In the last few days, both President Obama and Vice president Biden have told their 2008 supporters to "Buck up". Obama is quoted in saying "People need to shake off this lethargy..... People need to buck up.....It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines in this midterm election."
Obama thinks that his 2008 supporters were not "serious" when they voted for him and change. I think he is sadly mistaken. The truth is that a large portion of Obama's 2008 voters did not understand what Obama was proposing to do. They did not vote for enormous government and huge debt. They did not vote for nationalization of banks, automobile companies and the healthcare industry. They did not vote for an apologetic foreign policy. And there is a very good reason that they did not understand Obama's plans, namely that Obama did not campaign on those plans. Many commentators said that Obama was a far left progressive, but he campaigned as a centrist. There was no mention of nationalizing industries. Obama promised to go line by line through the budget and cut out the fat. Remember that? Instead he approved spending that was so huge that the federal government was not even able to spend all that had be appropriated by the Democrats in congress.
Obama needs to look in the mirror. He is the one we were not waiting for. He is the one who will soon get the answer from the voters, and it will not be one that he is going to like.
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