This "reaching across the aisle," "post-partisanship" drivel is ruining the country. Obama has adopted neoliberal policies because he IS one at heart; I don't even know why he even bothered to be a Democrat in the first place:
And as a result, you suggest that Obama saved a bankrupt elite that we had the chance to shove off the stage in 2009.
Every financial commentator of the last 20 years was proven to be an ass; Alan Greenspan and all of them, looked like fools. All the people who were put in charge, all the people who were on the Op-Ed pages, like the New York Times, all the popular financial books, everything. I thought that we really had arrived at a kind of day of reckoning, and here was Barack Obama to make it happen. You think back to the 1930s, and there was this huge intellectual shift. It wasn’t just political, it was intellectual, in the academy and in magazines, everywhere you looked, in the way people felt about the economy. And that didn’t happen this time. All those people who were so badly discredited, they hung on. They’re still there; they got to keep those jobs. They just went from the old administration to the new one. He just brought in a couple of Clinton retreads and even a couple of Bush retreads, and they just kept going. There was no fallout for these people. There were no consequences for these people.
The most disheartening thing when you look at it is that we didn’t make the turn. History came to a corner and we didn’t turn.
He just frittered away an opportunity, but then again he was NEVER "one of us" to begin with.
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