No professional Democratic politician will challenge Obama. Even DennisKucinich has already announced he won't, even if only in a symbolic campaign.
The solution won't come from within the DemocraticParty; not at the top of the ticket or anywhere else.
While the DLC-controlled DemocraticParty tells constituents, "If you want liberal/progressive policies from Obama & Democrats in Congress, you have to get liberals/progressives into Congress", in fact, Obama and the DemocraticParty's machine have worked to prevent liberals/progressives getting into office on a broad-based scale and with a scheme that has included:
Chucking the successful 50-state-strategy (that got Obama into office and a filibuster-proof Senate with 60 in a DemocraticCaucus in 2008),
Deactivating the Obama campaign's OFA operation, which was the email list that directed 13 million activists across 50 states to spring into action on any issue,
Sitting back while the RepublicanParty drove ACORN (the most successful and legitimate Democratic voter registration operation) out of existence;
By supporting BlueDogs and Non-Democrats in the 2010 mid-term primaries and general election:
* BlueDog BlancheLincoln over progressive Democrat Lt. Governor BillHalter.
* Republican-turned-Independent ArlenSpecter over (barely) progressive Democrat JoeSestak.
* Republican-turned-Independent LincolnChaffee over (not progressive) Democrat FrankCaprio (which, in turn, is an effective endorsement of the Republican JohnLoughlin over Democrat DavidCicilline for the congressional seat Democrat PatrickKennedy is retiring from, and all of the other seats up for grab in RhodeIsland).
* Republican-turned-Independent CharlieCrist over liberal Democrat Kendric Meek.
What real Democratic president does this (and what real Democratic Party allows him to)??
By getting involved in the election at the primaries' stage, Obama became the first sitting president in US history to interfere with the citizens' very limited rights in this democratic republic to select who they will trust to make laws to which they consent to be governed.
Citizens have little enough of a Constitutionally-guaranteed role within this democracy as it is without a president usurping it. Citizens have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic). But to have a president enter into our participation in this democracy at this most basic level, state primaries, and supercede our choice for his own, is an abuse of the process and a powerful message about Obama's contempt for the People's role in a democratic government, our voices and our choices.
I am an old OLD liberal Democrat telling you that the Democratic Party has been thoroughly corrupted.
About Elections 2012
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