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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (147867)	12/20/2014 8:17:02 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149319

Romanticizing? Were we romanticizing Teddy Roosevelt? Was FDR romanticizing? JFK and Bobby Kennedy? I said when Obama was elected the dems controlled both the house and the senate and Obama had a huge army and the country behind him That was the time to take the fight to the Republicans! He did. That's was when the ACA got passed. No Dem including Clinton has been able to accomplish that feat. And even then there were Dems who did not vote for it. But he chose to disband the army of liberals (so they would not nip at his heels as he turned right, IMO) and he distanced himself from the democratic party not really wanting to be associated with us. Both Richard Wolff and Chuck Todd point this out. I am on my forth book on Obama trying to understand the guy. I have read one by Michaels Lewis, Chuck todd and on my second by Wolffe. There is no army of liberals. They are a bunch of white people, mostly men, who think they know what's best........and they keep screwing it up. They all say the same thing about Obama, so I am guessing they know what they are talking about and speaking the truth! Obama right after election turned to an inside game hiring tons of Wall street folks and Clinton and Republican political insiders trying to work with the rabid right wing. It seems he had the idea if he could distance himself from the dems the pubs would play nice. Fat chance. You know koan.............I am a liberal but I don't agree very much at all with your perspective. And unfortunately, liberals are a wing within the Dem. I haven't done a head count but I suspect that they are far less than a majority. It is also said that is why he deported twice as many Hispanics as Bush. He was hopping to get a better deal. And just recently he tried to push Summers to the fed, again, (both times the senate dems stopped him) and now has Weiss up and Warren and the senate dems are trying to stop him. One of the major problems with liberals.........and I had to come to terms with this issue..........is that they have trouble accepting that this is a center right country. The Rs have set the meme and people believe it. I suggest you start coming to terms with that reality as well.