There's nothing in your statements and sentiment that I find fault with.
If anything we are on common ground.
Let me now however change the frame of reference somewhat. Let
me also put another way the "Obama didn't give the progressive left
everything they wanted" statement that's been often bandied about...
and the now we're all in a snit because we wanted perfection, and
we didn't get it malarky.
Steven Covey as part of his 7 Habits class always gave a presentation
using a glass jar, some large rocks, and a small pile of little rocks.
He then had some volunteer from the audience put in the jar the little
rocks, and then try to fit in the big rocks. Only a few big rocks fit inside
the jar, and most of them remained on the outside.
Steve then had them do the exercise again, but put in the big rocks first,
then after they were all in, pour in the little rocks and voila - magically,
they all fit.
The lesson was the big stuff in life was the big rocks, and you work
on that first, and then you allot the remaining time and energy in your
life on the small stuff - and if you do that, you can achieve a lot in your
career and life and make all of it fit.
The problem I have with Obama is when I look at his "jar", I see little
rocks inside, and all the big rocks still on the outside. If he had gotten
even a few of the big rocks inside the jar, not all mind you, I'd have
his back....I'd have his back even if he had gotten one of the big
rocks inside the jar...things like holding the financial industry
accountable, or instituting financial reform, or repealing the
Patriot Act, or ending even one of the wars in the Middle East,
or repealing the unfair and disastrous Bush tax cuts, etc.
To add further to the problem I have with Obama, is he is taking
rocks out of the jar that were already in it before he began office.
Sorry. I'm squinting really, really hard at the rocks in the Obama jar.
Maybe you can hand me some magnifying glasses?
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