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In reply to the discussion: President Obama can easily satisfy and silence liberal critics [View all]Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)President Obama was elected to be the leader of ALL Americans, but he was nominated by our party. This would certainly suggest to me that he should at least propose and fight for the principles of that party.
For example, I do not recall even once seeing Bush arguing out of the blue that we need to increase spending on social security, lower the retirement age, and why not jack up taxes on the wealthy to pay for it. Nor would I expect him to.
I read an article a while back in which they interviewed some people that knew Obama in Harvard. In it, the folks interviewed discussed Obama's gift at bringing people from wildly different points of view together -- he was apparently a master at finding common ground. I would suggest that this remains true to this day. The problem, however, is that he was nominated by democrats, and elected by democrats, and throughout this process he was promising to bring democratic positions to the table.
MY complaint, and I believe it is shared, is that he has not done so.
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