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LET US PRAY! Or we shalt be

Richard Day — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:01:56 +0000

In reply to Time to Choose, America!

LET US PRAY!

Or we shalt be preyed upon!

Hi Resistance, always a

Aunt Sam — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:01:25 +0000

In reply to It is We, The People, whose

Hi Resistance, always a pleasure. Hope all is well for you and yours in 2012.

WE and ALL in my comment refer to people, regardless of political or any other affiliations.

FYI – as long as people want/need the ability to utilize credit there will always be bankers, whether institutional, family, friends or loan sharks et al.

And, as an Independent, I am free of any political party ties. We are all bound by the choices we make and our own limitations. We also are free to make those choices and to accept responsibility for them and this includes standing up and speaking out (hopefully with respect regard and facts).

It is We, The People, whose

Resistance — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:13:20 +0000

In reply to Peter, Thank you for your

It is We, The People, whose responsibility it is to achieve our goals and the most positive future possible for all

WE? ALL?

Sounds familiar......We all (of the Democratic elite class, want our own slaves, to make us rich)

Slave for the government or slave for private enterprise, either way you're still a slave.

Obama and his friends have no intention of freeing us, you'll still be owing the banker class

Peter, Thank you for your

Aunt Sam — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:44:10 +0000

In reply to If Barack Obama does not

Peter,

Thank you for your insightful response to David's excellent post. Together, the two deliver the complete message.

As I have often lamented, it's not up to 'just' the President or any one person/entity to pursue and secure what's best for our nation. It is We, The People, whose responsibility it is to achieve our goals and the most positive future possible for all. Standing up and Speaking out(armed with facts and proactive processes) is how we can succeed.

In my experience, those who blame and condemn others are most often deterred from blathering on when asked, 'What have you been doing to make it better? Show me your facts and I'll show you mine.'

Again, appreciate both David's and your contributions here.

How sad; those Obama and the

Resistance — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:12:00 +0000

In reply to If Barack Obama does not

How sad; those Obama and the bots, left to die on the field, now want to prick our conscience?

Screw the system;...... misery loves company

Time all you Obamabots, get a taste of all your self-rightousness.

No help for homeowners; but gives us Cash for Clunkers, Cash for Appliances (gimmicks that ran up the debt)

The last 3 years under Obama; was him giving me my last rites. He considered us dead, till he thought he could resurrect us, just in time for another election, then when he realizes he has nothing to gain and because of term limits, he'll finally bury the corpse.

My retirement is gone, we were the expendable ones for Obamas causes.

Screw real estate. destroy the American dream. Go to work so you can support the 51%percent looking for a handout

Good luck convincing the next group of voters they'll fare better than those, Obama already abandoned on the dying field.

Fool me once.......

If Barack Obama does not

Peter Schwartz — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:12:15 +0000

In reply to Time to Choose, America!

If Barack Obama does not present himself in 2012 as a committed liberal, many progressives will simply decline to campaign for his re-election. Many might not even bother to vote for him. Some may even head off in search of a third party candidate, alienated to the point of indifference by the President’s failure to sustain his promised program of radical change.

Very good and true article, David. Thanks.

That said, I find this paragraph troubling, not because it isn't true, but because it is.

And mostly because of what it signifies about "committed liberals."

The commitment we liberals need is NOT to Obama, regardless of how he performs in 2012. The commitment needs to be to ourselves and to the country.

Forgetting about Obama for the moment, do we really want a President Mitt Romney? Or a President Newt Gingrich? Or even a President Ron Paul? Do we want to suffer through those years? Do we want the country to suffer through those years? I don't think so.

Let's say Obama disappoints, even badly. What do we do? We organize and contribute with great gusto and enthusiasm to get him elected. And THEN, we start organizing for the NEXT leg of the journey--part of which will be his second term and the rest of it after his second term.

I really don't understand the alternatives to this. They all seem to depend on a personalized feeling of integrity...at least EYE didn't cave... or a desire to stick it to Obama...a stick he isn't going to feel...and/or the hope that if things get REALLY bad with a President Mitt or Ron, THEN the country will finally see the light and finally come together around a progressive agenda and candidates.

Could be. But that's a LOT of hope for change hanging on a thin reed. Taking Obama's performance as a personal rebuke or an affront is fine for starters--but the key is, ironically, not to take the presidency so seriously and work and vote for Obama with great enthusiasm and, at a minimum, with more enthusiasm than the followers of whomever the Republicans put up.