Reply #22: Stood up to the Clinton machine. He has been overrun by the Clinton machine.

[JDPriestly]

I thought he was going to employ them. I was wrong. They are using his administration for their purposes. And mind you, I think Hillary is doing a great job. But Clinton among other things backed the legislative and policy changes that lead to the current economic decline -- including the repeal of Glass-Steagall. And Obama is continuing the Clinton/Reagan/Bush economic policies that lead to our downfall. There has been no attempt to renegotiate the trade agreements so as to reinstate American jobs and facilitate an American recovery.

And without a public option, health care reform will have disastrous effects on American families. Yet Obama's Rahm Emmanuel is meeting with opponents of the public option to craft the Senate (woops almost typed Republican) health care bill. Things are just going from bad to worse as far as I am concerned.