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YOU DID NOT hear me saying it was a possibility. Don't know your age or much about you, but I'm a BOOMER which kind of dates me, but with that I have always believed "comes some wisdom." Life teaches you things as you roll along, plus I also believe I have something NEW to learn every single day!
Guess what? I remember Tweety from the way, way back time, and as much as he touts his creds about Peace Corps, Tip O'Neill and much more, that did happen but to a lesser extent than he spouts! Hey, I also remember Tip O'Neill too and Nixon who really "was a crook" not so much because of Watergate, but much more. Ronnie Rayguns is liberal compared to the right wing idiots of today and I saw his crap coming from the "get go!" His trickle down theory has proved to be a PISSED ON THEORY for "we the people" simple as that for me.
As for Obama, I'm fully aware of many issues that have disturbed me to no end, because I really do lean left. My father introduced me to politics when I was 11 yrs. old and it's that Democratic Party I was proud of, warts and all. They did stand up and fight back, AND they had their own behind the scenes corruption along the way too. Still, when the shit hit the fan for one of them, for the most part they didn't do the "mea culpa" I'll roll over now act. Most took it, some paid a big price. Politics, ya know? With Obama I've come to realize that in the beginning he should have taken the bull by the horns from day one. It's obvious he felt reaching across the aisle was how he wanted to play the game. That strategy was NEVER possible, it's crystal clear to me. We are now at a place in time where EVERYTHING is his fault. It's been said he could walk across the Potomac and the Repukes would scream, "well he didn't swim!"
I do believe he's an intelligent, good man who wants to do good, but since he was elected racism reared it's head in some very ugly ways. I suppose at this point in time he realizes there's very little he can do and perhaps he wishes he had never been elected. Who knows. In all my years of political activism I've never seen such overwhelming acrimony and it's just NOT going to go away! Far too many literally HATE him and many of the Democratic base simply feel we have been abandoned. I don't blame Obama for how the Democrats in Congress have become limp wimps. He has gotten some good legislation "started" but ACA is baby steps, but steps. He has the weight of the world on him and Repukes won't be happy until he's totally ruined. It's very evident this country is going down the wrong path and to say we're a Super Power isn't true for me. As long as we have wars, we stand tall because WE have Super Weapons! Gung ho, off to war we go! Bull Crap!
So yes I have my gripes, but "Tweety" has a daily show with an audience that tunes in to him thinking he speaks Democratic/Moderate language. I no longer see him that way and his trashing of Obama is no better than what FOX does IMO! So screw him, he went to sleep and the "body snatchers" got him! Trashing Obama with such a loud voice is no better than Democrats who are DINOs like Wasserman/Schultz! I abhor phrases like "the Homeland" shades of Hitler, and The Democrat Party! And this trashing isn't helpful to any new Democrats who might be better and possibly win a mid-term election!
Never intended to this to be such a long rant, but felt a need to explain what I tried to imply in the beginning. So, shall we just quit with your "baiting banter" and try to get along?
how much more enlightened they are or how much money they've saved since they turned off the TV umpteen years ago?!? Kinda trollish, IMO. 
If You Don't Stand For Something, You'll Fall For Anything. But OK, use your phrase. Am I happy about what Democrats have turned out to be, NO WAY!
Tweety was who I was talking about, and I think that's how the post started. I don't have blinders on, so everyone can carry on now.
The two most intelligent and decent presidents since I've been an adult and the media trashes them both. If the country had listened to Carter about energy we wouldn't have ended up in so many wars in the Middle East. We'd be energy independent, we wouldn't have fracking and tar sands destroying our environment, and we'd have less reliance on coal. But even now, the M$M will not admit that Carter was right. They still laud Reagan and call Carter a failure when the two men should be flipped. Carter was a success in defining the issues that would damage our country in the future. The only thing Reagan was successful at was to put in policies that guaranteed our country would suffer. 
And it makes me very sad to see how he's been treated. Regardless if even Democrats don't agree with all his policies, he's been bashed and thrashed and put through a wood chipper! To still be standing is an accomplishment in and of itself. I would have blown a gasket a very, very long time ago. Frankly, I wish he would have a temper tantrum the likes of which none of us has ever seen!
I think it would do him and us a LOT OF GOOD!
He is very unoriginal. He gets impressed by things that most of us find smarmy or disingenuous in republican candidates. I've heard him be impressed by slobs from Christie to Cruz.
Why he still has a prime time spot MSNBC still hoping to peel off some Fox viewers, I guess.
