How can Obama be progressive yet so beloved by rethugs? [View All]

[MagsDem]

And how does a "progressive" think he can accomplish a progressive agenda by working with rethugs? I haven't heard him explain that at all. He's not actually the messiah you know. We can't even get enough rethugs to override the SCHIP veto, but Obama is going to get them to go for progressive policies? Anybody going to bother to ask how before we annoit him?

Or maybe he is not so progressive. His healthcare policy is the weakest of all dem candidates presenting them. It mandates coverage for children (in which case mandates are good), but not for adults (in which case mandates are bad). It leaves more than half the uninsured still uninsured, yet it costs more more than twice as much per family than Hillary's, and almost as much in govt spending. Certainly that is not our most progressive choice then. And it also will not be palatable to rethugs.

How about SSI? Why has Obama bought into the rethug ideology that there is a problem with SSI? There is no problem with SSI that a balanced budget and less wasteful military spending can't fix. Did democratic voters forget we beat back Bush's SSI proposals? Are we now going to nominate a candidate that is going to tear down the one firewall our reps have managed to erect in the last 8 yrs?

Now please, if you can't respond to this thread by sticking to the topic and addressing the issues, please just move on to another thread.