President Obama has done more to help the poor and middle class than any President since LBJ

[ProSense]

43. Well,

"Ultimately, I think the reason people are upset is that for whatever reason, we seem to have lost a great opportunity to really try to change the system. Obama who won the elections by mobilizing people for change has chosen to govern by making back room 'grand bargains' where the purpose appears to be to protect the Status Quo for the Corporations and Rich although with some small and some merely symbolic concessions to blur the hard edges of the system. Although, the causes of the problems in our economy were in no way caused by him, he has blunted the chances for 'real reform' starting with the ACA and continuing with financial reform. Rather than single payer health and Glass-Steagall we got slightly improved republican solutions. "

...being upset is one thing, and the facts are another. The health care law is "real reform." It expands life-saving care to middle class and poor, including the millions who now qualify for Medicaid.

If Obama had become the President to implement single payer immediately, he would be considered one of the greatest Presidents ever. If his policy leads to single payer, as it could:

Vermont also intends to be the first state in the U.S. with a single-payer health-care system, in which the government pays all of its residents’ medical bills and insurance companies are unnecessary. The state legislature passed a law in 2011 to steer the state toward adopting such a system in 2017, the soonest possible under the federal health-care law.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-01/vermont-s-first-look-at-insurance-exchange-rates-shows-savings.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022602134

...then that will become part of his legacy.

There is nothing "Republican" about Wall Street reform. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022441546