I wouldn't count on his "growing a backbone" -- Frankly, I don't think that's the problem. He's plenty tough when it comes to standing up to the Democratic base, and liberals, and Kucinich, and Dean.
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Obama might want to start his job stimulus plan by talking with his friends at Goldman Sachs:
Goldman Sachs Will Lay Off Hundreds Of New York Employees
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Actions undertaken as part of NATO or the UN aren't exempt from the Constituti
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That's the public relations' spin for why we fight wars overseas ("to export Democracy"
This is not what the founder of the nation intended, that's for sure.
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For those who must continue to delude themselves into believing Obama's a good guy who never would have started those wars or gotten us into this financial mess, who has only the best of intentions (I don't share that opinion anymore), but got a bad deal, then think of all this as a business plan where the Corporate Masters of the Universe have charted out their plans years in advance (governmen
And after 8 years of BushCheney the American people aren't going to go for another team like that. They're going to want HOPE & CHANGE, with a persona they can believe in and trust. BarackObam
The truth is that Obama is no better than BushCheney
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Obama's in office to mellow-tal
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If Republican
Why isn't Obama investigat
Why are Obama-Demo
We have Obama-Demo
After just one month in the WhiteHouse
Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcCon
How does a Democratic president, on the heels of the most criminally corrupt administra
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Obama's continuing just about all of the BushCheney policies, even going BushCo one better: How do any of Obama's 'most ardent supporters
As a Democrat, I don't know how any Democrat can get behind this. How do Obama's 'most ardent supporters
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You mean by surroundin
Your ignorance is noteworthy
Obama has stood in the way of the legal apparatus as the bankers and Bush-Chene
Obama isn't playing 3D chess, has no master plan, except to put off the People from the scent of the escaping crooks, prevent the People from being able to right the wrongs, repair the damage, recover what's been stolen from them in the greatest heist in the history of the world, and prevent us from getting back on rule-of-la
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My positions on issues are in line with the platform of the Democratic
The nation ran a whole lot better when liberal Democrats were running the government
Real Democratic policies aren't that hard to sell to the American people.
The DLC got into power by refusing to defend the word 'liberal' when RonaldReag
When informed of the issues, most Americans (70 percent) agree with liberal policies. Neither they (nor I) would characteri
For example, nobody likes the idea of abortion, but most Americans do not want the government involved if they find themselves in the predicamen
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 Rove were geniuses and knew something that nobody else knew; Bush and Rove were just more ruthless in doing what politician
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I'm a mainstream American who's worked hard all my life only to see the rug pulled out from under me, pensions robbed and raided beginning in the Reagan years.
There's no "extreme" or "far left" in the Democratic
You'd do much better trying to stop pigeon-hol
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To those who like you spew rhetoric like, "Democrats are trying, but it's those meanie Republican
The reason people are disgusted is because Democrats aren't trying, and the proof of that is evident on a daily basis.
With Bush's (now) Obama's tax cuts for the rich, the left was willing to compromise on all of the tax cuts. Obama's deal on the tax cuts for the rich wind doesn't cover the 99ers, increases taxes on the poor and sets Social Security up for failure (payroll tax holiday).
Of the 6 million people currently receiving unemployme
The left comes to the table already having compromise
And even after we compromise
In the end, with the StupakAmen
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Fairly soon, Roe and overturnin
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David Cay Johnston on Democracy Now! on Obama's deal to extend Bush's tax cuts:
"The bottom roughly 45 million families in America or households in America—and there are a little over 100 million households —they’re going to actually see their taxes go up. Republican s got an extraordin arily good deal, that raises, I think, basic questions about the negotiatin g skills of the President. "
The rich have gotten rich off of the sweat and labor of others and then taken those profits to buy politician
That's the true nature of capitalism
Then, the rich took those profits and further gamed the system, by rigging the electoral process, enabling them to stack the government elected with corporate-
Over the course of US history, corporatio
Democrats (controlle
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The DLC-contro
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Vast sums have been borrowed from China, from Saudi Arabia, which We The People are on the hook for, are paying interest only on (so we will be making payments for the rest of our lives, and our children and grandchild
There was a huge party for the rich, they put cases of champagne and caviar into their Rolls Royces, drove off, and left us to deal with the catering bills. And because we've been tapped out for so long (our pensions, our homes, all liquidated earlier by their scamming), the government is going to hold a fire sale of our shared resources: Everything from our forests, oil and gas, roads, land, sold off to foreign bidders.
