Re: Obama's Problem: Forgetting Who Got Him There


"Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"CPangus" <cpangus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It is a maxim that political hopefuls move toward the center the closer
to elections to try to broaden their base. Obama, however got where he
is by calling for change and invigorating a lot of young supporters who
would otherwise sit the election out. With Obama's move toward the
center he is looking more and more like more-of-the-same rather than
change.

He is caving on the environment: conditional acceptance of off-shore
drilling.

He is caving on foreign policy: Russia is the bogeyman and throw another
billion dollars of sorely needed at home dollars at Georgia, for
starters.

He, at least in media reports, hardly mentions universal health care.
Not that he ever proposed real change: single payer like nearly every
other civilized government.

He says little about jobs going overseas and corporate taxes and
corporate interference through lobbyists outshouting with dollars We The
People.

In short, Obama is bowing to the powers-that-be rather than change to the
power of the people. Excitement gone. Hope gone. Enthusiasm and new
voters gone.

Will Obama 'get it' before he is gone?

One would think that once you got stung, you would not want to get stung
again. You wanted this country to end our effort in Iraq, so you voted in
large enough numbers to get democrats into the majority. And did they
give you what you wished for? I don't think so. Now, there is Obama who
democrats have chosen as their candidate, on what basis? Well, one of
them, if I am to believe the polling data, is that you believe that Obama
will end our involvement in Iraq. But will he? I don't think you know
the answer to that, because he has not said that. He has said, he would
reduce the number of combat troops in Iraq, but he has not said he would
end our involvement in Iraq. As a matter of fact if you listen very
carefully to what he has said, none of us can say with any degree of
confidence exactly what he would do, if elected. So, then the quesiton
is, if you have been disappointed once, are you going to make the same
mistake again?

Sorry I didn't see this earlier, must have been busy working.

The reason little has changed in the two years since dems won a majority in
Congress is because the repubs have engaged in more of those 'filibusters'
they so condemned the dems for than any other Congress in history.




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