i know what the panel is trying too express, when the climate is throwing the rock and hiding your hand!yes, i believe he should go, he’s not exposing weakness in his party!he’s tone in with turn coats and backroom deal politics not expressing balance!the light is shining on th american government too be for the people by the people instead , of segregated politics! my take is if the president is channeling the president from his state then, it’s good your seeing your help and the enemy at be! we keep slipping into darkness with politics as usual.365 days is good tool too use too see people at work!remeber,blackwater have contracts and blackpathers or the one’s that should of had the contract!a,b,c, d, outside of the box is what’s needed in this nation ,a new breed of american citizen approach those who govern not taking the easy things for gran it and always keeping american health and welfare free from all this drama!!!!!!!!

blackhornet72, is is so difficult to read anything you post, so when if reach the first “!” to end a sentence, or try to figure out where one sentence ends and another begins (no caliptal letters to begin sentences alont with the “!”), I just move on.

Dude, you need some serious remedial english classes.

Get them now. Or do eveyone a favor and move on.

1. get’um!!!only tokens and toms apply!2.get’um!!!!a broke clock is right twice a day,only a fool don’t think so!3.get’um!!!im’ma be cool only monkey see is what those monkeys do!i’m not here too cause calamedy or anarchy so, think past the box is our goal right!worring about the munute things[i can't spell either!]peace and love, hommie!that’s what i’m thinking about are you?

Roland,

I am making it my business to comment on each and every blog that discusses the Massachusetts election and the problem the Democrats are having. I heard Axelrod and the panel’s comments about the issue. Let me be as clear as possible, all I hear is the same inside the beltway, conventional wisdom on why Scott Brown won and what the Democrats did to cause that election to be lost.

I heard Cornell Belcher argue the problem is the politics not the policy. Karen Finney says its the message, not the policy. They could not be more wrong. President Obama has been excellent in explaining the policy goals, but then the policies don’t match up with his rhetoric. As the person from Rollcall correctly noted from a private comment he received from a Senator, there is no leadership. This president is the most risk adverse, non-confrontational president I have seen in years. He is acting more like a Senator than a chief executive. He needs to knock some heads in congress and force his policies through, like Bush, FDR, and LBJ did.

President Obama’s problem is simply this, he needs to actually govern for the people, and not constantly riding the fence trying to convince the electorate he “feels their pain”, while his policies only sustain the status quo. He needs to stop telling us the economy is improving, while the people see their jobs and health care continually lost. There has been this mentality in the country that if the stock market is rising, then the economy is doing better, that’s simply not the case. We have seen the wall street bankers, who caused the mess, continue with their corrupt activities, handing out billions in bonuses, while main street suffers.

If this president continues to listen to the conventional, inside the beltway, bubble mentality of governing from the “center” he will fail. We elected him because he ran as an outsider, willing to fight to change those practices, and all we see is a President who has become a part of the game played in Washington. He has not bee nearly progressive enough, no matter what conservatives proclaim. Axelrod made the comment the president wants to continue to reach out to republicans to see if indeed they mean what they say, that they want to work with this President on health care and financial reform. Is he kidding! What more can they do to show him they want this president to fail. We did not elect him to go to Washington to be “bipartisan” and work with republicans, we elected him to go to Washington to push through policies to improve our lives. Guess what republicans will come around when they see the policies we want succeeding, because they won’t dare stand against policies that improve the lives of the average American. There’s a reson FDR and LBJ’s policies stand until today, and that’s because they are effective. If they had followed Obama’s strategy and continually compromised until the heart of any real reform is completely meaningless, we would be in worse shape as a country right now.

Obama needs to discover his inner FDR and LBJ and kick some ass. We need to see this president actual propose policies and then fight like hell to push them through, something he has yet to do. I have heard people say we expect change overnight, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. We know full well the extent of the damage 30 years of conservative policies have done to this nation. The problem is, we don’t see him fighting for real change. He is all too willing to “settle for what he can get”, more inside the beltway political philosphy. In case the beltway hasn’t noticed, we are suffering out here. We do not need another president who is beholden to Washington interests. We need a president with guts, and who is willing to put his presidency on the line to save this nation. He is too deferential to the “center”, which are the very elements that lead us to this point.

He needs to push the progressive policies we know will be successful for America. His desire for bipartisanship is ok, but what he really needs to bring back his base to actually govern and pass policies that will benefit them. It is not about optics and message, it is about substance. The President won the educated vote for a reason; it’s because we are reasonable, rational, logical, and intelligent thinkers. We know fluff from substance. He can’t fool us like Republicans constantly fool their supporters. We are much more discerning than they are. So he must actually govern, not make speeches.

Rahm made a comment the leadership didn’t have to worry about the left of the party, well they received their message Tuesday night loud and clear, YES YOU DO!!! Ignore us at your own peril! Emanuel needs to go along with Summers, Bernanke, and Geithner.

Donald Strong
Augusta, GA

We need to make our Senator’s accountable, give the president and his staff help and relief and make the real ones accountable us and your state represenatives. Rahm needs to stay and continue to hold up the presidet