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Obama Reads His Children's Book To 2nd Graders

Saturday, December 18, 2010

"It was written in 2008"

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Fiction.

Just like this book of fiction. For children.

When do you think Obama wrote a children's book in 2008?

Would you like me to produce his campaign schedule from 2008?
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Obama Reads His Children's Book To 2nd Graders

Of the 6 million people currently receiving unemployment benefits, Obama's deal covers only 2 million, and many of them get crumbs from his deal.

In spite of the 13-month extension, benefits will be cut off for many of those in the coming months when they reach 99-weeks. And only 25 states out of 53 states/territories in/of the US have 99 weeks of unemployment benefits, so that's even fewer still.

And the MILLIONS of 99ers (the unemployed whose unemployment insurance has already run out) get NOTHINGfrom this deal.

Read Sam Graham-Felsen's oped in WaPo: Why is Obama leaving the grass roots on the sidelines?

At the same time Obama deactivated OFA, Obama demanded all progressive outside groups cease their efforts to pass Democratic legislation. He wanted 100 percent control of the message through the White House.

And then Obama did nothing but cave and capitulate. He didn't pressure any Blue Dogs or Republicans on healthcare reform, not on a public option, on nothing.

And, Obama dithered in the two years leading up to the 2010 midterm elections while the GOP wiped out the singlemost effective Democratic voter registration group - Democratic Outside Groups, Voter Reg Drives Fall Flat.

Obama has a habit and pattern of doing the bare minimum possible, like sending OFA email at the last possible moment, just so that his political operatives can say, "OFA never stopped sending out communications."

'Plausible deniability' might be the slogan for Obama's career in office.
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Tax Cut Compromise Leaves Ardent Obama Supporters Disillusioned

You're in a difficult position, dearie, talking out of both sides of your mouth in an effort to try to justify your continued support for a man who is not on your side, and doesn't support want what you claim to want. You're setting yourself up for a psychological breakdown.

During the healthcare legislation debacle, Obama (and his 'most ardent admirers') excused his failure to lead the fight for single payer/public option with, "Writing the legislation is Congress's job -- I'm staying out of it". We learned later that Obama had been undercutting the congressional committees working on the legislation by crafting secret deals with the insurance & pharmaceutical industries that Congress would be locked into.

How many comments did you write on HP, defending Obama with "Presidents don't write legislation! That's congress's job!", only to have egg all over your face when the news of this deal came out?

Now, there's not a peep out of Obama's 'most ardent supporters' about his interfering with Congress's job and plan to let the Bush tax cuts expire, and then introduce clean bills with middle class tax cuts alone, etc..

Obama's job in this and all issues, any president's job, is to ratchet up support/opposition to pressure members of Congress into doing the president's bidding. It's to shape opinion in the public, intercede directly with the American people, to get them to bring pressure to bear on their elected representatives in Congress.

Obama didn't do that. Obama only uses that power to beat down them that brung 'im: The Democratic base.
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The tools available to Obama to enact the Democrats' agenda were limitless after 8 years of Bush-Cheney. Obama has refused to use them.

If Republicans are such scvm (and I believe they are) and "\so dangerous, why isn't Obama investigating and prosecuting them? Why isn't Obama investigating and prosecuting the greatest heist on the People in all history?

Why are Obama and Democrats continuing the war crimes of Bush & Cheney, and blocking investigations and prosecutions into their crimes?

How does a Democratic president, on the heels of the most criminal and corrupt administration in the nation's history, not replace Bush-era US attorneys? Presidents may fire US attorneys, and they do so routinely at the beginning of a new administration. It is unusual to fire US attorneys in mid-term (as Bush did) except in cases of gross misconduct (which wasn’t the case during the Bush administration). This is what Obama's US attorneys do instead of returning the democracy to the American people -- Instead we get Bush-style obscenity prosecutions.

Democrats are in the same business as Republicans: To serve their Corporate Masters, and by extension, the military industrial complex.

I suggest that you consider Democrats and Republicans as working on the same side, as tag relay teams (or like siblings competing for parental approval). 'Good cop/bad cop'. 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"

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Tax Cut Compromise Leaves Ardent Obama Supporters Disillusioned

You said:

I fail to see how one negotiates with the rules in the Senate obsolete, and the solidarity of Republicans. The President has nothing to negotiate with

You conflated the two.

As you should. Because there is nothing that happens in either chamber of Congress that Obama hasn't signed off on, much less didn't order.

That's how 'party government', which we've had since the 1790s, works. When your party controls both Houses of Congress and the White House, the president is the leader of the party, the goals to be achieved and the strategy for making it happen. The orders are top-down, and the strategy for achieving the party's aims is determined in the White House.

The office of the president, particularly a popular one, one who entered the Oval Office on a campaign of CHANGE and with more votes than any president in all of US history, has awesome power to effect his agenda. The fact that Obama slammed on the brakes of his momentous victory and reneged on just about every pledge and promise, and then has continued just about all of the Bush-Cheney policies says it all -- The man is a con artist.
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CNN Teaming With Tea Party For Republican Presidential Debate

"Thom Hartmann now understands why the bill has to pass"

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This is Hartmann on the subject yesterday; he says nothing of the sort.

Hartmann on the subject a week ago; he says nothing of the sort.

Internet etiquette: Do your own research and provide links to back up your assertions.
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