Spintested: 06/29/10

Obama's Patients' Bill of Rights: One Important Right is Missing, Thanks to Corporate Spin and Fear-Mongering

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

2. there wasn't a workable majority in the Senate for a public option neither. Obama longtime thought there was (and rightly so), until Liebermann flip-flopped.

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I don't know where you got such an idea about lack of support for single payer, a public option, or Joe Lieberman.

Joe Lieberman says, "Obama never pressed me on public option"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/21/lieberman-obama-never-pre_n_399355.html

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/02/22/public-option-dramatically-more-popular-than-senate-bill-so-obama-pushes-senate-bill-without-public-option/

If the Bush years taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics.

Obama insisted that Joe Lieberman caucus with the Democrats & keep the chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security Committee chairmanship over 81 percent of Democratic voters who wanted Lieberman stripped of the job if he joined with Republicans to block health care reform (compared to only 10 percent who thought he should retain it). http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/12/democrats-want-lieberman-stripped-of-chairmanship/31807/

Barack Obama, the first black man to convince more people than ever before in the history of this nation to put him in the White House, went MIA on populist issues as soon as he was elected. He is a corporate t00l.
About Barack Obama
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Obama's Patients' Bill of Rights: One Important Right is Missing, Thanks to Corporate Spin and Fear-Mongering

For some of the reasons already stated and more, insurance companies will deny patients, because paying fines is cheaper than paying for treatment.
About Barack Obama
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Obama's Patients' Bill of Rights: One Important Right is Missing, Thanks to Corporate Spin and Fear-Mongering

Having insurance, even Medicaid, doesn't mean getting affordable quality medical treatment.

States must share the costs of Medicaid, and the states are broke. Most states are constitutionally required to balance their budgets, so what that means is that they will cut Medicaid services.

Here are just a few of what was in the news just today:

No Medicaid money may mean more state cuts

http://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-politics-elections/no-medicaid-money-may-560035.html

States Struggle As Congress Fails To Come Through With Extra Medicaid Money

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2010/June/29/Medicaid-money.aspx

Medicaid extension failure would create $121 million budget hole for Iowa

http://iowaindependent.com/37842/medicaid-extension-failure-would-create-121-million-budget-hole-for-iowa

NY governor says legislature must deal with Medicaid deficit

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65S5H220100629?type=domesticNews
About Barack Obama
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Obama Planning Major Immigration Reform Push As Arizona Lawsuit Nears

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I don't support Obama's immigration reform, but your charge that illegals are getting back more than they put in is bvllsh!t.

You need to step back and look at the entire picture, not just of the US, but also the entire world. You need to look at your own conspicuous and wasteful consumption, and how that's causing the problems that are visiting us here at home and other people in their countries.

And then look at how your voting for Republicans has been against your own best interests -- Because for the last 35 years, it's been Republican policies that we've all been living under.
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Kerry, Lieberman Willing To Scale Back Energy Bill To Get Republican Support

Why isn't Obama and the Democratic leadership threatening Lieberman with loss of his committee chairmanship to support REAL energy reform?
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Kerry, Lieberman Willing To Scale Back Energy Bill To Get Republican Support

The Kerry-Lieberman bill is heavy on coal, nuclear, gas and oil, and chump change for green sustainables. Nothing for infrastructure towards green sustainable energy.

Dylan Ratigan and Jon Hofmeister: "Obama Has No Plan To Get U.S. Off Oil"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPivXkamPbQ
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Petraeus Supports July 2011 Timetable, Sends Faint Signal On Strategy Change

Where were you when Obama was running for president.

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At the time when Afghanistan was relevant with regard to 9/11, when the US military let Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda escape from Tora Bora over the mountains into Pakistan, Candidate Obama talked about his having supported the war in Afghanistan.

Candidate Obama's talk about Afghanistan was always framed in terms of the past. And Candidate Obama was always equivocal about what he would do as president, because "nobody can predict what conditions on the ground and in the world would be like after 1/20/09".

Obama left it up to listeners to infer whatever they wanted, believe whatever they needed to believe about him in order to get their votes.

