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In reply to the discussion: I was never crazy about Greenwald, and don't care for Snowden. But some of you make me a fanboy [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)I pay attention.
It is perfectly fine to disagee on things But don't imply such nonsense as my being disappiunted in Obama because i am not paying attention.
You want the gloves off? Okay, heres why i am disappointed and angry.
I am angry because his ACA further entrenched the private insurance companies, and forces us to buy their crappy overpriced coverage. Obama did not bother to support a public option. Not even a public option. He was too busy listening to the insurance and drug compsnies to even invite those who wanted universal single payer or at least some form of affordable public insurance to the table to give people a real choice.....I'm so glad Romney didn't win because he certainly would have protected the insurance companies and...er Oh come to think of it Mitt did do the ACA in Massachusetts. Obama borrowed that one while killing the public option.
TPP partnership.pushing through another right wing free-trade race to the bottom con job trade agreement. I'm not happy with that. Sorry. That's not a matter of whether he's a God or not. It's a matter of seeing something that has already ruined Americas economy, and willingly doing it again. And doing it in secret.
Net Neutrality. The same president who said he would fight to protect the Open Internet, turns around and appoints a lobbyist who is a minion of Comcast as chair of the FCC, at the same time that Comcast is trying to get a monopoly over the cable and Internet industry.... And at the same time that the cable industry is trying to kill the whole idea of the open Internet is a level playing field. I'm a little pissed off about that. sorry.
These things are not examples of the "change" he promised. They are actions that Mitt Romney would have been comfortable doing.
Sorry if you think those are just talking points. They are what has done. Its just the record.
And I do pay attention. ....Do you?