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In reply to the discussion: Seriously, did so many people truly believe that president Obama could change the course.... [View all]Demit
(11,238 posts)miss opportunities and back away from confrontation, while stepping up prosecution of whistleblowers & medical marijuana growers and doubling down on his predecessor's unitary power grabs. And blithely allowing his spokesmen to bash his (supposed) base.
I gave him the benefit of the doubt over & over in the beginning. But his continued obsession with bipartisanship only pleases the so-called 'centrist' media, who hold it up as a value in itself so that they may conveniently ignore discussing the real causes of Washington gridlock: Republican fanaticism and the stranglehold that corporations have on government.
I want to encourage this president tooto, as you say, do what's right, or at least try to do what's right. My problem is, I don't know what giving him another four years would be encouraging him to do. It might encourage him to think that what he did in his first four years is just hunky-dory. And it's not, not by me.