What really pisses me off lately...

[Frisbee]

I've noticed a trend lately were if you say anything critical of Obama, you are immediately pounced upon. Well for all of you who are so in love with him and think he can do no wrong, guess what. There are a lot of us who voted for him who are fed up with him not living up to the promises he made to us during his campaign. Hell, in many cases it seems he's not even trying.

What ever happened to?:

Ending no-bid contracts for all contracts worth more than $25,000
Closing GITMO
Allowing imported prescription drugs
DADT
Allowing 5 days of public commenting BEFORE signing bills
Rules against revolving doors for lobbyist and former government officials
Urging states to treat same-sex couples equally in family and adoption laws
Allow bankruptcy judges to modify terms of a home mortgage
Reduce earmarks to 1994 levels
Ending warrantless wiretaps
No family making less than $250,000 will see ANY tax increase
Create a public option health plan for a new national health insurance exchange

The list goes on, but you get the idea. Obama was always too much of a centrist for my taste, but when he got the nomination, I got in line and was very supportive. When he won the election, I was ecstatic, thinking that as we were looking down the barrel of another great depression, we had the right man in place to be a new FDR. Needless to say, I have been very disappointed pretty much ever since. He made so many great promises, but in the end, he's turned out to be just another corporate controlled politician. And I for one am sick of it. He had a mandate, he had both houses of Congress, and yet look how little has changed for the better. So when I tell you that I think he has been a bitter disappointment to this point, spare me the lecture. He has done little of what he promised us, and isn't that what we elected him to do?

[Ian David]

1. I'm sorry...

[montanacowboy]

2. That's a big Roger!

I agree totally

[BrklynLiberal]

3. There have been alot of disappointments and frustrations....

I hope that somehow the base is motivated....for these midterm elections and the 2012 election.

The alternative would be so much worse...

[geek tragedy]

4. This is a very original post.

We never read on DU about how the President is owned and controlled by corporations, and he never gets called a centrist either.

[Frisbee]

7. Thanks...

I thought it was about time someone pointed it out. You're welcome by the way. :)

[CakeGrrl]

14. ...

:rofl:

I've NEVER seen anyone say anything like this here before either. Never!

[sandnsea]

5. Ask Claire McCaskill

and most of your Congressional people.

Another one whose elected officials are a bigger part of the problem than Obama.

Why did you elect McCaskill instead of a progressive?

[Frisbee]

9. Me personally?

Never been a big fan of Claire. But I have only one vote, and unfortunately I live in a backwards state.

[sandnsea]

10. And how many "backwards" states are there?

Who have Democrats in the Senate, but vote like Claire. Let me see....

MT, SD, ND, AR, LA, FL, NE, where else???

[Crazy Dave]

6. I hate to say it but Hillary warned us about the "fancy speeches"

I didn't listen to her or the PUMAS either.

WTF was I thinking during the primaries?

[sandnsea]

8. This is Hillary's agenda

You can't be serious. Look who his aides are. They're all from the Clinton Administration.

[FrenchieCat]

11. The truth is only the truth to those who can see!

Those who believe the PUMAS were right don't really see anything except for what they want to see. :rofl:

[CakeGrrl]

12. I know, right?

I'm sure Hillary would have been FAR more progressive. All the indicators were there.







:sarcasm:

[SoxFan]

35. SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!!!

CAN'T HEAR YOU!

[Jennicut]

15. LOL! Hillary and Obama had very similiar ideas on almost all the issues.

She is perhaps slightly to his right on foreign policy. He took her mandate idea. Honestly, it came down to personality and that Hillary thought she would get handed the nomination and didn't have to work for it.

[sandnsea]

19. I didn't expect him to adopt her agenda

I thought he would stay more to the left, as he was in the primaries. I didn't want Hillary's agenda. Seems to me if anybody should be pissed off, it should be the hard core Obama supporters who didn't want Hillary.

Instead, it's Hillary's supporters who are getting exactly what they would have with her.

:crazy:

[Jennicut]

22. I would say other then having opposed Iraq from the beginning they were not that different.

[Crazy Dave]

21. I had that impression of her too, feeling like she was entitled

And the PUMAs acted like the Tea Party.

[Whisp]

20. Tuzla!!!

i wouldn't believe anything from someone who made up a story like that, and got her daughter to lie about it as well on the campaign.

Two Clintons with amnesia?

[SpartanDem]

23. As if Hillary would be any different?

[Crazy Dave]

24. I think she would in my honest opinion

Granted, she's not Bill Clinton and things would have been worse with McCain than Obama.

