Yes, Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate

Yes, Obama has been dealt a group of Republicans who have turned our political structure into a game and the only way for them to win is to nuke the other side. I am well aware of that. You're not dealing with a simpleton who has soured on Obama because we're not living in a progressive utopia 3 years later. I'm well aware of the complex political landscape we live in. It's also why Warren will not only get my vote, but probably some of my hard-earned time.

However, Obama has not handled the game as it's been given to him very well at all. There have been escape hatches for him to take in the political processes. Yet, he's refused to use them in lieu of expecting the broken parts of our legislative system to suddenly snap back together as if the people that broke it suddenly cared about the effects of breaking it. On top of that, there have been very real ways were he has exposed himself to be far less progressive than he first positioned himself during the campaign. He has the ability to do more about ending our wars than he's chosen to do so far. He makes his recent speeches using the extremely flawed logic and terminology of the side that's attacking the country with a wrecking ball (he's allowing them to play on home turf and with their own rules rather than flip the script to more progressive rhetoric). He even went so far recently as to ignore his own appointed EPA head and hold to the "legally indefensible" ground ozone levels of the Bush administration...an action that took absolutely no input from the intransigents. He has also refused to task the Justice Department with investigating war crimes nor malfeasance in the banking industry...again, actions that would need no input from the other side. He has also basically done nothing to identify and hammer at the root causes of our current troubles, again playing by the Republican script of "debt resolution" being the means to better days.

You and HenryAlan are right. I'm not voting for the Republican candidate and if it came down to it then I'm probably voting for Obama in 2012...but definitely not a single dollar or hour of my time will be dedicated to helping him get elected. He's not the candidate he claimed to be in 2008 (there are entire websites dedicated to 2007 Obama vs 2011 Obama) and he's consistently pushed forward policy after policy from the Bush era that he alone has the means of controlling. That's not even me demanding a progressive utopia. That's me disappointed at our continuance as a jackbooted regime. There's an entire neutral ground he seems dedicated to keeping us out of as well.

Sorry about the national level political discussion, I know we try not to do that here...I just had to clarify because it felt I was being painted with too simple a brush.