Obama IS progressive, and he will most likely be re-elected. Welcome to reality.

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141. Obama is a right of center fraud and humbug

Your "innoculation" that "there will be counterlists." is a joke. Of course there will be counterlists because you have put up a counter-factual (i.e., a lie) Obama is no progressive. He regularly kicks progressives to the curb. He excludes them, he tells the "my way or the highway" while he plays bipartisan games with the GOP.

You want to cheerlead for Mr. Sellout with a bunch of cherry-picked facts, I will object with a bunch of cherry picked facts.

1) Failed to close Gitmo for no good reason.
2) Put "single payer" of the table, teased with "public option", then caved to the insurance industry.
3) Not one prosecution (or even serious investigation - cf. Bill Black) of Wall St. for massive, coordinated fraud. (Single crooks for ordinary stuff does not count.)
4) Refused from day one to prosecute any war crimes by the Bush Administration. In fact, he has gone even further down the road to a police state with the renewal of the State of Emergency and the indefinite detention of NDA.
5) Caved in on the government shutdown (something Bill Clinton was smart enough to use to beat the GOP to death).
6) Caved in on the millionaire's surtax and extension of unemployment despite the 75+% popularity of these measures.
7) Insisted for two years on his bullshit "bipartisanship". This cost him the 2010 election.
8) He is cramming education privatization down the throats of a Democratic constituency, teachers.
9) He is attacking legitimate state laws on Medical Marijuana.
10) He continues to sign massive, cold war level defense budgets while unemployed people go starving and cold.
11) He has done nothing to help in Wisconsin.
12) He appointed a bunch of reactionary thugs to the Catfood Commission - a commision that in itself was an assault on the solvent Social Security system.
13) He overruled the FDA on Plan B, violating his own campaign promise.

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He is no progressive. He is just a phony, sellout fraud.

Having said that, I have no choice but to vote for him because the alternative is even worse. That is no reason to be positive.

Given the choice between being hung or shot, I will take hung because I might live a little longer. That's about all the credit I will give this phony posuer. This creature of Wall St. This Constitutional scholar who has no problem tearing up the Bill of Rights.

If you think your post is reality, you are delusional, just like the GOP.