The country is looking for a courageous leader..

[kentuck]

Someone that will stand up to the cruel extortionists and tell the people the truth. However, the truth is passed around like a hot potato.

We need a leader that is willing to ask for sacrifice. We need someone that will tell the people that their taxes may go up by 5% if we cannot get the Republicans to agree to a middle class tax cut. They want taxcuts for millionaires and billionaires and we simply cannot afford it. They are holding your taxcut hostage. If they block the middle class taxcuts we are offering, then your taxes will go up. We don't wan't that to happen but the other Party refuses to give in on millionaire taxcuts that we cannot afford.

We are taking a stand for the country and we ask that you stand with us.

[ProSense]

1. There is a level of stupidity out there, but

I think people know that if the middle-class tax cuts aren't extended their taxes will go up. It's the same with unemployment benefits, they know if they're not extended, there will be no benefits.

Democrats simply need to hold a vote on the middle-class tax cuts.

[kentuck]

2. I agree..

preceded by some leadership from the President, perhaps a speech explaining what might happen.

[ProSense]

4. I don't think sacrifice

is what people want the President to make a talking point right now. Look at the reaction to the federal wage freeze.

[kentuck]

7. They would be "sacrificing" for the Republicans and the millionaires..

The people will see what is happening if they are explicitly told.

[chimpymustgo]

3. Except they won't. Perhaps Pelosi will lead on this. Obama surely hasn't.

[Autumn]

5. IF the bill passes with tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires,

IF Obama vetoes it, we will have a courageous leader.

[kentuck]

6. But, will he?

That would be a courageous act, I would agree.

[Autumn]

8. That's my fear, nothing I have seen so far

leads me to believe he will. It's just "hope" on my part.

[disillusioned73]

9. You would think..

with all their over paid political advisers that someone would come up with that very plan.... but yet, they don't - what does that say?

Collusion and/or complicity, thats what.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. Bullshit.

That's what we say we want when we're in between elections. But then election time comes up and what we all really want is someone that's pretty and nice and will say all the great things that will help us forget about our problems.

What you're saying is the other side of the same idiotic coin that says everyone inside the Beltway has a distorted view of America and that our politicians are all equally garbage. At the end of the day though, this country needs to take a long look in the fucking mirror. WE sent those politicians to the Beltway. WE elect people that pass the truth around. WE cannot even agree with ourselves on what the truth really fucking is in the first place! WE want tax cuts for millionaires because we are so fucking stupid that we believe we might BECOME millionaires someday. Obama once said that we are the ones we are waiting for - and he was right. But we're also the problem that we were waiting for someone to come along and solve too.

The country might need a courageous leader, but we're either too fucking dumb or too fucking delusional to ever actually vote for that person. You say you're taking a stand for the country, but the country wouldn't know where to stand if it were even the least bit inclined to get out of bed.

[YvonneCa]

20. WOW, Nick. I actually agree with you...

...on this (minus the @#&$^&(*^ language). :7 We HAVE that leader...elected in 2008. He IS asking for sacrifice. Are people just not paying attention???

[Uzybone]

21. Amen...the politicians are a reflection of the country

at some point we need to stop blaming everything on Washington and wonder why no constituency (save minorities and the poor who are unrepresented anyway) doesn't want to make a single sacrifice for anything.

[FrenchieCat]

11. We don't fucking deserve one!

The only thing we deserve is a fucking babysitter!
Somebody to change our Doo-Doo diapers whenever we
knee jerk to everything the fucked media puts out for us.
Whenever the Republicans do some fucked up shit,
we blame Obama. Whenever Obama does something positive,
we ignore it.

We are the weak ones.
all we do is holler and cry.

[Mimosa]

12. We elect representatives to help empower us.

We deserve the representation we voted for. We aren't sitting in the White House, the Senate or Congress ourselves. We are forced to trust the people we elect meant what they said before we put them in office.

Most of the time they fail us, we don't fail them.

[CakeGrrl]

15. No kidding. The level of "sit down and cry" is getting crazy

How the hell is anyone to think that people who are sitting around lamenting being "insulted" and "abandoned" have the stones to mobilize behind a challenger they can't even name?

Anyone want strange bedfellows? Here's where I give props to Republican support, no matter how "lockstep" they may be. They know when to unify and screw needing to be coddled and hugged and assured.

[Bluerthanblue]

16. wish i could call bullshit

but but what you say is pretty correct.

:shrug:

[Phx_Dem]

18. +1000. Frenchie you nailed it!

[Forkboy]

19. It's all those "ungrateful Americans" you spoke of.

[PassingFair]

23. Just look at all those fucking retards, hollering and crying....

[old mark]

13. Good luck with that. K&R...

[N.Y. to Paris]

14. You're right again Frenchie.....

We don't deserve Obama that's for damn sure....sometimes I think he oughta tell everyone to go piss up a flagpole, hand the keys to the White House to some sorry ass who's been in Washington forever, who thinks he's all about something... but he won't; the guy's got too much class,and it's got to be extremely frustrating for a guy of his intellect to be dealing with so many assholes!
When did this place become Democratic BashObam anyway?

[Phx_Dem]

17. No, progressives are looking for someone who is

devisive, like George Bush was to the Dems. No thanks.

[styersc]

22. "Courageous Leader" and begging (him) to "stand with us"

does not seem to be right. Shouldn't the leader be asking us to stand with him (or her)?