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In reply to the discussion: Tired of Malignant Amnesia Anti-Obama Syndrome [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)The bill put before the President by Congress - that body whose composition WE determined, that has ALL Constitutional authority for shaping legislation - was a huge step forward with massive reforms helping millions of people greatly, so what is your position: Are you saying he should have vetoed that bill and threw away the clear interests of the American people, or not?
Which is it?
Should the millions whose lives have been saved or tangibly improved by it give back what they've gained? Should they crawl into their graves because your imagination tells you something else should have been done?
Shall we punish everyone who doesn't meet your standards of perfection in perpetuity because you would rather do that than take the next step forward, and the next, working with other people to actually accomplish things?
If I can point a flaw in Social Security, does that mean you'll say we should scrap it? If I can point out a flaw in Medicare, shall we take it away from the millions who need it?
I'll bet you don't apply this standard to your own work, and if you tried to apply to anyone else's who you work with in person, they would probably end up refusing to work with you for very long. This is not even perfectionism, this is idiotic hypocrisy. You deny basic facts of the structure of government to give yourself excuses for scapegoating one man.
It's so extreme, you won't even limit yourself to being hypocritical about things that are actually wrong. You attack him for his massive progressive successes. That exposes your agenda for what it really is.
You attack progressives for making progress, because their actual achievemets don't measure up to your fantasy ones that you yourself can't ever do anything about. If you want credit for electing Barack Obama, stop demonizing him, because being a part of putting him in office is pretty much the only claim you have to having had a role in improving the world.