Obama's 'job', as he sees it, and the DLC-controlled Democratic Party's 'job' (as DLCers see it), is to deliver to the top 2%. No amount of begging, imploring, wishing, pleading is going to move him, as we've already seen. Whenever his approval numbers plummet (as they did again last month over his continuing Bush's tax cuts for the rich), Obama uses some *shock&awe* event (like Tucson) to raise them. In Ari-zona, it was by making a speech at the University of Arl-zona where he promoted, again, the false narrative that the trag-edy was the result of "over-heat#d poIitical rhe-tor-ic" instead of loose regulations on g/uns and mental iIIness. Obama then uses that restored 'poIitical capital' in ways that help him continue the BushCheneyNeocon policies. He's gone silent on g/un regulations. but didn't Michelle look dazzling in red the other night?) and expanded mental health services around the nation.
Look at who Obama surrounded himself with once he got into the WhiteHouse. Not one liberal. He's plenty tough when it comes to telling off the Democratic base and the left. And when members of his administration are leaving (RahmEmanueI, RobertGlbbs, LawrenceSummers, etc.), he replaces them with more of the same. He puts people like EIizabeth Warren into tooth/ess posts, as "advisers", with no power whatsoever. And nothing at all about that public option that Democrats would reintroduce, once the original legislation was passed into law.
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