Evil_Captor:
Look, even if I were to concede Obama’s lack of principles, and I’m not, he still wins over the Republicans because HE HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING RIDICULOUSLY STUPID. That is a HUGE improvement over Republican governance. Notice, for example, he has not gotten us involved in any unnecessary wars while cutting taxes (and no, Libya is not a war, and we are not exactly heavily invested in it). All Obama has to do is not be an idiot and he is WAAAAAAY ahead of Republican governance.
Obama did campaign for health care reform, he was all for single payer which would have lower the expense of the health care system TREMENDOUSLY but the Repubs and the Blue Dogs blocked that.
I will admit that Obama is under the control of Wall Street – his Justice Department cannot find anyone to convict other than Madoff, despite the fact that it’s widely known that many major firms broke the law during their last robbery spree. And he has not been able to write any laws that would prevent future robbery sprees by the big finance houses. (The Republicans would of course fight him tooth and nail if he did.)
In short, not buying it.
I didn’t vote for Obama because I thought he would be better than Bush. I voted for Obama because I thought he would be better than HILLARY and I have not seen ANY evidence that I was correct.
If Bernie Sanders were to try to primary Obama…
shakes head in shame
I’d vote for him and volunteer.