Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Finally a Democrat with a spine. Robert Shrum in the article below is absolutely correct.
Democrats have the best policies. Democrats have a platform that is middle class centric as opposed to the Republicans. Instead of falling back when there are minor blips it is essential that Democrats grow a spine and fight. You cannot expect the President to fight if he has a base that bends over or run every time there is some less than optimal outcome.
Democrats know there policies would ultimately bring a better life to the middle class. As such they must be willing to remain steadfast and support our president.
The Democrats’ self-defeating crybaby chorus
By Robert Shrum
After a special election loss in New York City, many on the Left are boneheadedly fleeing Obama — just when they should be rallying to his side
posted on September 16, 2011, at 7:58 AM
Before the month came thumping in on elephant feet, I wrote that each August since 2007 had marked a cruel passage for Barack Obama and suggested how he might turn the ides this year. It was not to be, and maybe never will be. The month actually culminated — and confirmed its unhappy course — on September 13, when a machine-ordained Democratic candidate lost the New York City congressional seat of the deflated Anthony Weiner to a Republican tea merchant.
The GOP reaction was predictable: This was a referendum on Obama and a portent of doom in 2012. After all, here was the first Republican elected from this district since 1923. (Actually, that’s a sloppy factoid, echoed in the media, to make it easy to blame Obama first; it’s a fact in the Brooklyn rump of the district, but not in Queens, the district’s predominant swath, where Forest Hills and other neighborhoods sent Republican Seymour Halpern to Congress in the 1960s and 1970s.)
Al Smith, the master of the sidewalks of New York, in a characteristic phrase, might have called the Democrat in this special election "a bum." At the least, David Weprin was a bumbler. He confidently offered up a figure on the national debt; he was off by 10 trillion (with a ‘T’) dollars. He skipped out of a debate, citing the threat of Hurricane Irene; the storm had already passed. He didn’t go on the attack until it was too late; he never brought Gov. Andrew Cuomo into a district where he is overwhelmingly popular.
James Carville would have the president play a hasty game of musical chairs that would turn Obama’s ship of state into the Titanic.
Weprin fled any identification with the president after former New York Mayor Ed Koch urged voters to retaliate against Obama’s Mideast policy by rallying to the Right. Koch, whom I was proud to help defeat for re-election in 1989, has a record of exploiting ethnic tensions and turning on his own party. He race-baited Jesse Jackson in the 1988 presidential primary — and in the past, he’s endorsed Rudolph Giuliani, the state’s last Republican senator (Alfonse D’Amato), and George W. Bush. […CONTINUED…]