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I LOST AT THE COMMENTS

I usually stay away from the comment section of the political, or any other for that matter, blogs but I got caught today.

Some guy on Daily Kos got onto Obama today about his new budget which will "destroy" social security. I guess he isn't a socialist after all.

Some days I am ashamed to be a progressive or a liberal or whatever.

So I went to see if others' reaction to this post were as negative as mine.

No. They were worsed.

I finally ran into a couple of people who were balanced, saw the Obama strategy as a strategy and understood negotiation as a process.

So I wrote this

I am with you David54. And a few others who have the courage to call some of this insanity out. I read the comments on this post and come away with the strong feeling that us so called "progressives" can foam at the mouth and be a'ginners just as much as those right wing nuts. Not a grasp at all of the political process or the art and science of hard ball. The Obamas are not angels but they are running their game with a considerable skill which somehow the ranters choose to ignore. I am on SS incidentally. I don't much like compromises with MY entitlements either. And yes, I know all about the national debt and SS role in it. I also know the debt has halved in the last months and I also know that there has to be a way to paint the GOoPers into their ugly littler corner. A little bait is a good thing guys. Otherwise we are the same as them. It is as bad to be all in for some fixed position on one side as the other.

If I am smart, I will leave the page now and never look back as I will be hooked into even more of this bullshit.

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