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Thank you.

http://www.realtimecongress.org/

i wonder if chances for non est. dems have gone up in primaries? we need more. chereyle jackson in il. comes to mind who is getting buzz from her debate last night. she opposes obama in the war and criticized him onabortion rights in hcr bill. the nevironment is ripe to me for progressives to challeneg est dems. no?

lady lake-carnahan is awesome. my mom is from mo and we admire the carnahans. and u know robyn is no claire either.

Oh, pardon me, it’s not killing more people, it’s “escalation.” How silly of me.

Coakley was also wrong when she claimed there are no terrorists in Afghanistan. Of course there are! Obama’s boys just killed some.
news report:
Villagers in southern Afghanistan have claimed that Afghan and Nato forces killed 13 demonstrators after a group of people took to the streets to protest the alleged desecration of the Quran.
http://tinyurl.com/ygsbynm

I have a feeling that there are a few good people in Massachusetts that aren’t comfortable with these types of promises, kept or otherwise. They’re called Progressives these days, something which Obama has promised not to be.

Psychodrew, your avatar admirably reflects your stalwart loyalty, stability, and patience I might add.

If you removed the sunshades for a second you might see that in addition to the series of unfulfilled promises, he is for the most part pursuing the same FP as Bush. The major difference is tone and style.

The bottom line though is this: We are still in Iraq, and it does not look as if we are getting out any time soon. We are occupying Afghanistan and it does not look like we are getting out anytime soon. We have not caught Osama and he no longer talks about him. As for Guantanamo, it’s still open, and will be for a while.

The idea that politics is only some kind of taxpayer-funded waltz through time, with the guys bonding over the “common good” (for them), is receiving a wake-up call. The Repubs have turned up the heat in the kitchen.

Fallen promises? Obama said back in 2005 that he wouldn’t “enforce a more clearly progressive agenda,” but Dem voters refused to believe their lyin’ ears and instead concocted a fictitious Obama. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/30/102745/165/500/153069

Obama never did have principles, evil or otherwise. Just ask the people in Gaza, the ones still alive.

HRC? She’s been politically neutered at State, where she can’t possibly accomplish much, which was Obama’s intention.

He’s so distant from the real people. He is showing to be the elitist many thought he was. His Taurus Tax (as named by Drew Weston from Noogin’s post) reminds me of Michelle in Zanesville, OH

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/s_556214.html

and

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmEyN2RkNzcwYzgyZDY2MDBiY2U5MjJlZGMwNDM2ODg=#more

‘And not everyone can afford to keep it all together, especially here in Muskingum County, where, according to the census, the median household income in 2004 was $37,192, below both the Ohio and national average. Out of that, there’s the mortgage. And child care. Health care. Education. Lessons. “I know we’re spending — I added it up for the first time — we spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we’re spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements and so on and so forth,” Mrs. Obama tells the women. “And summer programs. That’s the other huge cost. Barack is saying, ‘Whyyyyyy are we spending that?’ And I’m saying, ‘Do you know what summer camp costs?’”

With all those concerns, one might wonder whether the women should be comforting Mrs. Obama, but she assures them that she’s really O.K. “We don’t complain because we’ve got resources because of our education. We’ve got family structure,” she says. “So I tell people don’t cry for me.”’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/why-president-obamas-taur_b_421181.html

We have a Senatorial coming with Bond’s retirement. The alternatives are Carnahan who is a good Dem and comes from a good Dem family. Her brother has voted my way in almost all of his congressional votes even though he can speak in weasel words that are disturbing.Her father was a Senatorial(former Governor) candidate who won his election after he had died in a plane crash.

Her opponant is a poster boy for corruption and was Tom Delay’s bagman during the hayday of Repub contol of K Street. His son was a miserable failure as a self chosen one term Governor who probably decided not to run for a second term becuase he risked criminal charges.

I hear from her campaign all the time and you would think I would be ready to work for her. In the end I just might. But right now I don’t feel like putting the blood ,sweat and tears and my own money into someone who will leave MO talking the right talk and come back saying she is doing the best she can while the Senate continues to move right.

On foreign policy, I just don’t see the broken promises. Obama basically promised an escalation in Afghanistan during the campaign. And he promised a draw-down in Iraq that we have already signed a treated to start doing. He is behind on closing Gitmo, but he is moving in that direction. I can see unfulfilled promises, but broken promises?

I understand the inclination of pleading for time, believe me. It just doesn’t work that way and never has.

You, djjl, and many others, including lurkers I hear from, are examples of how incredible it is that the Dems are just now catching on.

This is it:

“It just might be that the fallen promises of Barack Obama’s first year could be the tipping point making loyalty to party extinct, including among Democrats, who are not being given any good reason to support the current politicians, who are not exactly delivering what we want. It also illustrates how important the first year is to a president, especially when people are hurting so badly.”

This President does not seem to have any leadership inclinations. What a spectacular and miserable waste.