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In reply to the discussion: Will Democrats losing big in 2014 help or hurt Hillary [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)that's why I use the word progressive instead of liberal. I use it to mean "the left wing of the Democratic Party" whereas liberals are more like "the center of the Democratic Party".
Or at least they used to be, before the Party moved way to the right.
As for anti-Obama posts, well before 2010 I was considered an Obama-bot here http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/121
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/127
What happened?
The way I see it, Obama betrayed me. He extended the Bush tax cuts, and then lied about it http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/138 , and then kept proposing more tax cuts for the rich, like the accursed payroll tax cut http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/135
and then Obama made the vast majority of the Bush tax cuts permanent. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022130101
So, at this point, I am not very kindly disposed towards him.
But I still will do what I can to defeat our odious Republican Governor, put more Democrats in the state legislature and even take a couple of Congressional seats in Kansas (taking the 2nd and 3rd districts would be the best case scenario, one we realized in 2006, but I highly doubt it in 2014). Even if I don't run myself, like I did in 2010 (for Congress (lost in the primary)) and in 2012 for County Treasurer (got creamed like all the other Democratic candidates for County office).