Reply #25: He postured Progressive, then threw all under the bus

[highprincipleswork]

The problem with the administration is that President Obama campaigned on Progressive principles, upped his Progressive policies to win against Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, got everyone all fired up for change, and then blew it by going too FAR RIGHT. I don't care if you call it Centrist, or Pragmatic, or Compromise - it's really none of these things.

It hasn't yielded the actual results that Progressive policies would have yielded. It hasn't inspired his base. It hasn't converted Republicans in any meaningful way.

Why such "smart people" would continue to wield such nonsensical policies for so long and expect them to yield better results is beyond me. It's as if they don't know what team they are playing for, trying to appeal to a bunch of folks that will never enthusiastically embrace them, their policies, their legacy, or even talk sense.

I, for one, was not looking forward to any more triangulation or appeasement or what is called compromise but is actually just surrender before the negotiations even begin!