Criticize the President? We should not even be having serious conversations about this.

[LiberalLovinLug]

81. Problem is both parties move to the right when elected

Bushes get elected by promising more moderate positions like...Bush senior with his "compassionate conservatives" and "a thousand points of light". Or Bush junior with his promise not to invade other countries for the sake of "nation building".....and then once elected they veer into extremist right wing territory and do whatever the bidding of the moneyed elite tell them to do.

Obama balanced his positions like insisting on an increased presence in Afghanistan, a "looking forward" to past administration war crimes, a lackluster response to big bank fraud....with promises like closing Gitmo, pushing for a public insurance option, and of course not touching SS, and a few other progressive promises.

While the Republican candidate,once in, shifts to the hard right, knowing his base will out-shout those on the moderate/left that feel betrayed, a Democratic President Obama doesn't do the mirror opposite and shift left and rely on supporters to lift him up, he maddeningly for us, shifts also to the right and simply drops many of his progressive promises. That is what is frustrating for many of us. After a decade of failures on Wall Street, and militarism abroad, he doesn't even give the progressive wing of the Democratic party a CHANCE. Ignoring Nobel winning economists like Krugman to have a say, and instead appointing Goldman Sachs executives to mold new policies.

Frustrated that in spite of his election mantra of "change", he has dived right into the pool of sharks and is now even forming his own fin in some kind of attempt to fit in. Hoping that he can convince them to swim over to his side...no?....ok a little more to the middle....no?...ok...towards their side....until eventually his place and theirs mingle to the point of coalescence way back on the right side of the pool

.....or was he always a shark in dolphins skin?