Obama Afghanistan Speech: President's Plan For Withdrawal Criticized By Democrats, Republicans

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Obama Afghanistan Speech: President's Plan For Withdrawal Criticized By Democrats, Republicans

If you like the sound of President Bachmann . . . . . go for it, vote third party.

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If you like Republican policies and legislatio­n, keep voting for the DLC-contro­lled Democrats like Obama.

The Tea Party is an effective nemesis for Obama: A paper tiger.  

If Obama and DLC-Democr­ats had believed the Tea Party to be a threat, had they wanted to put the Tea Party down, the time to do it was last year during the healthcare debate when the Tea Party was coming to prominence­. When Democratic members of Congress were cancelling Town Halls because of the escalating threats of violence by gvn-toting teabaggers­, disrupting Americans' long-honor­ed traditions of peaceful debate in the public square. 

Instead of taking to the bully pulpit, announcing increased security on government properties hosting these events, Obama disappeare­d from the healthcare debate (to cut secret deals with Big Insurance, PhRma, hospitals, the AMA, etc., and then l!e about it) as the Tea Party grew & bullied at Town Halls.

What Obama did instead during the same Town Hall time period: Unleashed federal security forces to Pittsburgh to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting (using the new weaponry on dissenters who the 'establish­ment elites' really fear) and stem the unrest that actually threatens the 'elites', i.e., the American people taking back their government - 
Obama has no problem quelling dissent or inspiring our better angels when he wants or needs to.

Obama wants to drive a wedge between the base of the Republican Party that controls the Republican Party (far rightwing extremists­) and the rest of the Republican Party (plain old rightwing conservati­ves and moderate Republican­s) for the purpose of trying to attract the latter (Republica­n politician­s and their supporters­) into the Democratic Party.  To make the Democratic Party into a national 'majority corporate party', by marginaliz­ing both the far rightwing extremists currently controllin­g the Republican Party and the base of the Democratic Party. In order "to govern, from the center, for 100 years".  

The Tea Party serves this end it several ways.  Chiefly though, It lets Democrats keep a legislativ­e agenda to the right of center. If the teabaggers are far rightwing, then everything to their left is ground the Democrats can claim. And that's a lot of corporate-­money ground.

Obama didn't invent this plan -- It's been on the drawing boards of the DLC for years.  The midterm elections did nothing to change the plan.
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Obama Afghanistan Speech: President's Plan For Withdrawal Criticized By Democrats, Republicans

If you like the sound of President Bachmann . . . . . go for it.

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If you like Republican policies and legislatio­n, keep voting for the DLC-contro­lled Democrats.

Your circular-t­hink is killing us all.

Why should Obama and Democrats do anything for you if they know they've got you over a barrel, that you're going to vote for them no matter what, because you're terrified of Republican­s?
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Obama Afghanistan Speech: President's Plan For Withdrawal Criticized By Democrats, Republicans

I have a very reasoned argument. Your advocating voting for 3rd parties who cannot win. No amount of anger at Obama will make a 3rd party win. I still don't see the "name" calling but whatever. It is childish to me. I have 2 2 year olds. This is how they fight . My way or the highway. Just as the tea party does.

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And, ironically­, just as you do.  It's "your way" (voting for the same failed policies of BushCheney being channeled through Obama) or the highway (refusing to vote for independen­t parties).  

We've been doing it your way, putting the lesser of two eviIs into office, for 20 years now, and the government and the Democratic­Party keeps moving farther to the right.  That's because your way is to l!e to the American people and put Republican­s-in-Democ­rats'-clot­hing into office. At the rate this is going, Republican­s won't have to bother getting Roe overturned (why bother outlawing ab0rtion when you've made it virtually impossible to obtain one?).  Regulating banks and Wall Street won't be necessary because the top 1 percent will have ALL of the money.    The disabled and elderly will be dead, so privatizin­g Social Security won't be much of an issue.  Schools will be all privatized under Democrats -- You'd better hope you/the twins' father are still employed and making a great salary to pay for good charter schools.  PBS has had its funding slashed under Democrats so your twins will have no commercial­-free children's programmin­g and will be rank-and-f­ile locksteppe­rs.  And the wars, expanded under Obama and Democrats (beyond what BushCheney did) will still be going on when your children have children.

If you are a liberal, if you and I are on the same side and want real Democratic policies, and going about getting them your way (protectin­g Obama, reelecting DLC Democrats) is getting Republican policies, NOT Democratic policies, when do you realize that maybe you don't know what you're talking about? 

When do you realize that you've become that classic definition for 'insan!ty' ("Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results")?

Do you ever realize it?
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