How did the Democratic Party let this President become so vilified?

[Jamastiene]

241. You must have one heckuva ignore list here on DU.

LOTS of people on DU defend him, unless you are talking about outside of DU. I think most people are intimidated by the right wing types by now. After all, if you try to stand up to them, they will start bombing hospitals, Olympics, and gay bars, and shooting doctors and even presidents. The right wing has a long history of that kind of terrorism.

Most people don't want to subject themselves to that kind of risk. I have some bad memories from the 90s. Seeing all those bloody children from the OKC bombing made me realize just how dangerous the right wing really is. I will only go so far arguing with them and then I'm done and out the door.

As far as the left defending Obama....It would help if Obama had not called us sanctimonious for being against torture... and if he had not started off his administration by going right of center and just staying there since day one. I will never get over the "retard" comment Emmanuel made but even worse Obama didn't call him out on it. The drones, keeping so many Bush policies, keeping so many from the Bush administration, keeping the Bush tax cuts and making some of them permanent.

He made his bed. He'll have to lie in it with his Repuke buddies that he always bends over backwards to try to please. He needs to eventually learn he cannot please them no matter how much he gives them of what they want.

A person has to think of the risk versus reward. It is kind of hard to defend a lot of it and certainly not worth going up against fucking Tea Baggers to do it, knowing full well that half that crowd would just as soon bomb us as debate us. I'm not risking my life for someone who turned on those of us on the left as soon as we voted him in. He made it quite clear the minute he grabbed the prize in 2008 and kept reminding us through the years that the left is on our own and he has no respect for us. Oh well, then. He's on his own now too.

If the man does something I agree with, I'll say so. If not, I'm not going to pretend it's all icing, lollipops, and candy canes. It is, quite simply, not.