What do they have on Obama?

[Onlooker]

The evidence shows him moving to right from day one, and now he's at best centrist and doing more to reach out to the Republicans than the Democrats, even though by any measure the Democrats still control 2/3rds of the power in DC (the presidency and the Senate). I wonder if some powerful power brokers have some sort of dirt on him. Is it possible?

[Tansy_Gold]

1. Nothing. They have nothing, and even if they do

He has an ace in the hole that protects him.

I thought about this overnight, and it's not something I can safely post on DU. But the conclusion I reached has left me very unsettled and much less likely to support Mr. Obama in the future. And that is taking into consideration my long quasi-supportive opinion piece of a week or so ago.

I do not like the conclusion I reached, but it is there nonetheless.



TG, NTY

[monmouth]

2. Nah, unless you count that he's African American and a Dem AND

from Chicago, more evil than....fill in the blank.

[CJCRANE]

3. Most of the MSM.

They wouldn't hold back if they had any dirt on him - he's been called every name under the sun by the RW already.

[Voice for Peace]

4. I have also wondered

if there is something weird being held over his head, something dangerous. I don't like to give it much thought but it has occurred to me. The whole state of everything in the world is puzzling, at best.

[jkshaw]

5. He is not moving right. He's willing to

compromise in order to get something done.

[3waygeek]

7. It's not compromising...

when you give stuff up before entering negotiations.

[Joe Bacon]

17. Obama trades away orchards and doesn't get a single rotted apple back in return.

And he goes on surrendering. Why doesn't he just run a white flag up the pole at the White House? It's beyond disgusting!

[awoke_in_2003]

6. Probably nothing...

but I bet they show the new president the Zapruder film repeatedly on his first day of the job.

[GentryDixon]

8. The Democrats may have

the power in DC, but they do not control the message being offered by the MSM.

[obxhead]

9. A powerful job with a huge check when his term is over? nt

[ladjf]

14. I don't believe your theory is it. I think the day he leaves office,

the power brokers will have a difficult time remembering his name. He will drop off the political map totally. Someone might be promising him something, but he would have no leverage to assure that they came through with the deal.

[CJCRANE]

15. He doesn't need that. The speech circuit and book sales

would provide him with sufficient millions.

[Autumn]

10. Nothing, he's going right

where he wants to go.

[TriMera]

11. +1. n/t

[treestar]

12. What has he done today?

What has he even done?

Content free there. Overgeneralized puffery without specifics. 2/3 or the power in DC? It's that simple?

We've been through the debates on each bill. It boils down to individual Senators.

Another poster who wants a left wing benign dictator.

congress is not just window dressing. The democrats are not lock step. We get lectured with that every time someone wants to bash on a Democratic president while claiming to be a Democrat. Yet this post speaks as if lockstep were to be regarded as normal and the President had the complete obedience of the Democratic Senators.

Then we have the filibuster.

[CakeGrrl]

13. Possible, not likely. Why even run in the first place?

By several accounts, he and Michelle discussed his running at length.

She wanted him out of politics after the first unsuccessful senate campaign.

Why would he put his family through something the Republicans could hold over his head?

Now, if they're going straight up Mafia thug and threatening him and his family point-blank to just do what they want, that's another matter.

But I doubt a personal scandal is in play, if there is any threat to him at all.

It could be Occam's Razor: Some Progressive corners can't deal with his strategy.

[budkin]

16. Proof he was born in Kenya!

[mstinamotorcity]

18. Maybe not him

But surly the other Congressmen and Senators. They go off on their little golf outings and junkets and after a few drinks they get the goods on a lot of them. They hold to their position so that he can't get the votes to pass legislation to be placed on his desk. And he has a country that is still doing business in the same manner. The people haven't CHANGED, they just voted for it and expected it to happen with the stroke of a pen or rub of a bottle so the magic Genie can CHANGE America.