Obama is no longer my president
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023200543Pretzel_Warrior (714 posts)
Obama is no longer my president
Seems to be what many of the people on here are saying. He has transformed from someone full of hope and strong ideas about fixing health care, advocating for gay rights, and ending wars we are in to some all-powerful corrupted man who wants nothing more than to expand state power and dominate the lives of all citizens.
In the beginning, he was the guy who inherited Bush's major catastrophes and was dealt the bad hand of working with GOP obstacles at every step of the way.
Now he is a tyrant who won't close Guantanamo Bay, won't stop drone strikes, who wants to spy on you, and probably wants to torture you.
He hates anything to do with attempting to fix global warming. He only wants to benefit the 1% (or 0.1%) and all we can do is suffer under this tyrant.
What is a meaningful way for you to register your opposition to some of the things he's done or is doing or is allowing or refusing to fix?
I don't think calling him a bully and insinuating he and his team are the Keystone Cops while also saying they are the modern day Gestapo is the way to go about it.
Ideas?
Someone is stirring up the hornet's nest.
sibelian (4,187 posts)
1. Politicians can be replaced. nt.
geek tragedy (27,545 posts)
3. Obama won't be replaced until January 2017. Sorry to disappoint. nt
Amonester (10,367 posts)
18. Unless the hair-on-fire crowd is even more successful at reducing the Dems turnout in '14
than they were in '10....
Hello oRangeman/tuRtleman in '15?
They will soooooo fix all Obama/Biden's wrongs to our 'all-or-nothing' likings!
Pretzel_Warrior (714 posts)
19. no kidding. we MUST work to give him the majorities in House/Senate again
Amonester (10,367 posts)
31. Agreed. But to too many here...
Working for that is obviously too hard.
Better do all they can to 'punish' them instead, without any serious evaluations of the possible consequences of their 'punishment' campaign.
rhett o rick (28,482 posts)
40. If you want a good turn out in 2014 then work for it. Dont just blame someone else.
I was working in 2010 and it wasnt the progressives that stayed home. It was the centrists who couldnt figure out which side to vote for.
So says the one who likes to blame others.
sibelian (4,187 posts)
38. No, indeed.
This being the case, why is he defended?
Do you suppose criticisms of his policy are made to dislodge him or dislodge the policy?
I'm not at all disappointed that he will remain in power until 2017. One cannot be "disappointed" in something that isn't going to change, as disappointment requires the expectation that it might.
Placing one's aspirations for the change of any democratic political landscape in a single individual is simple-minded fantasizing.
Politicians are useful, but, they can be replaced. Somebody just as good as Obama is perfectly possible.
It is the nature of the system which he fronts that is important, not him.
Pretzel_Warrior (714 posts)
42. then all attacks should be directed at the underlying system--not him
and all attempts to fix things must attack the system--not him.
I agree he faced huge headwinds in Washington as would anyone with ideals. But he stormed in and got a good start. There is still time.
think (3,060 posts)
25. I would focus on the puppet masters at The Carlyle Group instead of blaming Obama
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Please feel free to throw Goldmann Sachs in that mix as well.
Their favorite straw person, Carlyle Group.
