For all you people who seek attention with nothing good to say about Obama....

[TheEuclideanOne]

140. If you don't hold your elected leaders accountable, you accomplish the exact opposite of what you

are aiming to accomplish.

Let me give you the short and long version.

Short version: If you don't make it clear, with your words, that he is on the wrong path, his own party will not re-elect him.

Longer version:

If I were obama's campaign manager or his press secretary, I would take your exact position. But I don't understand, from a logical standpoint, why your viewpoint makes sense to you.

Hypothetically speaking, if I were a cheerleader for Obama, never said a bad thing, supported him 100% on what he does, even if it is the exact opposite of what the party holds dear and what he campaigned on to get him elected.

So, we can start by saying that we are absolutely clear that you will support him blindly, 110% even if he does the following.

a) Eliminates Medicare, using the savings to give to the corporations.
b) Institute economic policies that make the great depression look like a vacation in the catskills in comparison.
c) Starts numerous additional wars, taking a strong stance on how important torture is to our military strategy.
d) Removes every other remaining Safety Social net.
e) Takes a strong Pro-Life position, making abortion illegal under any conditions.
f) Re-implements DADT

I could add a few more, but I have enough to make my point. In that scenario, you support him 110%, so you are surprised if I can not subscribe to your position? I am assuming that the members of DU opposing your, "If you are not a cheerleader, you must leave", argument. I can't speak for them, but it is a hunch.

Before you even think for a second about saying that you would be against him following through on any of these positions, stop yourself. You can not complain since, in your eyes, that is not Democratic. After all, if Obama did institute all of these things, and I complained, I would leave. My only option, in your world, is to keep my mouth shut and say only positive things until I can get a chance to vote for him in the next election. In the end, I won't, even if I keep my mouth shut the whole time.

But let me ask you this.... This list is an exaggeration, but if you do nothing but cheerlead as you are suggesting, you encourage him to do all of these things since he knows he will get re-elected by people like you. Actually, he doesn't really know, but he would absolutely think that this will get him re-elected because everybody is cheerleading even though they detest what he is doing and will NOT vote for him.

In a nutshell, your argument is not logical and will accomplish the exact opposite of what you think it will. You will just feel giddy like a little schoolgirl up to the day that he loses the election. And, the reality is also that this type of behavior you encourage will cause him to lose the election, but you will wake up the day after the election thinking that you have been oh so helpful to him.