How Progressives Can Move Obama to the Left | 22 comments (22 topical, 0 hidden)
Cenk is ABSOLUTELY right! (none / 0)
I can no longer support Obama or the Democratic party if this Senate Health Care Bill is the kind of treachery they are going to perpetrate on the public. Obama has been a tremendous disappointment. Broken promises, lies, lack of any kind of conscience, that's Obama. He is surrounded by the worst type of pro-corporate, pro-oligarchy advisors and aides. Bernanke, Geithner, Summers, Clinton, Gates, Emmanuel--this type of person IS the problem in the government: unscrupulous, unprincipled, amoral, dishonest, self interested--these folks deserve every one of these epithets and more.
Barack Obama, you are a weak-kneed sell-out to corporate interests and you deserve the failed presidency that history will judge your administration to be.
I hope Progressives will take off their rose-coloured glasses and see this administration for what it is. What is needed is a constant attack on these people. Maybe then they may start to understand that they must serve the people and not the big vested interests.
Damn all the so-called progressives in the Senate for spineless cowards. I have to include Bernie Sanders in that group, to my great regret. But not a single one of them, not EVEN Feingold, went against this monstrosity.
The Democratic party is going to reap what it deserves: This bill will be seen by voters for what it is, a massive give-away to the insurance industry (those mandated customers and subsidies are making the insurance companies salivate already), and the Democratic party will once again be revealed to be unprotective of the very citizens it constantly claims are its most important constituents. Voters will finally see through the Obama mystique and past the soaring rhetoric to the lies and lack of leadership he really offers. The voters will stay away from the polls in 2010, the Dems will get their heads handed to them, and Obama will go into the 2012 election cycle severely damaged and unlikely to withstand a serious primary challenge, much less win reelection. Young people who bought into the Obama bait and switch scheme will become cynical and disillusioned and will turn away from politics. The Republicans will regain the presidency and continue their destruction of a once proud country, turning it into a corporate fascist state where the citizen’s rights are the least of anyone’s concerns.
I was a big Obama supporter. I don't have much money, but I sent him $750.00 of my hard-earned cash, and I voted for him. I'm NOT going to be fooled twice!
Every progressive should turn against the traitors who have sold us out on this bill and on so many other issues in the recent past.
Congress won't learn to respect progressives and liberals until it is MADE to do so, until it begins to fear repercussions from the left. Until that day, you can kiss off all hopes of reform in Washington D.C.

by Red Eric on 12/25/2009 08:23:26 PM EST

How Progressives Can Move Obama to the Left | 22 comments (22 topical, 0 hidden)