He left Democratic congresscritters out of the loop and out in the cold.
He did his secretive backroom deals with only Republicans, who by now KNOW they can manipulate him with merely saying 'Oh, Mr. President...'.

They treat him like a doormat, and he just keeps lying back down for them to walk over him.
Unless of course all he's done is actually his agenda.

I'm beginning to think that he indeed needed much more seasoning in DC
--yes, I said it: more experience--
to understand how that difficult, complicated town REALLY works instead of depending on the unique (to put it nicely) Chicago-style politics. How many 'deals' was he able to do with his political peers, how many favors was he able to accrue to call in IOU's when due?
And I didn't have a dog in the primary fight. My pick was Kucinich, and I knew that he wouldn't get very far just for the fact he 'doesn't look presidential' not matter how intelligent and cogent and principled his platform was.

Fuck. Lincoln would NEVER be electable to the presidency in this day & age!

Because I'm --or was, I'm seriously thinking of quitting the party-- a Democrat born I just waited to see who won the primary and would work, volunteer as many hours as I could to get she or he elected; just as I always do, I didn't like the DLC hawk (those two identifiers far outweighed her very good stance on LGBTQI rights) Clinton very much
but I also saw that both Obama's and Clinton's platforms were virtually identical

-- but nooooo, if you DARED say that here during the primaries you were shouted down, called racist (but those hating Hillary weren NEVER sexist of course! ) and were very likely to --and many did-- get a pizza delivery

The whole thing is pathetic and embarrassing.


And if you call the Health Care INSURANCE bill anything to be proud of, as worthy of 'using capital'

--he's actually acted as if he had no capital, and no mandate from the people, whatsoever--

then you certainly haven't been paying attention
or you are blinded by your expectations, not reality.


My face is perfectly straight -- and I aver, strongly, He. Has. Not. Tried!










****updated to rant. These days what can one do but rant?

and protest!