to a movie when the guy in the back seat, an old '60s radical, began ranting about how Obama was just a corporate shill, as bad as the Republicans. My heart sank. I knew what this meant. I went online, and there they were, the baby-boomer radicals and their political descendants, all foaming at the mouth. ... It would take them a while, but they would make life hell for him. ... At a MoveOn meeting after his first midterm election, the few radicals there were crowing that ... he was 'such a disappointment.' Right. In two years all he'd done was prevent another Great Depression, save the auto industry and pass Obamacare, the first big addition to FDR's agenda since 1965.

"... Michael Moore summed up the radicals' view: 'Mr. Obama, when the history is written of this era, this is how you'll be remembered: "He was the first Black president." Okay, not a bad accomplishment, but that's it. A big disappointment.' No Republican could have been more damaging than this inside hit job."

Steven Stoft

The inside hit jobs designed to depress the vote, make would-be Democratic voters disgusted and cynical are the most damaging. Here we go again.