So this is what 66,882,230 votes, 60 Senate Seats, 257 House Seats, the overwhelming goodwill of the nation and the world gets us???
When I voted for 'change I could believe in,' what exactly did that mean to the Democratic Party and the Obama administration?
No one likes to say it, but someone has to say it...
I couldn't be more disappointed with the Presidency of Barack Obama. I couldn't be more disappointed in the invisible Joe Biden. I couldn't be more disappointed in Rahm Emanuel. I couldn't be more disappointed in a Senate full of corporate puppets. I couldn't be more disappointed at the Democratic Leadership. I couldn't be more disappointed in the coward Harry Reid.
So far, this has been nothing short of a disastrous agenda from the White House.
And....I voted for the guy...volunteered for the guy...donated to the guy!!!
Now, if I'm thinking that way, I can only imagine what non-political people that voted for President Obama think of him and his policies.
Just who exactly is advising the President?
Is this who I should point my anger towards?
Who are the people advising him to negotiate with the infinitesimal Republican Minority?
Who's brainstorm was it to completely eviscerate the gigantic good will the American public bestowed upon the Obama admistration?
Who's idea was it to ignore the hundreds of thousands of volunteers (myself included) that spent countless hours electing the man of change...the man of hope?
Is it my fault? Did I not read the party platform closely enough?
Maybe I misinterpreted the slogan, "Yes we can." Maybe that's all I heard.
Maybe there was a second part that I was cheering over that said, "Yes we can compromise our core values to hopefully, but still probably not pass real health care reform, financial reform, and environmental reform."
While I can defend the administration to lunatics like the birthers and tea baggers, I can't defend the administration on any issues of substance, because they haven't passed anything I am proud of.
I've heard people argue that the President is constrained by the conservative Democrats in the Senate.
If this is the case, then Barack Obama clearly doesn't have the leadership skills I thought he did.
He can give a pre-planned speech pretty good, but in his day to day handling of the office of the Presidency, he's terrible.
Robert Gibbs is funny in that country bumpkin kind of way, but he too sounds like a neutered voice inside this administration.
I really thought we grabbed the bull by the horns back in November.
Now I feel like I watched a giant magic show and believed in the illusion of what I thought a Barack Obama presidency would be like.
So far, its been all smoke and mirrors.
Why is the Democratic Party incapable of electing leaders and Presidents who can lead?
Talk amongst yourselves. I'm just sick and tired of being sick and tired.