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Eric Alterman details how President Obama’s refusal to act, or rather, NOT act, on Judge Phillips’ injunction will contribute to Democratic losses come November by alienating a key progressive constituency. He writes:
At an MTV forum Thursday, Obama was pressed by a member of the audience, and explained “This is not a situation in which, with the stroke of a pen, I can end the policy.” Well, he’s right about that, but only because this time, it would end all by itself without Obama having to do anything. His willingness to allow the Justice Department to challenge the policy re-affirms, as if we already didn’t know this, that Barack Obama simply does not care about the wishes of the people who put him in office. If the president believes that by pandering to the prejudices of the people who hate him, he can advance his central political priorities, then his strongest supporters had better be prepared to swim ashore because they’re going overboard with or without their bathing suits on.
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