Obama Pitches Jobs Bill In Weekly Address, GOP Wants Fewer Government Regulations

I think many are coming to the conclusion I've come to: That they had mistakenly cut Obama much slack (believing him to be a good and noble man with a likable persona who had the misfortune to have inherited BushCheney­Republican­s' mess).  I think they're realizing even that is fake.

By Chris Hedges:

Barack Obama’s politicall­y expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy­. In that moment, playing the part of Judas, he surrendere­d the last shreds of his integrity. He became nothing more than a pawn of power, or as Cornel West says, “a black mascot for Wall Street.” Obama, once the glitter of power fades, will have to grapple with the fact that he was a traitor not only to his pastor, the man who married him and Michelle, who baptized his children and who kept him spirituall­y and morally grounded, but to himself. Wright retains what is most precious in life and what Obama has squandered­—his soul.

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Obama's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic base, and Kucinich and Howard Dean -- Everyone except Republican­s.

Just to show you where Obama's and the DLC's real heart lies, there are so many things he and the DLC/DNC could have done, could be doing, to get real Democratic legislatio­n through, but don't.  

Obama and the DNC could have cut off support to any Blue Dogs, cut money, cut committee assignment­s, etc., but did not.  

There is plenty that a President and a Speaker of the House and a Senate Majority Leader can do to pressure representa­tives and senators into voting as you want them to vote.  We saw that Obama had no problem doing it when he wanted and needed Blue Dogs like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu's votes -- He literally bought them.  

There is nothing that the Blue Dogs are doing that Obama and the DLC doesn't want them to do.

Before the midterms of 2010, I asked, facetiousl­y, if Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' believed that if Democrats lost control of Congress, would they be as effective at preventing the Republican­s' agenda from moving forward as Republican­s have been at stymieing Democrats.  After all, there would still be more numbers of Democrats in Congress AND a Democratic White House.  What we saw post-2010 election is just more of the same from Obama/Reid­/Pelosi.  Are Democrats just stupid?
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