This debt ceiling fiasco, no matter how it turns out, has shown that we need to start thinking "BEYOND OBAMA". Fact is, our hopes for change have all but been dashed by this corporatist president who has betrayed all we believed about him when he ran his transformational campaign. We thought he'd be a transformational president because of this, and he is instead a transactional president, not fighting for true traditional Democratic priorities, and caving in to the GOP time after time. He's the Compromiser In Chief.
So, it's time to start focusing on who the next great leader of the Democratic party should be, and who we should get behind for a presidential run five years from now. After the squiggle, I'll set up some thoughts in this regard, and hope this diary can be used for idea generation by all of you reading this.
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