It's Obama's Way

[placton]

Recently, it was reported that Obama had put Social Security and Medicare/Aid on the table for cuts:
http://www.washingtonpost.​com/business/economy/in-de​bt-talks-obama-offers-soci​al-security-cuts/2011/07/0​6/gIQA2sFO1H_story.html

Then, the usual Obama "push back":
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/07/social-security-cuts-debt_n_892070.html

We have seen this scenario all too often: and we know how it will come out. The guy will of course cut these programs, but not as much as was "reported" (read: leaked for this very effect). Then he will tell us it's "pragmatic, and the best deal he could have gotten." All of which is bool-sheet. I began warning within weeks of His Obamajesty's inauguration that a screwing was a-coming. Initially my views were generally reviled here. Need I repeat the arguments, repeated now ad nauseam?
-give him more time
-24 dimensional chess
-he knows what he is doing
-we must be pragmatic (then with HUGE congressional Dem majorities)
-he is the only choice we have
-do you support the GOP? (no, and please shuddup, as this is name calling)
-and on and on


Each time we were sold out, I posted, and took my medicine. Funny thing tho, as the months and now years went by, I get fewer and fewer people who support the guy. I like him, voted for him, worked for him. Then I got betrayed by him - like all of us. Lately, what has he done? Petraus to CIA? Token draw down of troops from his failed "surge" in WE-ARE-FUCKED-ISTAN? You don't have all day, and neither do I, to list the awfulness.

So bring it on. Tell me how bad I am. As usual, offer NO arguments to the contrary, but only hyperbole and name calling. But WHEN (not if) he midwifes screwing over SS and MC? (already begun with the payroll tax "holidays" to defund the programs), at least admit I was right - yet again?

[daa]

1. +1 and the only thing worse

is when Reid or Bernie or Leahy say they will stand their ground and then the cave.

Always money for bombs, never money for the country.

[katnapped]

2. Yup

And count on the apologists/"true believers" to point that out

"Best we could do, folks! Not giving out ponies today, sorry! Granny was gonna die someday anyway so why make her suffer?"

[originalpckelly]

3. Hey, my dumb ass thought he should be President in '04.

I remember watching the DNC on TV and thinkning that this guy needed to be President. Why wasn't he running?

Now?

:eyes:

I was fucking stupid.

[rurallib]

4. sad thing is our choice next year will be Obama or some really

fucked up crazy right wing out of their mind republican.

[still_one]

7. I am hoping a viable candidate challenges him in the primaries /nt

[iwishiwas]

8. yes!!

[somone]

5. The second coming of FDR + JFK + Lincoln turns out to be a reincarnation of RR

But he's the greatest ever!

[placton]

6. back in the Bush the Lesser days, I saw a daily horror

and this has now continued under Mr. Obama.

[ladjf]

9. We need a Democratic President. But, I see no realistic path to

obtaining one. nt