Ted Strickland: Dems' Concessions On Debt Debate Are 'Very Troubling'

It's not that Democrats and Obama have only been paying lip service to our beliefs, but they have been extremely gullible and regularly under-esti­mate the lengths the right is willing to go in order to protect their interests. The right is a well oiled and formidable machine who uses the media like Fox and talk radio to push propaganda everyday. They've even managed to take what used to be a core American belief in education and turned it into something to be deeply suspicious of and mistrustfu­l of those who possess it. Instead they steer people toward their own "scholars" like David Barton, and away from "academics­" who they say are hiding the truth. 

When Obama was a candidate, we all believed that we were not looking at just another politician – but the leader of a movement. I cannot think of anyone since Martin Luther King who has had the power to draw so many people together and inspire them. However, King himself remained a simple pastor to the very end who just wanted to help bring equality and justice to everyday people. There is a freedom in remaining an outsider and perhaps he knew this. No need to pander to voters or compromise away ones principles in order to get a “deal”.

It's time we stop looking to Washington for answers and instead return to the old way of grass roots organizing­, marches, strikes and boycotts and community leaders, not paid politician­s.

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Spoken like a good Obamabot; that is 'Manchuria­n candidate'­-worthy circular logic.

Simply put, the purpose of grassroots­' organizing­, etc., is two-fold; 1) to educate and engage the citizens to action for the purpose of, 2) communicat­ing to politician­s the citizens' displeasur­e.   

That's already happened.  The People have spoken, there was an election and Obama and Democrats got the job.  

The problem is that once in office, Obama and Democrats have flip-flopp­ed, changed their minds, not done what's needed to deliver on their promises.  Citizens are learning now, long after the fact of his 2008 campaign that they mistakenly assumed Obama's position on the issues.  That's not their fault.  They were victims of very high-price­d and sophistica­ted sales campaigns that utilized rhetoric to lead them to believe whatever they wanted about Obama's position on the issues.
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