My own private Obama

[lwcon]

My Obama is opposed to a surge in Afghanistan

My Obama is opposed to expanded military missions in Pakistan

My Obama is opposed to saber-rattling at Iran

My Obama is opposed to US-authorized assassinations

My Obama is opposed to warrantless wiretapping

My Obama is opposed to detention without charges or trials

My Obama is opposed to renditions to Bagram

My Obama is opposed to whitewashing torture and corporate malfeasance

My Obama is opposed to handouts to Wall Street

My Obama is opposed to untimely tax cuts, spending freezes, and "entitlement reform"

My Obama is opposed to faith-based initiatives

My Obama is opposed to nuclear power and "clean coal"

My Obama never praises Ronald Reagan

My Obama never bashes liberals

My Obama supports gay marriage

My Obama supports real health-care reform and doesn't make secret deals with Big Pharma

I believe in this Obama because my tribe demands it. And my tribe is more important to me than either reality or good policy.

[upi402]

1. Who could unrec that?

Lurkers from the WH cabinet?:tinfoilhat:

[Jim Sagle]

3. Rahm and Dana Milbank stopped by.

;)

[lwcon]

5. And I tried so hard to believe in the right sort of Obama! n/t

[lwcon]

6. Ah, there go at least three more unrecs

It would be good to see how many unrecs a post gets.

That would let us know precisely how inadequate we were at believing in the right kind of Obama.

[Chipper Chat]

9. Get rid of the filib, er, unrec

:evilgrin:

[asdjrocky]

2. People be smoking Yes We Cannabis.

[polpilot]

16. 'Imaginary' Obama!! Now that's my main man!

[lwcon]

18. See also

Tom Tomorrow's character, "The Idea of Obama."

[marshall]

4. Everyone needs a pocket Obama to believe in

If for no other reason, just to keep hope alive.

[Ozymanithrax]

7. I support the President, but disagree with some policies...

Your list doesn't make sense to me or anyone I know who supports him.

[lwcon]

8. Why doesn't it make sense? n/t

[Ozymanithrax]

11. None of the polices above can be summed up in a for or against..

As I see it, the OP is attempting to make a point that since Obama doesn't follow these polices that perhaps he is not acceptable as the head of the Democratic party. But few of those things are black and white, and we must consider the alternative. What would McPalin's stand on those policies be?

[lwcon]

13. Truthiness may be the death of us all

Let's start for the first one.

Is Obama opposed to or in favor of a(nother) surge in Afghanistan? He is, in fact and unequivocally, in favor of a surge in Afghanistan.

The alternatives range from not increasing the troop presence all the way to leaving Afghanistan entirely and immediately.

What would McPalin's stand be? I dunno, a surge maybe? But their surge wouldn't be awesome, 11-dimensional, and transformative, so there's a difference right there.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Bookmarked and recommended.

I just gave reasons on another thread in regard to Loving Obama. Many of my points are listed by you, but I forgot a few ... I have good recall, but this is a litany. Thank you!

My recent post
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=7762308&mesg_id=7763634

[lwcon]

15. Thx, your list had some I didn't get to, as well n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

17. Your welcome. I have been bookmarking some threads as I go

along (including my own!) to jog my memory when someone posts diatribes about how great this administration is.... Very glad to be of help! :)

[Goldstein1984]

12. I think your Obama might be Alan Grayson or Bernie Sanders or

Ralph Nader.

[lwcon]

14. Not Alan "Public Option" Grayson, no thank you

Bernie, maybe, though he did cave on the lousy Senate HCR bill (albeit to get some real investment in community health centers).

Re: "public option", see...

http://www.pnhp.org/search/google/public option?query=public option&cx=015249405663905105964%3Aebn8t4lcngk&cof=FORID%3A11&sitesearch=