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Arianna Discusses Candidate Obama Vs President Obama And Nation's Growing Discontent With DC (VIDEO)
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Arianna was a guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe today to discuss her latest column comparing candidate Obama to President Obama, as well as the public's growing discontent with its political leaders, from both parties. She noted that the the same feelings of disenchantment that Obama the candidate tapped into to win his historic election are now seemingly lost on Obama the president as he works to enact his agenda.
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David Plouffe has written the most important political book of the year. The Audacity to Win arrives at a crossroads moment for the Obama administration -- exactly one year after the election. While reading it, I found myself wondering what Candidate Obama would think of President Obama. Would he wonder how the candidate who got into the race because he decided "the people were getting hosed" became the president who decided that the American people can only have as much change as Olympia Snowe will allow? How did the candidate who told a stadium of supporters in Denver that "the greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result" become the president who has surrounded himself with the same old players trying the same old politics, expecting a different result?
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It isn't just DC. It's the conflict-driven media too.
"...whoever becomes the candidate against special interest [in Washington]."
YOU TELL 'EM Arianna!
And _who_ has that cred already?
Dennis Kucinich!
He's who we _should_ have run against McCain...
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president obama cannot re-work wonders with a magic won in one year! heck bush worked this country for 8 yrs and bamboolzed it too long yet no republican or independents weren't complaining when he was in office. as far as i am concern, i careless because if constituents keep voting for republican doesn't give a damn bout them at all as well blue dogs who are constantly screwing up president obama's plans on purpose!
The People are too much like Democrats, we have the power but don't use it.
If we voted out in '10 every incumbent who didn't loudly support Single Payer Health Insurance, by the next cycle there would be a populist revolution in Congress.
Do we really have anything to lose?
jobs, jobs, jobs. I don't see enough focus on job creation.
hp keep the pressure on both sides. they are all dogs
I am hoping to go from my current state of discontent to one of apathy. I don't care who wins in VA. It is meaningless fodder for talking heads.
This country has evolved into a me first instant gratification society. We expect results immediately as if all that has to be done is flip a couple of switches and presto.
Keep in mind that the disintegration of the Republican Party is what brought the Democrats together. I look at the Democratic Party now and see 2 Parties, Red & blue. This means that in order to Reach everyone Obama must walk the middle road. You can see this in the Health Care debates. Naturally the more left leaning will think he's moving too slow and the more conservative he's moving to fast.
Have patience. Help vote out Democrats that don't act like Democrats. Push for change. Believe me, it won't happen with a Republican President. Unless of course you count tax breaks for the wealthy and another war as change.
The trend will be to get rid of party affiliation. In Washnington state, we voted for open primaries and we've already got a Huckabee conservative trying to run on liberal-sounding policies in Seattle. It might not fool us this time but it will eventually. Democrats in the senate need to take Lieberman apart. I don't blame Connecticut for reelecting him. He lies and people believe it. He cannot get the credibility he needs to effectively support candidates in 2010/2012.
Virginia goes Republican--and in a BIG WAY! For the first time in ages, if ever, ALL THREE MAJOR posts, governor, lt. gov, and attorney general, are going (so far) at a 2:1 margin for the Republican candidates.
This should put the fear of the voter into Democrats, especially Bluedog Democrats. And especially Jim Webb, who has pretenses of being a conservative Democratic senator. And the turnout was large. And the swing vote, from 6% favoring Obama to nearly 30% favoring Republicans, portends great trouble for Democrats if they continue to pursue a left-wing, near-overtly socialist agenda.
Think about it. You paying attention, Senator Webb?
Look at just American history: the abolitionist movement, the women's rights movement, the Great Depression, both World Wars, the Civil Rights movement, the anti-war movement. Eventually all of these progressive movements bore fruit. Eventually. None of these changes took place within months. Americans need to calm down and be patient and realize when they have it good. Blame Obama if you must, but you will always be frustrated if you expect the big changes you are demanding to be accomplished quickly.
What you are saying sounds right. Still, it is frustrating to see how slowly progress can move.
