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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Attacking me for thinking this about Democrats versus Republicans, well go ahead
Obama has polarized the two parties to what it is going on now, sorry you fail to see that, the republicans were ignored by Barry when they pushed this thru. They had things they wanted to add to the bill before they voted for it and Barry ignored them, thus splitting the parties to the extremes they are now. Forgetting the the office of the president represents all the people of the United States. I hate him as a president because of that very thing. Democrats and Republicans will do what they do, hopefully having a balance. When that balance is there, the government works better, I have nothing against the democrats or the GOP, what I have a problem with is a President that is not doing his job and representing all the FOLKS. Look back at past speeches and listen how he puts down the GOP every chance he gets, those are representatives of the people, he has become the leader of the democratic party, not the president of the United States.
Any president that refuses to listen to the other side of things is ignoring the will of the people, anyone that thinks that's ok is wrong
Reagan worked with Tip O'Neil to fix a lot of stuff
Clinton worked with Republicans to balance a budget and several other things
Barry barely talks to the other side
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I don't think I've seen anything so willfully misinformed for ages. Obama is basically a moderate corporate republican. It's just that he's a moderate corporate republican from 25 years ago. You can't move a party to the loony right with an insurgent radical wing over a couple of years and then complain that Obama doesn't agree with Ted Cruz that Agenda 21 will force everyone to live in hobbit homes.
Obama has capitulated time and time again and given into the republicans with the very faintest of protest see:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/boehner-...what-i-wanted/ it's just that the establishment republicans like Boehner are being wedged from the far right by the tea party fanatics/grandstanders/charlatans/tantrum havers and have to worry about being primaried. So they've ruined many things that would have happened under the normal course of business.
Fuck. Obama had a chief of staff that called progressives "fucking idiots". He's governing centre-right and is basically a corporate shill like any president essentially has to be these days with the current campaign finance situation.
This last debt ceiling fight is essentially the first time Obama hasn't immediately capitulated and it's mainly because he had most of the moneyed interests and corporations on his side and the Republicans had no real plan or strategy to achieve anything. Next time they'll probably find some middle ground if the loonies on the right don't screw things up again like they did in '11 when Boehner and Obama wanted to make a deal.