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In reply to the discussion: How I feel about President Obama [View all]Left Turn Only
(74 posts)Being MOR is good for getting the majority of votes, but, unfortunately, it is not enough to start fixing the major problems that have to be addressed. Instead of using our position as a world leader to start improving the severe environmental problems facing the world, the President, while doing better than the Republicans, hasn't even begun to do what must be done. In matters of defense, Obama uses some of the same people for advisers as Bush, and we are still spending ourselves into an economic morass while increasing tensions around the world and talking about cutting the peoples' safety net to make up the costs, but moderates on both sides of the isle are happy. The middle class is constantly shrinking due to corporate manipulation of the media, union membership and the global economy, and the President spent the taxpayers dollars to shore up the old system when it collapsed from its own weight, so now corporate America is back in control of the workers around the world, and the U.S. and others are losing its tax base because of low wages and loss of jobs.
Yes, Cali, the majority of people will gather around a president who is operating from the center of the political spectrum, no matter how inadequate the efficacy of his or her policies may be.