As I'm sure everyone has noticed, the flamethrowers in the Obama/antiObama wars have undergone a major shift here at Dkos in the last few weeks, and some of the top diarists who ferociously stood up for Obama seem to have recently crossed the line and begun not only openly criticizing his, but openly stating that they were wrong to have supported him. In some of those diaries, people have posted comments saying which step of Obama's was the final one that made that give up hope on his being a President that would actually stand up for the poor or the middle class or who meant any of the promises he campaigned so fervently on. It made me wonder just when so many of us here did in fact cross that line.
I wish a diarist who gets on the wreck list would write a diary with a poll of that sort, because I'd like to see a large cross section. But as so often happens when one asks a question or makes a suggestion, people have the audicity to suggest you do it yourself. Harumph!
So although I know my poll is unlikely to get the broad response someone like La Feminist or TomP, etc. would get and therefore won't provide a good cross section, I'm going to go for it. I'm having two problems in doing that. The first is remembering all the possible moments for it, so people will undoubtedly have to add their own moments that I miss, and so some won't get into the polls. The second is trying to figure out for myself even just when that moment came. There were so many moments of disappointment while I still clung to hope, then hope slowly diminishing, then finally acceptance that this was going to be four years of steady losses for the citizens of this country. But I guess the moment I accepted that was when he took a public option off the table without having put up even a token fight for it. I was pretty discouraged by that time, but I'd continued to believe he had some plan in mind and was giving up some things to gain something more important. But when single payer was never on the table and he promptly took the public option off, that took the scales off my eyes, and I knew he wasn't making his decisions for any noble or greater good purpose; he was doing it because it was easy, he was a wimp, or he actually wanted the rethugs agenda to succeed all along.
Anyway, I'll do my best in providing choices. Have fun figuring your moment out!