NYT: Obama Sees Steep Dropoff in Cash From Major Donors

[Arkana]

44. And then he should have flown to the moon on gossamer wings.

You do know there are branches of government OTHER than the executive, right? And that one of them, the legislative, is full of selfish assholes? You know, the kind of people who would rather save their own skin for reelection rather than do what's right?

It was the Democrats in Congress who got all NIMBY on Obama when he tried to wrest the funds to close Gitmo out of them. All the speechifying and the sermonizing in the world wouldn't have gotten them to change their minds.

It was the Democrats in Congress who fucked him on health care when people who told him they'd support the public option (I'm looking at you, Holy Joe Lieberman) decided to filibuster it instead.

And I guarantee you--if he had decided to spend four years going after George Bush and Dick Cheney for things that I'm pretty sure they would not have been able to prove, no matter how many lawyers he had on the case, it would have neutered him right out of the gate. There would have been no meaningful legislation. Nothing would have gotten done. I can GUARAN-FUCKING-TEE you this. NOTHING would have gotten done.

He had two choices--play attack dog or be the President. He chose to be the President, and you guys have been shitting down his throat and telling him it's chocolate ever since. He wasn't elected to be the President of the American left: he was elected to be the President of the United States, and one of the unsavory parts of the job is talking to--and even making deals with--people who hate your stinking guts.