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In reply to the discussion: Please...Cut the Crap~ [View all]davidthegnome
(2,983 posts)Well, except maybe being a bit richer and more privileged. There's plenty of good and bad to go around. There are various things he deserves criticism for - and various things he deserves praise for. Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. I will not refrain from criticism when I feel it is valid or deserved. I will even call my friends jerks when I think they are like jerks. I will even call myself an idiot when I think I'm being one.
But, you know, I think we really need a liberal President who is an absolute, raging bull to anyone who stands in his or her way. We need someone with immense fiery passion and charisma, with leadership abilities the likes of which have only been rarely seen upon this earth. This is why I liked Howard Dean so much. He didn't really sit down and shutup and he didn't take hostages.
It's time to stop pretending we can reach out to the other side and negotiate. We passed that point long ago. Future progress, significant progress of any sort... will HAVE to come from the left, because our idea of progress is the conservative republicans idea of evil. And vice versa.