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Originally Posted by theking
How has the President betrayed us/you?
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Me?
He appointed geithner to treasury, and in every other way stacked his cabinet with the people who caused the collapse, and who had no intention of doing anything to craft a new economy to replace the old one which failed, and is still failing, taking us into a deadend path into the future. They continued to strip the real wealth out of the country.
Every action he took was basically a continuation of republican policy that had already proved that it could not cope with the complexities of a global economy. As examples, the health care bill (a badly designed copy of a republican plan), the stimulus, the continued bailouts, the free pass given to wall street.
His stimulus was too small, poorly planned, poorly administered, and doomed to failure because it stimulated the wrong parts of the economy.
He took no action on things which might have made a difference, such as a push for science and technology infrastructure, education, and development.
He said he would be different - what he did was more of the same. He outdid Bush in every significant way.
He said he would leave the states to administer their own medical marijuana programs - the one breath of fresh air and freedom in four years of suffering - but is letting the IRS attack them thru the back door and quietly turning the dogs in Justice on them as a sop to the right.
He kept us in the pointless wars - until it's time for the election, then he pulls out of one.
I could go on and on - but most of what I would say I'd have to explain, because it's outside the dialectic of partisanship.
Like clinton, he's been a republican in everything but name. That's not what we need now, nostalgia and timidity, and being a pet of wall street, won't help us in a global economy. It only helps wall street, and they already have one foot out of the country.
And it feeds right into exactly the types of silly claims the right wing is expert at crafting. Obama was the right's wet dream - a white republican president in blackface, the perfect target for hate and prejudice, while actually doing every single thing the republicans wanted, and never once standing up to them like the leader we needed.
Like the idiot republicans say - hows that hopey/changey thing working out?