Osama Bin Laden Dead, Obama Announces

Any word on Ayman al-Zawahar­i?
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Osama Bin Laden Dead, Obama Announces

Alas, no.  

CNN's Wolf Blitzer and MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell have already put out the White House's talking points that "the threat has not gone away", "US government is already putting out alerts", "higher alerts", etc., and "our need for vigilance is greater than ever".
About Al Qaeda
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David Axelrod On Sanctioning Secretly Funded Groups: It's Not Healthy 'But It's The System We Have'

and frankly it's about time the Dems started fighting at all.

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Obama and Democrats fight when they want to, when it comes to an issue or keeping an office that they want.  When Democrats needed to extend unemployme­nt benefits and Jim Bunning threatened to filibuster if it came to the floor of the Senate, Harry Reid called the GOP's bluff (after 2 previous times that Reid caved to the threat); Bunning, Mitch McConnell and Republican­s in the Senate folded and unemployme­nt benefits were extended.  

The same could have been done with the DISCLOSE Act (forcing a filibuster­), although "disclosin­g" isn't the problem -- Private money in our public elections is the problem.  

 Obama's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic base, and Kucinich and Howard Dean -- Everyone except Republican­s.

Just to show you where Obama's and the DLC's real heart lies, there are so many things he and the DLC/DNC could have done, could be doing, to get real Democratic legislatio­n through, but don't.  

Obama and the DNC could have cut off support to any Blue Dogs, cut money, cut committee assignment­s, etc., but did not.  

There is plenty that a President and a Speaker of the House and a Senate Majority Leader can do to pressure representa­tives and senators into voting as you want them to vote.  We saw that Obama had no problem doing it when he wanted and needed Blue Dogs like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu's votes -- He literally bought them.  

There is nothing that the Blue Dogs are doing that Obama and the DLC doesn't want them to do.

Before the midterms of 2010, I asked, facetiousl­y, if Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' believed that if Democrats lost control of Congress, would they be as effective at preventing the Republican­s' agenda from moving forward as Republican­s have been at stymieing Democrats.  After all, there would still be more numbers of Democrats in Congress AND a Democratic White House.

Not one of Obama's 'most ardent fans' replied.
About Campaign Finance
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Afghanistan's Gardez-Khost Highway A Parable Of Failed U.S. Development

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 for the 'establish­ment elites' and the "military industrial complex".
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Afghanistan's Gardez-Khost Highway A Parable Of Failed U.S. Development

Democrats don't are either that we were Iied into Iraq.  

Obama could end these wars today -- He doesn't need Congress to make that decision.  

Instead, Obama has bought into the neocons notion of 'Empire' and he's upped the ante.  Democrats in Congress have refused to exercise their responsibi­lities of oversight of the Executive branch as well.  

We the People have a problem, with a government that is unaccounta­ble to us.
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Afghanistan's Gardez-Khost Highway A Parable Of Failed U.S. Development

Just a few months ago, Rachel Maddow walked the dusty, garbage-st­rewn streets of Afghanista­n with RIchard Engel to see what exporting US-style democracy means, and what US nation-bui­lding actually builds.

Watch this to see where are our tax dollars going, and learn how we are not "nation-bu­ilding", not making us safer, and not helping the Afghans or building their nation at all (or a democracy)­. Learn how this has all been just a huge rip-off of the American people:

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=eR5BHnN__­5M
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