I simply don't understand how voters can turn their backs on a President who brought us back from

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220. How are you living in the real world more than I am?

If it is true that the current resident of the Oval Office decided to not do the things that have been needed to be done, but instead refrained, then what?

Did he remain a really sweet crusader for the public and the middle class, inside his heart of hearts?

Or did he then decide to totally sell us down the river?

Given his appointment of just TimGeithner alone, a man who has totally sold us down the river, and who boasted to foreign economic officials for most of one summer that "The President works for me," I don't think that I can see Mr Obama as someone who is loyal to the public in his heart but just can't bring himself to die for his beliefs.

And beyond Obama's appointment of Geithner, you have Obama appointing Mike Taylor to head up one division at the FDA, to ensure the complete control that Monsanto and other Big Gm firms want over our seeds, crops and foods. (Bill Clinton was the first one to install Mike Taylor in the government, so I guess he was under the gun too.)

And let me remind you, we have had many Presidents who were willing to die for BOTH their right and their desire to help the middle class. Teddy Roosevelt, (although he survived his assassination attempt) John Kennedy, and then two men who perhaps might have been Presidents had they too not been cut down, Martin Luther King Jr, and Bobby Kennedy. Also Senator Wellstone.

Someone remarked on the OP I put up yesterday (that OP then got entirely blocked,) anyway they remarked to the effect that getting to choose between going to Hell quickly or slowly was hardly a choice.

Someone else remarked on the OP that if the public allows for such an attitude, that a President should acquiesce to the needs of his or her safety, then we will not see the likes of FDR again. Of course, maybe I misread that - maybe they were saying that as long as the public is now so cynical that they don't mind the erosion of any morality on the part of the Top Executive, and are willing to just accept whomever the "D"D Party puts up to run,a s long as they make for a pleasant and charming Corporate Spokesperson, -well, if most Democrats are willing to settle for that, then that is what we Will et.