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MADem

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30. You are entitled to your flawed opinion. Repeating it doesn't make it any more true than it was

Tue Jan 24, 2012, 07:06 PM

Jan 2012

the first time around.

You can "personally think" whatever, all you want, but what you aren't considering is that people are involved, money is involved, lobbyists are involved, and things are not as simple as you want to make them. Just because someone has a D after their name, that doesn't make them automatically on Obama's team--ask Kucinich about that. Big tents have fringe interests on all sides.

Obama DID get "some things accomplished." Just because they aren't the things that you consider important, that doesn't give you the right to pretend, wrongly, that he hasn't done anything.

Obama is NOT the King, though you make him sound like one who hasn't used his power of decree to sufficient effect to suit you. It would be simpler for him if he were, but it wouldn't be all that good for democracy.

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