REPOST: I'm curious...who here thinks they or anyone else, could have accomplished more than PBO

[Octafish]

50. Rec the post, disagree with the rationale, consider the DUer who posted it TOPS!

Old and In the Way is TOPS in every way and deserves complete respect from Democrats, DUers and anyone who cares about the United States. He remembers when the President said, "Let's go to the moon!" Never-Old has been in the good fight longer than most Americans have been alive. He knows what he's writing about. And he doesn't stand for the crap artistes. So, with all DU respect, why I disagree that the President is doing all he can:

President Obama won a landslide election. He possessed a mandate unseen in more than a generation. Our party controlled both houses of Congress. He stood at the Bully Pulpit. Yet, rather than state his policy goals and announce his agenda, asking the public to call Congress and ask their rep no matter their party to support his policies because they are popular with the public, but hated by powerful interests -- many if not most of the rich, who oppose on principle because they are greedy and selfish who consider taxes as "theft." Instead, he chose to build bridges with those who voiced their contempt for him. He compromised with the conservatives who have done nothing but obstruct him. He entertained their perspectives publicly, without stating his own. And We the People told him we had his back covered.

That's why, it puzzled me when, for Wall Street reform, he appointed friends of the BFEE like Larry Summers and his crony bankster chums behind the Great Rip Off of 2008. To reform Wars Without End, he let the BFEE's principle brain for War Inc, the guy behind Team B at CIA, to stay as head of the Pentagon. To restore justice, he appointed a Corporate Guy who defended Death Squads as legal yet stood for civil rights for all Americans, yet doesn't see what's wrong with equating money and power. Think, off the top of your head, of all the great Democrats -- and pukes and indepenents -- who'd have cleaned shop and swept out every rat from every corner, overt and covert. All they had to do was be asked.

The public also saw that instead of restoring justice by jailing the traitors who lied America into war and the banksters who looted the Economy and Treasury, he retained their counsel and pursued their policies, even if millions of families got tossed out of their homes through fraud. To me, it's no wonder that after two years, the pukes made huge gains in the House and have done all they could in the Senate to obstruct his policies, programs and people. And it's been that way ever since because the People may be under-informed, We the People are not that dumb.