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Gallup Poll Shows Bump In Approval For Obama After Convention

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Video: Journalist asks politicians at the Democratic National Convention, "Can Romney Be Trusted With The Kill List?"
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Bill Clinton Speech Asks Undecided Voters To Hang On, Give Obama Another Chance

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Libs like me have to choose between voting the lesser evil and inviting ourselves to be treated as doormats, or voting for a 3rd party that has no chance to win effectively throwing our vote away.

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Obama, himself, doesn't believe that and supports voting for third parties over Democrats, even when Democratic turnout is at stake. Some, but not all, examples of Obama supporting third party or Republican candidates over Democrats:

Republican-turned-Independent Arlen Specter over progressive Democrat Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania.

Republican-turned-Independent Lincoln Chaffee over Democrat Frank Caprio (which, in turn, was an effective endorsement of the Republican John Loughlin over Democrat David Cicilline for the congressional seat Democrat Patrick Kennedy retired from, and all of the other seats up for grab in Rhode Island).

Republican-turned-Independent Charlie Crist over liberal Democrat Kendrick Meek in Florida.

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Barack Obama Campaign Finance Reforms Fiddled While System Crumbled

JamesBurke of "Connections"-fame produced an excellent program about 30 years ago called "AfterTheWarming" that you can see online.

It's done as if it's 2050 with Burke looking back over the history of the world's climate changes and the effect that cyclical warming and cooling has had on the development of animal, vegetation, and civilization. Up until the industrial revolution, how what's happening is man-made, how we know that it's man-made, and how fast it's happening. In less than one generation, human civilization on the planet is going to irrevocably break down. Mass die-off of species, specifically humans, from a whole host of assaults (famine, drought, disease, pandemics, wars, etc.).

If every Fox viewer saw it, they might be convinced, but it wouldn't matter; it's too late.

What's happening politically now is that the world leaders are arranging for the time when chaos will be the order of the day. The loss of civil liberties, setting up for martial law, endless wars, etc. I think they're giving the 'haves' one last bite at the apple, to amass as much wealth as they can, to move their families to high ground for the coming bad times. The US is positioning itself much like the RomanEmpire did, and will take what it wants through military might - Not for we ordinary mortals, mind you, but for the survival of the elites.

I think it's obvious that the decision was made some time ago, like several decades ago, that the US wasn't going to respond and try to avert the catastrophe. Too many people to get on board, too much work, and altruistic work at that. It was a cynical and corrupt decision, with greed controlling it, with the likes of JimBaker and the Bushes making fortunes by the decision (in oil). War industries were another venue for amassing great wealth (that's the path that Cheney took).

In the late 1990s, when the bubbles were taking shape, I estimated that those who didn't have a net worth of, at least, $250,000 wouldn't stand a chance; I'm revising that upwards to $5 million. That's just bare bones, to keep from dying from an inability to purchase food and water, and keep a roof over your head that you don't have to trade watch duty with family and friends to keep marauders out.

Bleak? You bet. But we have to start talking about it and demanding politicians address it.

Watch "AfterTheWarming" with your families and friends. It's the only way that not prosecuting WallStreet, torturers, war criminals, war profiteering, NDAA, drones on borders, job outsourcing free trade treaties like SKoreaAFTA/PanamaAFTA/ColombiaAFTA, and the secret TransPacificFreeTradeTreaty, etc., make any sense.
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Barack Obama Campaign Finance Reforms Fiddled While System Crumbled

I'm wondering, too...who will you vote for?

I do not disagree with anything you wrote (and would even add a few "disappointments" such as Montsanto CEO/Lobbyist as head of FDA). However, if you think a change back to Republican leadership is somehow going to fix these things, you are sadly mistaken. There is not one person who will be a perfect president. Not one. We are stuck with which side outweighs the other.

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If you want to know why this liberal Democrat can't vote for Obama, and understand the alternatives, read this.

Then read John Cusack's Interview of Law Professor Jonathan Turley About the Obama Administration's War on the Constitution and journalist Russell Mokhiber's Ten Reasons I'm Not With Barack Obama.

Then read/listen to A Great Silence is Spreading Over the Natural World.

And Chris Hedges' Life Is Sacred (no, it's not about abortion).

Then consider all of it against the backdrop of this:

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Obama's spin when trying to get Sotomayor confirmed (a lackluster intellect if ever there was one) was that she'd be effective at countering the conservatives arguments when it came to trying to pull Kennedy over. It hasn't happened; Roberts, Alito, are Scalia wield far greater political warfare skills.

And when RuthBaderGinsburg considers 'Nino' (Scalia) to be her closest friend, vacationing with him off the Court, it's Democrats who need to wake up to the fact that we're in a war with the right and no amount of turning the other cheek is going to stop the rightwing.

We need more Earl Warrens. What we don't need are politicians looking to avoid a fight, and want to work "in a bipartisan manner". Republicans declared war on Democrats years and years ago, while Democrats keep trying to "make nice". Democratic politicians have gotten fat and lazy, feathering their own nests while Republicans have made long inroads into furthering corporate interests.

Whether Democrats are inept or corrupt, the result is the same: They have failed to protect the interests of the 99%. And all that they're putting out this campaign season are warmed-over Republican-like policies when drastic populist steps need to be taken.
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In claims against big business, Sotomayor (herself a former corporate lawyer) wrote the dissent in a 2-1 decision that ultimately favored victims' families. This was concerning the 1996 crash of TWA flight 800 off of LongIsland. Sotomayor wrote, "The crash hadn't occurred in US territorial waters, therefore victims' families shouldn't have had the right to sue for extra damages." She wrote that the judges who disagreed with her were ignoring legislative history and earlier case law," saying "their decision was a legislative policy choice which shouldn't be made by the courts".

That's conservative talk.

In 2002, on the issue of abortion, Sotomayor upheld Bush's 'Global Gag Rule' (the policy of withholding funds for international groups that offer family planning information and services, including abortion).

On the issue of discrimination, she frequently rules against plaintiffs. For example, in 2004, she ruled against African-American corrections' officers who said they were retaliated against for filing discrimination complaints.

Sotomayor certainly doesn't look at the law through the prism of how it serves the interests of the People.

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