Savant on the Left/Right Paradigm

A few points of clarity for the record. Whether that watered down "Affordable Health Care" Act (somtimes called "Obamacare ") is constitutional is open to debate, and is being debated. YOur mere assertion that it is unconstitutional is not enough. Obama did not and cannot rule by decree. The republic doesn't work that way. Obama convinced the majority of the Democratic Party to vote with him, and the Democrats were the majority. You're a bit unclear about his position on those wars. He always OPPOSED the Iraq war, but not the Afghanistan war. The Iraq wars has ended. The Afghan war continues. But keep in mind that it was not Obama who started any of those wars. And it is usually easier to get into a war than to get out. Now no politician controls the economy. If anything economics (surtout in the USA) controls politics. You can only hope to allevate the ravages of capitalism. For Obama to have made a bigger dent in the unemployment rate--a recession which he inherited, but did not create--a much more robust National REcovery program would hav4e been required. One reason that Obama could not make as big a det in the unemplyment rate was simply that he made too many concessions to Republican demands for tax cuts. The National Recovery act helped put a dent in unemployment and may have staved off a another Depression. But it wasn't enough. That's what happens when you spend too much effort compromising with a reactionary Party like the Republicans who regard such "bipartisan " ideas as a sign of weakness. As far as Guantanamo is concerned, Obama got simply too much opposition from Republicans and others. If he were really able to rule by decree he could simply decree that it he closed and it would be closed. He could have decreed single payer univeraal health care and it would have happened. My objection to Obama is that he didn't FIGHT for universal health care rather than thw watered down and poor escuse for health care. Now politics is dominated by corporate power. If the "Democratic party" is a misnomer, so is the Republican Party. Democrats should be calledc the "Liberal " Corporate Party, and Republicans should be called the "Fascist " Corporate Party

-Savant