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Now some of you out there on the left want Obama to emulate Bush's management style by picking only people who totally agree with you and yours on all counts?  Do you see the problem there?

I only mention this now to ask those who are jumping all over Obama to back off – not for good --- just for a while. Give the guy six months in office. Then do and say what you will. Every President needs and deserves a critical peanut gallary.

But to be jumping all over Obama before he even takes the oath of office is stupid and self-defeating. It's like the abused dog that now bites every hand that reaches out to him, even in kindness. That dog may keep potential abusers at bay, but he also forecloses on any chance of finding what he really needs and deserves.

So just calm the hell down out there for a bit. And stop sending me those kind of emails until you are operating on something more than your Bush-inspired paranoia and damaged nervous systems.

Obama is not perfect. But he is also not Bush --or Clinton. And thank goodness for that.

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Now IS the time to petition them if we want any say by Steve Windisch (jibbguy) on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:55:16 PM
What you are ensuring is that you will be ignored... by Steven Leser on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:06:11 PM
This is the point, give Progressives THE CHANCE by Steve Windisch (jibbguy) on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:01:15 PM
This is the point, give Progressives THE CHANCE by Steve Windisch (jibbguy) on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:01:20 PM
Old joke appropriate here: by Stephen Pizzo on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:54:23 PM
IT IS TIME TO SPEAK OUT LOUD!!! by G Achin on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 6:35:41 PM
Where's the Change? by Sean Fenley on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 4:29:40 PM
The usual suspects and the usual complaints... by Steven Leser on Friday, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:45:15 PM

 
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