Reply #139: The people in Congress get a lot of contempt from me too.

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But not one of them in my part of California campaigned on "Change that we can believe in."

Not one of them promised that if the BailOut giveaways ended up hurting the Main Street crowd, then the legislation would face a serious overhaul. (Promise made in OCT 2008.)

Not one of them that I know of locally campaigned on the notion of having a strong public option (Which is apparently one of the first things Obama "Forgot" once in office. As he barely mentions it once he is in the Oval Office.

He ran as a Progresive, and he made sure we udnerstood that that was who he was.

So forgive me if I feel lied to, betrayed, shit kicked to the curb etc.

It was just a dream that some of us had.