I don't think there can be any doubt about what that "stop your whining" whining is all about and it's to place blame for what the corporate Dems have wrought.

Beginning with his flip flop on the FISA bill in the summer of 2008 Obama hasn't given the time of day to progressives, liberals, the left, whatever you want to call the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.  Since being sworn in, Obama has shown nothing but arrogant disdain for thos who expected him to actually try and do the things he said he would do.  He and his administration have behaved alternately as though the hippies were second class citizens whose function was to write checks, cheer on cue and shut the fuck up otherwise. 

The only hippie group that has refused to stay in it's assigned place is the GLBT community regarding DADT and marriage equality and good for them!  They have gone about it more intelligently than the rest of the left who mostly remained silent until the corporate special interest version of health insurance reform was passed.  And even the GLBT community gets little more than lip service from Obama who didn't do all he could to push the repeal of DADT through the Senate, who continues to have his DOJ actively resist Federal court rulings throwing DADT out and who continues to officially oppose marriage equality.

The rest of the left gets nothing but the contempt of the President and his minions if they aren't cheerleading and for those who dare to criticize they engage in setting up and knocking down the straw man argument that the left is upset that Obama didn't do "everything" they wanted "overnight".  Nobody has ever complained about or even hinted that they were upset with Obama for not getting "everything" done overnight.  That's hogwash and a willful attempt to avoid discussing the substantive criticisms of the Obama adminstration which are essentially that he hasn't actually even tried to implement the things he promised he would fight for.  Had he even attempted to bring real change in any number of areas people wouldn't be so angry but the fact is he hasn't even tried.

They roll out the old shibboleth that the White House was only being "realistic" and "pragmatic" by cutting deals with the worst special interests instead of even attempting to do what is right.  Well, that argument only works if you actually made any honest, energetic attempt to do the right thing and Obama's administration simply did nothing of the sort whether on the stimulus, healthcare overall, financial reform, credit card reform, the public option, an actual liberal for Supreme Court, transparency, torture, you name it.  The total lack of sincerity and the arrogant belief that Democrats should be satisfied, nay overjoyed at whatever tiny bones get thrown their way once the corporate special interests have been served is a perfect example of how tone deaf and out of touch Obama and company really are. 

Intellectually they understand the country "is hurting" but the fact is none of them actually know anyone who has lost their job and their home and their pension.  Neither Obama, Summers, Geithner, the loathsome Rahm, or any of the rest of them have any fear of losing their jobs or being economically insecure.  Not a single one of those rich bastards know anything about what it is like for hundreds of millions of us who understand that as far as getting laid off goes well... there but for the grace of God go I!

For the record: the complaint is not that Obama hasn't been perfect.  It isn't that he hasn't done "everything".  Nor is the comlaint that the left is "frustrated with the pace of change."  The fact is, the left is upset because there has not been one bit of substantive change of the kind we all demanded in 2008 and we all know is still necessary if we are to restore stability and prosperity to our working and middle class citizens.  You can trot out the list of minor accomplishments that any adminstration could produce after two years or tje watered down contenders for change like the stimulus bill and healthcare but even those bills were undermined by the President and his administration through their inexplicable fetishization for giving away the store in order to claim bipartisan support and their obsession with making nice with a dishonest enemy every on earth except Obama knows doesn't negotiate in good faith. 

The real problem here is that the President clearly is not an agent of change at all. 

If he actually believes the minor legislative victories he has achieved counts as anything like the substantive change people voted for in 2008 then he is sadly mistaken.  And if he thinks the dirty fucking hippies out here who he loves to bash are stupid enough to fall for that set of excuses then he's even more naive than I thought.  Nobody, but nobody anywhere would use the words "bold" or "dramatic" to describe the legislative accomplishments he has gotten passed.  Nothing he has done has been bold or dramatic and that's a huge part of the reason people are so disenchanted and disaffected.  Had he at least tried it would be very different.  But people aren't that stupid.  Everyone knows very well he made no attempt to make good on his major campaign promises.  Pretending that the things he has done are the things people voted for or that they are even "just the beginning" truly insults the intelligence of the millions who invested so much hope in Obama.  It's quite clear that Obama thinks we should all be thrilled that he sold out his base on every major campaign promise and got little or nothing of what we sought by backing him.  It's that out of touch arrogance that spawned the enthusiasm gap and that is bringing about the electoral disaster coming in November.  Obama knows it, won't take responsibilty and needs a scapegoat and thus the offensive scolding of the base and all the whining about how we need to stop whining.  You reap what you sow Mr. President.