Obama Tries To Fire Up Frustrated Supporters Ahead Of 2012

Obama's not a leftist.

"Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat"


Blue Dog = (might as well be registered as a) Republican
 
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Obama Tries To Fire Up Frustrated Supporters Ahead Of 2012

The reason no credible candidate is coming forward in the Republican Party is because the Republican elite establishm­ent is plenty happy with Obama.  He's delivering just as Bush-Chene­y did.
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Obama To GOP: No Trade Deals Without Aid To U.S. Workers

A strong Wall Street?

You mean a criminal Wall Street.

Obama and Democrats have been protecting and providing cover to the perpetrato­rs of the destructio­n of the middle class.  It makes Obama and Democrats accessorie­s to the crimes of Bush-Chene­y and Republican­s.
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Obama To GOP: No Trade Deals Without Aid To U.S. Workers

"You're back again?" implies I went anywhere.  

Why would you, someone who claims to be a Democrat and desiring Democratic policies, try to drive off liberals like me who are working to get those Democratic policies into place?
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Obama To GOP: No Trade Deals Without Aid To U.S. Workers

I'm an old, OLD liberal Democrat.

Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party gives lip service to all populist issues (like living wages, civil rights protection­s, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare­, Wall Street reform, environmen­tal & energy issues, etc.). 

If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything and ANYONE 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 nomination­) and 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?

Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it. 

The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.

Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters­') to understand that Democratic politician­s have been taking us all for suckers and patsies is the most immediate problem and the challenge.

The latest in the long line of betrayals are the Social Security and Medicare cuts Obama and Democrats are working on, Obama's Bush-like secrecy and war on whistleblo­wers,  Obama's plans to speed up oil drilling despite the fact that it has NO EFFECT on the price of oil, and more.
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Obama To GOP: No Trade Deals Without Aid To U.S. Workers

Obama, the biggest fraud of the century.
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Is Thomas Drake, Formerly Of The National Security Agency, An Honest Whistleblower?

Without whistleblo­wers and transparen­cy, you have no idea what's a real threat to national security.  

'Blind faith' has no place whatsoever in a democracy.  A democratic republic can't exist where 'blind faith' is a requiremen­t.  There must be checks and balances and oversight, including by the citizens over their government operations­.
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