As most of us thought, Obama is a center, center right president

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188. So we agree that Obama is a strong President who gets what he wants.

And you can count these as "WINS".

*Channeling Trillions in Public Money to Wall Street no strings attached

*Saving the AutoIndustry on the backs of LABOR and the Auto Workers,
demanding "concessions" in contract benefits and opening Non-Union plants where workers are paid LESS than 1/2
of what the Union Workers earn.

*Extending the Bush tax Cuts, but "winning" a crumb for some of the unemployed

*Channeling BILLIONS of Public Tax Payer Dollars Per Year to the For Profit Health Insurance Industry.
These BILLIONS are cleverly disguised as "subsidies" to the near poor, but make NO mistake,
this Public Money goes directly into the pockets of a completely parasitic "private" industry.

*Mandates with NO Public Option...counts as a BIG WIN? (Crying Online)

*Reinforcing the Patriot Act and expanding the Extra-Constitutional powers of the Unitary Executive

*MORE "Free Trade"

*Privatizing the Public Schools

*Reducing FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) Contributions that fund Social Security & Medicare,
and charging the loss of revenue on the national credit card
(Would FDR, HST or LBJ chalk THIS up in the WIN column?)


"Triangulation", mastered by the Centrist Bill Clinton, and what Lawrence O'Donnell called "brilliant strategy" (Rope-a-Dope),
moving to The Right by co-opting the Republican position on issues, HAS produced something that politicians can call "Political WINS". By moving steadily to The Right for 25 years, the Democratic Party HAS driven the Republican Party to the extreme edge of the Political Spectrum,
but the price for these WINS is being paid by the American Working Class which is being driven into extinction.
I don't believe the Working Class can stand much more "winning".





You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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