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In reply to the discussion: As a black woman, let me add a hearty FUCK YOU salute to Michael Moore! [View all]DavidG_WI
(245 posts)I say this having worked for OFA through the 2012 reelection campaign. he's never once even attempted to force the GOP's hand, nor has he called them out for anything that they have done. Instead it's failed attempt an compromise after failed attempt at compromise with more deportations and surveillance state thrown in for good measure.
Even his sole victory, the Affordable Care Act, A.K.A Obamacare, was far too weak. Obama clearly never learned how to play hardball negotiations, you start with full singlepayer health, dental and vision and you try to get as much of that as possible, instead of coming out of the starting blocks with barely more then the Heritage Foundation/Newt Gingrich/Mitt Romneycare program that isn't even the same mandatory level of healthcare nation wide because it's left up to the states.
But allot of Dems don't like to hear the truth, they wrongly assume that just because the guy in the oval office has a (D) next to his name that it'll magically be different somehow. If the man has no spine you get exactly what we have now, the GOP winning by attrition.