Basically he is saying be patient,let the process take it’s course, kinda a like a Baseball manager sticking up for the guy who is in a huge 0 for 30 batting slump.

Actually, that’s what he never said. He never said, “Let’s be patient guys. I’ve got a master plan,” and what’s dangerous is to assume that President Obama is doing what’s best for the American people (instead of what’s best for the private healthcare industry,) and then we will somehow magically end up with a public option. To grant that much trust to a man, who has thus far proven himself to be a centrist moderate, would entail a shocking amount of naivety.

So many people say they voted for Obama – or Gore, or Clinton, or Bush, etc. – because the candidate they really liked wasn’t “viable.” VIABLE? What the fuck is that?!? Just how viable can a Nader, Paul, or other alternative be if those who agree the most with their positions won’t even vote for them? This whole “viability” thing is just a piss-poor excuse used by those who can’t stand not voting for a “winner”! It also means that people don’t think their favorite candidate has the ability to convince others if given the chance.

I’ve often heard it said that things would have been different, “if only those Nader voters wuld have gone for Gore in 2000.” I say – BULLSHIT!!! In reality, things would have been different if the Gore voters would have gone for Nader! Some problems really do have simple solutions. If the problem is the system controlled by the two major parties – then the solution is to stop giving those parties’ candidates your vote – PERIOD! If you continue to vote for the D’s and R’s, you are the problem and you should probably sit down and STFU!

Remember the 1996 election, when we were so disaffected that the choice between Bob Dole and Bill Clinton barely seemed like a choice at all (as brilliantly satirized on The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror)? That reality hasn’t changed in spite of the Bush years. I doubt we’ll ever have a viable candidate with a progressive agenda in this country – you’d have to have a major restructuring of the entire economic system FIRST, and THEN you could actually get someone in power who wasn’t a glorified puppet of big business. But how do you restructure the economy without progressive people at the highest levels of government? So it’s a catch-22 as far as I can tell. In lieu of any kind of revolution, all we can do is make as much noise as possible and hope to get enough people pissed off that the “captains of industry” have no choice but to appease us a little bit. I could be wrong but I think that’s the best we can do at this point.