As I read the commentary written by David Sirota,  , Obama, be progressive! Voters want you to go big and go liberal -- and not channel Clinton-style incrementalism.

I fell that David Sirota missed the whole point of what the election of Obama really is about.  His commentary was pretty much what He wants of this election, not what the overwhelming majority of us who voted for Obama wishes for. One statement stood out as definitive of what he wants,

 “President Obama cannot credibly claim he lacks the political capital to legislatively steamroll a humiliated GOP and its remaining senators.”

This election was not about steamrolling anyone, it was significant in that it was about bringing all together, we are all a part of this nation and it is time to bury the kind of politics which smacks of partisan politics and “let’s get even”.

We don’t need to “get even”, we need to heal. We have had enough of the Tom Delay, Karl Rove style of politics. All it has done has split our communities as enclaves, families into divisions for which defining Americanism as ether Red or Blue, either for  us or against us.

We are a unique Nation, the most diverse Nation on earth. We are not so steeped in tradition that inhibits progress. That diversity is our strength. To divide and conquer is to make us weak.

Yes Obama perhaps has the political capital to steamroll and humiliate the GOP, but why should he, they have done such a good job themselves I see no need to rub their collective faces in it. 

“They must, for instance, acknowledge their progressive mandate, rather than denying it as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did on Tuesday. "This is not a mandate for a political party or an ideology," he fearfully told reporters.”

Sorry David, Harry Reid is right, this was a mandate for change, change from partisanship more than for a liberal agenda. Yes it is a progressive mandate, but progressive in it most definitive form, not something which happened when some  Liberals decided that as the word having  become out of favor, they  hijacked the term Progressive and define it in a very narrow context, that of their narrowly defined “Liberal” agenda.

To be truly progressive is not being of any political rigid philosophy, but to be pragmatic in how you can accomplish that which is needed to restore this country’s economic, social, environmental, and educational infrastructures. To be progressive is to build stability for the future and for ourselves, our children, their children and grandchildren.  To respect others who share this planet.

That is the mandate that was given Obama.