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In reply to the discussion: This is what a REAL Democrat sounds like. [View all]lovemydog
(11,833 posts)I love Elizabeth Warren and if she runs would definitely vote for her in a primary. If she ran and won the nomination I would gladly vote for her to be our next President.
What side is Obama on? Let's see, since the mid-terms, he has infuriated republicans by reaching the most significant climate change accord in history, pushed for immigration reform via executive action and said he will go it alone to get this done, appointed as next Attorney General a woman with a very strong civil rights record.
Prior to the midterms he went against every single republican in Congress to get millions of people more affordable health care and bring us closer to universal single payer coverage. He ended the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, amidst screams from the right that he is soft on terrorists. He has accomplished more for the left than any President since FDR. And bear in mind that when FDR got the significant parts of the New Deal passed he had huge democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate. (Interestingly, the Supreme Court later struck down some key parts of the New Deal but that was after they had already had their most positive impact in helping the poor and in getting us out of the Great Depression).
All of these actions have pissed off republicans considerably.
Regarding whether he is being threatened by dangerous people. I don't know, but I suspect that every President since Eisenhower has been in some way or another threatened by dangerous people in the military-industrial complex. It may not be via direct threats against him. It may be more in the form of showing the President tons of data on the direct threats against American citizens. It's really sad, as I firmly oppose the military-industrial complex and feel that dismantling it will be a key to getting our country more toward a democracy rather than an oligarchy.