loyalsister (8,637 posts)
Obama is furious with us, and he's right to be
The NRAs power is that they are organized and effective ad peddlers. The tea party's power derives from their fearlessness. We need to be less afraid and more organized. We really need some leadership here. If nothing happens, I bet Obama will take it on with the kind of zeal that drove Carter with Habitat for Humanity.
Obama is furious with us, and he's right to be. We should be furious with ourselves. We should still be screaming about those 20 dead children, and the hundreds of bodies that have followed them.
President Obama stood in a room named for a man who gave three decades of his life to making the nation safe from guns, and he told us nothing would happen until we took action, until we replaced a do-nothing Congress with one that would do something, anything to stop the killings.
He's right; it's on us.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/obama-blames-us-for-the-oregon-shooting-and-hes-right-20151002#ixzz3nY6JoTKD
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Evergreen Emerald (11,224 posts)
1. We let him down
Many times. He wanted to lead a revolution. And once we elected him, we sat down and expected him to do it all. How many times did he ask us for help? How many times has he said he cannot do it without us. And we stayed seated.
He should be made at us.
Won't someone think of the children?
Wait. Someone is thinking of the children...
ColesCountyDem (4,824 posts)
2. Kick. n/t
Fred Sanders (17,585 posts)
3. Obama is indeed righteously furious with us children for not being righteously furious enough with
the daily death and maiming of America by guns and racism, the result being now over a milllion gun deaths during just the past 6 administrations. I am not making that up! A million....plus the maimed, the injured, the emotionally and mentally wounded, the ripping apart of social safety, not to mention.
Any other nation would declare a national emergency but apparently only things like two deaths due to Ebola - and mass ignorance - or a brown boy with a scary clock, or highly distorted videos made with an agenda and somehow spun into a national financial crisis, meets the definition.
To me there is one word that explains and defines this not at all unique kind of misplaced and displaced fear....racism. Racism as it has ever been with the results as they they ever where.....a sick society.
A word I think encapsulates and, I think, is synonymous with - denial, lies, hate, ignorance and general mental instability.
How am I wrong?
Congress is in session. Anything short of pitchforks and torches in front of the building until the Deniers of the GOP are made to swallow some of their own manufactured lies and fear will be dissapointing as well.
While you are at it save some of the righteous anger and torchlight parade for some of the occupants of Rockefeller Square and Madison Avenue.
mwrguy (2,058 posts)
28. The American people have truly let him down
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027227949Gun grabbers are children who need someone else to protect them.
