Today, Barack Obama addressed his supporters. He seemed tired and a little off his game. As frustrated as I get with the guy for seeming to cave to the right at every opportunity, I have gratefulness when I think of the horror of the George W years. This is still a vast improvement. That was the face of corporatocracy made flesh.

These are excepts from my facebook page.

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This was my question to our President:
Why does it appear that you and your staff seem to reward conservatives and so-called centrists while punishing and publicly disavowing the progressives who worked so hard to elect you?

I still believe in the decency and thoughtfulness of the guy, I just didn’t elect Rahm Emmanuel or Tim Geithner, yet they seem to have his ear more than me. Hell, Lieberman gets his way, and we leebs struggle for scraps. It’s enough to (almost) make me apathetic.
The corporations are not dumb, they see the guy’s weakness and play to it. Health care shouldn’t be divisive, but FOX, Palin, Beck and the idiots that dig them have made it so, with no logic. Can’t fight crazy with smart. We need a leader that knows when the carrot, and when the stick. And when to go to work with a pipe wrench and blowtorch.
To quote Cenk Uygur from the Young Turks (as I do way too often) quoting Martin Luther King: “Sometimes I get discouraged.”