Every other industrial nation on the planet has some form of universal healthcare, except this one. Two thirds of all Americans want healthcare reform, but the monied special interests are able to buy off enough Senators to prevent it. It is depressing, and not grounds for optimism.
Republicans ruined the world economy by enabling the collapse of Wall St., doubled the national debt while they were at it, and now Dems are trying to fix the mess the GOP made the only way left to them, through stimulus spending. And yet, a whole lot of people think the rabble rousers on Fox claiming that the Dems are spending us into ruin somehow are speaking truth. Again, depressing, and not grounds for optimism, that so many people can be so ignorant.
This has been failing for 70 years, that isn't slow change, that's no change.
This time it is a clear test as to whether or not American Government is Of By and, especially, For the People any longer. And it clearly isn't. Best case is that the Corporations who have been robbing us blind, get to keep all their booty, and by law, get a whole lot more.
Now the test is to see if the American Electorate is for or against the People, and it ain't looking too good there either.
Just watch the video of candidate Obama . . . . . this is no question. I voted for candidate Obama, but I wouldn't vote for him if I had known he was going to be this president. I will look for a 3rd party candidate next time. I think I'm done with him. I want Grayson to run in 2012.
still better than mccain, give him time.
You don't know that, because McCain has taken just about every stand at one time or another, I think he's on shuffle play, and we might have gotten lucky.
He's not better than at least two of his primary opponents in arguing for a specific position.
He's already hired leading architects, theorists, and gamblers who led us into the financial problem, and we see that they made their cronies whole with the lions share of the bailout money.
The last administration was so corrupt and inhumane that anyone would be showing some improvement by now. But the really big ticket issues, sapping our economic life-blood fighting indefinite wars, and occupying more foreign countries than any other nation, allowing nearly 3% of our GNP to be funneled into the pockets of a small number of insurance executives because people get sick as part of the human condition, or defending the constitution by proving that elected criminals are not above the law; for these and too many others I don't see either Change or reason to Believe any longer.
Mr Obama is a smart and thoughtful man, this is not an accident, this is the way he is leading us.
I guess all politicians lie but the really good ones can make us believe that not keeping campaign promises is really three dimensional chess.
The man's been in office for 10 months!!! I hate to use the old phrase but "Rome wasn't built in a day".
Neither was Athens... but some Greeks don't remember that.
Ha!
Rome wasn't built in a day, but there was a trajectory history could follow. And there's definitely a trajectory when it comes to the President's plans, in a direction foul.
seems to me that the whole "discontented with dc" meme goes a lot deeper than our disappointment
in Obama's start. the in your face bought and paid for government of the corporations, for the corporations and by the corporations has slapped the hope right out of us. the united states of
goldman sacks...............the bite me insurance industry........and laughing in your face health
care for profit industrial complex............its been shocking. its like we finally looked up
after 8 years of living in abject fear after 9/11 and realized we had missed the biggest
heist in the history of the world. and we don't know what to do about it. not like we can
write some new laws, or plan a coup................the fox is in the hen house, and we are
pretty much "insert accurate word here"
How about we make a new rule. No more saying that the fox is in the henhouse. If you must say it, put it right at the top so people know they've already read everything else you're going to say many, many times.
i agree with you, help me come up with something new to say. better yet, come up with a solution. how can citizens without money force our government to give up the money?
show us the way to get publicly funded campaigns and elections, and influence-free candidates into our government and the corporations out of it. what's your
best answer to gettng the supreme court to rule that corporations are not
"people".........
I know Obama tapped into the youth vote last year, but it seems like the grownups are the real kids here. There are no magic wands for problems that grew and festered for over a decade.
correction to my post: I meant to say January 20, 2009.
Ron Paul tried to give America a much needed dose of truth and was ridiculed out of the race by his fellow Republicans. So, we've got the usual mix of corporate cronies still running the show. The "front man" changed, but the game didn't.
Sounds like the new GOP strategy to run against "Obama/Bush" and claim to be the agent of change.
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