Reply #168: One more K&R...

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I'll never vote for a Republican. But I can't hide or ignore my disappointment in this administration either.
I work in Miami most of the time. Many of my associates supported Obama, as did I (after DK & JE, yes I admit it).
Now several of these associates have begun to back off Obama. Like myself and many on this thread, they feel that he abandoned the solid African-American support base. This is a highly unscientific sampling admittedly, but it's real and I hear it frequently.
I agree that Obama has made some progress, but he wasted enormous popular momentum trying to appease Republicans and pure shit-bags like Lieberman. The HCR is the result - a mess created from a mess. For all the shit he took about that bill and still takes, the bill resembles something that one Richard M. Nixon once proposed. Go figure.
I read a column recently, forget who it was but it was a left-leaning writer, that described Obama as "dithering" with the Gulf disaster response. He also "dithered" with Health Care and he's "dithering" with Financial reform.
He seems to have little support among the Dems as a leader of policy. They appear to take his suggestions lightly as they ultimately craft their own pathetic versions of What Should Have Been.
I hate to admit it, but it seems highly unlikely that Obama will serve another term. It's still somewhat early, but he's setting a low bar for potential opponents. The racists, haters, and former Bush basers are not being marginalized by popular support for Obama - and they should been long ago by now. Palin should be a trivia question but she's getting significant air time still.
Along with the watered-down agenda and "centrist" direction of this administration, there's one more crucial element of success of a President that remains missing here in Year 2 and it's been exposed on the shores of the Gulf: leadership.