Obama 2012 Campaign Helped By MoveOn.org, AFL-CIO Super PAC Alliance
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
I've asked Obama's 'most ardent supporters' a dozen different ways and they all keep dodging answering these questions. It looks like they all keep dodging even THINKING about these questions:
How do you think a win by Democrats in November would be interpretted by Obama, Democrats and the media? What do you think they will think they have a mandate to do?
Criticism and failing numbers in the polls have done nothing to persuade this president or this Congress to move to the left. What makes you think they're going to do in the next 2-4 years with less of a majority that which they refused to do when they had held the White House and both houses of Congress after the 2008 election?
Right before the midterms in 2010, Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress said that even with a Democratic victory they'd be caving more to the right. It was Obama who put Social Security and Medicare on the table. Ron Wyden was trying to sell his working with Paul Ryan as a good thing. Nancy Pelosi has already announced she's behind Simpson-Bowles (Catfood Commission).
We've been doing it the corporate DLC's way for 20 years now, and the government and the Democratic Party keeps moving farther to the right. If Obama's 'most ardent supporters' are on the same side and want real Democratic policies, and going about getting them their way (protecting Obama, reelecting DLC Democrats) is getting Republican policies and NOT Democratic policies, when do Obama's fans realize that maybe they don't know what they're talking about?
When do they realize that they've become that classic definition for 'insanity' ("Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results")?
Do they ever realize it?
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