When I look at Obama, I see a man who is trying very hard to do right by the people

[mmonk]

74. He came into office thinking Americans were fed up

with partisan bickering. Democrats were fed up with what the Bush administration had done to the country. These are two different things. He made a fateful mistake that Democrats wanted a middle and that, coupled with no understanding of economics, chose more Rubinomics (or Clintonomics) not understanding the dot com bubble hid its flaws and like many Americans, drew the wrong conclusions. He was chosen by Democrats due to his speeches that almost had a Roosevelt like feel to them and thus, real progressives or true progressives thought he might tack towards simular solutions to the nation's problems. It ended up that his politics "of our better nature" was the wrong path to take. We needed someone who was going to fight corporatism and not yield to flawed economics of replacing public with private. He further disappointed many by pledging to bring the executive banch back under constitutional restraints in his pledge to the American Freedom campaign but has not pushed in that direction. His propensity for striving for striking a grand bargain between a radicalized Republican Party and a Democratic Party without backbone or principles made change a word in label only. The can to a better tomorrow has been kicked to some future date uncertain.