Under Obama, we’re off to our best Private-Sector Job Growth since 1999 - Inform the republicans and

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94. Obama's not the enemy ...

... but he may not be the friend we think him to be.

Obamacare, so called, maybe gets a pass, even if it is little more than a gift to private insurers, with scant price containment mechanisms. The Scott Brown debacle in MA was a game-changer, and grabbing onto the junk Senate-passed bill may have been the best last option, even if a Blue Dog/Lieberman piece of junk based on Romneycare, which itself came from the righty think-tank, Heritage Foundation, was all the bill was. But, Obama caved too easily to insurance industry lobbyists, and did not fight nearly strong enough for the Public Option.

Meanwhile, TARP funds were distributed no-strings attached, since Obama bonded most closely with Geithner, and sidelined non-Wall Street economists, such as Robert Reich. And Geithner still remains Obama's closest advisor, and is a pure Wall Street income from Capital guy. So while paying lip service to the Minimum Wage, Obama is working overtime to lower Corporate Taxes and grow income from Capital, which is not just channeling Bush 43, but doing him one better.

And FTLG, he lobbied strongly to extend Bush Tax Cuts, and did not repeal them as promised in 2008.

The spying program has been scaled up, and not shut down as promised.

We need change. We need to demand change. Talking about change during an election changes nothing.