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To: Sam who wrote (169463)	8/18/2011 2:35:47 AM
From: Asymmetric	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543061

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?

To: Sam who wrote (169463)	8/18/2011 6:46:46 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543061

Sam, My friends and relatives who were big Obama supporters in 08 and had very high hopes have definitely lost more than a little enthusiasm but have concluded they will vote for him in the general if their vote is needed (whether New Jersey is deemed safely Dem by that point--my Texas relatives face a different dilemma). But if it's not and there is a reasonable third party candidate on the left, they would vote for that person to help demonstrate not so much anti-Obama feeling as to try to bolster up electoral strength on the left. Sorry about that sentence but it's early and I'm just getting the writing juices going. In my sectors of the electorate, the Obama campaign staff has a serious enthusiasm problem. I completely agree about the alternatives but, in so far as their policy decisions and political calculus is focused on the center, they are, unfortunately, going about it in a way that lowers the passion in much of their base.