Reply #9: I feel the same way and that is why I was for Kucinich. [View All]

I voted for Obama because there was really no other choice and I hoped his compassion was genuine. I still believe it is but it angers me that he allows these insurance parasites to even sit at the table, while not allowing proponents of a single-payer system to be heard. (I could have puked watching Baucus sitting behind him at the Montana town hall meeting.) He is intelligent enough to know that they are the problem. Meanwhile, people are dying. My only hope now is that Obama realizes that if this fails a good portion of his supporter base will fall away into renewed apathy and a chance for a second term will diminish; perhaps even giving rise to a new third party. In the long run that will most likely be the case as the GOP has become the party of neo-confederates, corporate bloodsuckers, and the religiously insane. It seems the Democratic Party has become the reasonable party right of center, which leaves a vacuum to the left. All we can do now is keep up the pressure and hope for the best. The Russians have a saying: hope is the last thing to die. Right now, that's all I have.