Well, I’m not surprised but that shows either the polls are all biased, there’s a bunch of dumb people answering polls, or this can be traced to not doing what is needed, that is, pushing and forcing liberal polices through the senate and house. It actually hurts when you do things like sign the NDAA and say of it’s Bill of Rights breaking provisions “I won’t use them!” Gee, violating our rights like a conservative would do is actually something liberals AND libertarians won’t like! Whooda thunk it! Thus, they refuse to vote for you. And then deliberately NOT following Keynesian economic policies to the extent they should be followed, which liberals are also smart enough to know NEEDS to be done, also gets liberals upset. Whooda thunk it? And pretty much insisting single payer universal healthcare is a bunch of junk that can be ignored because our Heritage Foundation policies will work with both Dems and Republicans? That was okay even though it’s not very good compared to where we should be and it’s from the freekin’ ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation AND we already knew Republicans wouldn’t work with Obama on anything regardless as to if it came from them or not originally. Sure, that would work! Except it didn’t and whooda thunk it? Oh, and saying “liberals will come around” when some of us actually have spines and are willing to make politicians finally pay for their wrong doings? Whooda thunk that would loose support for Obama? Whooda thunk it?

Who would? Any smart person who knows where our country should be, what we should be doing and basically how to get there. The problem with Obama is not so much that the opposition is handing them the election on a platter, which, in normal times they would be, but that he’s dramatically walked away from the true liberal base, or one time base, of the democratic party. (Democrats en masse are pretty much where Republicans were in the 1950s now politically.) Sure he’s reasonable on many things but his administration can’t figure out that the kowtowing to conservatives is actually killing his support among those who use to support democrats automatically and further alienating the fringe group of libertarians who could at least agree with democrats on social issues most of the time.

Who would have thought this? I would. I do. And he better take action, not just words, to correct all his social and economic missteps and mistakes pronto or his election is doomed and so, as a nation, are we.

My initial response is that this is consistent with an Obama administration that is heavily on the side of big corporations, despite rhetoric to the contrary. This seems to be the case on anything I can think of even to the extent of violating human rights and our Bill of Rights. Does it please or displease some corporation? Act accordingly.

Face it, Obama is a conservative and in any other decade, Republicans would call him their own.

We need real liberalism in office and in the Congress.

The police there work for the 1%, not for the common man. Those that did this will not likely get punish. I hope they feel the pain of their own actions and karma pays them a visit.

Just because someone pays more in taxes doesn’t make it right. What is right is a progressive tax where the richer pay more as a percentage of their income. Why? Because a) they can afford it since all that extra income is not needed to keep them or their children (or children’s children) in the money for the rest of their lives, and b) because any society that wants to have more people moving out of poverty and providing good, needed services has to have a progressive tax or it stagnates (morally and economically) and falls apart. You end up with a ruling elite no different from medieval royalty who feel they have the right to everything and you that aren’t royalty have the right to nothing. You can disagree with that but you’d be dead wrong.

Another point is that the moral worth of a person is not based on how much money they have or make (especially when they inherited much of it). Again, such ideas are the same as royalty used to maintain their immoral power. They ruled with the authority of God, supposedly, but really just maintained it through massive illegally obtained wealth and the practice of might makes right. It is more difficult for the rich to get into heaven than it is for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle.

For you to suggest such, and you did, means your own morals are questionable at best or just plain bad.

Romney lived on the real streets of America. Right. Park Avenue!

At the risk of being crude, but they sure do f… us, don’t they?

Can you say “conflict of interest?” I knew you could. Now, I’m sorry but for displaying sentiments in line with OWS, we must evict and/or arrest you.

The people have a right to peaceably assemble. This right has been abridged. If the 1% keep pushing, though I don’t want this to happen, there will eventually be riots. I don’t think that’s the correct way to do things but too many people are feeling the back against there wall and will eventually push back. And some of those people will push back violently. The 1% is courting their own disaster.

As a Christian, I find his claim of True “Christianity” offensive and just alike a Pharisee. That money changer gives the rest of us Christians a bad name.

How I wish I were back in the 50s now. As a liberal it’s funny to think this marks me as a conservative, literally. There was a world of possibilities. Yes, there was horrible prejudice. Yes, the world was facing the darkness of conservative McCarthyism. But people started to protest, to actively change those wrongs and we became better for it.

What was right about the 50s? Income was distributed more equitably. Social Security worked and most people knew it. Education worked because it was fully supported by the government. Healthcare wasn’t as much of a worry because the capitalists who ran that system weren’t as interested in maximizing profits as they were in providing real healthcare (of course, there were exceptions to this) and people could still afford a visit to the doctor. Medical advertising was not allowed on tv. Conservative thought was still on the wain and was loosing out in government representation.

Sure we still had to go through the civil rights movement and the communist witch hunts but we would weather that storm and become stronger for defeating those forces of conservatism.

Now, as it’s the future and the great oligarchs have much more power, even in the face of hopeful signs like the Occupy movement and more politicians turning to the good of liberal thought and action, I wonder whether I’ll see the resolution to the good of the so much more vast grip neocons have on this society and their defeat. Will I be alive or will I be able to afford being alive? Will my children have the same opportunities they would have if they grew up as I did in the 60s? Will they be able to afford education, healthcare, will they be able to save for retirement as I have not been able to due to cost increases and salary decreases?

I won’t lie. I know people have a tendency to view the past through rose colored glasses. But frankly, some things were better then. They were resolved more quickly in politics, and the vast overwhelming sweep of the populace led in a more cohesive, more liberal direction. Sure, not everyone was in the same boat but most were. It wasn’t until Nixon came in the 70s that sings started sliding back toward uncontrolled oligarchy and prejudice in a severe way. And even then, conservative though lost more battles than it won. Now, it’s the other way ’round and I worry we will go through our own great downfall, as pre-WWI/WWII Germany did, before we see the light of true progress again. And that makes me very worried for my future and even more so, for my children’s future.