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I ask this as a liberal. I feel betrayed and sold down the river. I think he has thrown his base under the bus. I really believed in him and now look where we are at. What is most disappointing is his silence over this whole healthcare reform. Sure, he delivers speeches saying he didn't assume the job of POTUS to serve fat cats...just who he is serving?
It's not Joe six pack whose house has been foreclosed. It's not the 45 million uninsured. Etc.
Ok, this thread is designed to serve as a support thread for liberals, not as a platform for conservatives to say "We told you so." Nonetheless, I bet not a lot of support will be forthcoming in this thread. There will be the defenders and the critics, to be sure.
I ask this as a liberal. I feel betrayed and sold down the river. I think he has thrown his base under the bus. I really believed in him and now look where we are at. What is most disappointing is his silence over this whole healthcare reform. Sure, he delivers speeches saying he didn't assume the job of POTUS to serve fat cats...just who he is serving?
It's not Joe six pack whose house has been foreclosed. It's not the 45 million uninsured. Etc.
Ok, this thread is designed to serve as a support thread for liberals, not as a platform for conservatives to say "We told you so." Nonetheless, I bet not a lot of support will be forthcoming in this thread. There will be the defenders and the critics, to be sure.
I wouldn’t say he has been a disappointment. But some of the things he has and hasn’t done have upset me. I’m more disappointed with the Senate’s BLUE DOG DEMICRATES. Those clowns need to join the GOP.
All I'm disappointed in are the Republicans. They lost big time, but were extended every chance to have their role and say anyway, and they went off with Limbaugh and Beck instead. They had their big "Listening Tour" last Spring and came to the conclusion that they didn't really have any policies that fit the 21st century, so they've just gone into 24/7 whine-and-scream mode ever since. This is a supposedly national political party, and all they've managed to come up with is You Lie!, budgets without numbers, and faux health care proposals that don't insure anybody and still cost more than the Democratic plans. This is what looks on TV to be a group of grown adults behaving like a bunch of pre-schoolers with their feelings hurt. What's the point in even keeping them around anymore...
All I'm disappointed in are the Republicans. They lost big time, but were extended every chance to have their role and say anyway, and they went off with Limbaugh and Beck instead. They had their big "Listening Tour" last Spring and came to the conclusion that they didn't really have any policies that fit the 21st century, so they've just gone into 24/7 whine-and-scream mode ever since. This is a supposedly national political party, and all they've managed to come up with is You Lie!, budgets without numbers, and faux health care proposals that don't insure anybody and still cost more than the Democratic plans. This is what looks on TV to be a group of grown adults behaving like a bunch of pre-schoolers with their feelings hurt. What's the point in even keeping them around anymore...
You do realize that they are likely to be the majority party in 2010....I am not disappointed in Obama at all.
All I'm disappointed in are the Republicans. They lost big time, but were extended every chance to have their role and say anyway, and they went off with Limbaugh and Beck instead. They had their big "Listening Tour" last Spring and came to the conclusion that they didn't really have any policies that fit the 21st century, so they've just gone into 24/7 whine-and-scream mode ever since. This is a supposedly national political party, and all they've managed to come up with is You Lie!, budgets without numbers, and faux health care proposals that don't insure anybody and still cost more than the Democratic plans. This is what looks on TV to be a group of grown adults behaving like a bunch of pre-schoolers with their feelings hurt. What's the point in even keeping them around anymore...
May I remind you the rep party cannot stop anything the dems want to do.
The dems who are honest enough to see this will cost us trillions of dollars to only help 15% of all Americans are the ones who shut this down.
Please stop blaming the rep as they have ZERO control of anything the dems want to do.
Maybe start blaming the American people who saw this was not reform but rather a pork barrel waste of our tax dollar and demanded they stop this train wreck.
So go after the 61% of Americans who opposed this scam bill and those dems who had the guts to stand up against it. It has NOTHING to do with the rep party. They were even shut out of any talks when Bubba promised they would be involved from the get go.
So if you are going to be mad at anyone, be mad at 61% of Americans who finally demanded their representatives do what they want, not want the representative wants.
I think Obama's doing great. Couldn't be happier with him, in fact. He ran as a moderate-left and he's serving as a moderate-left.
I think a lot of far left liberals didn't really listen to what he was saying and just projected what they imagined him to be. He was always going to ramp up the war in Afghanistan, for example.
He's also turned us back from the edge of a massive global economic meltdown and is pushing through the biggest health care reform ever. Politics is a game of compromise, and if you can get 33% of the way now, then that's a lot better than getting 0% and trying for 100%.
I'm not super disappointed yet. I think he's tried too hard to compromise with the right on health care. That's probably my biggest complaint so far. I'm giving him more time. He's had a lot of messes to try to clean up. Still better than the alternative.
my issues are not with dealing with what personality is sitting in the oval office.
and you can obviously tell, i have not solved the spending program by my vote, bek its getting worse not better.
so here is what i think, when the ship goes down the sharks will not ask if you are GOP or demo
write your rep and senator today tell them to kill the bill (1.7 trillion) and stop the spending. i just did the emails to them.
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There will be the defenders and the critics, to be sure.
