Rick Mordecon writes: As an independent, seeing the health care bill passed makes me much more likely to vote for the Democratic agenda this fall. I think the decision they made with strong leadership from the president, was courageous & visionary, two things I look for in my representatives to government.
The online people at MSNBC might want to Google these things before they transmit them. One Rick Mordecon, a New York filmmaker, has a Facebook page that clearly states he is a "fan" of Barack Obama (and of MSNBC's Luke Russert).
On his MySpace page, this Rick Mordecon lists Obama and George Soros as "Heroes" and expresses among his "Interests" the program "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."
He lists Obama, Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, and Fareed Zakaria of CNN and Newsweek among people he'd like to meet.
His MySpace page also mentions a blog and on there, he really unloads like an MSNBC fan:
Reality Check 2- "Massachusetts Mayhem" - Martha Coakley was the wrong candidate in the wrong race. An Ed Markey might've done a lot better. I'm an independent for Obama, and if I was a voter in Massachusetts last week, i would've been hard pressed to vote for Coakley, although to support this president, I probably would've voted for her. Still, my impulse not to vote for such a terrible candidate would've been strong. But not as strong as my belief that if you do not vote, you do not have any real claim to legitimacy when it comes to political opinions. So I might've taken one for the team on Coakley.
Reality check 3: "Dysfunction Junction" or "A great president needs a great congress to get things done". if Mr Obama gets a B+ for his first year in office, congress gets a D. This is significant part of Mr Obama's problem. Any president's problem. Presidents can't be kings. They need congess to get things done, and this congress is more dysfunctional that most. On one side you have the radical racist right wing tea baggers who jsut hate the fact that we have a bi-racial president, and will use any tool any tactic to derail his smallest initiative. These people are reprehensible, but they are real, and no american should discount their power. You can be killed by a sledgehammer, or a mosquito. These tea baggers are the mosquitoes of American politics. They are small, but organized, and vocal. Sometimes the loudest voice does not represent the largest person. So the democrats need to watch for political malaria from these tea baggers.
Then there's his poem to Obama's election (and did I mention he's a huge fan of Maya Angelou?) That comes through:
In a field of others dreams, the nightmares of rope and chains.
In the sun, no shade, in the winter, pain and longing.
In a lanky, lovely, lonely man, a spark of humanity that becomes a bonfire of revolution, maiming brothers, splitting rivers, dividing reason, then healing wounds with soft touch and hard loving.
