Is anyone else excited by Obama's post-election soon to be initiatives?

[hollowdweller]

10. No I'm not really excited

In 2008 we had reached the point where nearly 30 years of using conservative ideas had brought us.

Destruction of the surplus due to the Bush Tax Cuts.

2 wars and the biggest domestic terrorist attack we had ever had.

Economic collapse due to the misdeeds of the rich

Erosion of the middle class.

Obama could have used the bully pulpit and his significant rhetorical powers to permanently discredit hawkish foreign policy and trickle down economic theory and deregulation.

He could have done the same thing as Reagan did to the democrats in the 80's.

When the GOP sensed he wasn't going to do that and went on the attack he decried partisanship but for nearly his whole first term he made out like it was both parties.

I'll be happy for anything he can do to help but we don't need a peacemaker and negotiator. We need a knife fighter.

As long as the GOP perceives the Dems as weak they will do whatever they want to destroy democracy and favor the wealthy.

I just don't see Obama as the one to lead the charge. He doesn't want to get his hands dirty.