OBAMA, We’re waiting for some of that change.

Anarcissie, I’m not believing it for one minute either.  I stick to my original thoughts when I started seeing how things were going.  This is the way it’s going to be and we have our fight cut out for us—not just the Republicans now, but the Blue Dog Dems and the President, and, of course, their willing servants, the MSM.

Dan Froomkin’s been fired by WaPo (source:Glenn Greenwald’s column on http://www.Salon.com)  Since Froomkin was writing on this topic today, I am putting the news here.

Cathy:
’... This guy thinks that Obama is just moving like a stealth bomber and we will all be surprised. ...’

I think we’ve all heard the Secret Radical theory before.  It’s regularly proposed of Democratic presidential candidates, nominees, and incumbents.  However, if Mr. O were going to push radical or even liberal politics, his best strategy would have been to push it at the very beginning of his term, when his popularity was at its peak and his opponents were most discredited.  Instead of change, though, we’ve seen just more of the same, or more of the same but worse.  The government’s financial and economic moves have been the same as those of Bush, and the war in the Middle East, instead of being wound down, is being moved to Afghanistan and Pakistan.  We still have a lot of prisoners of war where the war is completely undefined.  Mr. O has not reversed the trashing of the 4th Amendment carried out by Bush.  He has copped out on Single Payer and Gay Marriage, both of which he said he supported.  We are going to get an apparent middle-of-the-roader on the Supreme Court instead of another right-wing religious fanatic, but otherwise I don’t see much.  But of course if Mr. O is a Secret Radical I wouldn’t; I’m not part of the Secred Radical Cabal.

Change we can believe in?  No, we can’t, not at the moment.

I had somebody hammer me last night when I complained about Obama and treading too lightly, and being a disappointment.  I got hammered that I don’t know how government works, that it is Congress that passes the laws.  No kidding!  I thought every idiot knew that.  But the fact is, FDR was able to get bold legislation passed, so was LBJ with Medicare and Medicaid.  It’s called bold leadership. 

This guy thinks that Obama is just moving like a stealth bomber and we will all be surprised.  He’s just building consensus.  He said the problem with us liberals is that we want everything yesterday and we want a perfect world.  Well, unfortunately Obama is pushing for all of these things right now, right away, in the first year, and allowing the American people virtually no input—which is what I thought his bold, new change was about, putting government back into the hands of the people. 

We have waited 70 years for single-payer health care.  I would say that’s pretty darn patient.  We have a system where, as one New Jersey doctor put it, that is ready to collapse in on itself any day now.  He’s for single-payer.

Remember the bankruptcy reform law which Obama remained mum on at the last minute, after having supported the cramdown provision? 

I’m not looking for a perfect world, just a more fair world.

Obama thinks he can continue to fool the people with soothing talk and promises. Lots of promises of how things are going to be better.
I think his delivery needs to come really soon or he can kiss a rerun goodbye.
The people are beginning to feel duped. At least with GWB those who voted for him knew what they were getting. A moron!

Big Wes—

  Everyone talks now about how much Obama received from the banking industry, but then it was all about how he shattered records with contributions from small donors. The many small donors who constitute the base are long forgotten. It is like they paid for the privilige of voting for Obama and he isn’t obligated to them at all—like he is to the good ol boys.

Obama received more contributions from the banking industry than John McCain; Joe Biden is known as “The Senator from MBNA.”  It should be clear that the Obama administration is in no hurry to bite the hands that feeds it.  The difference in the handling of the auto industry bailout (cutting the throats of the workers, forcing the companies into bankruptcy, and a heavier handed oversight board) versus that of the financial industry (multi-million dollar retention bonuses for the execs who caused the mess and pretty much business as usual) is a clear cut illustration of the preferential treatment Wall Street expects and receives.

I’ll admit that I got somewhat caught up in “Obamamania,” but in my heart, I knew he was making bigger promises than he could deliver.  I hope that Obama thought he could deliver on the promises he was making, but once he actually got into office, the “powers that be” (the rich oligarchy) stopped him.  However, my gut tells me that Obama really just mixes everything with hope and makes the world feel good…

The legacy of the Obama presidency in less than 6 months in:

Disappointment, betrayal and squandered opportunity.

Already his numbers are tanking. Seems that the only constiuency that Obama doesn’t mind angering is the people while he serves the corrupt geedy elites.