Just checking Yahoo News.. or actually this seems like total opinion:

http://news.yahoo.com/still-fighting-delphi-workers-obama-robbed-070000081.html

The article slams Obama for actions during TARP wherein non-union GM workers lost everything and union workers kept their via TARP. I certainly was not aware of all this. To be fair.. a pug president would have done it too, so I don't see this as a slam to Obama any more than it is just politics in general. However, that said.. Obama sold himself as hope and change and being for the little man. ( Mitt Romney of course and his ilk dont even pretend) and this does seem to indicate just how broken politics really are in this country.

The legislative branch is broken ( congress)
The Administrative branch is dysfunctional
The judicial branch not too good.

Politics are not broken, and gridlock, as the pundits put it, simply means that neither party has free rein to enact one-sided stuff, and that is all good.
If people would quit just being cynical, and playing herd mentality, it would become plain that ours is still the best system in the world, unless, of course, you want some cleric issuing fatwas.

Pine -
You may not know it, but we are a political family.  My son-in law is a State Representative here in Ohio, and his wife, my daughter, did a term on our city council.
My son-in-law is very ethical, and above reproach.  For instance, my daughter owed a large music studio until she sold it a year ago, and a couple of years ago, she had some question about state sales tax for lessons given.  Her husband told her that he couldn't even call the state tax department, because, of course, he wouldn't tell the person there of his position, but his name might be recognized, and he didn't want that to influence the tax person's conversation.
Most of his colleagues act the same way.
I have been practicing litigation law for nearly 40 years in a state where our judges are elected, not appointed.  Judges run in contested elections every 6 years.
In all of my time, I've never seen a dime ever offered to or requested by a judge in an improper manner.  Judges don't even who their campaign contributors were/are until AFTER the election.
Sure, there are some bad apples, but I can tell you from experience that they are very few, and very far between.
I get worked up when people who don't have this experience use a broad brush, and try to paint all politicians with a brush or dishonesty, and it doesn't matter to me which party.
Politics is an honorable profession.  The old idea of Davy Crockett going to Congress for a couple of terms and then back to his log cabin is as outdated as using his musket as a first line infantry weapon.

Pine wrote on 07/25/14 at 07:56:16:

While Tarp was going down, along with the Bailout- for 800+ billion, the FED under Bush Jr. and Obama was secretly loaning out 29 Trillion dollars (not billions) to the big US banks, and through them, to the international big banks.

The whole system is so corrupt.
For the most part, we are distracted by the media and pols from the real issues and news and are given slogans instead.
The public is doing its best, many pols are doing their best, but the game is rigged.