Reply #7: I would agree with all you say......

[FredStembottom]

.. except that I am not carping about some "policies I disagree with". I am carping about Democratic presidents that enact (very close to)the entire wish-list of the Republicans. Policies that enrich a few beyond all imagination and let (nearly) all the rest of us slide toward a Mexican life-style of poverty and oppression.

I'm not counting words or sentences in the bills that get passed. I am viewing the resultant slide into anti-democratic Oligarchy and ever-increasing poverty that has resulted.

I don't feel that it's quibbling to not want to slide any further. It's getting to be Life and Death time for millions of us.

As for: "encouraging and HELPING him establish the very "policies" you claim to be essential far too often do little more than cast a vote, hold a sign, write a letter or play keyboard warrior. If any of those things." I'm not sure what goes beyond the vote, hold, write, keyboard stuff. Marching? Been there and done that, too.

It seems to me that getting O elected was pretty darn encouraging and helpful!

Polls consistently showing that 60 - 80% of the American public support O and his policies should feel to him like wind at his back.

I do believe that a Dem Congress and Senate is so encouraging and helpful that it take conscious effort to thwart all that help.

And this is precisely what we are seeing now. White house efforts to seemingly rid themselves of all that help and encouragement!

Obama has it all! The whole thing. There isn't anything more.

Why does he work to satisfy the Republicans?