Now we know that Obama is an agent of the Establishment Elites.
About Afghanistan
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John Boehner: Raise Retirement Age To 70; Wall Street Reform Is Like 'Killing An Ant With A Nuclear Weapon'

I agree. Especially since the policies that Obama & the DLC are running from are the policies that created a thriving, vibrant middle class and created wealthy educated citizens in ONE GENERATION from immigrants with just the shirts on their backs.
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Petraeus Supports July 2011 Timetable, Sends Faint Signal On Strategy Change

GENERAL PETRAEUS: It is important that July 2011 be seen for what it is - The date when a process begins, based on conditions. Not the date when the US heads for the exits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TfSesefM0o”

The real story in Michael Hastings' RollingStone article was that American troops were being called upon to do a counter-intuitive task: Not respond to their training as killing machines, not react as soldiers in a war zone. They're being required to restrain their training & instincts as warriors, & be instead police officers-slash-community organizers. That's not what the USmilitary is trained for.

When the story became about an insubordinate general, Hastings' more important message got lost. With McChrystal gone, the troops in Afghanistan are rejoicing and that can only be because they believe Petraeus will unleash them to do what they've been trained to be: Killing machines with little or no regard for civilians.

But COIN and "restraint" was Petraeus's invention, so unless Petraeus changes the policy that Obama has instituted, it's just more of the same frustration (& casualties) for the troops.

If Petraeus does change the policy, it means a bloodbath for civilians & every civilian killed means 10 recruits for Al Qaeda.

That means 'Long War', unending, because they know We the People have the power in a democracy to choose our leaders, choose the policies which are affecting their lives. They target us because it is us who is putting these corporate t00Is into power.
About Afghanistan
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John Boehner: Raise Retirement Age To 70; Wall Street Reform Is Like 'Killing An Ant With A Nuclear Weapon'

We MADE the money.

That doesn't change the fact that you can't get blood from a turnip. If there's no money in the fund, how do you pay people from it?:

Obama Planning Major Immigration Reform Push As Arizona Lawsuit Nears-

http://www.huf fingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/obama-planning-major-immi_n_629568.html
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John Boehner: Raise Retirement Age To 70; Wall Street Reform Is Like 'Killing An Ant With A Nuclear Weapon'

In the 2012 election, if Republicans are faced with a choice of Sarah Palin or Barack Obama, who do you think they're going to vote for?

Not the Teabaggers, but Republican voters in general.

While Republican politicians insist that Obama is a socialist, a liberal, what has Obama actually done that fits that bill?

The DLC controls the Democratic Party and it has been busily working to move the party to the right. It uses language as oxym0ronically as Bush did, putting through one of the greatest corporate giveaways in history and calling it "healthcare reform", but in fact it's nothing but corporate welfare.

Whatever voters Obama loses on the left, he hopes to pick up in the mainstream Republican Party.
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John Boehner: Raise Retirement Age To 70; Wall Street Reform Is Like 'Killing An Ant With A Nuclear Weapon'

The government is you, me, all of us. In a democracy, we are the government, and we elected people to "borrow" from the social security trust fund, to give tax breaks to the rich, to pay a military that works on behalf of transnational corporations to wage unwinnable wars for resources that they can sell at a profit -- And those profits don't come back to us, they don't come back to replenish the social security trust fund, but instead go into the pockets of the transnational corporations' CEOs and shareholders as bonuses and profits.

When Bush said that he'd be vindicated by history, vindicated as a conservative, he meant for the backdoor way that he went about ending social programs like Social Security and Medicare. That was what his deficit spending was about -- to "Get government so small it can be drowned in a bathtub."
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Petraeus Supports July 2011 Timetable, Sends Faint Signal On Strategy Change

OK. It's an occupation for oil, and for cementing out dominion over the Middle East, and for perfecting the abasement of a certain failed culture in the clash of civilizations. If it's all of those, what difference does it make?

