Why She Supports Bernie Sanders!

[LiberalLovinLug]

66. Other have called you out but I have to add

How is this a lie?

President Obama missed an historical opportunity to rally that active liberal branch, the ones that pounded the pavement for him, to help create a wave of hope and change. Most Americans when you ask them about specific viewpoints reveal they are actually more liberal than the corporate media and the Washington bubble try to portray. So there was a huuuuuuuuge opportunity to use the base he had already established with the left and expand it. There have been few great orator Presidents. FDR and JFK were also exceptional. FDR used the bully pulpit to cow his enemies and champion The New Deal. JFK successfully established the Peace Corps and championed public service, and pushed through the first moon landing.

The time was ripe for a transformative shift. All the US needed was a great orator in leadership to galvanize those moderates, the uninformed, the dormant activists. There was no call. Once the election was over, Obama rarely gave rousing speeches anymore. It became only about enraging his base by appointing establishment insiders and Republicans and in press conferences he, or his appointees, sneered at his own base that got him elected in the primaries.

They slowly but surely ostricized those who could have made up an army of support for progressive changes. Single Payer, Gitmo, and finance reform of elections. If anyone could rally support and explain the benefits to the population of tackling these issues it was Obama and his incredible gift of the gab. But it seemed from the get go that he was more interested in ensconcing himself into the Washington establishment and desparately did NOT want to be seen as FOX News was portraying him...as an outside agitator and radical. When at the time (and still) this is exactly what was needed.