I'm going to hurl a few three letter "words" at President Obama's legacy

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191. Hmm... I guess you are wanting me to be a "hater" now?

You just want me to use the adjectives (which I DON'T feel describe Obama), and are using quotes from another poster to characterize my post here? Would you rather I just simplify my argument to just be name calling rather than a list of specifics that I have concerns about? I guess that would make it easier to characterize me as a hater, that this other poster was also rejecting being called as well.

Obama has done a number of good things and I've said that in many other threads. But he also has done a lot of things that I think are had to explain for those of us who thought we were going to get a president that cared to represent progressive voters in his party.

Am I asking that he "grovel" before Senator Warren? NO! You are saying that I want that. But it would be nice that he would focus the pretty strong criticism he gave her and other progressives on Republicans instead, which I don't think he's ever criticized as much as he has progressives. He seems to care more about passing TPP than any other legislative efforts that support more progressive interests that have been attempted in his turn, where he got more opposition from Republicans that often he didn't negotiate very hard with then. And he appointed Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff that helped build his cabinet after elected who shaped his cabinet with him, and also called progressives in our party "f'ing retards", and insinuating we should just sit down and shut up because we had no where else to go.

Progressives are tired of having these kind of attitudes and policies like pushing REPUBLICAN and CORPORATE centric policies like the TPP in a party that should NOT represent those interests but represent us who helped them win, because in the past many of us would just hold our nose and look the other way the way Rahm Emanuel crassly depicts us, and Obama wants to use that kind of attitude to build his administration.

I'm sorry if you should just sit back and let Obama do what he wants because he's done some good things for us, and he'd be better than a Republican. There are many of us out there that feel are tired of feeling that way and feeling like we have to keep silent about our feelings too.

Perhaps Obama honestly feels that the TPP will be good for us. But he's making the mistake of listening to the wrong people and expecting us all to stand in line and not question what is going on there with the problems with secrecy, the process, and so many other recent failed "free trade" treaties that have us feeling betrayed by our leaders.