When David Brooks likes Obama, Obama is in trouble. I think he is in trouble. JFK was in trouble until he stopped listening to the centrists, the CIA, the FBI, and came out in favor of Civil Rights, which LBJ ran with losing the Southern bigots. Obama must show he is a man of principles even if he goes down in defeat on healthcare. If he takes the moral high ground and provides affordable healthcare to everyone and loses, he will campaign against a "do nothing Congress" as Truman did in 1948, and won. Then in 2010 he can pick and choose which Democrats to support and which ones go into a primary. He has to go to every Blue Dog and tell them "all or nothing at all." When he did not select Howard Dean as Secretary of Health, I knew that he betrayed the cause. Sibelius is not worth shit. Geitner is not worth shit. Summers is not worth shit. He should have asked Paul Volker or Paul Krugman to be his secretary of the Treasury, and the other to be his chief economic advisor. Wall Street and the Banks would have been furious. Fuck then as they fucked the country and the little guy. The Republicans are being the populists instead of the democrats. That is one fucking stupid mistake. There are no Wall St. Republicans, only Wall St. democrats. He turned over populism to the rural bigots. The Dems should be the tea baggers. The Dems should be the revolutionaries. He must put the torturers on trial and pillory Bush and his cronies.
Obama has the skill set and brains to do it. He must act like Teddy Roosevelt not FDR. So far he has been a disappointment to me. He still has plenty of time to get it right. JFK survived the Bay of Pigs by getting rid of Allen Dulles and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We got to get out of war that he did not start. If Gates doesn't do it for him, then get someone else. Pull a Lincoln until he gets a Grant. We are at war, internally and externally, and reaching out across the aisle is BS when all the Republicans want to do his bring him to his "Waterloo". He has got to be a "passionate" killer. He won the election, now he has to govern the country and his party, after he wins the domestic war.
Martin S. Friedlander, Esq.
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