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In reply to the discussion: Do I feel betrayed by this President? Yes. [View all]The Wielding Truth
(11,433 posts)so nuanced and so varied that vague is how to judge a politician's progress on a barely recoverable democracy. Each "betrayal" that you listed have so many roots and strings and twisted laws to embed them, that it will take a long time and many honest publicly backed administrations to mend them. I don't have the time to delve and nit pick at all the things that I think should be corrected. I have many more than you have listed and many of them I would see as heartless mistakes by the President, but where do we deal with the workings of an balanced government when you would rather beat the lead sled dog for not pacing off his canter in time with your song. We need him for survival. We chose him and he is doing his best to get us out of trouble. He cannot do it alone. He needs strong faithful dogs to pull with him. I am one. When we get to a safer place I will nip at him about why we aren't devoting more resources to renewable fuels that don't destroy and pollute. What is his problem that he hasn't stopped all unfairly funded campaigns and you forgot to mention the unions that he did not support. I could go on and on but would that help him out maneuver those bought Republicans and crooked Democrats . How can he out pressure the clever lobbyists with no thought of ethics when we are hammering about the countless disappointments.
If you don't see that the power of the Corporations have their feet on the constitution's neck then I can see that patronizing me maybe explains to you that the all powerful Obama can fix everything now and if he doesn't then he has betrayed us. A few can break things and decades of lawyers can dismantle the laws that work for the little guys and mass media can gossip and change the hearts against equality, but one man cannot correct all those problems without a strong team of loyal individuals striving daily to help him by supporting the battles he faces daily and kicking the naysayers to the curb and saying get out of his way and let him who we chose to lead us out of this mess do his best to broker a deal. This is who he is a consolidator.
Exchanging views is good. I am not a very specific type. I like to see a bigger view. I am however very focused on getting a better group in the house and senate that will pull with the President so that he can undo the crumby mess that yes the present Republican's are very responsible for.