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There was a very large group of people on this site during the time when Barack Obama was a candidate for the presidency. Like everyone else, I loved the idea that a brilliant articulate black man could actually become president. I liked Hillary better and voted for her in the NY Primary but before that a whole bunch of things happened that led me to my choice. I wasn't happy about Rev. Wright or Obama sycophants intimating Clinton was a racist for NO REASON while Michelle Obama was campaigning through the South telling Blacks that they should vote for a Black president.
I was totally disgusted with Olbermann and Frank Rich for helping the Obama team perpetuate these vicious and untrue slurs.
But that was politics and as bad as it was it wasn't enough to discount a possible historic change in government and society. That's the part I wanted because I felt that a President Obama would be that shining example on the hill that would be the next step after Affirmativeve Action that changed generationon of blacks and all minoritieses. I said that often but of course the 12 year olds here weren't listening.
However, I then saw 49 minute interview with the Reno Gazette Editorial Board January 2008 (Contact James Ball at the Reno Gazette if you want to find it because I cannot find it anymore, just pieces of it) that drove me up a wall and that interview is the CT Scan of the Obama presidency, with regard to taxes and entitlements. He said:
I don't want to present myself as some sort of singular figure. I think part of what's different are the times...I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it. I think they felt like with all the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s and government had grown and grown but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating. I think people, he just tapped into what people were already feeling, which was we want clarity we want optimism, we want a return to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing.
So, according to Obama, the country was ready for bankruptcy, large deficits, interest payments that will effect all presidents that followed him, a prima donna class where the disparity between the poor and middle classes became sickeningly wider, regulation busting, union busting, anti-Semitism, killing education like he did in California? America was ready for that? Democrats were ready for that? He never said it was bad and as a matter of fact he said what Clinton did was bad and lumped him together with Bush.
I voted for Obama in the general election but it was a vote for a more liberal Supreme Ct. and against new whore of the right John McCain and his lunatic VP candidate. It was not a vote for Barack Obama.
The President has done some good things; Healthcare, GM & Chrysler, DADT, killing bin Laden (but I don't give him more credit for that than I give Reagan for breaking the USSR-it would have happened w/ or w/out them) etc, but extending the Bush Tax cuts, cash for clunkers (not restricted to buying American) and the war in Iraq and maybe even the war in Afghanistan were horrible, horrible horrible.
I know the middle class tax cut was saved and I know that unemployment was continued but all those people would have been better off with a better economy that was hiring people. He gave into extortionists and he'd have to do it again, given his reluctance to stand a progressive stance.
If you read Meteor Blades farewell, hopefully a temporary one, he talks about the pettiness and power grabbing of some people here and instead of listening to differing points of view, they attack out of their own ignorance and total lack of undeerstanding of the real issues, as many of them were either 12 years old or never were educated in politcs or finance before. Liberals and progressives often lack the finance gene but worse was they believed Obama could do anything and would do anything liberal and progressive and they didn't care what he actually said. In that interview refered to above, he laid out exactly who he was. He even said he was the person who had the ability to figure everything out, like nobody else, and his strength is bringing opposing sides together. The hell he did.
So, next time you read comments from someone whose understanding and beliefs are different than yours, and you should know the difference between Republican and differing progressive philosophies, think before you get nasty because you will end up with an uneducated mob (like the TBaggers) that can't think at all and then giving carte blanche to a president who is being led around by the nose by extortionist Republican lowlifes, instead of being a strong tough leader who uses the bully pulpit to get Americans behind him.
Sometimes I almost think, and stuoidly I may add, that because the President is Black he needs to try to bring people together rather than look dangerous. That is such bullshit. Nobody looked more dangerous than Bush and Cheney. I once told a story on here that I was on a plane sitting next to an active Nassau County (NY) Republican, must have been December 2007. I was shocked to hear him say that he would vote for Obama because McCain is too old and his ideas were backwards from his prior straight talk years and of course, Palin was no asset.
If the President would have told the American people these are emergency times and we have to remove the Bush Tax cuts and possibly even raise taxes higher, they would have believed him. He could have also said, I realize this will not be great for my re-election but I have to be truthful with you and America needs to stop the excesses under Reagan and Bush that left us with monstrous debt, avalanching unemployment and a class of wealthy who doesn't seem to care. For our wealthiest billionaires to see their tax rates on Dividends and Hedge Fund/Private Equity Mgrs income go from a top bracket in 1961 of 91% to 15% something has to be wrong and it was. If the middle class saw that kind of tax rate reduction in half, in half again and cut by another 40%, their 28% would go down to 4% but they'd still be paying SS and Medicare so their 4% would still be 11%. Now they average 28% plus 7.5% or 35.5%. How can we allow the wealthy to pay only 15% on this investment income that loses jobs not creates them. I can't let America be that stupid.
I wish Nancy Pelosi was President.