Barack Obama
In reply to the discussion: Dear God... Our President needs us Now. [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)a dynamic balance between perspectives. I don't idolize BO, I like him, but I don't blind myself to reality FOR him and it's scarey to see so many people who blind themselves to reality AGAINST him, because even when we might agree on motives & outcomes, that kind of extremeness (from the right or from what calls itself "the Left" DAMAGES where we are headed and how we will get there. I agree with some of these Obama haters if they really are (???) motivated by a Liberal agenda, but their passions and negativity have taken precedence over success on the issues. It's sad.
The great labor leader poet Eric Hoffer mentioned this problem:" Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern for the quality of results than by a purity of motives." And Hoffer was NO wishy washy indeterminate whatever. He was strong and passionate.
Hoffer also said, "It's the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate."
around-the-corner is what is doable and opiates paralyze people and give them excuses for no action and no results, other than frustration and hostility. I think some intense learned helplessness is at work in lots of places.
Glad to see you here, loyalkydem!, we have been needing some POLITE but strong help!!!