the president speaks some hard truths

[freshwest]

7. There is so much great in this OP. This is part of what I think people forget at DU:

“Another way of putting it, I guess, is that the issue has been the inability of my message to penetrate the Republican base so that they feel persuaded that I’m not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I’m somebody who is interested in solving problems when it comes to Democrats, the truth of the matter is, with fairly thin margins over the last five years, what’s been remarkable is the degree to which Democrats have been unified and worked with this Administration to accomplish some big things, even when there were a lot of political risks involved.

No mealy-mouthed defeatism in our party, they have a bravery that is never acknowledged. For too long, the GOP version of masculinity and strength their base believes in, seems to have pervade online voices.

Just as I have seen people of color stand tall and continue to do what is right in the face of racial taunts, an unfair playing field and little to work with, yet not go off the handle like RW gun fanatics, I know the face of true strength is quiet and steady.