'I voted for Obama because I wanted change. ... '

[IndianaGreen]

One day shy of the first anniversary of Obama's swearing-in, the election played out amid a backdrop of animosity and resentment from voters over persistently high unemployment, Wall Street bailouts, exploding federal budget deficits and partisan wrangling over health care.

"I voted for Obama because I wanted change. ... I thought he'd bring it to us, but I just don't like the direction that he's heading," said John Triolo, 38, a registered independent who voted in Fitchburg.

He said his frustrations, including what he considered the too-quick pace of health care legislation, led him to vote for Brown.

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=11848845

We have 10 months to get independents back, independents like John Triolo.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. "Too quick pace of Health Care Legislation"

Ok...

[Metric System]

6. Yeah, I did a double-take when reading that.

[rufus dog]

2. how do you reconcile his voting for Obama and

his statement "the too-quick pace of health care legislation?"

So a process that most progressives would call too slow and not adequate caused this guy to vote for Brown.

[IndianaGreen]

3. People were appalled by the spectacle of sausage making, and they don't want this particular sausage

and are having second thoughts about the sausage maker.

Progressives wouldn't call the process slow, they would call it a sell out to the industry.

[Teaser]

4. Where do you get that from the text?

The reporter notes that the interviewee was concerned about the "too quick" pace of health reform. Your explanation after that is nowhere in the text.

[IndianaGreen]

7. First of all, it is not health reform but the Great Health Insurance Bail Out

and a tax increase for union families having hard won health benefits.

Polls should that 51 percent of Americans are opposed to the crappy bill the Senate passed, the same bill some people around here want to shove down the House's throats.

[rufus dog]

5. and who do you identify as the sausage maker?

1. I have seen numerous comments that Obama should have pushed through single payer by May, June at the latest.
2. How would the media have portrayed that? What about all those people wanting transparency in Gov't?
3. How would this 'Independent' Brown voter respond if these things occurred?

Make no mistake, it is not that I don't support what you want, it more of a question of reality versus what is right. And the reality is, was, and will be, that the media pushes the negative theme against Dems, Progressive or Centrist.

[IndianaGreen]

8. So many things: the bribe to Mary Landrieu, the bribe to Ben Nelson,

the Baucus industry-written bill, Joe Lieberman, etc.

[rufus dog]

11. While I agree somewhat

twenty years ago Team Clinton tried a different approach, were ripped in the media, and were beaten down. Thirty five years ago Team Carter took an approach to governing that doing the right thing was the way to go, again ripped by the media and beaten down. Team Obama delegated to the Legislature, .......,......

As for the bribes, see my original comment, reality vs right.

[IndianaGreen]

12. Rahm & Co learned the wrong lessons from the Clinton failure to pass health care

They need to rethink their theology.

[canoeist52]

9. Rush's "ramming healthcare dow our throats" = too quick legislation

Rush Limbaugh reaches Fitchburg, Ma. too

[IndianaGreen]

10. Not Rush, but the push to pass the Senate's crap on time for the SOTU

[rufus dog]

13. It was one friggen year!

Come on, go look at the posts that Obama has done shit.

[kayla9170]

14. Like I said, President Obama............

Is finished. He did not please the Caucasian people quick enough.....:mad:

[Overseas]

15. President Obama got millions of Republicans and Indies to cross over.

After the extremely destructive regime of the Bush Gang, millions of Americans yearned for very significant change.

They knew our country had crossed the line. Gone way out of the bounds of human ethics by violating the Geneva Conventions, practicing war profiteering, and appointing incompetent friends to head critical government service bureaus with the cynical agenda of proving there was no such thing as Good Government.

Millions of people believed it was time for some very significant change.

We needed at least some kind of Truth & Reconciliation Commission-- I was holding out for prosecution of the war criminals, but at the very least, significant teaching was in order--

How GOP Policies had destroyed our country and what we could do about it.

Millions of voters crossed party lines because they knew our privatized corporate America had gone way too far.

We yearned for dramatic change to address economic inequities, unsustainable privatization, insufferable right wing propaganda, and a decade of deferred maintenance on our domestic infrastructure.

We need those millions of jobs in productive infrastructure work and the greening process.

We need that compassionate ethical bailout of universal health care, and at the Very Least, a public option to keep the rapacious privatizers at bay.

Millions crossed over to join us because it was time for a new FDR, a 21st century version, and our dear President Obama seemed like a wonderful chance to experience that national healing.

Let us hope he understands our sadness tonight. How sad we feel when thinking about what the vote results would have been if the Democrats had hung tough for the public option and pushed it through. Had acknowledged the truth we all knew that the GOP was determined to continue obstructing and pushed the best plan through without their support, explaining to us all what they were doing and why. We voted for significant, compassionate change.

We knew the GWB Gang had driven us off a cliff and needed to climb back out of the abyss to safety and a more positive future together, under the direction of a new president, committed to leading us back away from plutocracy toward democracy once again.

[treestar]

16. They got it

Independents are a bunch of losers. Take some responsibility for your own lives!

They really do expect the President to solve their personal problems!

Astonishing what losers these people are!