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In reply to the discussion: Um, this has more to do with 20+ years of Third Way Dems appeasing real crazies, [View all]sendero
(28,552 posts)... from where it belongs. When folks found out that "change" was "more of the same", they said "aw fuck it" and stayed home.
Obama campaigned as a progressive regardless of all the revisionists bullshit you will read here. He basically ran against Bush and then filled his cabinet with people who bush might well have chosen himself.
Even if you were correct, which you are not, I'd rather the GOP just go ahead and sink the fucking country and get it over with so we can usher in real change than live with this idiotic "death by a thousand cuts" strategy that Obama seems to embrace, where slowing down the money train a couple miles an hour is good enough. It isn't.
Obama created the current situation FIRST AND FOREMOST by continually trying to compromise, appease and knuckle under to the Republicans. He's rolled over so many times seeking their elusive approval (which a moron can see he will NEVER get, because he is black) they expected him to roll again.
Everyone here is sure he won't but I'm not.
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