I know some of us are upset with President Obama
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BUT we still have to GOTV if we don't want to see the homeless and hungry rates sky rocket!!! It's that important we have to elect Democratic People on every level of Government. We need boots on the ground, we need folks knocking on doors and making phone calls. Call your local Democratic Party Headquarters to find out what you can do to help. If that doesn't work contact your State Democratic HQ and ask them. Everybody please GOTV somebody's life is depending on you Save Lives Vote a Straight Democratic Ticket.
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evils of a capitalistic, racist, sexist, homophobic, finically religious society that developed over centuries. He is the cause of the upward swing in poverty and homelessness in this nation. And we are angry because he has militarily killed innocent people in one place but not killed enough of them in other places. A close examination of his record reveals that there has been absolutely nothing done in any social or economic area that has caused or will eventually cause meaningful changes in the pariah, privileged systems that threaten us all. Most of all we are angry because he hasn't executed the entire group of Congress critters and has chosen to try to negotiate with them to give us a functioning government that attempts to benefit ALL the people. Damn, I'll be glad when he is not in the WH. 
get chained CPI. not
we have got to hammer this home every single day for the next 8 months! and that is ONLY 8 months!!
everyone go to OFA and sign up to make calls to battleground districts across the country, even if it's just a half hour a week.
(and as an aside, every time someone complains about obama, i ask them to first consider how they would handle things, each issue and the whole shebang. and any different decision they offer, it is actually not that hard to follow up with a tracking of just how any such bold action would fly. example: ok so you go all aggressive with the bankers; how do you think that plays in the media? you can't arrest them all, all at once; think of the backlash from that - doom. same thing with climate change and marriage equality and this gawdforsaken tea party congress; he has had to tread so lightly, so delicately, it's a miracle he's been able to get anything done. because, this system is so dysfunctional it's not just a maze, but a maze of locked-in closets with all the good doors bolted shut and all the questionable doors leading to marginal pathways that may or may not even lead at some point along the way to some wiggle room. 
and as for the nsa and drones, i'm dead set against what the entire military has become, but know this: it's become THE overwhelming power in this country that, despite being commander in chief, NO president can even consider bucking. the only reason bush did so well with them was because he was, after all, their man; he did what they want because all his cronies (darth cheney, i'm lookin' at you) were, erm, invested in their wars. what's more, again put yourself in the shoes - with the holes in the bottom - of this prez: first, he's a black man, and anyone who's spent any time in the military knows how rampant is racism of all kinds there. second, with all those military and spy guys telling you these awful people are out there plotting awful things to bring awful death and destruction on americans, you're going to back off saving american lives on principle? think about that. i know; sucks. but hey, there it is. this country is ruled by a military that is hand-in-glove with "american interests," code for corporate power.
which, dear friends, is the very definition of fascism.
again, i ask you: no matter how principled you might be, how would you choose to make each and every decision every day as a president in these times?
as a black man?
every single decision he makes, and has made, has led and leads to nuclear knee-jerk reactions, loudly megaphoned by the media.
really, think about it. i am still trusting this man's principles and wisdom to open what doors he can that have the best chance of giving more power to the people, at least by baby steps, and leaving some of the more explosive battles with the bigger guns - ones with less hopeful outcomes - for another day when more people DO have more power. hopefully, their power will then just collapse through attrition. like soviet russia.
he is NOT our knight in shining armor, racing forward on a white steed.
he is NOT "my way or the highway," even if that way might be "right." er, principled.
he is NOT bush.
thank the FSM.
