Anyone who had a pulse in the past 20 years knows how Republicans have succeeded in getting what they want. Just watching BushCo this past decade should have awakened every citizen to the fact that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politicians and the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans -- If you keep at it, escalate your attacks, don't take 'no' for an answer and never back away, you will wear the opposition down.
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the Democratic Party's nomination) and beat out the oldest, most experienced politicians in US history (including the R0ve machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep impeaching Bush and Cheney off the table, have us still reelecting them and not marching on Washington with torches and pitchforks?
They know how to do it and they know how to stonewall us when they don't want to do it (and keep a good portion of us still thinking they're really nice, would like to do it, but are merely inept).
Obama doesn't want to take this fight, or any fight, to the People. He doesn't want to take the fight to recalcitrant Republicans' states, to John Boehner's and Mitch McConnell's backyards, despite the fact that they've got unrest back at home over their policies.
I don't know how anybody can still believe that Obama is on the side of the People.
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