Tornado Alley (PROG)

[StephanieVanbryce]

Mthead .. you must be kidding.

I also believe his take on the healthcare bill is right on...

Health care is a perfect example of this. Obviously, we want to have pre-existing conditions covered. Obviously, we want young people to be able to continue on their parents' health care plans. There are many things that are going to be improvements.

But let's be clear here: This is a complete and total sellout to the interests of the insurance lobby by the Obama administration. This is, as Michael Moore has said, a complete victory for the ultra-capitalists. Yet, if you look on the liberal blogosphere, people like Jane Hamsher are attacked mercilessly for having the audacity to stand up and say "this is a Democratic sellout."

So you have this blind allegiance to ... what? To Obama as a man? To the Democrats as a party? To me, it's very dangerous when you start going down the road of unquestioning support for any powerful individual or any politician. The moment you cede your conscience to a politician is the moment you stop struggling for a better society.

You are kidding OR you just haven't read the liberal blogosphere since June/July 2009 or so. There has been plenty of criticism and plenty of activism to push the administration to lean left and this and that and "he isn't doing it right" and "it's not enough" and "If only " and " it's too much" "why does he ? " & why doesn't he ? on and on and on .. so much so .. . that many liberals quit being active on their favorite sites. NOT because they didn't have feelings or disappointment also .. but because it all just got too ugly between people who had so many many other things in common. AND then it gets to the point where if enough people are quiet during all the 'piefights' ... they begin to hear themselves, sometimes that is what is needed. A steady diet of anything becomes stale. A change becomes needed and the change of course begins with ACTION & more ACTIONS ... that's when you become effective. BUT to say - it's very dangerous when you start going down the road of unquestioning support for any powerful individual or any politician. The moment you cede your conscience to a politician is the moment you stop struggling for a better society. - What I say is ..........The WRITER MISSED IT! President Obama is the most criticized President that we have ever had in my lifetime... please do not forget that our country did not even begin to criticize bush until 6 years out ... We democrats started criticizing Obama 6 months in. Don't you remember the press ? MY GOD, they were all talking about it - OMG Obama lost his base yadayadayada AND etc. AND they did all the time AND many are still wondering right now AT this present time ! It's disingenuous of anyone to state that democrats ceded their conscience to a politician ! I must assume you just didn't get around much ... heck I NEVER ran into one "Obamabot" blog .. I don't even know if there is such a thing. .. but you can be sure .. that democrats are and have not engaged in what the writer of that article stated .. he's just wrong and uniformed.