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If it means it's for oil, for imperialism, as Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski (retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel whose assignments included a variety of roles for the National Security Agency & who spent her last 4 1/2 years working at the Pentagon with Donald Rumsfeld) said:

"If you map the proposed pipeline route across Afghanistan & you look at our bases? Matches perfectly. Our bases are there to solve a problem that the Taliban couldn't solve. Taliban couldn't provide security in that part of Afghanistan -- Well now that's where our bases are. So, does that have to do with Osama Bin Laden? It has nothing to do with Osama Bin Laden. It has everything to do with the longer plan, in this case a strategy which I wouldn't necessarily call neoconservative, however it fits perfectly in with the neoconservative ideology which says, 'If you have military force and you need something from a weaker country, then you need to deploy that force and take what you need because your country's needs are paramount'. It's the whole idea of unilateralism, of using force to achieve your aims." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUxI3rSLDO8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SltOy_F6ZII

Then who the heII are we?
About Afghanistan
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Petraeus Supports July 2011 Timetable, Sends Faint Signal On Strategy Change

There are 140,000 troops in Iraq (that's not including the private contractors, which may be an equal number, or more), and rather than decreasing their numbers, it seems we're INCREASING them as the violence increases daily.

http://www.armybase.us/2009/04/gen-ray-odierno-iraq-deadline-may-be-pushed-back/
About Afghanistan
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Petraeus Supports July 2011 Timetable, Sends Faint Signal On Strategy Change

GENERAL PETRAEUS: It is important that July 2011 be seen for what it is - The date when a process begins, based on conditions. Not the date when the US heads for the exits.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TfSesefM0o”

I thought the real story in Michael Hastings' Rolling Stone article was that American troops were being called upon to do a counter-intuitive task: Not respond to their training as killing machines, not react as soldiers in a war zone. They are being required to be restrain their training and instincts as warriors, and be instead a police officer-slash-community organizer. That's not what the US military is trained for.

When the story became about an insubordinate general, Hastings' more important message got lost. With McChrystal gone, the troops in Afghanistan are rejoicing and that can only be because they believe Petraeus will unleash them to do what they've been trained to be: Killing machines with little or no regard for civilians.

Every civilian killed means 10 recruits for Al Qaeda.

That means 'Long War', unending, because they know We the People have the power in a democracy to choose our leaders, choose the policies which are affecting their lives. They target us because it is us who is putting these corporate t00Is into power.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Petraeus Senate Confirmation: General Faces Questions From War-Weary Lawmakers

If you knew that 9/11 was a black flag operation, an inside job set up by the CIA for the purpose of getting oil, & that AlQaeda was fiction, a creation of the CIA, would you support one more moment of these wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, etc.?

OsamaBinLaden isn't in Afghanistan, if OsamaBinLaden is alive at all, or even had anything to do with 9/11. He's not wanted by the FBI for having anything to do with 9/11. He's on their wanted list in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the US embassies in DarEsSalaam, Tanzania & Nairobi, Kenya -- "These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, BinLaden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world." The FBI has no evidence connecting him to 9/11 -- http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.htm

Think about that.

CandidateObama's talk about escalating the war in Afghanistan was retrospective, in context of when Afghanistan was relevant with regard to 9/11, when the US military let OsamaBinLaden & AlQaeda escape from ToraBora over the mountains into Pakistan.

CandidateObama always framed Afghanistan in terms of the past, & was always equivocal about what he would do as president, because "nobody can predict what conditions on the ground & in the world would be like after 1/20/09". Obama left it up to listeners to infer whatever they wanted, believe whatever they needed to believe about him in order to get their votes.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Petraeus Senate Confirmation: General Faces Questions From War-Weary Lawmakers

I thought people were angry at Bush/Cheney because they supposedly abandoned Afghanistan?

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At the time when Afghanistan was relevant with regard to 9/11, when the US military let Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda escape from Tora Bora over the mountains into Pakistan.

Candidate Obama's talk about Afghanistan, his support for war in Afghanistan, was always framed in terms of the past. And Candidate Obama was always equivocal about what he would do as president, because "nobody can predict what conditions on the ground and in the world would be like after 1/20/09".

Obama left it up to listeners to infer whatever they wanted, believe whatever they needed to believe about him in order to get their votes.

Now we know that Obama is an agent of the Establishment Elites.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Pelosi: There Will Be 'A Serious Drawdown' From Afghanistan In July 2011

Osama Bin Laden isn't in Afghanistan, if Osama Bin Laden is alive at all, or even had anything to do with 9/11. You do know, don't you, that he's not wanted by the FBI for having anything to do with 9/11. He's on their wanted list in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya -- "These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world."

The FBI has no evidence connecting him to 9/11.

Think about that.
About Afghanistan
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