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Barack Obama

In reply to the discussion: Oh Holy hell on the highway [View all]

PatrickforO

(15,126 posts)
3. OK, let me spell it out.
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 11:35 PM
Feb 2016

I was one of millions of people in 08 who volunteered for Obama's campaign.

Most of us thought Obama was the next FDR.

We helped him win decisively and then stood ready to hit the streets when he started using the bully pulpit for stuff like single payer healthcare.

He did not use the bully pulpit enough. He didn't trumpet his accomplishments enough. He did NOT activate the millions of Americans who joined him and got engaged. Rather we were just left wallowing in the sea of, "well, now I've won and I don't need you anymore."

Which makes me sick, not only for Obama's sake because he's been a good, if not great, president, but because of the GOP/Fox 'news' assholes who have denigrated his very humanity, as well as his presidency which will go down in history as successful.

So sergeant, we stood ready to hit the streets and he didn't call upon us. He did not lead us to make the changes I'm still convinced he knows need to be made. Now we have Obamacare which was a GOP corporate welfare program for insurance companies dreamed up by the Heritage Foundation, and the TPP which is the oligarchs' play to finally take over governance from many of the nation states. Read it if you don't believe me. It's a wader, but I'm telling the truth here.

That is what Bernie is talking about, and what many hundreds of people like me have been saying.

So now you do know shit.

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