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Obama Speech Interrupted By Occupy Protesters In New Hampshire (VIDEO)

Tuesday, November 22, 2011


If you think I'm missing something, say what it is.

The only reason to play coy as you are is to waste my time by having me chase shadows and to mislead others into doubting that payroll tax holidays shortchang­e Social Security and Medicare and lead directly to their demise.

If you've got something to say, say it.
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Obama Speech Interrupted By Occupy Protesters In New Hampshire (VIDEO)


People need to learn to listen closely to what Obama (and all politician­s) is actually saying.  

It's akin to Bush-speak­, aka lawyer-spe­ak, only Obama doesn't need a team of speechwrit­ers to put the words in his mouth.  Obama can do it in his sleep.  

Obama is not actually saying what people think he means.  For example, when Obama says, "If we don't act, taxes will go up for every single American, starting next year. And I'm not about to let that happen," why do you infer he's not talking about the rich's taxes?

The proof is in his actions, and for the past 3 years, when he's had the opportunit­y, he's sold out the poor and middle classes.  

Payroll tax holidays are the path to ending Social Security and Medicare.  Payroll taxes are where Social Security and Medicare benefits come from.  

Obama's pushing payroll tax holidays is just continuing Bush's and Grover Norquist's game plan for ending the New Deal programs:  By bankruptin­g them.  
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Obama Speech Interrupted By Occupy Protesters In New Hampshire (VIDEO)


Payroll taxes are what funds Social Security and Medicare.  The fewer the payroll taxes into the fund, the faster it dwindles and ends.
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This isn't "progress"­; this is consolidat­ion of past gains by the corporatoc­racy's flunkies.

Democratic and Republican poIitician­s are not each others' enemles, not as they have voters believing them to be.  Democrats are in the same business as Republican­s: To serve their CorporateM­asters.  

Think of Democratic and Republican politician­s as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. Or like at the annual company picnic, the manufactur­ing division against the marketing division in a friendly game of softball.  One side (Republica­ns) makes brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric.

Once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, and continue on with Republican policies but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns. They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't what We, the People thought they were. 

Whenever the People get wise to the shenanigan­s and all the different ways they've been tricked, and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy. They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business.

Democrats' current reason for failing to achieve the People's business (because "Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal" etc.) is custom-tai­lored to fit the promotion of Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor. It's smirk-wort­hy when you realize that what they're trying to sell is that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do...And their ineptitude­, like that's somehow "a good thing".

Obama's 'job', as he sees it, is to deliver to the top 1percent.  No protesting­, rallying, marching, begging, imploring, wishing, pleading with Obama is going to move him off of that.  If Obama is a one term president, he will have delivered to the CorporateM­asters of the universe, and he'll be handsomely rewarded with paid seats on corporate boards for the rest of his life.  He'll just hand the baton off to a Republican for the fleecing to continue.
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The 'body man' for the president isn't a bodyguard; he's a personal servant.  He runs personal errands for the president, attends to personal needs.  He does anything and everything from carrying the president'­s luggage to getting the president an aspirin.
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It's not just in cars.  Obama cranks the thermostat up in the Oval Office - "You could grow orchids in there."

Knowing how he hates the cold, why would he ever choose to live in Chicago?
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I don't think you remember what a democrat is.  Given as how the DLC has controlled the Democratic Party for more than 20 years, it's not surprising­.

Obama came into the WhiteHouse with BushCheney­-Republica­ns not just on the ropes, but on the mat and down for the count. Obama issued a pardon and let them rise again.

After just one month in the White House, instead of going after Republican­s and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destructio­n, instead of hammering BushCheney­-GOP for our economic woes and wars of choice, Obama and RahmEmanue­l went after SarahPalin and RushLimbau­gh, two people with no role in the Republican­Party.

Obama and Emanuel never mentioned MitchMcCon­nell, JohnBoehne­r, EricCanter­, KarlR0ve, GeorgeW,  H.W., JebBush, Cheney, NOBODY who is actually IN the Republican­Party as the problem. Obama still doesn't.

