Doesn't Senator Sanders for President in ’12 begin to sound better and better
What has he shown US so far?
Where does Obama stand on the issue of the growing police and security presence in American life?
Guantanamo is still open and those who tortured in the name of America still are living large. Where is Obama? Is he puzzled by the legal technicalities? Below is a temp plate for him.
Civil liberties were downsized by The Oily One and Obama seems to have distanced himself from the civil rights issue. For him that may be his biggest mistake since his support comes from that segment of the population where civil rights are a core issue,
Obama’s policies of inclusion may sound good in academic circles, but the reality is that Obama’s supporters didn’t back him to put face on some of the people who they disdain.
OBAMA LAME DUCK
For some the need to have a black president was obvious, but now it’s becoming obvious there is considerably less need to have this one for a second term.
Flying under the false flag of bipartisanship, politicians meet their commitments to special to the special interest groups that are their real constituency. During his run for the presidency Obama made much of his concerns about lobbyists having too much power in the nation’s affairs, but we have heard little from him on this subject since he was elected and seen even less action.
EXPECT WHAT FROM OBAMA?
Based on history, not rhetoric we can expect Obama to stand up for nothing; he is a triangulator in the Clinton tradition. Obama’s obsessed with bi-partisanship with right wing Republicans who think he is a Muslim, a communist or other things that lose definition in a fog of right wing thinking and buzz words, but certainly aren’t complimentary. Obama has made his way because he is a charming, very likable fellow but he erred in assuming he would charm the right wing of the Republican Party. He hasn’t and he won’t, but he has alienated his core support. The people who made it possible for him to overcome a certain Clinton victory did not do so to expand endless wars, to bail out McDonald's, to endorse the Bush diminishment of civil liberty, to totally ignore the social issues that compromise our ability to be competitive in the global economy and most important to fail to understand the problems faced by our schools. Obama has done nothing to address the problems in our criminal justice system that leaves prison guards facing the wrong direction and failing to prevent people from escaping social conditions by breaking into expensive prisons. In ’12 the most Obama can hope for is that the Republicans shoot themselves in the foot and nominate Christine O’Donnell. Obama & Progressives
