Look at the comments on the extremist liberal site Daily Kos about the President dropping the public option. (Now, how many times has he dropped it?)
Wow. His supporters are pissed-off, in deep emotional pain and feel betrayed.
Here is one comment such comment:
It’s hard to maintain a sense of equilibrium when you see all those around you, who have fought so hard for this issue, in emotional pain.
and another:
Obama is/was nothing more than another con-man politician . . . who knew how to speak the words that people outraged and despairing by eight years of Bush policies wanted to hear. But that’s all they were.
or this one:
We’re there to donate $, man phone banks, generate enthusiasm, and then let the “grown ups” make policy decisions the way they always did. We’re getting Clintonism w/o Clinton. Soon, we’ll get V-chips and school uniforms, or their contemporary equivalents.
and another:
if you take away the showmanship, it’s looking like Obama was never on the right side of that war - not even from the start.
(BTW, the Daily Kos allows readers to recommend comments, so when you see numbers by the comments it indicates how many people are agreeing or not with the comment.)
So, here are two unbroken chains of comments (I did not want to be picking and choosing, just took two tranches from the front page of 1,321 comments!) posted by DailyKos readers. My strong recommendation is to click on the link above, since the cut and paste job below does not do the Daily Kos site or the comments justice, and if you do not click through to the Daily Kos, the cut and paste below makes it difficult to follow the comments. Here’s the link again.
Much much more at:
http://www.redstate.com/dan_perrin/2009/09/03/daily-kos-comments-on-obama-dropping-the-public-option/