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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:42 PM Original message |
What did you expect from Obama? |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
1. I expected tonnes, got a little, now I only expect feel-good oratory. |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
2. I certainly didn't expect the trashing of the 4th amendment, and the renewed "war" on drugs |
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backtoblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
3. To repeal the patriot act, get our troops home, reverse unfair taxes. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. I felt the expectations were way way to high, even so I have been disappointed in a few areas |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
5. I didn't expect a lot because I was never a fan, |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:46 PM Response to Original message |
6. It's not so much what he's achieved (or not) as it is.... |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. 'But to "lose" without a fight?' |
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frebrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:18 PM Original message |
Replied to wrong post |
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frebrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. +1 |
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Hardrada (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:48 PM Response to Original message |
8. Certainly not betrayal on an almost metaphysical level. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
9. I expected little from him, because I knew he was not the candidate... |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
10. I had hopes that he wouldn't be as bad as he turned out to be. |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. I expect a lot from him, but here's the difference... |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #11 |
36. Dude's a liberal... |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 04:47 PM Response to Reply #36 |
53. Maybe. Maybe not. I don't see any evidence of that. Not in his voting record. |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:29 PM Response to Reply #53 |
56. What are you talking about? |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:51 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. I'm talking about... |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 06:10 PM Response to Reply #58 |
59. Non-ideological?!? |
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Liberal_Stalwart71 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:03 AM Response to Reply #59 |
61. Please do not issue ad hominem attacks. You don't know me or my views. |
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Ineeda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
12. Well, I didn't expect miracles |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
23. I have to agree with all you said here... |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
13. Not a thing for the working people of this country. |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
14. I expected he would be a moderatly left president |
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JNinWB (190 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:34 PM Response to Reply #14 |
25. Very well put. Expresses my opinion of Obama, too. |
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RebelOne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
15. I expected the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to end. n/t |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:11 PM Response to Reply #15 |
38. He also said he would INCREASE troops in Afganistan as a candidate |
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OKDem08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 12:56 PM Response to Original message |
16. What we all expected: RESULTS |
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frebrd (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:13 PM Response to Original message |
17. I expected very little .......... |
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Faux pas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
18. Because I'm a dolt, I expected HONESTY. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
19. "Reading DU is like like reading two different realities." |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
21. Perspective is everything... |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:37 PM Response to Reply #21 |
34. I couldn't agree with you more. |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:47 PM Response to Reply #34 |
46. Those really do stick out like a sore thumb... |
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deutsey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
22. During the campaign, when I heard Geithner and Summers were in his inner circle |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
24. i don't think it's particularly fair question; the president is part of a larger power structure |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
26. I voted for the candidate and got stuck with the sworn in model nt |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
27. I had great hopes that he would be different than booosh and I |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:09 PM Response to Reply #27 |
37. Cap and trade died in the Senate. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:49 PM Response to Reply #37 |
48. I know. If we do not take the congress back we are not going to get |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 04:07 PM Response to Reply #48 |
51. That's what activism is all about! |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:13 PM Response to Reply #51 |
55. Absolutely. |
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bowens43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
28. I expected him to at least attempt |
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Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
29. I did expect him to fight, at least a little bit. |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
30. I expected a genuine Democrat. |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
31. Pretty much exactly what I got. |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
32. To make every possible effort to do what we are trying to do through OWS. nt |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
33. I expected marginal change |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 02:45 PM Response to Original message |
35. I expected him to keep at least a few of his promises |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
39. I did not expect a liberal Messiah as the right wing claimed the left wanted. |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:37 PM Response to Reply #39 |
57. Illustration: |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
40. Nothing. I knew he was a corporate suit from the beginning |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:24 PM Response to Original message |
41. A competent president |
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Jack Rabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
42. I expected . . . |
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madamesilverspurs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
43. "Perhaps it is all in the expectations?" |
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sabrina 1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
44. I expected him to be a Democrat. |
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Zyzfyx (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
45. I'm more pro-Obama then anti |
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JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:47 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. Such as? eom |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
49. Being aware of what the Presidency involved |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
50. When Obama managed to speak for an hour on race in America.. |
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Little Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
52. I expected change. But.. |
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RFKHumphreyObama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
54. I expected him to do a good job |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-26-11 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
60. I expected the Spanish Inquisition. |
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stillwaiting (591 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
62. Firstly, I expected him to appoint cabinet officials that would serve The People and not Wall Street |
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