Displaying 31 To 53 Of 53 Comments Never Mind The Dangerous Insipidity of Dan Choi The all or nothing attitude of some of the progressives gets really old. I understand Marion’s frustration. It IS difficult to understand why Choi would find Cuomo so heroic and the President not so much when the President has done so much more for LGBT issues. » Posted By lynettema On June 29, 2011 @ 8:33 pm EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Palin Emails! I could tell right off SP didn’t really write these emails %<) – too much truthiness. I plan to let those that have time to be bored out of their minds read the 24,000. I don't want to waste that much time on her. I get angry at myself when I even comment on an article about her. But it seems I just can't help myself. See, here I am. » Posted By lynettema On June 10, 2011 @ 2:17 pm “Interagency Task Force on Climate Change Adaptation. ” Would a name change help those in the tp? When it is known that the tp is against climate change, it is a given that they would oppose a bill that supports this name. » Posted By lynettema On June 8, 2011 @ 5:04 pm The Republicans’ Meatloaf Strategy Food for thought that will make your blood run cold. » Posted By lynettema On May 23, 2011 @ 3:36 pm This event has knocked the right wing on their ear. They are frantic to minimize this. Can you imagine the crowing if this had happened during the last administration? But we know that it couldn’t have because the last administration gave up their looking for UBL in exchange for going into Iraq. The right just can’t come to grips with this and this is the LAST thing they expected – that President Obama would keep this promise. » Posted By lynettema On May 3, 2011 @ 7:39 pm “This is from the Fox DC station: fox5 freudian slip of the day: anchor ruins epic moment by saying, “President Obama is dead” WATCH:” Who is this doo dah? He should seriously lose his job or be demoted to gopher. » Posted By lynettema On May 2, 2011 @ 9:45 pm Trojana Huffington: Queen of Progressives? Keep reminding us. We need a way to fight this. Got any ideas? » Posted By lynettema On April 29, 2011 @ 3:39 pm Is Donald Trump a Stalking Horse? So now Trump is going after Affirmative Action. Asking how President Obama got into Harvard when the Donald couldn’t. It’s time for Media Matters to get involved. It’s time to hit The Donald where he lives. He needs to be fired. We can start with his sponsors. With the racist remarks he is making, NBC needs to lose him. » Posted By lynettema On April 27, 2011 @ 5:06 pm Love it! This is exactly what I hear when someone (often the spouse) is trying to explain to me how to do something on my computer or cell phone or I am trying to figure out what my techie book tells me to do. Exactly. » Posted By lynettema On April 25, 2011 @ 8:51 pm Huffington Post: The Not-So-Sweet Smell of Success KO has a site now, too. Great for liberals. » Posted By lynettema On April 23, 2011 @ 7:21 pm Said so well. I agree with you Marion. So happy that someone is brave enough to be as logical and even minded as our President. There seem to be those on this site that possess a streak of realism. So nice to come here, but think it necessary that we go to other sites and give them a dose of our realism – unashamedly. » Posted By lynettema On March 23, 2011 @ 12:48 pm We Are Aiding and Abetting the Republicans I don’t think Marion believes we should not be disagreeing with the President. She is saying that continually bashing him is going to cause him to lose the election. Calling him names, calling for impeachment is over the top. Our leaders and pundits are the worst offenders. » Posted By lynettema On March 22, 2011 @ 12:33 pm We need a ‘People’s Cable Channel’ where both sides of an issue are discussed with NO spin. Sort of the antithesis of FAUX. I think Media Matters would be a good place to start. We could all sign up as financial contributors, but would have to make it a monthly or yearly commitment. Of course if there were any liberal views expressed in a positive manner, it would immediately become socialist in the rw point of view. We elected a president with our small contributions, maybe we could support a cable channel. » Posted By lynettema On March 22, 2011 @ 12:28 pm Marion, I agree with you 100 percent. Those who don’t I would wager are those who have participated in bashing (not criticizing) our President. I have no argument with those who don’t agree completely with the President’s accomplishments – thought they should have been more “progressive.” But I can see how they, like the tp;s, will be biting off their own noses if they continue down this road of insisting on progressive perfectionism – tp’s insisting on conservative perfectionism. The Cons WILL vote for any Republican like the good