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By: monkeytrots in POPE IV | Recommend this post (1)
Mon, 16 Jan 17 3:13 AM | 68 view(s)
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That is a Yahoo *very liberal* link, linking to 'the atlantic' - an ultraliberal site. "blake's" original email is not readily available at the atlantic link.

Note that 'blake' is disillusioned with Øfuhrer because the usurper was NOT EVEN MORE LIKE FDR- and not because he supports/ed conservative principles.

Erich's gripe about education shows even more clearly the anti-conservative, anti-school choice, anti-charter schools, anti-accountability attitude:

As a public school teacher in D.C. public schools, my hopes quickly faded when he, through his disastrous appointment of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education and promotion of so-called education reform policies: school “turnarounds” that hold teachers collectively responsible for students’ school-wide standardized test averages resulting in teachers being fired and charter school expansion. In 2012, I voted for a third party candidate.

'nufced. Read with discernment, never accept at face value.




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Losing Hope in Obama
By: Zimbler0 in POPE IV
Mon, 16 Jan 17 1:44 AM 		Msg. 18188 of 47202

Losing Hope in Obama

http://www.yahoo.com/news/losing-hope-obama-010000052.html

We previously aired emails from readers who voted against Obama but ultimately sided with him in office. Many other readers, however, supported him at the polls but ultimately turned their backs on his presidency. For Blake, that moment came very early in the first administration:

“ I proudly voted for Obama in 2008, not because I believed his soaring rhetoric, but because of the significance of electing a black man to be president. I was in tears on election night when he won and remember the jubilation of the bar crowd quite fondly.

My mind changed within a couple of weeks after his Cabinet appointments began. His appointment of Hillary Clinton to Secretary of State—after months of attacking her lack of foreign policy judgement as a major flaw in her candidacy—smacked of political opportunism. He himself had convinced me that she was unqualified for such a position, thus the appointment could only have been to curry favor with her camp (i.e., not for the benefit of the country). It was a clear indicator that Obama was going to continue the well-established D.C. tradition of quid pro quo cronyism.

Appointing Geithner to Treasury Secretary was even worse: a betrayal of Obama’s stated principals. There was no way to reconcile his rhetoric on the economy and the middle class with his economic appointments. I completely lost my optimism in those few weeks. "


William also soured on Obama for his approach to the banking crisis:

“ “Keep Hope Alive” worked for me after Bush II. But as a former banker who lived through Reagan’s dismantling of consumer protection regulations that led to the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999, Obama lost me when he failed to channel the nation’s outrage at the 2008 crash to reinstate a New Deal style regulatory scheme. Instead, he appointed the foxes that raided the hen house and took down the barn to now guard that same hen house. No one was charged or went to jail or even had to return all their ill-gotten gains, neither individuals or institutions. [Actually there was a single prosecution.] Instead, they got punished with bonuses at taxpayer expense.

Obama lost me that early, and later, he kept losing me—one major bonehead move after another. His Presidency was a series of “Bait & Switch.” It’s been heartbreaking. "


For Erich, it was Obama’s approach to education policy that lost him:
Read more from The Atlantic:

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(Link would be at the link. Zim.)

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