Mr. President, many of us thought we were voting for greatness. Instead, we got you.

[HughBeaumont]

218. K & R.

1. I never envisioned Obama as this progressive hero nor did I expect him to be. Anyone who still buys into Strauss/Friedman hogwash . . . well, don't get me started. I only voted for him because I didn't want to run the chance of McCancient dying and getting President Grifterella. And while he has fixed some things, the very damaging flaws of pure capitalism that are obviously hurting this nation still have not been addressed.

2. The U.S.A. has been a corrupt pile of corporate and military coordination against the middle/working/poor since 1963. This is why our voting choices are between wealth-appeasing Republicans posing as Democrats and neo-Fascist wealth-fellating lunatics not-so-disguised as "Republicans". Oh, and the symbolic but wasted vote.

3. My line in the sand was when he extended the immensely wasteful and damaging Bush II Tax Cuts. It's absolutely disgraceful and laughable that anyone with a brain stem still believes the "Tax Cuts Create Jawbs" myth. It's even worse to have a president cave to a weak congress cowardly holding UI hostage to get them.

4. At the same time I'm reccing this, let's not give free passes to a myriad of other problems that plague this country: Corporate purchased politicians (resulting in the joke Congress we're dealt), an apathetic voting population that seems to like neo-fascism as long as they have a job, historically bad Republican governing (mostly by the Right) that led us to this crapcake, corporate purchased media and the wealthy themselves (the cause of pretty much everything I highlighted in point 2).