Here is the history: about 6 or 8 weeks ago or so, the leaders of the congressional black caucus (including John Lewis and Cleaver and Maxine Waters) , top black pundits like Bob Herbert, Eugene Robinson, Charles Blow and Leonard Pitts, and the liberals really gave Obama hell. It was out in the open now.
They were all saying fight, even if you lose, fight. And even on SI, Wharfrat and I , Bentway and Stockman Scott were posting videos of FR speeches where he said "they hate me and I welcome their hate and generally coming out of the closet about Obama. We had all stood back to give him a chance, but things were getting ridiculus. He not only was getting litttle done on the economic front, it looked like he would lose the election.
Obama had to fight the right wing out in the open and quit pandering to them.
And even MSNBC started running old news clips of FDR's famous speeches challenging the robber barrons of the day. There was a lot of contentiousness. The middle kept telling us we were helping the right wing and many got very mad at us for saying anything negative about Obama.
But what happened?
Obama took a hard left turn, put forth his1/2 trillion jobs program (which has no chance of passing-but didn't matter) and started challenging the right wing; and since then Obama's poll numbers have risen dramatically and he now is squashing all Republican candidates in every poll.
Just as we tried to tell people would happen if he would just fight. |
