Obama Working to "Improve" Our Democracy

Our president is assuring us that we're still working on our democracy and that since he's taken office he's "improved" it:

NSC senior director Mike McFaul said on a conference call with reporters Sunday. "Both presidents agreed that you don't ever reach democracy; you always have to work at it. And in particular, President Obama reminded his Kazakh counterpart that we, too, are working to improve our democracy."

The Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Weisman asked McFaul to clarify.


"You seemed to be suggesting there was some equivalence between their issues of democracy and the United States' issues, when you said that President Obama assured him that we, too, are working on our democracy," Weisman said. "Is there equivalence between the problems that President Nazarbayev is confronting and the state of democracy in the United States?"


"Absolutely not ... There was no equivalence meant whatsoever," McFaul said. "[Obama's] taken, I think, rather historic steps to improve our own democracy since coming to office here in the United States."

Of course, we don't have a democracy. If we did ObamaCare could not have passed because a majority of people opposed it, and in a democracy the majority rules.

We have a representative republic, though sadly our representatives seem to forget who they're representing. A lot of them will learn in November that the people they were supposed to be representing are not too  happy with them and will be choosing new representatives.