Reply #91: I agree

[dreamnightwind]

The right leadership, though, can go a long ways to shifting the whole debate, to educating the public as to what direction we should go, to make the case for policies that will actually help. We don't even have that now. Obama lets the whole corporate-center-right point of view completely determine the terms of discussion. Example: in one or two candid moments, he off-handedly acknowledged that single payer health insurance is really the best way to control costs, but he never ever made any educational arguments in its favor, he never helped explain to the American people what real reform would look like.

I can live with disappointment, change won't be easy. I can't live with phony bait-and-switch politicians. Someone like Brown (or Sanders, Franken, Grayson, Feingold, Dean) would at least get the right conversations going, so we could honestly look at our problems. If we don't have the votes to get something done, we would at least have made the case for why we need more and better votes, by making the right arguments, and we would then have a platform from which to try to get the right people elected in the next elections so that we have the votes... What we have now is the public shrugging and saying Dems are no better than Repubs! Sorry I ramble, anyway we SO need a legitimate challenge to this administration.