No is not a solution
No to health care, no to veterans benefits, no to Obama policies on everything from foreign policy to the environment-it is clear opposition at all costs is the plan of the GOP for victory in 2010. On the state level, the agenda is a bit different-push a far right agenda until the people realize that the GOP has gone too far, but in the meantime try and talk about Obama as much as you can to deflect attention from the extremism of it all. The sad part of it is we live in a time when people are getting their “news” from whatever pre-screened ideological source they want, so critical thinking skills and real debate are at a premium.
Real problems almost never have an easy answer. Failure to find a middle-ground is not the point of our system. Just voting “No” is not a solution. Do nothing on health care and watch premiums keep going up, and some folks will die. Do nothing on the environment and watch climate change get worse, and our planet will slowly die.
Tough choices demand real leaders. Real leaders act. Anyone can throw an ideological hissy fit. The only advantage to doing that is it seems to get you elected to a US Senate seat from Oklahoma.
-Ben Odom
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Mr. Odom, I think you’ve hit the nail on the head in your remarks. I’ve been critical of Obama myself, but it’s not that I want hi to fail, I want him to be the candidate he was in 2008.
With clear Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress and with the outrageous obstructionism of the GOPer-NOpers so clearly displayed, Obama needs to put the pedal to the metal NOW or he’ll end up a one-term president.