What rights are liberals stripping Americans of? And who exactly are those liberals?
Obama's not a liberal. "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat".
I'm an old, old liberal Democrat. An FDR Democrat. And there are none in Obama's administra
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What this does is move the Democrats to the right. Even farther to the right of center than they already are.
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Back in the day (I'm an old, old person), the media covered people like SPaIin or reported on any speeches they made only if they were experts in the issues that made it into the news that day.
How is what SPaIin says on a religious television channel (or tweets or says on Facebook) newsworthy
The equivalent from past legitimate journalist
SPaIin has no position in federal or state government
If Geraldine Ferraro's daily ramblings aren't getting the same media coverage, why are PaIin's? With the exception of Ferraro having completed her term of office, both are failed VP candidates who now have contracts as poIitical commentato
The media continues to fail the American people's interests.
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Democratic and Republican poIitician
Think of them as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. One side (Republica
Once in power, Democrats consolidat
Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan
Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai
Obama's 'job', as he sees it, is to deliver to the top 2%. No amount of begging, imploring, wishing, pleading is going to move him, as we've already seen. Whenever his approval numbers plummet (as they did again last month over his continuing Bush's tax cuts for the rich), Obama uses some *shock&awe
Look at who Obama surrounded himself with once he got into the WhiteHouse
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"There are A LOT of provisions in the healthcare reform act to encourage providers"
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Pardon me, I'll be over there ROFL.
And PS, so is the current Chief of Medical Services of one of the largest healthcare delivery facilities on the west coast, with me, ROFL.
We need "encourage
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Forcing taxpayers to pay for millions of insurance policies, which will insure a few million more Americans (not all, mind you), isn't getting affordable quality medical treatment for everyone. Insurance does not equal medical care. And what Obama did doesn't even begin to address the problems Americans had and the reason they put Obama and Democrats into power to get for them. There are no cost controls and no universali
We didn't get healthcare reform; what Obama did was get a corporate welfare program disguised as healthcare reform past the People and into the law of the land.
I think Lawrence O'Donnell & Company explain it very well, but I can get others if these aren't to your liking:
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Did Obama, who ran a pitch-perf
Did he use his unique ability to communicat
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He didn't because what teabaggers were doing at Town Halls was what he & the DLC-contro
Obama has no problem quelling dissent or inspiring our better angels when he wants or needs to. And the only people Obama has ever battled are progressiv
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Oh, billyboy, tell the people the truth for once in your sorry miserable lobbyist's life.
I support single payer universal healthcare and you only support what your corporate bosses tell you to support: The insurance and pharmaceut
There is no mechanism for lowering the costs of treatment. Obama put a fox in charge of this chicken coop (former WellPoint executive Liz Fowler) to write and enforce the regulation
Obama's healthcare legislatio
Obama's healthcare legislatio
Not only doesn't Obama's healthcare legislatio
Obama's healthcare legislatio
Having insurance (which is all that Obama's legislatio
There is no limitation on insurance companies' charging and increasing co-pays and deductible
Insurance companies have already figured out the way around the restrictio
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Where was this resolve when it came to a public option, hey 0bamabots?
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Talk of Democratic politician
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama and Democrats want what they want. The DLC-contro
If the Bush years taught us anything, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid and relentless in your sales pitch and tactics. It's not that Bush and R0ve were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush & R0ve were just more ruthless in doing what politician
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination
Obama and Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them despite their failure to achieve our alleged shared objectives.
Getting Democratic voters (and Obama's 'most ardent supporters
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With the unrest in the Middle East spreading (and with it all costs in the US due to the uncertaint
It would be a perfect time, to focus Americans' attention, to educate Americans, about getting off our reliance on foreign oil.
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Journalist
Especially with Egypt's new VP, our 'go to'-guy for tort-ure when we rendltion. No sooner was Suleiman named VP than: "Egyptian VP Refuses Dialogue Until Prot-ests End"?
The only leverage the Egyptian people have, the only hope these protesters have, their strength is their numbers pro-testin
This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the eIites in power never stop trying to manipuIate the system to retain their power and controI over us to the bitter end, when it seems that they should realize they should give up and accept the inevitable
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No sooner is Suleiman named VP than: "Egyptian VP Refuses Dialogue Until Prot-ests End"?