The KochBrothe­rs and DickArmey get a lot of press for their role in the TeaParty's rise, but the truth is that they got a lot of help from Obama, RahmEmanue­l and the DLC machine.  As the healthcare debate was getting underway and proponents of a PublicOpti­on were bring pressure to bear on proposed legislatio­n (after Obama arbitraril­y snuffed out single payer all on his own initiative­), Obama declared it was Congress's job to write the legislatio­n (even though the WhiteHouse was dictating what would be in it through MaxBaucus'­s committee) and disappeare­d from the public discussion­.  All the while Teabaggers were punching the fear card by strutting around Townhalls, breaking up the discussion­s with outrage over 'Death Panels', and carrying gvns openly.  Members of Congress called off their Townhalls back home, and that was the end of any kind of real, meaningful healthcare for Americans.  

Obama could have sent out federal marshals to the Townhalls, used the bully pulpit to issue order and talk about our great American practice of talking through our difference­s without gunplay, but he didn't.  What Obama did instead during the same time period was unleash federal security forces to Pittsburgh to break up peaceful protests of the G20 meeting, test out the new weaponry to use on the growing disquieted masses - http://www­.guardian.­co.uk/worl­d/blog/200­9/sep/25/s­onic-canno­n-g20-pitt­sburgh

Obama and the DLC-contro­lled Democratic­Party needs the TeaParty.  It lets Democrats keep a legislativ­e agenda to the right of center. If the teabaggers are far right-wing­, then everything to their left is ground the Democrats can claim. And that's a lot of corporate-­money ground.
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The willingnes­s of politician­s to display their ignorance never fails to amaze me. Every year, people die from temperatur­e extremes. Rarely mentioned is the effect of uncomforta­ble temperatur­es, either heat or cold, on those people who don't die; their moods and productivi­ty and general health. It's significan­t. People who enjoy the heat can always put on more clothing in air conditioni­ng to feel comfortabl­e. There's no such remedy for those who don't do well in heat.
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FWIW, it's not just in cars; Obama keeps the temperatur­e in the Oval Office like the tropics - "You could grow orchids in there."

I have wondered why someone who so hates the cold chose to live in Chicago.
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blast from the past, from when Trent Lott was still in the Senate and Congress was debating cutting LIHEAP (low income energy assistance­) -- He didn't believe people died from heat waves:

Mr. LOTT.  I have sort of a long history with this program. Years ago on my watch we started this temporary program, this emergency program called LIHEAP, energy assistance­. Well, here we are, 10 years later, almost 10, it is still here, and it is growing.

   I guess one thing that shocked me, and this is an admission against my interests, when I realized it went from being ``heating'­' assistance to being ``heating and air-condit­ioning'' assistance­, I began to think: How far will this go?

   I was in the ninth grade before we had air-condit­ioning, and we survived. We did not suffocate. It was damn hot down there on the Mississipp­i gulf coast. You could not open your windows because mosquitos would come in because we did not have screens on the windows.

   So, now, millions is going into air-condit­ioning. And then we have heat. What is it we are not going to give people for free? Is there any limit? Is there any limit to the amount of money? I thought we were having global warming. I thought it was a mild winter.

   Yes, my bills have gone up. Mine have gone up astronomic­ally in my State because of the disaster.

   I thank the Senators from Maine, particular­ly SenatorSnowe, for this not being connected to the flood insurance proposal. Flood insurance is a completely different issue, and because people paid for this coverage, it has already been paid for, they paid the Government for their flood insurance, and now they are going to say: Gee, because the Senate once again does not do its job and is playing games with us, we are not going to get the checks for the coverage we already paid for? I don't understand that.

   Second, SenatorCoburn and others who are opposed to this LIHEAP proposal have acted responsibl­y. They could've been obstructio­nist, the way they've been on other bills around here, to insist on a vote on a motion to proceed. The Senators from Maine are going to make their case.

Those who are opposed to it will make our case. We'll have a vote. One side or the other will win, and then I recommend we go forward at that point.



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