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

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249. thanks hugh

we've been sliding for quite awhile now. Reagan got us rolling full speed, especially against labor; ergo, there goes the middle class. When clinton signed poppy's nafta-gatt, and then publicly stated that we were going to be the new service industry to the world, I saw the BS writing on the wall.

that boulder rolling down hill is heading full speed over the cliff-but it has been policy after policy that has brought us to this state. Two years before the economic bottom fell, there were people on this board who knew little boots was spending, shoveling money to his "friends", war profiteers, money missing in iraq; while cutting taxes to the wealthiest. All of this happening at a time of war, when taxes should be increased. Allowing his friends to screw california (enron) and did nothing when the governor pleaded with him for regulation, reigning enron in. Allowing those bad loans, letting them go into states with stricter regulations. The whole administration was nothing but a corrupt sham.

And now, it's "we must all sacrifice." Well, some of us have sacrificed our pensions, our decent jobs, our homes, our lives. We have no more to sacrifice. And, the rich keep getting richer, CEO's make obscene golden parachutes, and the disparity grows.

some negotiating can have more deleterious affects on the public for what little is won. If you go back to the threads before the 2010 election, you'd see that there were some who were shocked and disappointed in obama's cabinet choices, shocked that he'd keep little boot's sycophants. yes, some didn't vote because they were disillusioned; and, the corporate funded teabaggers with the aid of media helped install the repugs, after the media was questioning whether or not the repugs (after destroying the country) were dead. They just rebranded themselves, preaching the same deregulating BS and the people ate it up.

we don't need democrats embracing friedman's damaging economic policies. we don't need democrats embracing privatizing public institutions, we don't need democrats passing more anti-civil liberties regulations, we don't need democrats weakening SS instead of strengthening it (and that doesn't mean giving the rest of our money to WS). I'll vote for obama if there is no challenger; however, i'm thinking he's there to maintain the status quo over the well being of most of the american people.