All you folks so unhappy with President Obama, let me ask you a question...

[Douglas Carpenter]

92. Other than standing on his head and saying "Simon says" what more could he possibly

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have done to appease the most extreme reactionary political party in the history of post World War II Western democracy? President Obama did everything possible to try to work with the Republicans even giving up on a progressive health care plan before it was even off the table and in the end signing into law a plan based on a Republican Heritage Foundation proposal which was essentially the nationalization of the Republican Romney plan. On almost every single issue Obama has yielded to the Republicans - but to no avail. Of course Bill Clinton pushed through numerous right-wing programs that Ronald Reagan could only have dreamed of accomplishing. But that didn't pacify the Republicans one little bit. They never gave him a minutes rest in spite of being one of the most right-wing Presidents in modern American history. Even enacting laws well to the right of Ronald Reagan's administration could not satisy them or appease them in the slightest. There is not a shred of evidence that independents or swing voters are opposed to a more progressive economic agenda. In fact by overwhelming margins all evidence shows that most Americans would have gone much farther than Obama on healthcare, taxation, Wall Street Regulation and virtually every other issue. Mark Warner and Evan Bayh - besides being even more devoted to Wall Street interest and protecting the insurance companies and the banks - they are both foreign policy neoconservatives. I shudder at the thought of what would the consequences be of a foreign policy that would further alienate the world, undermine America's national interest and endanger our national security with more wild militaristic adventurism. They are not moderate. They are extremist and a dangerous threat to the peace of the world.