“Obama did not do what I wanted, so I will not vote for him”

That is precisely how voting works. Do you read what you write?

I used to say vote left and keep voting left but that doesn’t work. As far as third party goes, voting outside of the two major parties is a throw away without some kind of runoff. Voting for a Republican might wake the Dems up to the realization that they can’t get on the money train without at least trying to represent the people who put them in office.

Forcing people to buy for profit health insurance is a travesty against everything liberals claim they stand for. Ignoring that is clownish and pathetic. If you are going to support that you are a GOPer or are laughably uninformed.

And what do you think is going to happen with the keystone xl pipeline? Obama is going to delay the decision until right after the election and then what? Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

It remains to be seen what Obama does until the election, if we are lucky he will kick ass and take names.

‘Obama did not do what I wanted, so I will not vote for him, instead I will vote for someone who will not win and whom I know will not do what I want.’ You clowns are pathetic or are GOPERS!

I still have hope for Obama and if he takes it to the GOP so much the better.  We need to get rid of the obstructionist Congress for a starter. Well you pathetic fucks can take your pessimism and join the GOP!

“The Change They Believe In” is a very revealing speech given by Robert Fitch to the Harlem Tenants Association on November 14. 2008, right after Obama got elected. It’s about how Obama got his start and his betrayal to the black community of Chicago.  Mr. Fitch, who was an excellent journalist died last year at the age of 72.

http://revcom.us/a/150online/fitch_speech-en.html

CounterPunch also published the speech in the Jan 1-15 2012 print issue.

prisnersdilema - You got very close to expressing most of my frustration regarding the president and I really appreciate your acknowledgment that his administration has faced nothing but a constant, powerful headwind since he was sworn in….I get that.

Tragically, Mr. Obama was either incapable or unwilling to eviscerate the corrupt players in the government and unwilling to prosecute the scoundrels that were (and still are) running the financial system. I’m completely stunned at his lack of courage and strength regarding these issues.

If Obama was aiming to “address the middle class” he missed, even though his speech offered some crumbs of tax and mortgage relief. When you stop to think about it, even this much is largely impossible without the cooperation of the Republican cheap-skates and the ubermensch in corporate towers.
  And what then about that ever-growing most needy class of all, semi-invisible and largely hopeless—the poisoned and helpless miner’s families in Appalachia and Utah, the listless, idle beggars and riff-raff haunting the seats in Greyhound stations, the savagely abused women trying to raise children in a shack under a rumbling freeway?
  These are the people whose cold hands need holding, whose frayed underwear needs washing, who hung around the edges of the Occupy encampments, eager for a kind word and some crumbs. 
  Excuse me if I can’t rouse myself to applaud an “address” on the “state of the union” that talks mainly about how overpoweringly rich and great our country is when it can’t even allow its humblest people to find their way out of destitution, yet pretends that making and selling weapons all over the world is an honorable way to sustain an economy!
  Any person who, coming out of wars with Iraq and Afghanistan—can say in the same few minutes—“...war with Iran is not off the table” and “...
God bless the United States of America” leaves something very important to be desired.
  And the worst thing is, there’s nobody better and some are worse! How far have the mighty fallen” etc.!

Still waiting for him to pull the rabbit out of his hat.

I noticed in the speech that many in those chambers were not applauding…Not
responding at all, to what was said.

I am sure that some of his statements provoked anger from the right, who want
their sovereignty over this land protected.

Unfortunately, Mr. Obama now has a record, and from my point of view it might as
well be a criminal record. As we all know once you have a record its very hard to
overcome what people think of you. In this case the electorate.

While I cheered his statements aimed at corporate America, of ending tax
subsidies for corporations sending jobs overseas, I find it very hard to believe that
he will make an honest effort to do this…

This is because of Mr. Obama’s decisions, to go with corporate leadership in his
administration, and especially the appointment of Tom Vilisak. There are many,
many others…

I undersand, that it has been an uphill battle for Mr. Obama from the very
beginning, yet ultimately I don’t believe it had to be this way..

There are many other capable leaders outside of corporate America, who
understand what needs to be done. In fact unfortunately it looks like Corporate
American could care less what happens to this country as long as they continue
making lots of money…

I won’t vote for him again… but if he expects to win in November, he will have to
do something, not something tiny, but huge…

He made it clear that he is in favor of people profiting by standing between patients and their doctor/hospital and assured that nothing would be done to change that. I will not only not vote for him but I will vote against him, no matter who I have to vote for to do it.

Well he has been aiming stuff at the ‘working class’ his whole term..None of it any good..