President  Obama just announced his bid for re-election in 2012.  I'd like to know your feelings about the 2012 elections. 

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As we approach the mid-term elections, it becomes apparent that many of our elected officials from BOTH parties, have taken a condescending, we know what's best for our constituency approach.  The Republicans want voters to forget everything that happened during the eight years of the Bush administration, the greed and the get rich quick schemes that were allowed to run wild in the financial sector.  They want voters to forget how they encouraged Americans to run up a credit tab to give the illusion of a middle class lifestyle.  They want voters to forget that they ran up a huge deficit.  Yeah, it's tough trying to finance an expensive war and give tax breaks to the rich at the same time!  You have to make many references to 9/11 in your speeches to keep something like that going! 

Bush's party had and has the nerve to blame all of those deficits and everything else on President Obama.  They even blamed him for a bailout that started during the Bush administration when, even Bush finally realized that his policies brought us to the brink of financial Armageddon!  The Republicans spent almost every minute of President Obama's term trying to derail every bit of meaningful Democratic legislation that came before Congress and the Senate.  Never mind that, especially in these economic hard times, America needs meaningful health care reform to protect it's population.  Never mind that we have massive unemployment partially because the private sector is fond of outsourcing it's manufacturing and jobs overseas and gets tax breaks to do that.  The Republicans back and endorse all that as being part of "free" enterprise!  They even had the nerve to try to block unemployment extensions for the casualties of their economic policies!

The Tea Partiers talk a good game but are about as populist as the Fortune 500.  How can a "grassroots" movement that is purportedly bankrolled by the wealthy, represent the wants and needs of John and Jane Q. Public?  Now onto the Democrats who were compromised from within by their blue dogs who were in reality, wannabe Republicans.  They just kept on trying for "bipartisan" solutions that hindered their ability to be true agents of change.  Translation, someone needed to remind them that they won!  Because of that, almost every piece of legislation that would have brought meaningful, indisputable positive change to our country was diluted beyond recognition.  If every Democratic legislative initiative was passed as originally written, the results and benefits to the average person would have been indisputable and every Democratic Congressman and Senator would have probably gotten a ticker tape parade in his or her home district instead of having to worry about where each vote is coming from.

For the above reasons, plus the massive lobbyist influence in Washington, we didn't get the change that we were promised, we got SMALL CHANGE.  Nonetheless,  as working people, we have to make the only choice that will preserve what's left of the American dream, we have to vote Democratic and after they are elected, hold them accountable!