Barack Obama

... days after Obama took office, the whining began.

He let some RW pastor give a 30 second invocation ... GASP.
He was never going to end DADT.
He was going to CUT/GUT/SLASH Social security.
He was never going to leave Iraq.
He was going to make the tax cuts for the wealth permanent.
The ACA was awful and going to kill us all.
During his first term, any down turn in the DOW signaled a Double Dip recession.
He was going to invade Egypt, Syria, Libya, just like Bush had invaded Iraq.
He was never going to support ending DOMA.
Every months we add jobs, UE down about 5 points, and apparently all those are meaningless jobs.
Housing market was going to continue to collapse.
And of course, a DU standard, every Dem in congress sucks. Except maybe two or three.

All of these at one time or another were common wisdom on DU. Threads screaming bloody murder, rec'ed to the Greatest page over and over. And all for the most part, totally wrong.

In 2011 ... a large part of this site started to call for a primary opponent for Obama. Ignore the fact there was no such potential candidate in sight. The screaming was endless. And useless.

None of this nonsense moves the party in a more progressive direction.

Back in 2011 I tried to tell the folks demanding a primary of Obama that they'd do better to spend their time trying to find and BUILD more progressive candidates for 2016. And if they did not ... then by 2015, they'd all be here whining about Hillary Clinton and how there was no one strong enough to challenge her from the left.

And where exactly are we?

Right where I said we'd be.

So please feel free to run around whining about Obama, Clinton or Dems like Kay Hagen. Is the US Senate better with her, or with the Tea Bagger that replaced her?

You want to fix the party? First get as many Dems elected to office as possible. Even some of the Blue dogs where that is necessary given a states ACTUAL voter base. Then, build new candidates at the local level. People who will, overtime, move up and into positions of greater influence.

Or ... come to DU and scream about how awful the Democrats are. Because that somehow magically creates more progressive alternative candidates.

Oh ... when you watch the news shows ... watc the pundits. The one on the RW, angers that base, to get them to vote. And the one who is nominally positioned as the "liberal", listen to them all but tell Democrats that their candidates suck and they might as well stay home.

Get the angry RW base to vote a little more, get even a small amount of the perpetually disgruntled left to stay home, throw in some good old fashioned GOP voter suppression of minorities, and the youth vote ... and a party that should be DEAD, gets a shot at winning elections they should never win.

Enough details for you?