I was never so happy as the day that Barack Obama was elected President. I really loved this guy and what he said he stood for. Early in his administration he still wowed me with his intelligent dismissal of GOP talking points. But these last two years have been very different...
We have to face the fact that Obama is a freaking sell out. He is absolutely spineless. He is the worst negotiator I have ever seen and the weakest president we have had in a very long time. You know, I can take some of the crap we have had to swallow from the GOP, but for God's sake, they only control ONE FREAKING HALF OF CONGRESS! When they are in power they get what they want. When we are in power, they get what they want. This just sickens me.
What would "W" have done about the debt ceiling issue do you think? I'll tell you what he would have done. He would have said to hell with the Democrats, I am going to use the 14th Amendment and raise the debt ceiling myself. THAT IS WHAT OBAMA SHOULD HAVE DONE. But Nooooooo... Obama is just an enormous pussy and feels he must compromise on everything. Well, he has done it. He has put us in a fully compromised position and the GOP ain't going to use any lube.
Obama just doesn't get it. The GOP is never going to say anything nice about him. NEVER. So why does he keep giving in to them? Why doesn't he fight back? Why does he allow them to frame the debate (i.e. its a freaking jobs crisis NOT a debt crisis dammit)?
And can you believe that every negotion Obama gets involved in starts out by giving away whatever we had to negotiate with and then moves to the right from there. I say to hell with this! Let's freaking put Bernie Sanders (or someone) up for President!
Okay, here is the reality of the situation. Americans want a smart president, but they also want a strong president. Obama is losing the Independents and has been doing so with every freaking cave that he does. Look at the polls. Americans want to tax the rich and leave Social Security and Medicare alone. They want to cut defense and end wars. But Obama LOSES EVERY SINGLE FIGHT WE HAVE ABOUT THESE THINGS.
This guy caves more than a freaking bear. I mean, really, he gave the GOP EVERYTHING they wanted on the debt ceiling "crisis" and more! He shows himself to be very weak and he is setting us up to have to suffer under Rick Perry as President or worse (which astoundingly is actually possible)
Clearly Obama and the powers that be think that we Progessives have no choice but to support him. Well yes, if Obama is the nominee for our party we would be much worse off with a Republican in the White House than Obama. But you know what? I am done with the Caver in Chief. I am to the point where when I see him on TV, I don't want to even hear what he has to say because I know that whatever it is, it is up for dismissal at the faintest whims of the Republicans.
I say lets primary Obama before we get another 4 years from a right wing Democrat or God help us, another idiot Republican.