Who determined that the NSA and TPP are the most important issues?

[JDPriestly]

280. Yes! They are.

With the exception of the jealous Republicans, people are happy with the good things that Obama has done like the ACA.

But his speech about the disparity in incomes, at least in my case, sounds like vapor, hot air.

That is because of the obvious disparity in the focus of his Justice Department in terms of choosing the targets for federal prosecutions.

Drug users, if caught, are zealously prosecuted for minor crimes that mostly hurt themselves. I personally do not oppose that.

But when obvious fraud is committed by mortgage companies or big banks or the members of the Wall Street elite, the perpetrators are fined but not prosecuted beyond that. So we have kids in their late teens and early twenties sitting in prison for drug offenses while millionaires who have committed fraud sit in their 21st century equivalents of palaces.

That's just one example of the "watch what I say, but not what I do" syndrome in the White House right now.

When the teachers and other public servants in Wisconsin protested the extreme right-wing economic injustice of the governor's policies, it took a long time for Obama to even offer comforting words to the protestors, and he never really took any measures to support the protestors' cause.

Then there was the Occupy movement. Small and harmless groups of people some of whom were battered and beaten, pepper-sprayed and humiliated at the call of Obama's Homeland Security urging local police to end the demonstrations. Was Obama deaf to the sincere and strong wish of the American people to do more to help families facing foreclosure and end the outrageous and excessive gambling on Wall Street.

And, of course, the excessive gambling on Wall Street continues. There are no repercussions for those who trade often and early and with their high-speed trading and other advantages fleece poor middle-class "investors" and working people's pension funds.

So, although Obama has accomplished things that we could be celebrating. We aren't because his economic policies have been detrimental to our lives. The job market has improved a bit, but it is mostly lower paying service jobs. Obama talks about bringing back manufacturing but is offering the TPP a trade bill that will, like the trade agreements before it, cost America many, many more jobs.

So, you see, what I am saying is very relevant to your question as to why Democrats are not as supportive of Obama's presidency as you might think we should be.

The economic injustice, the disparity of wealth has continued to grow apace during his presidency. And it looks like Hillary Clinton, another Wall Street protector who hasn't been out on America's Main Street for a long time, is being pushed on us.