The only leverage the Egyptian people have, the only hope these protesters have, their strength, is their numbers pro-testin
This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the eIites in power never stop trying to mani-puIat
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Journalist
No sooner is Suleiman named VP than: "Egyptian VP Refuses Dialogue Until Prot-ests End"?
The only leverage the Egyptian people have, the only hope these protesters have, their strength, is their numbers pro-testin
This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the eIites in power never stop trying to manipuIate the system to retain their power and controI over us to the bitter end, when it seems that they should realize they should give up and accept the inevitable
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The momentum for a p0puIist democracy is there now.
As George Will said of Obama's candidacy for the presidency when Dem0cratic critlcs were saying he was too young, it wasn't his turn, etc., "When the girl is up on her toes, klss her."
The Egy/ptian people are up on their toes; why should they have to wait? They want Mubarak gone now. They don't want him hanglng around for another 8 months, to rig eIections, for him (or the US) to put a pup-pet candidate in.
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What corporatio
About Egypt News
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This is what the US has been supporting:
Mubarak, his wife, Suzanne, and two sons were able to accumulate wealth through a number of business partnerships with foreign investors and companies, dating back to when he was in the military and in a position to benefit from corporate corruption .
Most Gulf states required foreigners give a local business partner a 51 percent stake in start-up ventures. In Egypt, the figure is commonly nearer 20 percent, but still gives politicians and close allies in the military a source of huge profits with no initial outlay and little risk.
Almost every project needs a sponsor and Mubarak was well-placed to take advantage of any deals on offer.
Much of his money is in Swiss bank accounts and London property. These are the favorites of Middle Eastern leaders and there is no reason to think Mubarak is any different. Gamal's Wilton Place home is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.
Al Khabar named a series of major western companies that, partnered with the Mubarak family, generated an estimated $15m a year in profits.
Aladdin Elaasar, author of The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Obama Age, said the Mubaraks own several residences in Egypt, some inherited from previous presidents and the monarchy, and others the president has commissioned.
Hotels and land around the Sharm el-Sheikh tourist resort are also a source of Mubarak family wealth.
This is in the time where 40-60 percent of Egyptians live in poverty on less than $2 a day.
It is not enough to oust Mubarak, his party and the regime. Their finances must be investigated as well as crimes against humanity against thousands of Egyptians murdered and jailed by his regime.
This is what the US has been supporting
Mubarak, his wife, Suzanne, and two sons were able to accumulate wealth through a number of business partnershi
Most Gulf states required foreigners give a local business partner a 51 percent stake in start-up ventures. In Egypt, the figure is commonly nearer 20 percent, but still gives politician
Almost every project needs a sponsor and Mubarak was well-place
Much of his money is in Swiss bank accounts and London property. These are the favourites of Middle Eastern leaders and there is no reason to think Mubarak is any different. Gamal's Wilton Place home is likely to be the tip of the iceberg.
Al Khabar named a series of major western companies that, partnered with the Mubarak family, generated an estimated $15m a year in profits.
Aladdin Elaasar, author of The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the Uncertain Future of Egypt in the Obama Age, said the Mubaraks own several residences in Egypt, some inherited from previous presidents and the monarchy, and others the president has commission
Hotels and land around the Sharm el-Sheikh tourist resort are also a source of Mubarak family wealth.
This is in the time where 40-60% of Egyptians live under poverty levels of $2 a day.
It is not enough to oust Mubarak, his party and the regime. Their finances must be investigat
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There's nothing deceptive about it.
The Egyptian people want change now.
On the one hand, Obama says it's not the US's place to intervene, and on the other hand, Obama sends envoys to deliver messages ("Don't leave") while telling the American people that the US government has told Mubarak that "a process must proceed for the transition
Obama should be supporting the Egyptian people and Mubarak's leaving NOW. Because unless Mubarak leaves now (and Suleiman goes, too), Mubarak and Suleiman will be arresting and t0r-turing the leaders of the protests.
About Egypt News
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Maybe the US should stop publicly interjecti==========ng ourselves in this, so as to avoid pissing off a large chunk of the Egyptian population .
Mubarak's fortune could be as much as $70 billion according to analysis by Middle East experts, with much of his wealth in British and Swiss banks or tied up in real estate in London, New York, Los Angeles and along expensive tracts of the Red Sea coast.
After 30 years as president and many more as a senior military official, Mubarak has had access to investment deals that have generated hundreds of millions of pounds in profits. Most of those gains have been taken offshore and deposited in secret bank accounts or invested in upmarket homes and hotels.
