They're manpulating us right into a "frickin" Tea Bagger veto proof majority

[BlueStreak]

64. Why do you assume Obama "wants public support"?

Just curious, considering these facts:

1) He doesn't stand for election again

2) He showed absolutely no interest in trying to elect a favorable Congress in 2012 or 2012, so why would anybody assume he would act differently in 2014? Indeed, he neutered the Democratic Party. Both cycles, he set up his OWN organization and drained resources AWAY from the Party.

3) Is he acting like a person who cares about the people who voted for him? With executive orders, he could clear out almost 90 of the prisoners at Gitmo. He greatly expanded drone assassinations and only now is just getting around to thinking about some controls on them. He trashed the IRS instead of addressing the core issue, which is the abuse of 501(c)(4) organizations by people like Karl Rove. Reagan prosecuted 1000 banksters after the S&L scandal, Obama hasn't prosecuted a single one after the 2008 meltdown. I could give 50 more examples, but anybody here should know these things by now.

So again I ask, why should anybody assume this is a man who cares what his supporters think about him?

And if he had public support, has he shown any indication whatsoever of doing anything at all with that political capital? How quickly did he drop the gun legislation? How hard of a bargain did he drive on the Bush tax cuts? How many true progressives has he nominated for judgeships and other critical appointments? Hell, how many non-Republicans has he nominated? Has he taken a stand on anything recently?

Everybody is welcome to their opinion, but to me, this doesn't look like a man who cares about gaining public support, other than the kind of milquetoast support that historians can refer to in declaring his Presidency a significant moment in American history. That, I do believe he cares about. The rest of it? Not so much.

And this is coming from a guy who supported him early and pounded the pavement both cycles for him, just like many of you. That makes it worse.