Ever since Sen. Mitch announced that the Repugs were intent on making Obama a 1-term President I knew what their strategy was. We've seen it played out every day of Obama's term. Whatever side he takes - they take the other side - even if he ultimately comes over to their side - they take the other side - just so he can't succeed. It's obvious to me. So are the fixes that can be done to make this country whole again. What frustrates me is that there is a big element in our society that don't see that.
What I'm questioning is 'how they can be so blind'? How can they not see that Obama is being sandbagged every step of the way in the last 3 years? How can they continue to vote against their best interests? Why is this country so divided? Is everything really 50 - 50% now? I just can't believe that this 2012 general election will be close? How can we not give this man a 2nd term and the ability to right this ship?
Right now the analogy I can give is that this ship we call America is listing just like this Costa ship off the coast of Italy. Many people are under water and some have died. BushCo took the ship right into the rocks so it would crash. Like the captain of this Costa ship - the Repugs have abandoned it. What we are doing now is sending some divers in to recover the bodies and hope that some may still be alive. We are being cautious because the ship is shifting off the rocks and may go totally out to sea and sink. We need to avoid such a disaster - so we are sucking the oil out of the ship and ultimately we are discussing that we'll probably have to take it apart and salvage the parts we could. We could devise a way and we have the ability to recover the ship and fix it and make it whole allowing it to sail again. We are at that point. What are we going to do?
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