I am bone-tired defending President Barack Hussein Obama...

[Prometheus_unbound]

52. I'm out of here.

Dear fellow DU posters, I joined this site during the run up to the Presidential Elections this autumn.
I must point out that even then, when I read some of the threads about Obama's first debate, i was dumbstruck by the posters' ability to rationalise any blunder made by Barack Obama into a clever strategy that critics just weren't smart enough to understand - hell, that supporters themselves weren't smart enough to understand.
This is as close as you can get to unquestioning loyalty.
I let all this slide, then, because I knew who the alternative for president was, and I got caught up in election-month enthusiasm.
The day after the election i was as happy as anybody.
After the hopes raised by Obama during his first campaign were systematically disappointed during his first four years, we should know better.
But it appears that even when the president is firmly in office, members of this site will feel the need to look the other way whenever he fails to live up to the hopes of his own voters. The excuses presented may rotate a bit - the necessities of government, congress won't do it, it's a high pressure job, it's all a grand strategy, you just don't understand, it could be worse - but that is all I hear, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Granted, this president is not nearly as bad as his predecessor, which does not take much, and incomparably better than anyone in the last Republican primaries.
Being better than Bush does not make him the "best thing that ever happened to America" (this very thread).
For over thirty years now, this country has been moving towards a worsening of inequality, monopolistic economy, and, especially recently, a reduction in civil liberties, as well as being a major obstacle to extremely necessary world wide environmental policies.

We do not need a man who continues these same policies and trends, only without republican arrogance, and we don't need a man who tinkers with them but does not change them substantially. We are on the wrong course, and we must not just it slow down until the next republican president, but reverse it.

But most of all, we sure as hell don't need his puppy-dog supporters who've made a habit of finding excuses for every retreat, every compromise, every failure, every unilateral ceasefire. The other side is fighting, and pushing in the wrong direction. We should bloody well start to push in the opposite one.

I've been thinking about leaving this site for some time, but the sickening praise in this circle-jerk thread has finally convinced me.

I'm out of here. Goodbye.