Donuel:

Your poetic imaginings always intrigue and delight, but on political issues they add more heat than light. In your sweeping, colorful metaphors you drift far away from the moorings of actuality. Obama is dealing with large-scale complex scenarios comprising lots of large vectors in collision. Some of these vectors--the right-wing of the Senate for example--are vociferous, exaggerated, spiteful and inaccurate in their heated attacks. Others are simply large, subdued and generally less noisy such as the under-privileged majority of citizens. I have no drum to beat for any individual decision the President makes, but I think you will find he speaks to the issues in as open and honest a way as he can, in general.

Sure, he may be in surprise at the vehemence of criticism and sniping and snarkiness that discolors the political environment in Washington--don't forget he is essentially an optimist who won the White House in a landslide. So all the backstabbing probably took him unprepared. And every problem he thought he understood clearly may have turned out to be several orders of complexity worse than he thought. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes, but he is in his shoes. I would be inclined to give him support and keep pushing him in a right direction rather than issiue arm-waving diatribes.


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