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Obama, RahmEmanuel, the DLC, DavidAxelrod, DavidPlouffe, all have worked their butts off to prevent real progressives getting into office. One example right off the bat is BlueDog Blanche Lincoln.



Going against tradition & practice, the WhiteHouse put its full weight & support behind BlancheLincoln over the true progressive candidate in the primary, union-backed Lt. Governor Bill Halter.



Presidents do NOT get involved in primaries. Citizens have little enough of a Constituti­onally-gua­ranteed role within this democracy as it is -- We have the right to vote, but not to have our ballots counted (the founders were nothing if not ironic). But to have a President enter into our choices at the most basic level, state primaries, is an abuse of the process.



While Obama is the first president to do it, it wasn't the first time Obama did it.



Obama made a deal with Arlen Specter and put the full weight and support of the Democratic machine behind Specter during the 2010 primary in Pennsylvania, trying to buy off Joe Sestak (among other alternative candidates Democratic voters in PA might have wanted to vote to have representing them). Consider that: Obama actively went about trying to prevent Democratic voters from choosing their preferred candidate for the US so that a DINO, Republican Arlen Specter, could retain the seat.



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