He Hasn't Been President One Year

and Barack Obama is destined to be a one-term president unless he radically changes course.

That is not going to happen, unfortunately.

I am really, really, really pissed young people especially bought into the media hype. They should have known they were being manipulated and should have known the GOP WANTED Obama and threw the election on purpose once the economy started heading south. The Republicans are ALWAYS more astute than the bloggers and others who just don't understand politics. The Republicans COUNTED on Obama screwing up, but just for insurance, the same neoliberal/Friedmanites who have strangled the GOP are now strangling the Democratic Party.

Both parties are becoming two sides of the same coin.

Here is a blog post which lays out Obama's problems rather nicely:

The long and short of Obama's present dilemma lies in his inability and/or unwillingness to use his massive electoral mandate in the service of the kind of systemic change he promised and that most Americans thought they were voting for. He seems afraid to step out of the D.C. Beltway manner of thinking and acting. Or, more likely, he is behaving the way he is because he really feels comfortable with the elitist/corporatist power-wielders and doesn't want to rock any boats.

Instead of being a transformational president, in the mode of FDR, willing to think boldly and move courageously, he's quickly turning into a lame-duck Democratic place-holder for whomever comes next. The incremental change he's willing to fight for is not the the major-change platform he ran on, certainly not on health-care reform, not on helping middle-class homeowners, not on extricating the U.S. from mistaken wars.

America needs major surgery, but Obama is supplying little more than Band-Aids while trying to pass himself off as a successful surgeon. The Democratic base is not buying what he's selling, especially liberal/progressive Dems, moderate Independents, and Republicans who voted for Obama because they were appalled by the extreme rhetoric coming from the crazies in charge of the GOP. In the eyes of these voting blocs, which overwhelmingly backed Obama in 2008, he is just your average politician, promising anything to get elected but not fighting and following through when it counts. No wonder 25% of Democrats already say they probably won't vote for him again.

Obama's blowing the huge mandate he had when he was handily elected last November. The timidity, the "reaching across the aisle" bullshit, his stacking of his administration with neoliberals and outright idiots like Arne Duncan, all of these things are dooming him to one term.