Barack Obama
In reply to the discussion: Dear God... Our President needs us Now. [View all]patrice
(47,992 posts)It's done for effect, say upon the 47%, i.e. the REPUBLICAN base, some of whom really do belong with us.
Some of it is also meant to rally responses from constituents on all sides, to get people actively involved and to paying attention for what happens next.
Negotiations are not as straight forward as the media and many people on this board want us to think they are. EVERYTHING is on the table and CPI is not everything. It's one thing, the first bit in this most current round. Think of poker with many players and an enormous deck of cards.
Yes, we have good reasons to distrust government, but those reasons will not be served by blinding ourselves to reality, in fact, what took advantage of us before can and will do it again if we don't stop pretending that we know everything we NEED to know and quit coming to pre-mature INFERENTIAL conclusions.