Is Obama on a political kamikaze mission?

[FLAprogressive]

Or is he just banking on the GOP-er running against him being too crazy to vote for? All of these social security and medicare cuts make me wonder.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. What Social Security and Medicare cuts?

I'm retiring soon and I need to know; I hadn't heard that these programs had been cut!

[Orrex]

2. The joke's on you

You're actually not retiring for another 11 years.

[Inuca]

11. That's on par with

"granny is going to die because of Obamacare".

[mmonk]

3. He is with many. No way to avoid some flight over this.

Threats about how terrible the other team is one thing but a direct assault on the welfare of many people is another and they will forget their fear of the other team.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. About the only thing Team Blue can run on in 2012 is FEAR:

Seems Team Blue has thrown away almost every single issue they could have used against the foul GOP by endorsing GOP policy through the WH's phoney "bi-partisanship." And has been said many times, the average Schmoe would rather vote for the REAL DEAL than some phoney, "bi-partisan" wanna-be.

[CelticThunder]

5. That's certainly one explanation for it.

[kentuck]

6. Screw the Republicans! All of them....

..including those in this Administration. Including the ones in the White House. I may have been born at night but it wasn't last night. Don't piss on my sandals and tell me it's raining.

They can get their shit together or start looking elsewhere for votes would be my suggestion. You might start by getting rid of a few of those Republicans and conservative Blue Dogs that are advising you. You might want to listen to a few Democrats every once in a while. People are fed up with your shit. Get it together or start boxing up your shit for the U-Haul. The patience is gone. You have worn it out. Screw your bi-partisan bullshit. Too frigging slick by half.

Sorry, if anyone is offended.

[nc4bo]

8. .

Rec this if I could.

Was on my way to bed and that Frank Schaeffer interview popped up and I'm so fucking mad right now that it'll take another hour to come down enough to even think about sleeping.

[dameocrat67]

7. I do not believe he cares whether he wins so much as he cares about

denying democrats a president that acts like one. I think his corporate base understood he might very well be a onetermer or a placeholder for an authentic gop candidate and that is why obama talks about being a one termer all the time. He will get a job at goldman or city bank when he finishes his term whether 4 or 8 years from now.

[Inuca]

12. Speechless..... n/t

[provis99]

9. He's the Manchurian Candidate?

How come when Bush tried to change Social Security, everybody at DU was talking revolution, and now that Obama's doing it, half of DU says support Obama, no matter what?

[ThomWV]

10. I don't think he is. Reason? Kamikaze Pilots tried to attack the enemy, Obama doesn't.

Would you allow a General to be in our military who, as soon as he was attacked, sought out to surrender immediately?

[NightWatcher]

13. Two possible solutions: 1. He's playing 14 dimension chess and we're all too dumb. Or

2. He's not a Progressive and does not seek Progressive goals. Maybe he just wanted to be Prez and now wants to be re-elected and playing to the Establishment, Wall Street, and Big Business is what he sees as his best bet to get reelected.

In 2008 he used the Grassroots. In 2012 he's got the Greenroot$

I really doubt his giveaways to Wall St and the repukes has been in his master plan to rope a dope the pukes into putting their guard down.