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Obama's 'most ardent supporters' claim that he's a centrist. 

They say that he always has been & that those Democratic voters who voted for him because they believed him to be a populist, a liberal, weren't listening (forget the fact that Obama ran an aggressive progressive campaign, and to the left of Hillary). And, they say, conservatives who insist Obama's a liberal are either stup!d or so far right and unpolitically savvy, they don't even belong svcking up space and time on political discussion threads.

To those who thought that during the 2008 campaign, Obama was a moderate and wasn't trying to deceive anyone, what did you think he meant when you heard him saying during the campaign that people had to stay involved after the election, that they couldn't just vote for him, go away for four years and expect that he would do what they had hoped. That "there are powerful interests working against what the people want, and if you want me to do your bidding, you would have to make me do it".

What did you think he was talking about?  Did you think he was just being honest, admitting he could be corrupted?  Did you think he was trying to deceive centrists, corporatists, into believing he was really on their side but liberals and progressives could get him to keep his promises to them if they sat on him, kept after him?  

What do you think it takes to get Obama to keep his campaign promises?  Because his healthcare legislation doesn't do it, his finance reform legislation doesn't do it (it wouldn't have prevented the meltdown, nor will it prevent the next one).  What did you think when Obama said it was Congress's job to write the healthcare bill, he was staying out of it, and then you learned that Obama was double-dealing the committees writing the bill, cutting secret deals with PhRma, hospitals, Big Insurance (then lied about it, said they hadn't), which Congress would be bound by?

What did you think when Obama and Rahm Emanuel, as soon as they got into the White House, went after Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin, two people with no job in the Republican Party, instead of the Republican leadership in Congress?  What did you think when after the 2008 election, with the GOP not only on the ropes but down for the count, got a pardon from Obama?   
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Most of those posting here are political operatives being paid to be cheerleaders.

In a very real sense, on this thread they're cheerleading the $16 million because that's how they're being paid.  

There are even some who pinch-hit for both parties; they work simultaneously as both Democratic-supporters and Republican-supporters, commenting at different websites.  

We have Karl R0ve to thank/blame for creating such a job in the first place. 
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If Obama is continuing just about all of the Bush-Cheney policies, if Obama's healthcare legislation is Bush's Medicare Reform Act of 2003 Part 2 (and doesn't do what voters put Obama and Democrats into power to achieve: Affordable, quality medical treatment for all),  if Obama's finance reform bill doesn't actually reform anything, wouldn't have prevented the meltdown and doesn't prevent the next one, if Obama is not doing the policies (not proposing them, not pushing them through Congress, not taking to the bully pulpit, not putting his foot to the necks of Republicans and Blue Dogs, not doing what a real Democratic president would do) for real job creation and is going along with millions being out of work in America for years more (at least a decade), if Obama is putting through more free trade treaties, if Obama is not working to remove the tax breaks for outsourcing jobs, if Obama is continuing rendition, t0rture, expanding the wars, continuing to let war profiteers make obscene profits, and so much more, how is he not in the category of Bush-Cheney?
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"The fear, OMIGOD, THE REPUBLICANS ARE COMING!!"


 The fear campaign again that we thought we were getting rid of when we put Democrats and Obama into power.  No more pre-election Osama B!n Laden tapes leaked.  No more 'overseas travel advisories', and non-specific terr0rist threats plastered all over the media in the weeks before an election.

We were supposed to be done with all that; Democrats were supposed to be better.

The fact of the matter is:

Once teabagger Scott Brown got elected, he moved to the middle, is in the Republican Caucus (he ran as a Republican) and votes like one, and said, "Sarah Palin who?"

Sarah Palin herself governed Alaska as a Republican, which is no different than any DLCer governs.  If you're not afraid of Evan Bayh, you have no business being afraid of Sarah Palin.

Liberals need to take control of the Democratic Party and start educating the American people on what liberal policies are, explain them in detail and then discuss why they are the solution.  Liberal policies were, after all, what made this country great, built the American dream and created the greatest middle class in the history of the world.  

And then Nixon came along and wrecked it all to heII.

