Rachel Maddow: This Is The Oval Office Address I Wish Obama Had Given (VIDEO)

Here's an idea - run for office. Being President doesn't come with a magic wand or a crown.

Um, has anyone actually explored if reconciliation is really an option? This is what I remember about it, but then again, reconciliation has become the catch-all comeback when Obama critics can't understand why the Senate just sucks.
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Liberals need to listen what black people are telling those who think President Obama isn't doing enough for us. "Pres Obama was not the President of Liberal America, he's the President of the United States of America and his policies and actions have to reflect that" Among the other things Pres Obama has said that has been conveniently forgotten by his most ardent supporters was something he said on election night "for those of you who didn't vote for me, I understand but I will be your president too" (or something like that). Just as with escalating the war in Afghanistan, it's apparent his supporters thought he was "just saying that because it sounded good".

Frankly I wish this was the speech President Obama gave. Lord knows the public polling and support for the kind of action Rachel espoused demanded it.

Sorry, but some of us who are disappointed former Obama supporters aren't fantasizing about some progressive utopia where the Senate and House rubberstamp whatever he wants.

No, some of us are upset because of his failure to live up to his own promises with regard to executive actions -- that is, the actions he doesn't require Congressional approval to take.

Like compromising Miranda. Keeping Guantanamo open. Habeaus Corpus. Extraordinary Rendition. Refusing to prosecute Bush administration criminals, but charging Bush administration whistleblowers. Defending illegal wiretapping in the Supreme Court. Authorizing assassination of American citizens.

No, you can't tell us that the progressive positions on these issue are too liberal for America -- Obama won the election promising to stop all these practices, so obviously the public was willing to go along with them.

You can't blame these broken promises on the filibuster. These are unilateral executive actions.

You can -- I suppose -- defend these decisions by saying he's learned more now that he's President. Fine. But then don't complain when we are disappointed that he broke all these promises to a large part of his volunteer base without even an explanation.

Painful to watch. Cringe worthy really. I'm a HUGE Maddow fan. This is the lowest and most embarrassing moment of her career.

So what Rachel is suggesting is more of the Unitary Executive thinking supported by Dick Cheney.

Why is that a non-starter?

You spineless progressives commenting on here are pathetic!. You guys miss the whole point of her tirade. She is basically saying that for actual change to happen you need to start using more forceful language and presenting demands to the legislature. As the right, has ramped up its rhetoric to the point where they feel it is safe to defend a corporation that is openly and continually destroying the environment, the left can't allow these idiots control messaging and the path of legislation, yet some democrats are still on this quixotic mission of bi-partisanship. Now is the time for progressives to press the advantage. Who gives a crap if the right is saying that the President is using this to push some radical agenda, they will say it anyway. So damn the torpedos and go for broke. Democrats should be screaming from the rooftops how the right is holding up progress. Progressive need to realize there is war going on. The war is for the heats and minds of the American idiot.

The biggest lie in Washington and the electorate in general is the "independent" voter. This much sought after group of un-informed dupes who gets swayed by advertisement and political spots. The people who are too lazy to get information on their own and form their own opinions.

God this woman is full of herself.

If you took out the oval office behind her and the pretense she was the president... Would you care?

No, you'd probably be elated.

Fantasy land aside, don't you armchair quarterback? Man, I wish obama would do this... or do that... or close guantanamo. If I was president, i'd totally do this. Is that immature? Naive? Childish? Hell no. It's armchair quarterbacking, yes, it's not the same thing, and she admits to it. But she says what SHE wants to hear, which, if you're a viewer and supporter, for the most part, thats what You'd want to hear. I want to hear that there's no rock unturned, that we're not only treating the symptoms, but curing the disease of oil addiction in america, that we hold corporations responsible for their actions and the government agencies responsible for holding them responsible... responsible. I want substance, not style. I want results, not promises.

Now if I was President Obama...

Pitch-perfect. Anger is a gift, as Zach De La Rocha once intoned. Obama, where is the outrage? People want sympathetic emotional response. Even disastrous W hit the right tone at ground zero on September 14.

That was truly the speech I wish the President had given. I hope Rachel seriously considers a stint at Presidential speech writing if she ever tires of being one of the very best muckraking reporters on cable tv today.

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