I am becoming more and more frustrated with President Obama seeking bi-partisan solutions to all of our major policy goals.
Health Care Reform was reduced to a kind of tepid solution. Now, the Republicans are after Social Security 'reform' of some kind.
The President's response has not been reassuring to me at all.
I found myself asking the Democratic National Committee to not send me more of their emails.
So, I ask myself:
Am I becoming to radical? I wonder.
I gave money to the President in 2008. I phoned for him. I opened my office to his volunteers for a few weeks, every day. I voted for him twice, once in the primary and once in the general election.
But, lately, I am wondering where I am going politically.
I am concerned that we are in an endless useless perpetual war that I had hoped the President would end. He has not. David Petraeus seems to have convinced the President that we can win a war in a country that has not seen a victor since Alexander the Great.
The banksters keep awarding themselves huge bonuses for failing in the management of the banks that are kept afloat by tax payer giveaways. They are all obviously broke, corrupt and destined to fail. Yet, we keep giving them money to continue operations. Some call it 'extend and pretend' but the management continues to prosper while millions of middle class workers are unemployed. And the government seems to continue contentedly satisfied with this.
I had hoped the President would be another Franklin Roosevelt. He IS NOT for certain.
Now, Social Security is under attack even more than Glass-Stegall was under Clinton. Surely, surely there is some line in the sand that we cannot allow the enemy to cross. Yet, the President seems willing to compromise on that too.
I want a President that will fight for the middle class, end the looting of America by the rich and look out for those who need help to live the American dream.
And, I am deeply disappointed. Deeply.
Perhaps my views are so radical they do not belong here even. But, I know I am changing.