The DLC is ideologically aligned with Republicans.  It's the old Republican party, before Ralph Reed delivered an organized Christian Right to the Republican Party.  Pro-corporate, anti-populist, pro-war, anti-civil rights, pro-police state, chipping away at privacy rights, abortion rights -- There's no defending that out of any Democrat.
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The fear campaign again that we thought we were getting rid of when we put Democrats and Obama into power.  No more pre-election Osama B!n Laden tapes leaked.  No more 'overseas travel advisories', and non-specific terr0rist threats plastered all over the media in the weeks before an election.

And "Christine O'Donnell is coming!" alerts.

The DLC-Democrats' campaign slogan, "Be very afraid if the Republicans get control again of Congress".  

We have Obama and Democrats to thank for the resurrection of Republicans.  The GOP & Bush were down for the count after the 2008, and Obama gave them all pardon.

The DLC-controlled Democrats' slogan for the 2010 election: "The other guys are worse."  (not really)

If Republicans are such scvm (and I believe they are), why isn't Obama investigating and prosecuting the greatest heist on the People in all history?  

Why are Obama and Democrats continuing the war crimes of Bush & Cheney, and blocking investigations and prosecutions into their crimes?

Shame on you, JanPoore; we were supposed to be better than this.
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As an old liberal Democrat who's lived through decades of party politics, I suggest that you consider Democrats and Republicans as working on the same side, as tag relay teams.  Or 'good cop/bad cop'.  One side (Republicans) make brazen frontal assaults on the People, & when the People have had enough for that round, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric. 

Once in power, Democrats then consolidate Republicans' gains from previous years, & continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertising campaigns.  They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't even what the People thought they were.  

Whenever the People get wise to the political shenanigans & all of the different ways they've been tricked & start seeing Democrats as no different than Republicans, Democrats switch the strategy.   They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business -- This current one, because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc., is custom-tailored to Obama's 'bipartisan cooperation' demeanor, and is smirk-worthy when you realize they're trying to sell that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do, and that's "a good thing".     
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Over the course of US history, corporations have managed to game our political system, & done it so effectively that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests while defending that service as, "What's good for GM (corporations) is good for America (We the People)". 

Democrats (controlled by the DLC, and that's important to remember) & Republicans are corporate t00Is. Like siblings competing for the attention & approval (campaign contributions) of a parent, Republicans & DLC-controlled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituent, BigCorporations. The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of WeThePeople. 
 
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama & Democrats were for strong regulations on banks, WallStreet, investigations, prosecutions, restitution of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmental clean-up, clean, sustainable renewable energy (& that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq & Afghanistan, affordable, quality universal healthcare (which ObamaCare is not), and more. The DLC-controlled DemocraticParty gives lip service to these & all populist issues, because like the RepublicanParty, the DLC works for the benefit of transnational corporations.

If you must continue to delude yourself into thinking Obama's a good guy who never would have started those wars, & who has only the best of intentions (I don't share that opinion anymore), but got a bad deal, then think of all this as a business plan where the Corporate Masters of the Universe have charted out their plans years in advance (governments do them, too) & select the politician/personality best able to achieve those plans in 4 year increments.  If you want to l!e the country into war for oil & war-profiteering, then George W. Bush is your man to front it (with Dick Cheney, the former Secretary of Defense who initiated the privatizing of the military a decade earlier, actually running the operation from the shadows).  

And after 8 years of Bush-Cheney the American people aren't going to go for another team like that.  They're going to want HOPE & CHANGE, with a persona they can believe in & trust.  BarackObama.
  
The truth is that Obama is no better than Bush-Cheney.   Not better, not worse, but the same.  His 'most ardent admirers'  just like the packaging better.  I'm not talking skin color, although that may be a factor for some of them; I'm talking about how a 'D' after the name is a brand they trust believe and trust in, despite the fact that it's the same 'soap' (product).

Unless and until there is drastic and uncompromising change to our campaign financing system, until corporations are no longer 'persons' and are prohibited from participating in elections and politics, all efforts to reform government are useless.  

Once campaigns are publicly financed, then reforming our system & returning the government to the People can begin.  That's when the work really starts.
   
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