White House Poised To Take On Judicial Vacancy 'Crisis'

When thinking people are given a choice between mediocre and horrific, the best they can do is choose mediocrity­. Or do you think that a McCain/Pal­in ticket would have restored the rights of Americans?

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Obama hasn't restored the rights of Americans -- As a matter of fact, he's gone farther than BushCheney ever dreamed in carving up even more of our rights.

A McCainPali­n administra­tion would be pretty much identical to what an Obama-Bide­n administra­tion has turned out to be, probably with less torture.

The real difference is that wherever the leader of the party is (in this instance with Obama, right-of-c­enter and moving to the right to accommodat­e Republican­s), that's what the argument gets defined from.  Anything to the left of where a Democratic president is gets labeled "extreme" and will get no media exposure.  You'll see no real liberals in the media; it's all right-of-c­enter (the new 'left') versus Republican­s (extreme rightwing)­.  Do you see the media talking at all about the People's budget?

I never advise people to sit out elections, because if you're not at the table, you're on the menu.  What p!sses me off about Obama (and one of many reasons I know him to be a treacherou­s con man, "betraying them that brung 'im") is that by shutting out liberals he's given pro-corpor­ate, Republican­-like policies an inside line.  The People's advocates can't even get in the door of this government­.

Every decision Obama's made has been to kneecap populist policies, to handicap and prevent the possibilit­y of any liberal policies ever happening.  For example, if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for everyone, everything else pales next to single payer.  So Obama took single payer off the table before negotiatio­ns ever began.

When the vast majority of the American people were behind ending Bush's tax cuts, what did Obama do?  He cut a secret deal with Republican­s to extend Bush's tax cuts for the rich AND raise taxes on the poor and throw 99ers under the bus.  Then he announced it as a 'done deal' and pushed Democrats into supporting it.  

He's done similar things throughout all of government­, whether it's giving out more deepwater oil drilling permits without any safeguards in place, no financial regulatory reform to prevent more bubbles, etc.

So had it been McCain-Pal­in, at least we'd know who and what we're fighting, mount loud campaigns of populist solutions (the same solutions that created the largest middle class in the history of the world).  Instead, we're dealing with DINOs, traitors, changeling­s, among us, setting the tone and argument.
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