Pam's House Blend:: Why do Christianist bigots even try doing rap?

President Obama

is far from perfect, and there are good reasons to be disappointed in him so far, but that he's a do nothing president or because you lost your job at a bakery is not one of them.

If they only watch Fox News, yeah they probably haven't seen anything he's accomplished. And if they don't pay attention to the filibustering, nomination blocking, turning against their own legislation republicans then it makes sense that they'd blame the President.

President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, he signed a bill to expand veteran benefits, he signed kids tobacco legislation, he signed a land protection act, & SCHIP, gave the Cairo speech to the Muslim world which he followed up with this year appointing a special envoy, & has represented our country abroad (Europe seems to be pretty fond of him for the most part), he oversees an EPA that has shown it is willing to get tough on environmental issues via regulation if the congress won't via legislation, he gave a widely watched education speech, he's advocated for science in our schools, & is for stem cell research, he's appointed a supreme court justice, he's ended torture (ordered a return to the use of the Army Field Manual), respects the Geneva Convention, and has plans to close Gitmo (albeit behind schedule after responding to facts on the ground), he's going to have us out or Iraq next year and starting to pulling out of Afghanistan (the one that actually attacked us) at the same time, and start disclosing all White House visitors so there is no wiggle room for defining lobbyists. And there were good parts of the recovery act, and cash for clunkers which had an environment and economic purpose, and the first time home buyers subsidies, and challenging the BS conservative leaning SCOTUS ruling. And there is a Jobs Bill that will hopefully be signed soon.

Signing the Matthew Sheppard act into law, the ryan white care act, he has lifted the travel/immigration ban, he has expanded federal benefits to gay spouses which is the largest employer in the US, and a few gay appointments aren't enough. Having gay couples attending white house events is hardly worth mentioning given the way it happened, but I did like that the State of the Union guest list mentioned a gay couple adopting.

I know McCain would not sign a DADT repeal, so if the President actually signs it (not just keeps saying he will sign it if Congress does the work) then it'll be clear to me that he's the lesser of 2 evils compared to the Republicans. He's not been the fierce advocate he promised to be, but he has done a lot on other fronts, and gets way more shit than I've seen any other president get this early into their term with how much he has done.

If we can get DADT repeal, and an inclusive ENDA signed into law, and UAFA before the end of his first term then I could actually get excited about voting for him again. I'm not holding my breath, but I'm not giving up either.

by: Jake Gellar-Goad @ Sun Feb 28, 2010 at 21:21:13 PM CST

Why do Christianist bigots even try doing rap?

by: Pam Spaulding

Sun Feb 28, 2010 at 21:42:34 PM EST