Reply #3: what I read affects my vibes [View All]

and what I read today is that Obama has supposedly said he is open to a "trigger" on public option. So I don't feel good vibes about even a viable public option, never mind a system like Canada's. Now Obama sometimes "floats" ideas to see what happens. But with everything that has been said and done to date, and with 72% of Americans polled wanting a public option, period, to even think of floating such an idea strikes me as a sign of caving in the name of compromise and bi-partisanship, instead of standing strong for what is right.

To be honest, these days I'm feeling sadder and sadder about this administration.

*The same Goldman-Sachs cronies who fucked up our economy in charge of fixing it.
*A Monsanto exec in charge of food safety.
*A Cattle Rancher in charge of public BLM land (who now intends to slaughter 33,000 feral horses because they supposedly do far more damage than 400,000+ cattle privately-owned cattle allowed to graze on public land.)

I realize that some people on this forum think that Obama has been put here to save us and is doing his job perfectly. I was happy with his 1st 2 appointments. But for me, it's been straight downhill from there. I defended the financial people initially, figuring they knew best where the land mines are. But they aren't deactivating them...they've just laying new ones. And the rest of them are just disasters. Simply walking disasters. Imho, of course.