In 2008, we gave Democrats the best that's possible, not just for now, but for the foreseeable future, given the political climate & ideological layout of the population geographically, the state of our educational system and a media that keeps voters ill-informed, AND the rules of government which have been gamed to keep the status quo of corporate-control of government and legislation written by lobbyists.
Democrats have refused to use the tools they've had available to them to get real Democratic legislation and reforms through, or even change the rules that they claim are hamstringing them.
With Citizens United, corporate 'personhood', and 2 political parties unmotivated to outlaw any of it, 2008's 60-member Democratic Caucus with 2 Independents & 7 Blue Dogs was the best it was ever going to be.
The fact is: Obama deliberately sabotaged any chance of delivering on the change he & Democrats were put into power to deliver, with his 'go slow'-bipartisanship approach with Republicans who made it crystal clear that they wouldn't "cooperate", weren't interested in bipartisanship, and would vote lockstep in opposition to everything Democratic during the 2008 campaign, & even before then, with the 2006 victories that put Democrats in control of both Houses of Congress.
Obama's a DINO. A Democrat-In-Name-Only. He's ideologically a Republican, more precisely he's a neoliberal (no relationship to liberal at all) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism .
Not only have Obama's actions since getting into the WhiteHouse (and even before, with his FISA flip-flop in July, 2008) told us this, but the Republican-like legislation he's pushed through into law have. And his continuation of just about all Bush-Cheney policies. Plus going Bush-Cheney one better, asserting that a president can imprison anyone indefinitely, and k!ll Americans without due process, no oversight, do it all secretly without Congress or the Judiciary or the American people ever knowing.
This is BushCheney on steroids.
Just like "You are what you eat", "You are who & what you vote for".
If you're supporting Obama & voting for incumbent Democrats, you're a neoliberal, & cutting your own throat economically, socially, culturally and in every way: http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=376
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