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The most BS argument to date: "The cuts and the pain must be shared by all".
It presumes that the poor and the middle classes haven't born the brunt of what Republican
It presumes that the pain of losing a few million dollars when you have hundreds of millions, even billions, is equivalent to the pain of not knowing where your next meal is coming from, or losing the roof over your head and sleeping in your car or on the street. It presumes that the rich have sacrificed anything at all, when, in fact, they're making money hand-over-
What's happened to the American people was the greatest heist in the history of the world (2007, the economic meltdown) ON TOP OF a longer term and steady rip-off of Americans' self-inves
Where are the investigat
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The decimation of populist legislatio
Where's the line for you? When do you say, "That's it, they've gone too far, enough!"? Have you thought about that, identified your limit? Or are you taking it a day at a time, in which case you're that frog in the pan of water, being slowly boiled to death?
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Since Obama got into the White House, he's cut $3 trillion in social programs, increased the military budget, and lowered taxes.
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What do you do for a living?
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Do you remember when we were all told, "Relaaaaaaa
A couple of months ago on C-Span, Richard Wolffe (the journalist with an inside line to Obama and his White House) said, "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob
Progressiv
Once Obama's healthcare legislatio
This is Obama's 'signature
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What does that vast disparity reveal? If anything, Blue Dogs -- virtually all of whom represent more conservati
Remember that before negotiatio
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What was the reasoning for the Progressiv
Because the White House told them to.
Contrary to his public claims, Obama insisted there be no public option to minimize opposition by the insurance, pharmaceut
When it comes to defiant progressiv
The White House is playing hardball with Democrats who intend to vote against the supplemental war spending bill, threatenin g freshmen who oppose it that they won't get help with reelection and will be cut off from the White House, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) said Friday.
"We're not going to help you. You'll never hear from us again," Woolsey said the White House is telling freshmen.
The Politico’s Jonathan Martin reported this morning that Rahm Emanuel warned leaders of liberal groups in a private meeting this week that it was time to stop running ads attacking Blue Dog and "centrist" Dems on healthcare.
I'm told, however, that Emanuel went quite a bit further than this. Sources at the meeting tell me that Emanuel really teed off on the Dem-versus-Dem attacks, calling them "f**king stupid." This was a direct attack on some of the attendees in the room, who are running ads against Dems right now.
From Gore's speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in February 2002:
Even if we give first priority to the destruction of terrorist networks, and even if we succeed, there are still government s that could bring us great harm. And there is a clear case that one of these government s in particular represents a virulent threat in a class by itself: Iraq.
As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table. To my way of thinking, the real question is not the principle of the thing, but of making sure that this time we will finish the matter on our terms. But finishing it on our terms means more than a change of regime in Iraq. It means thinking through the consequences of action there on our other vital interests, including the survival in office of Pakistan's leader; avoiding a huge escalation of violence in the Middle East; provision for the security and interests of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the Gulf States; having a workable plan for preventing the disintegra tion of Iraq into chaos; and sustaining critically important support within the present coalition.
In 1991, I crossed party lines and supported the use of force against Saddam Hussein, but he was allowed to survive his defeat as the result of a calculation we all had reason to deeply regret for the ensuing decade. And we still do. So this time, if we resort to force, we must absolutely get it right. It must be an action set up carefully and on the basis of the most realistic concepts. Failure cannot be an option, which means that we must be prepared to go the limit. And wishful thinking based on best case scenarios or excessivel y literal transfers of recent experience to different conditions would be a recipe for disaster.
We can, obviously, only speculate, but why would you think he wouldn't have? Bill Clinton, who was to Gore's left, supported Bush's invasion of Iraq (and Hillary voted to support it).
Gore was one of the few Democratic Senators to vote for the 1991 Gulf War, and he consistent
All though the 1990s, Gore was one of the foremost proponents within the Clinton administra
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