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In reply to the discussion: You know why many people don't trust Obama? [View all]stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)Revealed in just about all of his Executive Cabinet appointments.
There are PLENTY of white Democratic Congresscritters that are similarly not deserving of trust on economic matters for average Americans for exactly the same reason.
"New Democrats" = moderate '80s Republicans (which are words Obama also used to describe himself).
Do you believe Obama was lying to us when he described himself as a "New Democrat" or as a moderate '80s Republican?
I sure don't.
P.S. Voted for him twice, and glad he beat out the insane candidates he ran against, but he's done a horrible job FIGHTING to improve the economic security of average Americans since he's been in office (the economic gains from the "recovery" have all gone to the top 1% for the most part), and the Republican Party has not been this strong across federal and state legislatures in a very, very long time while the Democratic Party has had him as our leader (and that's after the Bush Administration and Republicans horrified the Nation so much prior to his inauguration).