Reply #160: "threw it in his lap and left town???...I think not.

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A couple of points, old friend.
WE gave Obama a HUGE Popular Mandate for "Change".
We pledged to help him, and would have IF he had ever dared to use us.
But Obama never called. He NEVER used this popular mandate.
During Tea Bagger Summer, if Obama had called us to come stand with him on the Capital Steps for REAL Health Care Reform, MILLIONS would have answered.
WE WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE!!!!

Instead, Obama chose the path of back room deals, "Bi-Partisan Consensus", and appeasement of Joe Lieberman.
We didn't abandon him.
He promised us a seat at the table, then hired Rahm to keep "the fucking retards" out.
A Mandate unused is a mandate wasted.

But the insult to the injury was the White House actively campaigning for Republicans (Specter), and
conservative Anti-LABOR Blue Dogs in the recent Democratic Primary when there were good DEMOCRATS in these primaries.
Hard to defend that.

I am willing to fight for the FDR values I believe in.
The problem is, I am having to fight AGAINST the Centrist Democratic Party Leadership for these values.
FDR and LBJ don't even have a seat at the table in the "New" Democratic Party.
I am NOT willing to fight for weak policy that is 1/2 Republican in origin.

"If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for,
at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them."
--- Paul Wellstone