As I said during the health care debate, it's not the job of the President of the United States to stand up for a pure ideological vision--his job is to cut compromises to implement policies that improve on the status quo.

with a straight face.

Really?  Maybe he could inform us how much the status quo has improved with this president's compromises.  Or not - someone who admits to being really excited about the Affordable Care Act has a different status quo than I do.  Or most people do.

Matt thinks Gibbs and Obama are confused?  Really?  This isn't confusion we are seeing and hearing; it is the petty and indignant hissy fit of people who would prefer to consign to a void of indifference anything other than compliant and servile gratitude.

Honest to God, if we have to get up every day and put on our Big Girl and Big Boy pants and deal with life as it is - with unemployment, still-crappy health care, erosion of our privacy rights, the cover-up of torture, rising costs, crumbling infrastructure, war-war-war - why shouldn't they - why aren't they?

Is it too hard?  Not as much fun as they thought?  Did they really think the media-darling thing was a lifetime membership, never to be revoked?

Keep talking, Gibbs.  Keep patting us on the head when we're good and putting us in the corner and calling us names when we're not.  Keep talking down to us.  Make sure all your little toadies extol the virtues of living the Stepford Life.  

What have you done for me lately, Barack?

Have you given me, or millions like me, a job?

Have you given me, or millions like me, a clear philosophy of operating government to benefit me or millions like me, rather than your bankster buddies?

Have you ended the wars?

Have you ended the torture?

Have you ended the lies?

Have you demanded and forced accountability - not just in the form of showcase hangdog "I'm sorry" crap that any eighth-grade (or grade-school) teacher would see through, but in the form of actual people - elite people who are responsible for this catastrophe, not the schlubs at the bottom - going to jail and being made broke and having their lives ruined for the wrongs they've done?

No.  You haven't done squat for me or millions like me.

It takes some balls to want me to be grateful for that kind of sh*t dumped on my head and, to be quite clear, you ain't getting it.  

No money from me, no GOTV time from me, and no vote from me.  I'm not happy with your performance in office and I surely won't be lining up at the polls to ratify it.

BTW - what the h*ll do you do in the White House all day, anyway?  You sure as h*ll can't get a single nominee who'd have passed for a Rockefeller Republican, let alone a Democrat, into office, you don't name people and you surely don't have a big enough set to recess appoint anyone.  Are you watching reruns of Sportscenter or something, like the rest of us who are unemployed or underemployed?

I guess I should be grateful, though.  John McCain wasn't elected President, so Sarah Palin never got the chance to go all Lucrezia Borgia on him and take over.  Not that she and her version of the American Idiot tour would be getting any more press than she already is.

"And from Gibbs's perspective, and the White House perspective, they ought to be able to catch a break from people who, in their view, should be grateful and appreciative." link