Reply #45: What a crock. He ran as a Partisan Democrat [View All]

Why did he not run as an independent? Rather than as a Partisan?
The antithesis of the former conservative President is a liberal President, obviously? You think the opposite of Bush is half Democrat, half Republican? Really?
And this 'you were not listening' crap leads to a long series of questions. The man ran opposed to mandates, and to taxing health insurance, I listened as he mocked his rivals for those positions, painting mandates as confiscatory and unneeded. In print, on radio, on TV, in mailers to my very home, he said he would never favor a mandate, he even said his position was well thought out and was not arguable.
What good was hearing what he said, if he did not mean a word of it? Not listening? Are you mad? The man said he was going to 'change the direction of the country in a fundamental way'. Not make a few adjustments toward the center, fundamental change. His words. He said 'we are going to change this country, and change the world.' Change the world.
Big talk and plenty of it, very little of it so much as implies adjusting the status quo, it was all about being very different, making huge and fundamental change.
To claim on a Democratic website that there is such a thing as post partisanship, well, that is to say the Democratic Party is redundant, you are calling for the end of this Party. Why are you opposed to the Democratic Party standing in opposition to the vile GOP?
No mandates, fierce advocate, change the world, fundamental new direction for the country, change has come to America, we are the ones we have been waiting for. Hope.
After years of Bush, you claim that hope meant a bit less of, but basically the same as? Fundamental change meant patsy cake with criminal Republicans?
He could have just said what he meant, as his alleged faith teaches him to do. Let your yes be yes, and your no be no, because anything more comes from evil, Jesus said that. So change the world should mean just that. Fundamental change of direction should mean exactly what it means. Of course, the religious thing is just an excuse to gay bash. Obviously. Since yes can mean sort of and change can mean stasis, that faith stance is fake as fake can be.
He could have run as an Independent, but he wanted and very much needed the Party machine that put him in office. Without partisanship he'd be in Illinois right now.