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In reply to the discussion: President Obama is the Best President in My Lifetime. [View all]Plucketeer
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I confess I never really took an interest in politics until the 80s. And I then voted Republican. 30 years later, I AM paying attention and consider myself a progressive. Like many other progressives, I was mesmerized by the plainly stated, yet dynamic, ideas of a daring mullato senator from Illinois.
As a kid - a kid who liked art and rhyme - I was attracted to the "I LIKE IKE!" slogan. 60 years later, I find the objective honesty of that old war horse, inspirational. He warned us to be wary of the VERY predicament we're bound up in today - that is the threat of BIG money running the show. It's because of that very situation that we have guarantees every American can BUY health insurance instead of HAVE health care.
Sure - it's fine that gays and gals can now go fight those rich folks conflicts for them. It's only right that the two gals next door will be able to receive the fringe benefits of one another. It's great that we have a shiny, new CFPB - even if it is toothless.
But when our beloved, history-making leader kept on so many of Bush's henchmen as he took to the oval office - when he HIRES (and REhires) Wall St. to REGULATE Wall St. - there's something fundamentally wrong with that. He's not respecting the wishes of we the people - he's not even listening to numerous videos of his own pre-election proclamations. It's clear that he's been bought. Nice guy - certainly smart enough - but OWNED. And not by you and me.
Technically, he does represent people - this fact thanks to the Supreme Court's supreme fuck-up. But he's not responding to you and me people. People people.
EDIT TO ADD: Listen close to this RNN video from 15:40 til the end. http://www.democraticunderground.com/101797082
Most recently...... the crazy line between insanity and sanity has made me even less enamored with our Prez. When twenty murdered kids are a "tradgedy" in Newtown, yet "collateral damage" in some distant land - collateral damage on MY behalf, no less I rest my case.