Yep, Obama has been a dud so far. The warmongers seem more entrenched then ever. The right wing continues to dominate public discourse. No regulation on Wall Street. Mountain top removal mining continues. No torture prosecutions. And on and on. What happened to "yes we can".
Peacenik doesn't know what to blame it on. Fox news and CNBC and the rest of the mainstream media have certainly been anti-Obama. And the rightwing fringe, the Glen Becks and Lou Dobbs, certainly get more coverage then they warrant. Can Obama re-capture the progressive vibe. He better do it soon, or else the U.S. will embrace another kind of change, the wrong kind. The Sarah Palin kind.
Posted by Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant at 5:40 PM on August 31, 2009.
Total withdrawal dates and single-payer healthcare were never seriously part of the agenda. They were nice, empty promises, made to get elected.
Though he's barely over six months into his first term, President Obama faces a critical time. According to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, support for Obama is dropping, and Greg Sargent theorizes this is due to waning support among Democrats and liberals.
Sargent's theory makes sense. Ask any Democrat or Progressive why they voted for Obama, and you're likely to hear a range of grievances extending from he's better than Bush to Nader wasn't on the ballot, but others say things like he said he'd bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, or he promised healthcare reform.
Read on...
Peacenik doesn't know what to blame it on. Fox news and CNBC and the rest of the mainstream media have certainly been anti-Obama. And the rightwing fringe, the Glen Becks and Lou Dobbs, certainly get more coverage then they warrant. Can Obama re-capture the progressive vibe. He better do it soon, or else the U.S. will embrace another kind of change, the wrong kind. The Sarah Palin kind.
Posted by Allison Kilkenny, True/Slant at 5:40 PM on August 31, 2009.
Total withdrawal dates and single-payer healthcare were never seriously part of the agenda. They were nice, empty promises, made to get elected.
Though he's barely over six months into his first term, President Obama faces a critical time. According to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, support for Obama is dropping, and Greg Sargent theorizes this is due to waning support among Democrats and liberals.
Sargent's theory makes sense. Ask any Democrat or Progressive why they voted for Obama, and you're likely to hear a range of grievances extending from he's better than Bush to Nader wasn't on the ballot, but others say things like he said he'd bring the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan, or he promised healthcare reform.
Read on...
