I don't think it is all that complicated. There's no need to psychoanalyze Obama. He's a careerist. That's all. He was recruited at Columbia to work for the American ruling elite (perhaps CIA) in just the same way Bill Clinton was at Georgetown. His year after Columbia working with the CIA front company Business International proves the career path he chose.

Obama just lied in his campaign. He works for the ruling elite just as Bill Clinton did.

It will be interesting to see how he campaigns this time. He sure as hell can't promise "change you can believe in" or "yes, we can." I just hope ALL of this past supporters dump him where he belongs -- the sewer for traitors. At least GW Bush was honest about where he stood. Obama is certainly smarter and a better person than Bush, but betrayal just cannot be forgiven in a politician.

Obama needs to be a lot more like Lyndon Johnson who had the fire in his belly to make his own damned party get in line and apply pressure to get things done. Medicare, medicaid, civil rights all passed despite enormous opposition from Republicans...R eagan called Medicare communism. Given the health care debate, gay rights issues and the weak economy it is time Obama grew a set and held the GOP’s fee to the fire. Make it clear to the country that we will be in default because these jerks won’t tax their rich friends fairly.

I am urging my Democratic representatives to come up with another candidate in their primary.

Giving up Social Security and Medicare is NOT reasonable in the least. It is highly unreasonable.

Obama is NOT a better person than Bush. He is smarter, but much more devious and cynical. He should never, ever be trusted again.

Obama badly needs a primary challenger in 2012.

Obama could have all the support and popularity he wants if he would stand where American public opinion is --

1. against corporate and banking corruption. Clean up wall street and corporate tax avoidance.

2. Stop imperialist wars and close military bases around the world.

3. support the pro-union demonstrations in Wisconsin and other states.

4. support Elizabeth Warren, instead of allowing the republicans to push her out.

But Obama will never do this. He's a tool of the oligarchs just like the Clintons. All that is now very clear. There's only one thing to do with such tools -- dump them. The US is heading toward a 3rd party. It may be that 2012 is the year for a 3rd party. The Repubs and Dems will have no candidates worth voting for. This may be the time.

Criticism of Obama as "unflappable" and too "cool" are thinley veiled stereotypes. Being "sympathetic" to a "young black man...needing to prove himself superior in a mostly white world." How is this not an ethnocentric psychoanalysis? You think you know what Obama's experience was like? And, when you stick to the actual facts like "he said that he would never again extend lower tax rates for upper-income Americans," it appears you'd really rather dismiss his behavior, predicting negatively how he will respond in the future. Statements like "Obama would, like his brother-in-law, make a good college basketball coach." and "... could be that Obama knows what he’s doing." say more about your unwillingness to let go of racial stereotypes and their effect on your perspective than about the president's deficiencies. "Because it wouldn’t appear to be reasonable." Really? Is that a fair criticism? So, he should appear to be unreasonable? Let's not aim all of your frustration at one person, elected to undo years of decisions all with lasting impacts. Because he is level-headed and willing to compromise in bringing together two parties' politicians who are more interested in getting themselves re-elected than what's in the best interest of the majority of American people, let's check the racism parading as valid criticism.

I believe this is just another Republibagger rumor, dirty trick, to make everyone mad at Obama, fits right into their nasty tricks to bring him down. The only thing about it that Obama has said was to cut the SS for the Millionaires. Don't you think that the Rs would be bragging and singing the praises if it were true? They are eerily quiet.

Congratualation s to Lloyd Grove for his intelligent, well thought out response to the Casey Anthony acquittal. "We are an attention-defic it nation and...so dumbed down...people cannot understand the simplest things", if 12 jurors can agree in less than 10 hours that the blaring circumstantial evidence and the brilliant closing arguments of the prosecution did not prove a guilty verdict and supercede reasonable doubt. Juror 3 proved the jury was compromised analytically, intellectually and possibly by an outside party. To allow jurors to profit financially or otherwise is a travesy of justice, ethics and weakens our trust in the viability of our trial by jury syste,

obama has advisors, you would think there would be some to tell him something. Does he subscribe to any news papers. People say we don't push Obama, I don't think we could pull him even. He is impressed with wealth and subservient to there power. Does a poor job of appearing like a reasonable person in the room to this person

Whatever works: I looked up Obama's astrological chart. He has moon, plaet of emotion, in Gemini when he was born, so to him emotion is an intelledtual concept, nothing he feels; his Gemini moon is adversely aspected against his Virgo Mars, planet of energy, meaning his energy shuts down his emotional expression; his Venus, planet of interpersonal relationships and interests, hobbies, has Venus in Cancer, meaning like a crab, he approaches ideas very gingerly until safe to go forward; worse, his Saturn in Capricorn, planet of limits and wesknesses in Capricorn, sign of status, makes his limit his ideas to those approved by the status quo, meaning his Venus and Saturn make him want to believe in ideas and match thinking favored by the "ingroup' of Ivy League, Wall Street status leaders. his rising sign, time of birth and the way he appears initially to the world, is in humanitarian Aquarius, which was President FDR's sun sign. But Obama's Aquarius rising is adversely afflicted by his Scorpio midheaven.
WHAT A MESS OF INTERNAL CONFLICTS. But what also a super amount of potential if he can have some sort of therapy to resolve his inner conflicts and show the presidential potential he showed his professors and others earier in his life. He needs help. These last three presidents remind me of the Wizard of Oz characters, each missing something.

This story is empty careerism.

It was obvious to me what Obama was from the get-go. Who believes someone's words anymore without researching the candidate??!! If any voter had looked at how Obama behaved in the Senate, they would have realized he was a con man. He gives a real good talk, but it's all BS because Obama is and always has been for the rich Repukicans.