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Who Does Obama Serve? HUGE Cuts in Regressive Budget Proposal (Original Post) damnedifIknow Apr 2013 OP
Well, Newest Reality Apr 2013 #1
Not the way I thought a second term would go damnedifIknow Apr 2013 #2
I know, I fell for it too. zeemike Apr 2013 #6
We've been HAD! Plucketeer Apr 2013 #14
His appointments should have given it away. zeemike Apr 2013 #16
I couldn't agree more Plucketeer Apr 2013 #17
Young Turks - "I Told You So" - Just Like Many Here At DU cantbeserious Apr 2013 #3
He serves the 99% of course MannyGoldstein Apr 2013 #4
Third party? damnedifIknow Apr 2013 #5
Cenk is 100% right. I'm with him. JDPriestly Apr 2013 #7
I can imagine him saying that with his signature mouth full of spit. Comrade_McKenzie Apr 2013 #18
I like him. JDPriestly Apr 2013 #20
This truth telling is what got Cenk of MSNBC ya think? nt bonniebgood Apr 2013 #8
No, it was probably his highly annoying mouth full of spit. nt Comrade_McKenzie Apr 2013 #19
From day one Obama's proven he's not liberal cpwm17 Apr 2013 #9
Mid terms are coming. what liberal or progressive would want to go out and vote bonniebgood Apr 2013 #10
This needs to cover every "centrist" Democrat with a stench that makes them permanently unelectable. Marr Apr 2013 #11
They're WORSE than Republicans Plucketeer Apr 2013 #15
. blkmusclmachine Apr 2013 #12
See this move to cut Social Security by a Democratic leader depresses the base fasttense Apr 2013 #13
This reminds me of a video called Cenk Goes Ballistic limpyhobbler Apr 2013 #21

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Well,
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 09:51 PM
Apr 2013

we know that the Fortune 500 are very, very important. In fact, they are the reason things are the way they are.

Pigs with lipstick are still pigs even when they are actually wolves in pig suits pretending to be sheep ... or something like that.

Shhh! Maintain the status quo or get a terrorist enhancement!!!!

damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
2. Not the way I thought a second term would go
Sun Apr 7, 2013, 10:09 PM
Apr 2013

I really believed the president would bring out the progressive whipping stick in his second term but I am stumped. I just don't understand I'm sorry.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
6. I know, I fell for it too.
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 12:54 AM
Apr 2013

He had the mandate...and instead did the bidding of Wall Street.
To be honest with you I looked the other way on a lot of things because he was black, and I never imagined that a black man would be the one to sell us out...but here it is.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
14. We've been HAD!
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 11:28 AM
Apr 2013

Although - for the wife and I - the frist term left NO doubts as to what we'd helped put in the Oval Office. My god..... go back and watch his '08 campaign rhetoric. He just flat LIED. If he DIDN'T lie, then somehow, someONE got to him from day one in the oval office. Likely it was corporate money, but whatever.

This time around, I voted for the lesser of evils. Sure, I had hopes - like everyone else - that we'd see a magical transformation. But.... here we are, and look what we've got. Barack Obama (D)eceiver.

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
16. His appointments should have given it away.
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 11:43 AM
Apr 2013

He filled his cabinet and government with Wall Street and conservatives...but I deluded myself into thinking he was just trying to be bipartisan...looking back on it that was a laugh.

We are played for suckers because we love hope, and if given just a little of it we can delude ourselves into being chumps.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
17. I couldn't agree more
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 12:17 PM
Apr 2013

When he started to fill his cabinet, first term, I was dumbfounded by the choices. If they weren't Wall St. wonders, the were hand-me-downs from W! Hope and Change indeded.

damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
5. Third party?
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 12:10 AM
Apr 2013

I don't see any other way out of this. Republicans are out of the question and Democrats seem to be heading that way so what's left? I don't know I'm just frustrated with the whole mess.

bonniebgood

(940 posts)
10. Mid terms are coming. what liberal or progressive would want to go out and vote
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 02:23 AM
Apr 2013

for democrats? I can see the senate full of baggers just like the house.
I personally was done with Obama when he hired Rahm Emanuel and Howard Dean could not
get a janitors job in the Obamas white house.

 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
11. This needs to cover every "centrist" Democrat with a stench that makes them permanently unelectable.
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 02:40 AM
Apr 2013

We seriously need to kick the DLC/Third Way/New Democrats out of the party. Just don't vote for them. They are NOT even preferable to Republicans, as they can make attacks on liberal institutions that Republicans could never get away with.

And that's their goal-- to undermine traditional Democratic Party constituencies and make the party more attractive to big business donors.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
15. They're WORSE than Republicans
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 11:32 AM
Apr 2013

At least when you vote GOP, you KNOW you're voting for ignorance and obstinamce!

 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
13. See this move to cut Social Security by a Democratic leader depresses the base
Mon Apr 8, 2013, 08:58 AM
Apr 2013

So that in 2014, the Democratic base will be so disillusioned that they wont come out to vote and RepubliCONS will pick up more seats in congress.

Smart move if you were trying to get RepubliCONS elected.

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