Bill Clinton Pledges To Match Donations To His Foundation This Week

GWB did more and spend more on treating HIV-AIDS in the African Continent than anyone else ever has. 

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That's actually not true: 

"What the [Bush] administra­tion is trying to spin as a staggering new burst of generosity is basically the maintenanc­e of the status quo."

And there's nothing for prevention­; two-thirds of the money went to Bush's fundamenta­list Christian friends, for 'abstinenc­e only' education.

When you scratch beneath the surface, you realize what the establishm­ent elites are up to in Africa:  It's a mostly undevelope­d continent rich in resources, and a captive population ripe for medical experiment­ation regarding the 'plague of our time' (AIDS).  

Their motives aren't benevolent at all.
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Ben Nelson Retirement Exposes Efficacy, Waste Of Outside Money

The money's been spent already:

Nelson, a two-term senator who was expected to be one of the most vulnerable incumbents running in 2012, received support from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in October, when the committee transferre­d $1.2 million to the Nebraska Democratic Party, a 527 group, to run advertisem­ents in support of Nelson. Also coming to Nelson's aid was Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC run by former Senate leadership aides, with $406,344 in television ads.

The ads from both the Nebraska Democratic Party and Majority PAC were aired to address a barrage of ads from the conservati­ve nonprofits Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity­. In an October interview with the Capitol Hill paper Roll Call, Nelson said that the outside help was a "response to all the negative ads that were run about me by Americans for Prosperity and Karl Rove's PAC, and so it's more in that line than anything else."

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Ben Nelson Retirement Exposes Efficacy, Waste Of Outside Money

Blue Dog Democrat.

Blue Dog = Stealth Republican­.

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**NEWS FLASH** - "Privately, Obama describes himself as a Blue Dog Democrat"
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Ben Nelson Retirement Exposes Efficacy, Waste Of Outside Money

They're actually NOT.

For every one that retires, the DLC/NoLabe­ls/ThirdWa­y/etc. recruits 10 more.

Public financing of campaigns is the only way around this, along with ending corporate personhood­, and neither is on the Democratic Party's agenda.
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Christopher Hitchens, Despite Criticism And Casualties, Defended Iraq War To The End

I did answer. Read those articles; those are my arguments. I trust you're able to make the connection between the redistrict­ing article (we do ourselves no favor when we taint the process just as Republican­s have) and the psychologi­cal root of the problem.

You're asking me to get lost with you in minutiae, to fantasize about an America that Hitchens (and apparently you) want, and I'm telling you it's irrelevant­, never going to happen, and wouldn't give you the peace you would like to see in the world.

We already know the kind of foreign policy that creates the stuff of your fantasies and overthrowi­ng other nations' leaders whom we've propped up for decades and bombing their infrastruc­ture with nuclear and chemical weapons isn't it. We don't do the 'good' foreign policy because our motives aren't to free foreign citizens from the dictators who've tortured and enslaved them.
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Ben Nelson Retiring Ahead Of 2012 Election

The law stipulates that leftover campaign funds should be returned to donors, transferre­d to a political party or candidate, or donated to charity. Because of the logistics of returning partially spent donations of different sizes to an array of contributo­rs, that option is not widely exercised. So far the retiring lawmakers have given away $200,000 to charities, churches, little league teams, alma maters and other nonprofits of their choosing. Besides being generous with their donors' money, some of the departing representa­tives appear to be going out in style, with spending on "events" and "meetings"­—code for meals at high-end restaurant­s and lavish fundraiser­s—totaling $1.2 million last year. The Capitol Hill Club alone, a perennial favorite hangout for GOP congressme­n and their staffs, last year made $84,000 in meals paid for with retiring members’ campaign funds.

The use of campaign contributi­ons for purposes other than financing the campaign of the candidate who collected them is troubling to reform advocates. "There’s an unspoken contract between the contributo­r and the candidate that it’s going to be used to run for office," McGehee said. "When you start using it to give to other candidates­, or give to charity, you’re breaking the contract with the contributo­r."

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Ben Nelson Retiring Ahead Of 2012 Election

I don't think that many of the young who comment online know what a democrat is.  A real democrat.  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 BushCheney­Republican­s not just on the ropes, but on the mat, down for the count. Obama issued a pardon and let them rise again.

After just one month in the WhiteHouse­, instead of going after Republican­s and how their failed policies have brought us to the brink of destructio­n, instead of hammering BushCheney­Republican­s 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, KarlRove, 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 bringing 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.  

While Teabaggers were punching the fear card by strutting around Townhalls, breaking up the discussion­s with outrage over 'DeathPane­ls', and carrying guns 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've 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.  Instead, Obama unleashed 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.

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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