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In reply to the discussion: where's FrenchieCat? [View all]lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)They picked a person warts and all. Better than the alternatives, but still a person with all the questionable agendas and a limited ability to get it done.
The disillusionment with BO is due to the complete lack of critical thinking that some people applied to the job of "voter". They decided that they knew what he was going to be about by looking at him and seeing a faint halo... yet disregarding everything he said and everything he did.
Their expectations were so high as to be unattainable, so when the pony didn't materialize, they simply disengaged. Obama raised a billion dollars in campaign contributions in 2012, but unlike 2008, he didn't raise it from the little people.
It's been a few years since I've used this quote, but now it seems apropos again.
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. - Theodore Roosevelt