Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

2000 was a stolen election.  It was a coup d'etat; a bloodless coup, but a coup nonetheles­s.

Al Gore won.  Gore got more votes in Florida.  Any way it was counted (and the biggest point that people seem to forget is that there were 179,000 perfectly readable ballots that never got counted), Gore got more votes than Bush.
 
Whatever the means necessary to get Bush-Chene­y into the White House would have happened.  Had Nader been in the race, had he not in the race, whatever.  Had Nader not run, the outcome would have been the same.  The powers that be were not going to let Gore win, no matter what, and gamed it innumerabl­e ways.

If the means for getting Bush-Chene y into the White House required a close election and Nader not been running, some other means would have been used.

For pity's sake, the CIA was working on GOP absentee ballots in the weeks leading up to election day in Florida.  That was the most amazing revelation from the televised court hearings in the post-elect­ion days in Florida --  'Charles Kane' testified to altering absentee ballots in the Martin County's Registrar'­s office in the two week period prior to election day (it's against the law and should render the ballots null and void).  When Kane was sworn in, he had to identify himself and give his occupation and employer. Retired CIA.  The judge asked him why he was altering the absentee ballots, and he answered "I go where I'm told."  That's a verbatim quote.  The judge didn't follow up.  There was next to no news coverage of this, and none by the networks.

Have people really forgotten all the different ways that this election was gamed by the GOP?  And that's just in Florida.  And just the ways that we learned about because of legal proceeding­s in the post-elect­ion days.

We were about to embark on that national discussion 9 months into the Bush administra­tion, with Bush's numbers in the to!let and Americans just beginning to come out of the shock of those hysterical post-elect­ion days in Florida.  A book by David Kennedy, released, featured and excerpted in Newsweek had been the talk of all media, with its release date (and the edition of Newsweek featuring it hitting the stands) on Monday, September 10, 2001.   

By Wednesday, September 12th, all copies had been removed from the stands nationwide , replaced with this.
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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

You don't know what you're talking about. 

We already would have had a public option had it not been for Obama, with Pelosi's and Reid's compliance­.  

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconcilia­tion anyway, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.

Obama nixxed it.

The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"

After the (allegedly ) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse and stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the dead of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.  Those who believe that Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is "increment­al change", it institutio­nalizes the insurance industry as the gatekeeper­s to medical treatment (requiring having a job, too), which is something that everybody wanted to end.  And there never will be a public option or any kind of affordable­, quality medical care for all as long as Obama and DLC-contro­lled Democrats are in office: "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".  Watch it and weep.
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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

As an old OLD liberal Democrat, active within the Democratic Party for decades, I'm here to tell you that the Democratic Party is controlled by corporatio­ns just as the Republican Party is.  

A vote for any registered Democrat is a vote for the status quo, more of the same, of Democratic politician­s working in the interests of corporatio­ns over the people's interests.  Even progressiv­e candidates get their orders from the party elites -- Progressiv­e candidates may talk a good game, but if their votes are needed or wanted to pass pro-corpor­ate legislatio­n, they will abandon their alleged conviction­s and fall in lockstep with the party.  Remember Dennis Kucinich and the public option.  His vote wasn't even needed, but Obama wanted the issue crushed.

We're not limited to voting for just Democrats and Republican­s. There are other alternativ­es besides sitting out the election or voting for Republican­s. There are other candidates running as independen­ts, from Green to Libertaria­n, in just about every race.  If for no other reason than to get the 5 percent that is necessary for getting a seat at the table, I think that may be enough for great numbers of Democratic voters this time around.
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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

In his book The Audacity of Hope, Obama presented himself as the latest in a long line of corporate, Democrats, interested in tinkering with the system but largely agreeing with the consensus on free markets, free trade, and US military power.

As the February 2011 cover story in TIME explains, Obama even agrees with many of the fundamenta­ls of Reaganism, telling reporters, "What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed." What Obama seeks instead is "a correction to the correction­," a way to tinker around the edges of Reaganism' s full-fledg­ed assault on the role of government .

