Journalist tells left , 'We have let Obama down'

"They did it the low-tech way, slogging door to door, volunteers from an improvised coalition of unions, community groups and small businesses, working together to overcome a well-funded rightwing scare campaign."

It works all the time no matter what side of the political fence you're on. One-on-one communication initiated by the dedicated and sincere few that know their subject matter like the back of their hand.  Of course it helps to be attractive and have a winning personality . . . . But the truth ultimately outs untruth and wins in the end . . . .

Good story, Rory.

What about me, Jim?  : (  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

This journalist forgot that there was a grassroots mobilization that rejects the left tax more and spend more hunger.  It's called the T (Taxed) E (Enough) A (Already) movement.  The exact movement that the Left continually tries to write off as a lunatic fringe. 

Interestingly enough in the Special New York Assembly elections the Democrats are minus two seats to the Republicans.  One of those Republicans has organized Tea Party Rallies.  So the first Tea party member may have been elected, subject to verification.

Cut the sarcasm,  it is not appreciated. 

Funny how I heard for months philosophy put down,  "liberal elites"  put down, "academics that know nothing of life"  put down,  but a little Ortega, and I am somehow out to chase off the "lower class"-  as if I said anything about that.  Speak plainly,  honestly,  or do not speak at all.  Sarcasm is whiney and viperish.  Any more of it, and I will leave this venue.  

I recall defending one against others who doubted him.  I did so repeatedly.  Where is my defender now?  and the accusers, where?  I won't be told I spoke out of turn when I did not.  

Obama,or for that matter any president,is not let down by left or right.Obama promised changes,but he never elucidiated or articulated what he meant by 'change/s'?His inconsistent policies,foreign and/or domestic,an approach which lacked pragmatism has let him down.

He has a cohesive ideology. He has epistemic rigor.   It is true, he lost his grip on the pragmatism.  He allowed certain people to gain control where they should not have.  Who can doubt that responsibility for this is his, and his alone?  Yet,  there is a consensus blocking him.  In my other post,  I mentioned Ortega y Gasset for a reason, a specific reason:  The world  now stands where he indicated.  Kierkegaard knew in the 1850s that "the crowd is untruth":  It is even so now.  The counter movement is not the indictment of Obama. Some of what is being expressed, he will listen to.  He is not stupid.    He concealed his "Change" policy because he did not want to show all 5 fingers at once. It is not even possible for much of it to be enacted until...but time will tell.  It is too early to know : the jury is still out. You can say what he has been , but not what he will be. He knows how to adapt. He knows the collectivist socialist agenda will not work.  Much of it is not even his,  the air has not cleared and there are agitators that presume to much on him.  He will have to press into his service those who refuse to let him go.

 One thing is clear:  It is not a matter of people not knowing what his agenda is;  it is a matter of their not liking it, of opposing it.   He is a revolutionary:  He will modify this tendency, he will work it to his advantage,  or it will be over. 

Obama is confused,has confused his admirers and critics both.His agenda,if he has one at all,is mired in confusion.Neither left nor right is to be blamed;it is Obama who has let every one down,be it Afghans,Palestenians,Iraqis,Pakistanis or Americans.

OK.