[lbo-talk] Enthusiasm

[Eric Beck]

[This whole article is a knee-slapper, but the paragraph below is
insanely hysterical: We street-fighting men and women were at home,
waiting to be summoned to the barricades, but they never called us!]

Enthusiasm?: I Am Not Interested in Things Getting Worse!
By Bill Fletcher, Jr
http://www.pdamerica.org/articles/campaigns/2010-10-27-10-51-34-campaigns.php

[...]

The deeper problem, and one pointed out by many people, is that the
Obama administration did not encourage the continued mobilization of
its base to blunt the predictable assaults from the political right.
As a result, many people sat home waiting to be called upon to
mobilize. Instead, we received emails or phone calls asking us to make
financial contributions, or perhaps to send a note regarding an issue,
but we were not called upon to hit the streets.

[...]