LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - In a modern day twist on Carthago delenda est, professor Roberto Unger said in his video, "President Obama must be defeated in the coming election. He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States."

Unger is clearly a liberal, but even he believes that the best course for America is to stop Obama. In his video, he concedes that conservatives would gain "in judicial and administrative appointments" but said this would be worth the cost because things can't get any worse under a Republican.
 
The professor added, "the Democratic Party proposes no new direction."
 
He also accused Obama as serving only the wealthy and running from difficult issues to avoid fights.

Unger listed his complaints:

-  "His policy is financial confidence and food stamps."
-  "He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices."
-  "He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money."
-  "He has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice."
-  "He has reduced justice to charity."
-  "He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight."
-  "He has evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle."

Unger's complaints are not unique to him. Many Americans feel Obama has failed to show strong leadership at a time of crisis, and that the country has very little to show for four years of an Obama presidency. A Main Street recession continues, Wall Street is showing signs of weakening again, and the US remains involved in military activity around the globe with fresh fights looming.
 
After four years, it appears the nation will have only the death of Osama bin Laden to offer in the balance pan. Meanwhile, the president's pet legislative effort, healthcare reform appears poised to be struck down entirely, or at least gutted of its most important provision. All this while a war the administration tries to convince the public that aborting children and compromising women's health does not somehow constitute a war on women; what else do you call it when women and children die?

Finally, the administration's attacks on the Catholic Church and the first amendment have even moderates enraged.

It is a telling thing when Obama's former fans tear his posters from the wall and pledge their support to the opposition. To win the Republicans merely need to reach crucial swing vote populations to convince them that the Obama hype is over. And with Obama's biggest fans fleeing his side, the job should be that much easier. 

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