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

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263. No, it's not,

and that is a ludicrous charge. Read the responses in this thread. Many of them acknowledge the bones we have been thrown. However, the constant, overarching, overwhelming direction of this administration has been corporatist, and the anger about that is wholly justified.

On education policy, on health insurance, on the wars, on the police/surveillance state, on private prisons, on austerity, on drilling, on trade, etc., etc, etc. Every single day there is news posted of new policies, actions, or appointments by this administration that favor the one percent. And massive new corporate betrayals are always on the horizon. What are we expecting now in trade? The Trans-Pacific Free Trade Agreement. What are we expecting in energy? The approval of Keystone. When we ask about the liberal vision of this presidency, we still get the same stale, short list from years ago: Lilly Ledbetter, DADT, and disingenuous descriptions of a Heritage Foundation mandate to buy exorbitant bronze health insurance as a "liberal" triumph.

We were promised hope and change and representation, but every day our interests are put secondary to the banks and corporations. That's simply a fact.