Support for Obama Slips; Unease on 2012 Candidates

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/17/us/politics/obamas-support-is-slipping-poll-finds-but-his-jobs-plan-is-well-received.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=obama%20base%20democrat&st=cse

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From: barry levine 
Date: Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 9:32 PM
Subject: re: Support for Obama Slips; Unease on 2012 Candidates
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  Since the election of 200, president Obama's political advisors have presumed that his base voters were in the bag. There would be no challenge from the Left in the primary; to whom could we turn?  He was therefore free to drift ever right-wards, in pursuit of the mythical crossover voter.  That--and $10billion in naval contracts--got him exactly two votes in the senate for his stimulus bill. When American voted for CHANGE in 2008, we voted for a broad and a deep repudiation of Cheney's America. Since then, no one has been prosecuted for torture,  no one has been extradited in compliance with out treaty obligations and I am still not allowed to know if I was among those subject to illegal wiretaps. I voted for change in 2008 and  I mean to vote for change again, and again until I get it.

Barry Haskell Levine