Reply #158: I disagree. If you find out more about Obama, you realize [View All]

that he has always been a free market person. Inevitably, he supports doing away with Social Security. He really has not tried to appeal to older Democrats. He has done absolutely nothing for him. All he talks about is cuts to Medicare.

Do you know who Pete Peterson is? He is the arch-foe of Medicare. Google it. I have posted the links so many times, I'm not going to do it again.

And then Google Timothy Geithner, Peterson and appoint Federal Reserve, and you will learn that Geithner was appointed to the NY Fed by a committee headed by Geithner.

Then Google members of the "bipartisan" deficit reduction council that Obama appointed. Most of them were anti-Social Security regardless of their party. There was only a small minority that was pro-Social Secuirty.

Those facts make me suspect that Obama is at is core, anti-Social-Security.

It is very disappointing to me, especially since I worked hard to get Obama elected. He pretended to be interested in protecting Social Security benefits when he was running for president. But then, this is only one of the campaign promises that he has forgotten now that he is in office.

It isn't just that he isn't progressive enough for me. I was originally an Edwards supporter (in the presidential primaries) and of course was totally disillusioned when Edwards' marital infidelity was discovered.

But now, I would rather have Edwards, who strayed in his marriage but understood the economic realities of ordinary people, than Obama, who cares only about the corporation and the rich.