Where do you think President Obama stands in terms of being progressive vs. centrist/conservative?

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22. He is carrying water for very dangerous corporatists.

"Moderate" does not describe the worst decisions of this administration. We have seen an extension and expansion of Bush's most extremist and anti-Constitutional policies. And this is not about Obama the man. This is about the corruption by corporate money of our democratic system, from the billions needed for elections, to lobbying, to the revolving door to Wall Street that corrupts everyday governance. Very little coming out of Washington anymore bears even a slight resemblance to what the people have repeatedly proclaimed we want and need. After Obama's term, if We the People do not find a way to throw ourselves into the gears of the system that is eating us alive, another corporate puppet will be installed.

The ones who now purchase our elections and give us two corporate candidates to choose from have infiltrated and taken control of both political parties. They have trampled the Constitution. They have turned the United States of America into a surveillance state, militarized our police forces, and created a nascent police state. They persecute whistleblowers and criminalize dissent. They strangle investigative journalism and create a propaganda machine to take its place. They are subverting our democratic, representative government and our Constitution to serve the interests of the wealthy elite, and they are working to turn the rest of us into wage slaves. They are profiting from bloody, undeclared wars; surveillance systems; private prisons; exploitative control of our health care and education; and privatization of every resource we have.

And they are now pushing for a trans-national "free trade" agreement that will force Americans to compete with Third World workers for jobs and wages, and cede national sovereignty on issues as important as wages and corporate regulation to corporations that view only profit, not human safety or well-being, as the bottom line.

They are a menace to our representative government, our Constitution, and our freedom. Pretending that they are part of the normal representative governmental process, merely "centrists," is to vastly euphemize the cancer they really are.

No, we are not making incremental progress. We are moving relentlessly in the wrong direction.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4712258

The record shows aggressive, proactive pursuit of a corporate agenda
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023994720#post35