Weve never seen President Obama act like this

[cui bono]

169. I agree with you. Here's my take from the opposite perspective.

First of all, you say you don't want people using terms like "Bushama" but then in the very same post you said "hair gets lit" as if concerns aren't warranted. It has to go both ways.

And speaking of the extreme "positions", there is a thread with a pic and meme that says Obama is pushing for the most progressive trade deal ever. Someone reposted it in a reply to me elsewhere so I don't know where it was originally posted, but that's really ridiculous. In no way is the TPP progressive. And the silly teen magazine type OPs that have zero substance and just a bunch of pics to fawn over are surreal and look stupid on a political discussion board. Are we discussing policy or pledging allegiance to a personality?

And just as you say "the political strategy to bring about change becomes more complex, and cannot simply be resolved by histrionic posts on an internet forum" nor can PBO's legacy be etched by the constant blind trust and defending of him with no criticism of anything at all, and the attempt of branding him as progressive/liberal when he is no such thing. And in fact, that is a way to hinder change because it is making it seem as if we already have the left/liberal/progressives leading us in the Dem Party when it is far from that. Obama is a centrist and he is a self-described moderate Republican. If we want real change we need to get the party back to its liberal/progressive roots, and I'm all for that.