OWS is our best bet for the future, perhaps our only hope. The real danger is a future dominated by crooked bankers and arrogant corporate CEOs. Mr. Obama is doing too little to stave off that future.
Electoral politics no longer seem relevant. We have a two-party system, but what one party calls the American way I call corrupt and there are too many bought politicians in the other. The situation is critical and the politicians act as if they do not comprehend that fact.
Although I will probably vote for Obama, he'll get not a minute of my time nor a dime of my money. My vote cannot be seen as an endorsement of his policies, which haven't worked well enough, but only as a recognition that no Republican presidential hopeful should be allowed close enough to the White House to take a guided tour. True, the Republicans have been obstinate and richly deserve to by tossed out with the kitty litter. Nevertheless, Mr. Obama has spent three years bending over for them in an effort to compromise, only to give away the store in the process. He, too, is guilty for the lack of progress in job growth, the continued war in Afghanistan and the failure to close Guantánamo.
I voted for Obama in 2008 because I thought that he understood that he needed to be a reincarnation of FDR. That wasn't so much my whim but was what circumstances demanded of whoever would succeed the gangsters in the Bush Junta. He talked a good game, he became to man who would succeed Bush, but he still didn't seem to understand.
The Defense Appropriations Act was the last straw. Even with the anti-civil libertarian provisions watered down, those provisions remain unnecessary and dangerous. He says he will sign this monstrosity, but when he does, he will have no good excuse. I voted for him clean up after Bush, but his signature on that piece of fascist legislation only extends the Bush era through Obama's first term. That is unacceptable.
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