According to a report last year in the Arabic newspaper Al Khabar, Mubarak has properties in Manhattan and exclusive Beverly Hills addresses on Rodeo Drive.
His sons, Gamal and Alaa, are also billionaires. A protest outside Gamal's ostentatio us home at 28 Wilton Place in Belgravia, central London, highlighte d the family's appetite for western trophy assets.
Amaney Jamal, a political science professor at Princeton University, said the estimate of $40 billion-70 billion was comparable with the vast wealth of leaders in other Gulf countries.
"The business ventures from his military and government service accumulated to his personal wealth," she told ABC news. "There was a lot of corruption in this regime and stifling of public resources for personal gain.
"This is the pattern of other Middle Eastern dictators so their wealth will not be taken during a transition. These leaders plan on this."
Al Khabar said it understood the Mubaraks kept much of their wealth offshore in the Swiss bank UBS and the Bank of Scotland, part of Lloyds Banking Group, although this information could be at least 10 years old.
Much of the $2 billion in aid that the US gives to Egypt annually goes to the military, and by extension, to US defense contractor
Egypt also receives hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of excess military hardware annually from the Pentagon.
The Obama administration has asked Congress to approve similar sums for the 2011 fiscal year.
US-Egyptian co-product ion of the M1A1 Abrams Battle tank is one of the cornerston es of US military assistance . Egypt plans to acquire 1,200 of the tanks. General Dynamics Corp is the prime contractor for the program.
Lockheed Martin Corp is building 20 new advanced F-16C/D fighter aircraft for Egypt. The final Egyptian F-16 under contract is to be delivered in 2013, joining the 240 Egypt already has purchased, according to Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon's biggest supplier by sales.
Egypt was the first Arab country to buy F-16s, widely viewed as a symbol of political and security ties with the US.
The US also has supplied Boeing Co CH-47D CHINOOK transport helicopters, Northrop Grumman Corp E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning Command & Control aircraft and Patriot air-defens e systems built by Lockheed and Raytheon Co.
What can Obama do now?
Obama can stop foreign aid to Egypt now. Immediatel
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Last week on Democracy Now!:
I think that's a fair take on the situation.
When asked about President Obama’s remarks last night on Mubarak, Chomsky said: "Obama very carefully didn’t say anything... He’s doing what U.S. leaders regularly do. As I said, there is a playbook: whenever a favored dictator is in trouble, try to sustain him, hold on; if at some point it becomes impossible , switch sides."
US public opinion is supporting the Egyptian people, and Obama isn't.
Obama is doing what he can to support Mubarak, keep him in power through the old 'kicking the can down the road'-tact
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Egypt's new VP our 'go to'-guy for tort-ure when we rendltion.
Last week Joe Biden said that Mubarak shouldn't leave and that he's "not a d/ctator".
The only leverage the Egyptian people have, the only hope these protesters have, their strength, is their numbers pro-testin
This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the eIites in power never stop trying to manipuIate the system to retain their power and controI over us to the bitter end, when it seems that they should realize they should give up and accept the inevitable
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The momentum for a p0puIist democracy is there now.
As George Will said of Obama's candidacy for the presidency when Dem0cratic critlcs were saying he was too young, it wasn't his turn, etc., "When the girl is up on her toes, klss her."
The Egy/ptian people are up on their toes; why should they have to wait? They want Mubarak gone now. They don't want him hanglng around for another 8 months, to rig eIections, for him (or the US) to put a pup-pet candidate in.
Journalist
This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the eIites in power never stop trying to manipuIate the system to retain their power and controI over us to the bitter end, when it seems that they should realize they should give up and accept the inevitable
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The momentum for a pop-ulist democracy is there now.
As George Will said of Obama's candidacy for the presidency when Democratic critlcs were saying he was too young, it wasn't his turn, etc., "When the girl is up on her toes, klss her."
The Egyptian people are up on their toes; they're not going to wait until September. And why should they have to? They want Mubarak gone now. They don't want him hanglng around for another 8 months, to tam-per with eIections, for him (or the US) to put a pup-pet candidate in.
Journalist
This is really the lesson for us, the American people, about how the eIites in power never stop trying to manipuIate the system to retain their power and controI over us to the bitter end, when it seems that they should realize they should give up and accept the inevitable
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
The mah-der-8-
Let's hope that some real independen
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Aree-anna has made her name critlcizin
Go figure.
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