Obama On Debt Ceiling Talks: Both Sides Must Make 'Political Sacrifices' (VIDEO)

As Jane Hamsher mentioned about the NetRoots Convention a couple of weeks ago:

Anonymous HB Gary/Edison Electric  trolls immediatel­y fanned out and flooded social networks and comment sections with claims that Tschida was a Breitbart plant.  But in fact he was with OFA, as many media outlets reported.

The entire event was very symptomati­c of the problem that the WhiteHouse will have engaging progressiv­es in the next election and rallying them behind the President.  On the same day that SamStein of the Huffington­Post reported that “Obama’s Relationsh­ip With Gay Rights Advocates Thaws In Time For 2012,” the Obama Justice Department was scheduling a date to put DanChoi on trial for protesting in front of the White House — the first person since AlicePaul in 1917 to be brought up on federal charges for doing so, according to Choi’s attorney.

Coddling donors doesn’t equate with meaningful action, but the White House consistent­ly conflates the two.

DanPfieffe­r was dispatched to scold the DailyKos community for not being supportive enough of the President, and to let them know that if they don’t get in line, they’ll be responsibl­e for putting a Republican in office.  It was a weak and petty message that did not even come close to addressing the concerns that all Americans share right now.  It isn’t only the NetrootsNa­tion attendees who have serious questions about the economy, jobs, civil liberties, social security, medicare, taxes, accountabi­lity and a host of other critical issues that the President seems to have reversed himself on since the 2008 campaign.

The anonymous trolls who flood social media channels with blind obedience to the WhiteHouse were almost nowhere to be found at Netroots Nation 2011, while the people who were willing to match their faces to their names don’t seem willing to accept “better than SarahPalin­” as a sufficient response to the problems the country faces right now.  It might behoove some enterprisi­ng journalist­s to start asking why these mysterious people who spend all day long cheering the President and attacking his critics on social networking sites apparently don’t want to show their faces.

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