It's clear to me that the first African-American POTUS is a catalytic president. [View all]
He's not pre-racial
He's not post-racial
He's racial in the here and now.
It's OUR battle, not his. He festers up the problem and WE have to do something about it. It's a progressive catalyst.
It blows my mind that the left "disavows" him. They are thus reactionaries, and we know reactionaries are not progressive by definition. Reactionaries are the ultimate conservatives, what they have always been. It's their calling card to fight dirty with lies, slander and character assassination.
Who's reacting 100% negatively to President Obama? All the country's reactionaries, whether on the right or left.
There are no links here. This is my opinion. I've been involved with conservatives through family and neighbors since childhood in the 1950's in Texas. I was a youth Goldwater supporter in 1964. Mainly because I was pushed away by LBJ when I saw guilt on his face and heard him read cold words on the tarmac of AAB the evening of 22 Nov 1963. I wasn't old enough to vote in '68, but my first vote in 1972 was a straight Democratic ticket and that's never changed. 1980 was a tragedy for the nation, delivered with a bow by a gushing pro-Reagan media assuring he was teflon. If the media were so liberal in 1980, it's obvious that corporatism had already taken hold behind the scenes. Refer to the movie Network from 1976.
Progressives actually got the reins of government 2009 with a clear majority across the board, and the reactionaries from Day 1 committed to destroying Obama by any means necessary. So have have some on the left, from the beginning of 2009. They never liked him and still don't, except now they hate. They are not only reactionary, but with a vengeance and urgency that belies their protestations of "wanting to believe."
I do. He's accomplished more for people than any president I've lived through and I was born in 1948. Johnson has an asterisk after his name, as I personally suspect he stiff-armed passage of Kennedy's social legislation in 1964 and 1965 to cover his betrayal of the country on foreign policy, i.e., handing perpetual war to the JSOC and intelligence networks, on a gun metal gray platter.
No one man can end that devil's bargain after 50 years. It's deeply entrenched, but the Pentagon, CIA, and defense contractors are becoming less and less untouchable. Everyone just keep digging, but please don't cut our brave President in the process.
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