General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Seriously, did so many people truly believe that president Obama could change the course.... [View all]kenfrequed
(7,865 posts)As a voter and a citizen we would have stepped up and pushed hard had he led with what we voted for.
And the very democrats that were responsible for stabbing us in the back at every turn were the DLC/Blue Dog/Third way people. Evan Bayh basically organized a senate caucus- the senate blue dogs in December of 2008 with the expressed goal of preventing the country from going too far to the left.
We had been driving off the road, wildly to the right ditch and into the woods towards a cliff. We had gone right wing on the war in iraq, on tax cuts, on cutting social programs, on attacking a woman's right to choose, on appointing the most absurd justices imaginable and here was a group that was trying to step in the way and appoint themselves the people that would step on the scales either way to maintain their goddamned 'New Democrat' power. 'New Democrats' who were obsolete and outmoded in 2000 when a large segment of the non-voting population threw their weight behind someone that was to the left of the party. Even more outmoded in 2006 during the great Blue Wave that preceeded the coming election of president obama.