I guess I’m weary of the attacks on Obama from my friends on the Left.
Obama has already accomplished more than Clinton did in his first term—most notably Universal Health Care. I realize that’s going to send up an another flare because it was not Single Payer, which as you and I—and Obama—know was the right solution. The problem is, if O had insisted on Single Payer, the bill would not have passed and we would have nothing to show for our efforts but breast-beating about how righteous we were.
In fact we do have a health care program, it just needs fixing. But when Social Security was passed in the 1930s, Blacks were not included. If they had been, we wouldn’t have Social Security. Blacks had to be included later. And that’s how you move legislation in a democracy. You pass what you can, then fix it later. Obama has brought us across the Rubicon where six of his predecessors failed.
I was at a dinner party last night where [an activist] chopped Obama to pieces because he compromises, didn’t shut down Gitmo as promised, started a war in Libya etc. She’s as opposed to compromise as our Tea Party opponents and she wants us to call for a primary fight—a perfect way to assure the triumph of the Koch Brothers. If the radical Left is willing to destroy Obama to prove a point, we may well get Bush III as our reward…
I think we need to remember that the Perfect is often the enemy of the Good.
It is shocking to realize how radically left wing NewLanc is. One would think that someone who has benefited so handsomely from the free market system would do everything possible to support it. Instead, you regularly print letters like the above from an obviously unsuccessful and entitlement minded individual who wants mommy and daddy and everyone else to take care of him.
EDITOR: The Watchdog considers himself an Eisenhower Republican. Although one who preferred to work behind the scenes, President Dwight Eisenhower further civil rights even more so than his predecessor Harry Truman or his successor John Kennedy, was the prime force behind the Interstate highway sytem, appointed sensible federal judges, and riled against the military industrial complex.
We respectfully submit that is not the Watchdog that has moved radically to the left, it is the Republican Party that has moved radically to the right.
Lastly, we publish what is submitted so long as it is not defamatory, obviously mendacious, and ill willed. Often we do not agree but try to discipline ourselves from commenting. We invite…indeed we implore…those of opposing views to set forth their own ideas and beliefs.