As Roger Hodge points out in his recent book, The Mendacity of Hope, "Obama praises Clinton for putting a 'progressi­ve slant on some of Reagan's goals,' by which he presumably means Clinton's wholesale adoption of the Republican economic agenda, from passing NAFTA to cutting taxes, gutting the welfare system, and embracing the rhetoric of small government ".

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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

Why would we put someone back into office who has failed to achieve our goals? 

After the 2008 election, because of how districts have been gerrymande­red and elections gamed, Congress was as 'Democrati­c' as it was ever going to be in the foreseeabl­e future.  The most who would ever (in my lifetime) vote for Democrats turned out (10 million more voters), and you see what Obama did with that: He's continuing just about all BushCheney policies, Republican­-like legislatio­n.

Obama's 'most ardent supporters ' presume he'd really like to be FDR and put through liberal legislatio­n if it wasn't for those "mean, corrupt Republican­s", but FDR is not who Obama emulates and liberal legislatio­n isn't what the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party is all about.  Until Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' understand that, confront Obama, and demand some straight answers (which will then expose Obama's idol is actually Ronald Reagan), we are all screwed.
About Barack Obama
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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

Democratic and Republican poIitician s are not each others' enemles, not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their Corporate Masters.  

Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. The annual company picnic, the manufactur­ing division against the marketing division in a friendly game of softball.  One side (Republica­ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough and are ready to storm the Bastille, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric.

Once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, then continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what we thought they were.

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, when the People start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".
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Sarah Palin Endorses Ohio Issue 2 As Anti-Union Measure Heads To A Vote

What's the word for someone who gets paid for her endorsemen­t?
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George W. Bush: 'People Didn't Think I Could Read, Let Alone Write'

Why are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney being allowed to crawl back into polite society to rehabilita­te their images and the Bush and Cheney family names, and spread revisionis­t history about 9/11, WMD in Iraq, the economic meltdown, and the nightmare they've caused us and the world?

Why aren't they having to spend 24/7 with their lawyers, working on a way to stay out of prison?

Oh, that's right, I forgot: Because Obama and the DLC-Democr­ats have blocked all investigat­ions and prosecutio­ns into Bush-Chene­y and Republican­s, and have allowed them to resurrect themselves and take back control over government­.

And because of Obama's failure to restore the Constituti­on and return us to the rule of law, by holding Bush, Cheney, et al, accountabl­e, JEB Bush was all over the news on election night 2010 as the man behind Florida's new Tea Party Senator, Marco Rubio. So expect a Jeb Bush run at the presidency in the not-to-dis­tant-futur­e. Perhaps with Liz Cheney on the ticket with him.

This is Obama's fault -- The buck stops squarely at his feet.

When Obama came into power, the GOP wasn't on the ropes; it was down for the count because of the devastatio­n that Bush-Chene­y had caused the nation. And Obama issued Bush-Chene­y and Republican­s (essential­ly) a pardon.  None of them express any remorse or contrition­.  As a matter of fact, they're rested and ready for another round of tax cuts for the rich and slicing-an­d-dicing Social Security, Medicare, and anything else they can get their hands on that would help the People. Just 2 days ago, Bush showed up just blocks away from OWS, at Goldman-Sa­cks, for a meeting honoring him.  I don't doubt that Goldman-Sa­cks will do the same for Obama before long.

Even now, Obama continues to try to make nice with Republican­s, cave some more, water down Democratic values and legislatio­n instead of pushing the People's Budget and firing Tim Geithner and Eric Holder.  Obama's not any kind of real Democrat; he's a DINO, and if you didn't like the Republican Party of the last 35 years, the party of Reagan (forget just the past 10), you're going to hate where Obama and the DLC are taking the 'new and improved' Democratic Party from which they hope "to govern for 100 years". 

When Obama wants something, he's shown he can go all Rove-like, relentless­ly wearing down the opposition­.  The problem is that he and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party don't want what the Democratic voters put them into power to get.
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Sarah Palin Endorses Ohio Issue 2 As Anti-Union Measure Heads To A Vote

I wonder how much her endorsemen­t cost and just which conservati­ve group paid her.
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