You wouldnt find a bigger supporter of Obama than me during the 2008 campaign where I spent many weeks phonebanking and canvassing for the man.
And you wouldn't have found a bigger supporter of this President from his election until this Fall 2010.
But the past few months of serial retreats and cowering to GOP and Corporate interests has severely shaken my confidence in Obama's fighting skills.
He seems now out of place as an educated Harvard grad trying to play a muddy and brutal game of rugby concocted by the opposition.
It's making me wonder whether we were so mesmerized by Obama's rhetorical skills that we too easily dismisssed Bill and Hillary's warning that Obama has neither the skills nor developed the toughness and power to push his agendas through the GOP's obstructionist games.
If it were Hillary today, I don't see how she backs down one notch to the opposition unless there's something clearly to gain. I know we can't go back and change our minds, but we must always reasses our decisions and analyze them so our next decision gets better.
Unless the opposition has some "dirt" on Obama that has him repeatedly backing down to their demands, I see a President who has less backbone and fight as the months go by.
Not a single supporter of this president on blogs, editorials, and television can understand why he is backing down at every challenge and seems more and more like a lameduck President with each failed legislative and despite the clear opportunity to take the GOP to the woodshed for their clear stances against the 95% of Americans and their whoring for the wealthy and corporations REGARDLESS of their foreign credentials.
Fuck! What is going on that we the public are not aware of?
Is Obama just a highly intellectual mind with great speaking skills, but a complete wimp in the face of a fierce fight? Or is he a closet Centrist who fooled us into believing he's a progressive-- (after all Bush proved he was not a true fiscal conservative and suckered the christian fundamentalists for their votes too).
With what I have been seeing since the retreat on the Public Option, I've begun to wonder if Hillary would have better at this fight than Obama....