Democratic Base Pressuring President-Elect To Come Through On Campaign Promises
Barack Obama promises to steer the nation straight again. He better be ready for a strong force pulling left.
Now the same millions of left-leaning voters who worked relentlessly to get Obama elected want results. That means ending the war in Iraq, ushering in universal health care, halting harsh interrogation tactics against suspected terrorists, making it easier to form unions and aggressively tackling global warming.
“We’ll see,” said Eli Pariser, executive director of the liberal powerhouse Moveon.org, about what Obama will deliver. “If they turn out to be all disappointments, we’ll have a good three years to storm the gates at the White House.”
The debt is starting to come due on Obama’s promise of “change we can believe in.
Obama’s courting of Republicans – for ideas, legislative support, and potential roles in his Cabinet – is drawing cautious attention from the liberal base of his Democratic Party. The concern, to the degree that it exists this soon, is that Obama’s emphasis on governing from the center may undermine the left.
SOURCE: CBS
It gets rough in between a rock and hard spot and Barack should have known that before getting himself in this mess! I have a little advice to Barack, stop lying to people, you tell one lie and then have to tell another one to cover up the first…4 years will tell on you Barack, people will see who you really are!
LINKS:
(1) Gird your loins for the UAW bailout fight; White House says deal is “likely”
Yes, folks, it’s time to stand up and fight. The fix is in. Democrats and the White House have reportedly hammered out an automakers’ bailout plan.
