Reply #6: Obama doesn't need the Republicans to do him in. [View All]

[JDPriestly]

Sheila Jackson Lee may be correct about the Republican's motivations, but Obama is doing himself in with his willingness to compromise Social Security and Medicare. Those are programs that keep many, many Americans alive, many of them African-Americans. And those Americans will not forget the callous disregard for their needs and dignity that Obama has shown in recent days and weeks.

This is hideous. I don't care what president would cavalierly dismiss Medicare and Social Security. He would pay for it. Bush certainly did, and he was a white Republican from an old, established family.

This is not about race. This is about Obama's making a mess.