I haven't changed my opinions or my stances. Obama, who grew up from a political point of view, in the post-Reagan era just moved the center to the right -- pretty far to the right.
For example, in the late 1970s and in response to Nixon's excesses, our Congress passed laws that prohibited a lot of snooping into the lives of Americans as well as some campaign finance and other privacy protections.
Obama has abandoned much of that legislation.
And may I point out that Obama and his sycophants complain about an uncooperative Congress, but Obama has very, very rarely used his veto powers. And he could, because he might be able to get Senate votes behind him if he just so much as established a credible record suggesting that he was willing to use his veto to stop the bad Tea-Bagger legislation. (FDR vetoed bills 635 times; Obama vetoed them 2 times. Granted FDR served much longer than Obama, but . . . . FDR's Congress were for the most part more consonant with FDR's politics than Obama's have been. If Obama is so opposed to the Tea-Baggers, he should wield his veto a little more often.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_vetoes
I was in on an internet conversation between Obama supporters and Obama just a week or two before the announcement regarding the final Health Insurance Reform Bill. Obama stated then that he favored the public option. But that is not what we got, yet Obama signed the bill Congress sent. And he never even allowed single payer advocates to be heard.
I will vote for and work for Obama, but I have strong reservations about him -- especially when it comes to human rights including privacy rights.
We spend far too much money investigating our fellow citizens. It is ridiculous. We should be spending that money on education.
And we should impose tariffs on imports so that we can support those of us who can't get work because we import so many cheap, foreign junk.
Obama has been very short on ideas that can solve the problems of the country. But then, his opposition is worse. In fact, Romney is a nightmare.
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