Barack Obama’s Long Game,A month of victories has transformed the President’s second term.

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26. Obama always gives his base one big F*** Y** and then a bunch of smaller (baby steps) successes

Like when he extended the uber rich's tax give aways for 2 years with his lame duck congress. He also gave us at the same time 1 year of tax breaks for everyone else and 1 year of extended unemployment. He always disguises his big FUs with smaller liberal successes. It's so his base doesn't totally abandon him and he can pretend to be a liberal.

I mean the TPP and Fast Track authority for the next president too is sooooooo neoconish, so destructive, so kissing the feet of the rich white oligarchs and pissing on liberals that anything after that would look liberal by mere comparison.

Obama is always playing off his base. In tiny little minuscule baby steps we get some kind of health insurance reform but then with adult like strides he dumps TPP on us. I will never forgive him for fast track, all the other "free" trade deals or the coming middle class killer TPP.

All the other stuff will probably be forgotten, but those awful trade deals, fast track authority for the next president and TPP are horrors that keep on giving for decades and decades.