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In reply to the discussion: Cenk is over at Daily Kos calling for a vote against Obama (updated) [View all]PassingFair
(22,451 posts)"I follow politics for a living; I'm not unaware of how hideous the Republican choices are. But that doesn't mean that we should pretend that President Obama has been brilliant because we're scared of the big, bad Republicans. That would be fundamentally dishonest.
And to be honest, I'm really disappointed that he does not have a primary opponent. This country is dying for someone who is going to take on the establishment. Who is that going to be on our side - Barack Obama? On that, I know whether to laugh or cry. Every time I think about the idea that President Obama might be against the establishment, I laugh and laugh and laugh. There is never been a guy who was this enamored with the establishment. If he had wrestling nickname it would be The Establishment.
The guy who appointed Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Larry Summers, Rahm Emanuel and Bill Daley (and a list of hundreds of others, including two new Fed appointments, one of which is a Republican who worked for the Carlyle Group) is not a guy who is interested in changing the system at all. Change was a cutesy slogan he used to trick us into thinking he was on our side. "
Many of us voters felt that we had a choice between Obama and Clinton. We were duped.
They were and are playing from the same book.
Your "team" may choose to ignore our awareness at your own peril.
Luckily, the republicans are in COMPLETE disarray and unless they wise up and
coalesce behind Romney, the Democrats don't have a worry in the world.