little sheep they are. Dems are wonky. I, too, worry about progressives ‘Naderising’ ’12. » Posted By lynettema On March 22, 2011 @ 12:17 pm Wisconsin and Learning from Our Mistakes Great observations. However I still see “liberal” bloggers and pundits having the idiocy to trash the President, i.e. “PO hasn’t been to WI.” Do any of us truly believe this issue isn’t uppermost on PO’s mind? Dems are exhibiting suicidal behavior every time they trash PO. They haven’t learned a thing in the last few days least of all that the Cons have an agenda that is a 180 degree turn from the Dems. If Dems stay home from the next election or vote for some prog that doesn’t have a chance of winning, they are undermining their own progress – sort of like we accuse others that they are voting against their own best interests. Somehow we need to educate left leaning voters that if they don’t get out there and vote, we are going to be the indentured servants of the Cons. » Posted By lynettema On March 10, 2011 @ 11:46 am I’m from Iowa and watching the WI story closely. We are visiting the Tampa area in FL – my daughter lives here – and NO rallies in support of the workers in WI. I am disappointed. » Posted By lynettema On February 25, 2011 @ 3:08 pm Wisconsin, what does it really mean? Wisconsin workers, my thoughts and prayers and spirit are with you. It is unfortunate that we couldn’t get enough Democrats to understand what was going to happen when right wing radicals took over our gov’t. Hopefully the next election, they will come out in force. » Posted By lynettema On February 21, 2011 @ 3:50 pm Worth sharing….”The Disease called ‘Perfection’ “ I have been reading the posts on perfectionism. I was a perfectionist and I have to fight it every day. I am never good enough. » Posted By lynettema On February 16, 2011 @ 6:11 pm This is soooo discouraging. We are going to have to figure out how to talk to adults with a fifth grade critical thinking ability without offending them or be governed by them. » Posted By lynettema On February 14, 2011 @ 8:15 pm I recognize some of the names I used to see on HP. Hello! » Posted By lynettema On February 11, 2011 @ 4:54 pm The Age of Obtuseness I have been saying this for a year. Liberals need to stop with the “President Obama is caving on his core principals” diatribe. His core principle is in being reasonable. President Obama has taken the big ticket progressive issue about as far as he can go. The left snipes at the President and then watch the poll numbers fall and then pretend they didn’t have any part in that. Unless we get perfect progressivism from the President, they grouse. Perfectionism is the enemy of creation. “Pefectionism attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.” Voltaire » Posted By lynettema On February 11, 2011 @ 4:51 pm We often have a choice of more than one candidate. It’s called the primaries. We had a very active democratic presidential primary. If you get into it, you have many choices. We often have primaries for other congressional and senatorial seats – not so much at the state level. But I encourage you to get active in these if you want more than 2 people to choose from. If your person doesn’t win in the primary, then what? Are you going to give up on what is maybe not as good as your first choice by staying home or bashing the person that does win the primary. » Posted By lynettema On February 11, 2011 @ 5:17 pm Okay, folks. So how are we going to retain the Presidency, the Senate and take back the House? Any ideas? How you going to get left leaning folks out to vote? » Posted By lynettema On May 23, 2011 @ 3:42 pmComments Posted By lynettema
While the Cons seem to have cornered the market on cutesy slogans to push their ideology and agenda, I think it will be US on these liberal blogs that come up with the messaging that will win the election for left leaning candidates. We need to get busy – maybe even have a contest. Our liberal think tanks don’t seem to help us with messaging.
Now I do not agree with everything PO or the Dems do in D.C., but I am realistic enough to know that I must vote for the Dem at least for a while.
BUT, I digress, I am so surprised with all of this talk about perfectionism we are not talking about how so many left leaning voters are expecting, demanding perfection from President Obama. Never being happy with all that he and Dems have actually accomplished even with rw obstructionism. If we can’t get past this idea of the perfect Dem, we are going to be doomed to rw governing forever or until we can be happy that we are moving closer to our ideals. We are trading success for perfection. Perfection is the enemy of creation.
Caru On February – 11 – 2011
“I’m tired of it. The Obama bashing.”
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