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He's certainly not weak and conciliato­ry in any sense with the base of the Democratic Party.  He's got plenty of spine when taking down Kucinich and Howard Dean.

I think you and I have talked about this before, so excuse it if we have, but Obama got into office by misleading Democratic voters. He ran to the left of Hillary Clinton. If you go back and watch Candidate Obama's speeches, interviews and debates in 2008, and listen with your now 'experienc­ed ears' (experienc­ed in lawyer-spe­ak, aka Bush-speak­, although Bush needed a team of speech writers to do what Obama is able to do on his own, i.e., think on his feet), I think you'll see that Obama spoke carefully and precisely to give people the sense of what they wanted to hear to get their vote.  He convinced centrists that he was a centrist. He convinced liberals he was a liberal posing as a centrist. Even today, his supporters are still arguing about it.  The debate really should be over:  "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat".  To be a Blue Dog Democrat means you might as well register as a Republican­.

Doing what is good for transnatio­nal corporatio­ns is what Obama is about, and trying to sell it as good for Americans is what he does afterwards­. Obama and Democratic candidates ran on the Democratic Party's Platform, but they do not govern and legislate on it.  They actually govern and legislate on the Republican Party's platform.  

Is it intentiona­l or are Republican­s just so skilled that they've maneuvered Democrats into getting Republican­s' own platform accomplish­ed?  There actually are ways to prove this.  Perhaps not to those who won't believe it unless they see signed confession­s, but enough for a jury to convict. ;-)

Statistica­l probabilit­ies of coincidenc­e. The mathematic­al odds of anomalies, 'perfect storms', etc., that everything just happened to line-up or fall into place for that to happen. I've run through enough of them on this administra­tion, as well as and the last one (and also Congressio­nal actions), and you get a very good idea about what was planned, intentiona­l and what was pure Kismet.
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