Reply #86: Who is in the best possible position to see the true state of things?

[quakerboy]

I would say that that is President Obama. And while I want more done, I understand that he is not all powerful and cannot instantly accomplish fixing everything.

What I do expect of him, though, is honesty and leadership. If he is lacking the power to do something, because the banks hold that power, I expect him to find out how they hold that power and tell the nation, to lead us in solving that problem. Tell me which senators are standing in the way at the behest of the banks. I will vote them out. Tell me how the government is being subverted, and which elected officials are complicit. Tell me what you need to do your job, and I will do whatever I can to get it to you.

On the other hand, tell me that we need free trade, that we must have am insurance mandate, that we need yet more war funding and less privacy. Or better yet, don't tell me anything, just wait for the other side to make a big protest about anything you propose, then work out a half measure that you can maybe get voted through in the back halls of congress. And see what happens.