American right wing wants Obama and America to fail

[rurallib]

Yet world leaders of all stripes with the exception of Al Qieda want Obama to succeed. Even Fidel Castro.
So tell me, whose side are the right wingers on?
And what is sad is that the right wingers can actually have an effect on making America (and Obama) fail.

[babylonsister]

1. Not just the right wing. Look around. nt

[Windy]

2. Agreed Babylon. Its sad at DU lately.

The worse it gets out there, the happier I am that the neither the Far Right or the Far Left are calling the shots. While I would love a perfect world where no war exists, no danger is out there, that we could be a fully self sufficient country without the rest of the world, etc., and only expend our resources abroad fo peaceful and humanitarian causes, its never going to happen. I am a realist. I want intelligent, well thought out decisions made with regard to our economy and foreign policy. No, I don't agree with everything Obama is doing, but I have handled that quite diferently than some here in DU. I have telephoned my congress members and sent letters to the adminsitration. I don't act irrationally. I find it appalling that many people on both sides just seem to ant to gin up hatred and anger. There is a lack of maturity; a knee jerk mentality apparent across the country at this moment and its becoming dangerous. Thank goodness though, those fringe elements are in the minority. Most people aren't glued to the TV 24 7 and have their own lives to try and lead. They also get their information from all sources as opposed to sources with only a particular politcal bent or an agenda.

Ok. Rant off. I have to get away from DU for awhile I think

[JohnnyLib2]

3. A "steady hand at the wheel" by the administration is my hope.

Looks like we are thinking along the same lines. All the fiery noise is.........fiery noise.

[saltpoint]

4. The Right in the United States is no longer capable, if they ever were, of

opposition on principle.

If Gov. Palin, in her acceptance speech to the GOP convention in St. Paul last summer, can only ridicule "community organizers" without explaining why community organizers are deficient or misguided or subversive, then she can't offer a sustaining vision, nevermind a blueprint, for how people's lives might be improved.

A 2-year old can knock something off a table.

It takes quite another sort of process to collect the broken pieces and reassemble them into a functional whole.

The louder the Right sqawks, and they are awfully good at loud sqawking, the more deliriously hateful and untenable they sound and the longer their political party goes without a coherent vision.

A few of the rare sentient Republicans are aware that Barack Obama is likely a 2-term president and that the current line-up of Republican leaders offers no clean-up hitter.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

5. Some do, no doubt. They know that if he succeeds that they are done.

They are nervous, because it looks like Obama is going to help pull us out of this. The ironic thing is that by trying thwart everything he does, that are only digging a deeper grave for themselves. If and when the economy turns, Obama will be almost untouchable by the wingnuts.

[Egnever]

6. Aparently the left does as well

One need only read this board to understand that. The ideologues on both sides are all up in arms over one manufactured outrage or another.

[AtomicKitten]

7. He has fierce opposition on the left as well which I simply cannot reconcile

with his 90% approval rating among Democrats.

They must be the LOUD 10%.

[PBS Poll-435]

8. I wish it were just the right wing.

[cooolandrew]

9. I think we just need to draw up posters of flag draped coffiins saying.>

Our troops sacrifice, so that America can have a legal and peaceful democracy. May we honor that sacrfice. They need to understand it's DEMOCRACY NOW.

[Cha]

10. And the rw didn't want bushit to fail..

but shit happened.