Know Your Obama Outsourcing Claims:
It's the free trade treaties (with Colombia, Panama and S. Korea, in addition to the new and super-secretive Trans-Pacific treaty on the horizon) we're talking about - http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=3907:new-free-trade-agreements-threaten-to-kill-jobs-and-labor-rights
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And when Obama does want Blue Dogs' votes, he buys them. When Obama needed Nelson re: Stupak Amendment, he 'bought' his support.
Obama could've done that for Nelson's or Lincoln's or Lieberman's vote at any time. But he didn't because he didn't want it.
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“Leiberman can totally be trusted. He's proven it.”
I think Obama's "led" brilliantly; just not on the people's behalf. He's managed to deliver to his Corporate Masters while convincing his 'most ardent supporters' that he's either too nice, inept, or that his failures are because of Republicans, [pick your excuse].
Talk of Democratic politicians having no spines are greatly exaggerated, just like Obama's timidity is myth: He's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic base.
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-controlled DemocraticParty gives lip service to all populist issues (like jobs, civil rights protections, restoring habeas corpus, ending the wars, public healthcare, WallStreet reform, environmental and energy issues, etc.).
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's 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 Rove were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush and Rove 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, never back away, you'll wear the opposition down.
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish Clinton's machine (to get the nomination) and the oldest, most experienced politicians in US history (including the RoveMachine) 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 BushCheney off the table, have us still reelecting them, 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.
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Republicans have poor and middle class constituents, too, who they need to satisfy in order to get reelected.
Republicans cave when Democrats hold their feet to the fire. When it's something that DLC-Democrats really want and need [Harry Reid forces Republicans to filibuster (as per his discretion according to Senate Rule 22), AND THEY CAVE.]
What John Boehner said not long ago:
'U.S. House Republican Leader John Boehner said he would vote for middle-class tax cuts sought by the Democratic Obama administration even if it means eliminating reductions for wealthier Americans'.
How serious do you think that was?
Do the math. Olympia Snowe would not 60 make. That was kabuki theater, and not even good theater.
Everything about Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats is kabuki theater, aimed at those constituents most desperate for real Democratic political champions. The desperate, with the most to lose, are the most trusting -- They believe because they think they have to, because they feel they have no where else to turn.
They don't realize that they hold all the cards, all the power (their votes), and if and when they do realize their power, they will be a force to reckon with. But not by giving it away to Obama and these current Democrats. Not for nothing.
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