Reply #248: No, that's NOT "the deal" at all. Please try to understand.

[johnaries]

I myself do not have a problem with a "legitimate complaint" against Obama. I have a few, myelf. HOWEVER, most of the criticisms I have seen are NOT legitimate. They are misrepresetned or based on comments taken out of context and skewed.

First of all, the basic premise of your screed is false. You try to break down the conflict into 2 gategories. It is, in reality, much more complicated than that. That is the first thing one must try to understand.

You claim that Obama "fellated" big business. Yes, he understands their importance enough to see the need for TARP (even though it was begun under Bush). But was he fellating them with the Lily Ledbetter Act? What about his threat to withdraw TARP funds if banks continued uhge bonuses? What about the CARD Act? What about the Financial Regulation bill? Sure, some try to claim that HCR was a big "insurance give-away", but that's simply not true. It imposes strong regulations on the Medical Insurance companies and cuts deeply into their profits. Yes, I wanted a Public Option, but Lieberman killed that - not Obama.

What we "sensible" people are saying is that we support Liberal and Progressive ideals. However, we also have to look at the current climate and do what we can to progress those ideals. And we have to realize that we simply can't accomplish all of them. So we do what we can.

Yes, you are correct that a large portion of the poplace is largely ignorant. Unfortunately, we have to work with them.

When you look at what Obama has accomplished and what he currently has "in the works", he has done much to progress Liberal ideals. He has done much in the way of consumer protections. Especially when you consider what he has had to work with.

No, he's not perfect. Yes, there are legitimate criticisms against him. But, frankly, I don't see another person out there that could have done as much as he has under the conditions he has been given. And although I will admit there are legitimate criticisms, I have seen damn few of them here on DU. Mostly what I have seen here is emotionally-driven drivel with little or no basis in fact.

And although I disagree that the views of Americans can be distilled down to only 2 categories, unfortunately at Election time we only have 2 viable choices. Democrat or Republican. As much as I may wish it weren't that way, it is.