President Obama Never Fails To Disappoint

[jollyreaper2112]

14. yeah, right

I hate the fan club mentality. Obama is a winsome guy. He and his family are quite nice to look at. They all photograph well. He'd make a good celebrity endorser for various products. And that sort of star power can be great for pushing an agenda, when sheer force of personality is the only thing that will make things happen. FDR, man.

But he's not really doing that, is he? He's not advocating, he's not pushing, he's not risking. He's negotiating with himself, talking down his own positions to seek a middle ground with Republicans who are always pulling right. It's always the explanation of why change can't happen, why expectations must be lowered, how we must content ourselves with the new normal. The Republicans are never running defense against him, it's always offense.

We don't elect a president to pose for pictures and be winsome. We elect a president to get shit done. And all we've really seen is a continuation of the same corporatist shit that happened under Bush. We nominally changed parties but never changed agendas.

I enthusiastically voted for Obama the first time and did it with resignation the second. I hold no hopes for getting anything better with the next Democrat, whoever gets the nomination. The choice between Democrat and Republican seems to be in how fast you want things to get worse.