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In reply to the discussion: Why I didn't listen... [View all]ddeclue
(16,733 posts)Richard Nixon created the EPA and was going to create universal healthcare. Obama refused to discuss real universal healthcare and gave us personal mandate care which is the equivalent of ending homelessness in America by passing a law requiring all Americans to buy a house.
FDR? Are you joking? He created real jobs programs like WPA and CCC, he put Glass Steagle into effect while Obama has coddled and bailed out the banksters, created social security which Obama treated like a bargaining chip in budget negotiations with Republicans and many other things. FDR was the most liberal President in the history of the Republic.
LBJ? Again are you joking? He gave us Medicare and many other programs in the Great Society. Second most liberal President after FDR.
Obama is on par with Clinton - a corporatist Wall Streeter DLC type. He's no liberal, not even close. If you think so then you need to go retake American history.