This isn't about me, but since you insist on making it so, I come to conclusions based on evidence. Some of it I provide links for and other evidence I have from my professional and personal experience living and working in government and Washington. As we're all anonymous here, that evidence doesn't matter (as doesn't yours), and this is the first and last time I'll mention it.
The evidence that I've provided in links to other URLs alone is adequate to support my conclusions, and apparently many others agree. Diehard Obama supporters like you are doing this in order not to admit Obama is not what they purport him to be.
During the healthcare reform debate, Obama never once pressured Lieberman for threatening to filibuster any legislation that had a public option in it - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/21/lieberman-obama-never-pre_n_399355.html
Obama did pressure Dennis Kucinich, crushed him, when Kucinich's vote wasn't even needed. Obama went after Kucinich, the last remaining holdout on the Progressive Caucus, for threatening to vote no on the healthcare bill, and we all know how that ended. Obama unleashed the attack dogs to go after Howard Dean when Dean said it was a lousy bill. Dean was forced to get back into line.
But not Joe Lieberman. Not Blanche Lincoln. Not Mary Landrieu. Not Ben Nelson.
When Obama needed Blue Dogs like Mary Landrieu and Ben Nelson, he bought them. He sweetened the pot by giving more to their states in the legislation. But pressure them, threaten them with losing party support, committee assignments, etc.? No. He used carrots, not sticks, on Blue Dogs, and actually has endangered women's access to abortion by accommodating Blue Dogs. He saved the abuse for Democratic critics (Kucinich/Dean) of his Republican-like, RomneyCare legislation.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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