Is it time for the progressives to consider a primary challenger to Obama in 2012? [View All]

[grahamhgreen]

Is it time for the progressives to consider a primary challenger to Obama in 2012?

Now that it looks like he may give in to corporate interests on health-care, is it time for progressives and liberals to consider the possibility of running a primary challenger to the president in 2012? Most of our other issues have been washed over already.

This might help separate out our philosophy from that of the corporate controlled dems.

That being (if I may be so bold):

Universal health care for every American.
Ending poverty and homelessness.
Out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ending wars for profit.
Prosecuting crimes committed under the previous administration - including possible war crimes.
Returning manufacturing and other outsourced jobs to the USA.
Renewable/unlimited energy.
End global warming.
Environment over profits.
Ending rendition and torture.
Closing Gitmo.
Breaking up monopolistic corporations and banks.
etc......


Right now, if health care fails because Obama refused to push for single-payer or national health, the credit will be given by the media to the right wing PR firms & deathers for killing the bill, when the real reason it may fail is because Obama refuses to motivate and mobilize the core people who put him in the White House - the progressive wing of the Democratic party.

It may be time to start some grumbling about a primary challenger in order to encourage Obama to move back to his roots.

He is, after all, essentially a mediator, and will want to placate us by adopting some of our positions to quell the movement, I would hope.

If not, we will let the American people know that there are those of us who know the only way we can truly move forward is by standing up to, not caving in to, corporate interests.

Is it time to consider such an option?