Either way we're all fucked unless you're rich.

[sandnsea]

27. How?

Mandates were her idea and the rest of the health care plan is about the same. She wouldn't have gotten a public option either, the Senate blocked that. She's the Secretrary of State, foreign policy is hers. She's saber rattling with Iran. Other than RTTT, I don't see anything she would have done differently and frankly I don't think she would have gotten near as much done. Next to a black man, the thing teapartiers hate most is a bossy woman.

If you wanted Hillary's agenda, you should be ecstatic. It's exactly what you're getting.

[Arkana]

30. I hear Hillaryis44 needs denizens.

Get out with this shit.

[SpartanDem]

13. Fact he's come through much more than he has failed

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/

No bid contracts is one of those ideas that sound great until you realize the amount contracts the gov deals with. Same with the comment period it sounds great but it isn;t practical you're telling me that Obama should wait five to restore benefits or keep layoffs from happening? By the time a bill gets his desk it's been debated to death why wait five days?

As for Gitmo Congress has refused to give the funding just like with earmarks rememebr Congress writes legislation and they like earmarks. The mortage modifications is another thing Congress refused to pass. People seem to forget there is more than one branch of government Obama isn't a king

DADT is in the works

Show me where Obama raised taxes on people making for than $250,000

[Sinistrous]

33. Oh stop it with those pesky facts.

[CakeGrrl]

16. Well, prepared to be more pissed off

Because there WILL be people here who disagree with you. And they get to express it. Sorry.

Myself, I've said it before. It's harder than expected. If you have someone who can run uphill against the TRULY Corporate-owned MSM, the unilaterally opposed Right, the nutbag racist Teabaggers, and some perpetually disappointed and impatient people on the Left while managing to accomplish what has been accomplished halfway through his first term, then name them and go get them elected.

[SeattleGirl]

17. That's funny. I've noticed that whenever someone posts

something positive about Obama, a swarm of people descend upon the comment and accuse the person of being a blind follower.

Hmmmmmm.......

[Political Tiger]

26. Yep! n/t

[elana i am]

18. be real...

i'm a progressive, i want what you want, but i also want other progressives here to stop overreacting and be real.

He had a mandate, he had both houses of Congress, and yet look how little has changed for the better.

no, he didn't have a mandate for progressive change. he's a centerist and most of what we progressives want isn't even on the radars of mainstream americans. seriously, K.I.S.S.

all the things you list don't begin and end with economy. i've been unemployed for a year and a half. all the folks i was laid off with are still unemployed too. i can tell you how many things on your list are on all their radars at the moment. 0. the reason i know and care is that i'm a progressive political junkie.

we get waaaaaaaay myopic here. every bit as myopic as the folks whose only concern is jobs. honestly that's my only concern right now as well.

and if you're looking for progressive change, he doesn't have a majority in both houses of congress either. i could name all the progressives on 1 1/2 hands. again, a progressive direction is NOT happening when you have to deal with lincoln, baucus, nelson and lieberschmuck and a lock-step repug congress. NOT. HAPPENING.

obama was lame duck from day one. day ONE. we should consider ourselves lucky for what we have gotten.

[Political Tiger]

25. Life's a bitch, isn't it?

How dare Obama not accomplish everything less than two years into his first term! What nerve! Doesn't he know we want our ponies and we want them NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BlueIdaho]

28. Wait just a minute... Are you telling me

All I get is this stinking PONY? Obviously, that's just not good enough, I demand a unicorn. I distinctly remember him promising me a magical unicorn after 18 months in office!

Edit = typo

[Rosa Luxemburg]

29. your unicorn will come

gift wrapped

[Rosa Luxemburg]

31. when you get you Republican congress this fall kiss everything goodbye

I mean everything - social security, medicare, medicaid. You should be thankful for what you get.

[damntexdem]

32. I am critical of Obama for what he has failed to try, not to do:

1) investigate Bushista crimes.
2) end the hyper-police-state aspects of the Bushista era.
3) consistently take on the GOP for their obstructionism.
4) push harder for his programs, not cave easily and see them watered down.

I praise Obama for the positive things he has done.

I do care about the attacks critics of Obama receive on here; but I refuse to cave in to them.
At the same time, I have no time for those who say there is no difference between Obama and Bush, or for that matter Obama and any other recent Repuke president.

[Ignis]

34. Aw, man, you're just BEGGING for a repost of The List.

And while I'm happy to contribute to DU, I don't contribute so that our bandwidth can be eaten up by the umpteenth repost of The List within the past few hours.