Just Because I Voted for Obama in '08 and WILL VOTE FOR HIM IN '10...errr I mean '12

[LaydeeBug]

doesn't mean I will walk lock step behind every move this administration makes. I will HOLD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE on Health Care, you BEST believe that. (I've said that before, and I will say it again in front of God and everybody). FDR made a good point about the electorate making him hold his promises, and that is EXACTLY what I intend to do.

No better, no worse.

Now, *my* specific thing is Health Care. I expect more to be done, period. I will scream from the mountaintops about this shit, because it is important to me. We *NEED* a better public option than the one they are bantering about at this point. It is my DUTY as an American citizen to fight for it. And ('scuse the profanity ladies and gentlemen, or...stop reading here is f bombs bother you) there isn't a fucktard out there that's gonna tell me any different about what it means to be a Democrat. In fact, when this administration strongly upholds the platform of our Party, I'll *consider* shutting up about this.

Notice I said "consider".

[n2doc]

1. Might want to edit that subject line....

What's he running for in 2010?

[LaydeeBug]

3. Bad Democrat!!

even though I was wrong to say it, who do you think YOU are to point it out? A person with the truth? :P You'd better not do that again. :hi:

[jerryster]

2. I'm with you...

and not just on health care. There was an article in Time about the ouster of Greg Craig. Here's the link if you want to read it:www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1940537,00.html.

The article talks about some of Obama's shifts toward Bush's policies in the so called (my words) war on terror. I am not happy.

[LaydeeBug]

4. I actually thought he should not have accepted Craig's resignation, but have to choose my battles...

I was pissed about that bigot Rick Warren speaking at the inaugural too, but again, I will not agree 100% with anybody.

But on health care, when they took single payer off the tables and nary a word out of that White House...don't piss on my boots and tell me it's raining.

[LaydeeBug]

5. OMG!! My first post where someone thought it important enough to un-rec. I am so flattered.

but wonder what sort of fascist would expect that I walk lock step with everything Obama does.

[jerryster]

6. Un-rec?

Help me out. What does it mean?

[LaydeeBug]

7. welcome to DU jerrster...

There is a new icon that allows you to recommend or unrecommend an OP.

[jerryster]

8. Thanks.

Don't get here as often as I used to. Not new, though.

[QC]

9. Some people think that holding his feet to the fire actually means

bathing them in wet, sloppy kisses.

You will, no doubt, hear from that faction soon.

[LaydeeBug]

15. while that might be true, sometimes it just means that calling him out on an issue does NOT mean

we're not Peoples anymore.

This is starting to get to be bullshit.

[sandnsea]

10. Good

The best thing you could do to get a better public option is educate the people of Arkansas so Blanche Lincoln will do the right thing. Got any ideas for that?

[LaydeeBug]

13. Yep. Rahmbo should have been on that like white on rice a LONG time ago, and you know it. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

11. I hear you, my dear LaydeeBug!

And do I ever agree!

Hold his damn feet to the fucking fire indeed!

K&R

[LaydeeBug]

14. My, my, my, Miss CaliforniaPeggy!!!

:blush:

Mr. Obama seems to have hedged his bets on this VITAL issue. On one hand, he wants to be the last president to deal with health care. On the other, he doesn't come out with a plan. He should have been screaming (in the WH sense, which means issuing polite reminders) single payer from the get go. Baucus should have been dealt with. But he wasn't. And yet these people are allowed to manufacture US policy based on someone else's sense of SPITE. It is abhorrent.

[shadesofgray]

12. K&R

[HughMoran]

16. You go Laydee

Keep the heat on - nothing wrong with that. I've seen abut 3 posts this year suggesting that people walk in lockstep behind Obama - they didn't go well :hi:

[LaydeeBug]

17. Look, I support the president and our Platform...

and I am unwilling to throw anyone under the bus for political gain. That's all. It's what those assholes do, not us.

[HughMoran]

18. No argument here

Free kick!