Obama will be re-elected in 2012...

[CoffeeCat]

The corporations are extremely happy with his performance.

The health-insurance lobby is tap dancing. The banks and Wall Street are whistling a happy tune. The energy
companies are clinking glasses, as are the mucky mucks from Big Ag and Big Pharma. Those who run the war machine
must have weekend celebrations that rival most frat parties.

They've landed nearly everything on their wish list--and now, cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are "on the table".

There's no need to change course.

Ever wonder why the Republican field is littered with unelectable tools like Bachman, Perry and Romney--who, as a Mormon will
NEVER inspire enough voters from the Christian wacko end of the Republican party, who are needed to secure a win.

This is not about Obama being "a wimp" or a bad person. Really, this is about the Presidency of the United States being
a powerless role. The corporations, the neocons and the elites decide. If the President isn't one of them, he's schooled
and told how it will go down. If he's one of them, well that makes the destruction of our democracy that much easier.

Until we face the fact that our candidates will continue to serve their corporate masters--at our expense--then no matter
who is President--this country will continue sliding into a very dark place.

[banned from Kos]

1. you live in Fantasy Land. Wall St is working 24/7 to kill Dodd-Frank

quit reading Taibbi - he is an idiot who won't mention the convictions and tough new rules.

[scheming daemons]

3. They are working 24/7 to kill Obama's re-election too

...

if they were pleased with Obama, they wouldn't be sending tens of millions of dollars to anti-Obama SuperPACs.

[thereismore]

2. The Presidency is a powerful office in terms of foreign policy (wars, etc), but weak

in terms of changing the laws and cementing policy that way. He needs Congress and he doesn't have it.

[madrchsod]

4. "smiling faces"