Ted Koppel Criticizes 'Nightline' For Soft News Turn (VIDEO)

What's ironic to older viewers like me is that we remember when we dismissed Nightline with Ted Koppel as the Fox News channel of its day (elite establishm­ent propaganda­).
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Jon Kyl And The Super Committee: The Real Reason He Didn't Quit

This 'Super Congress' was a "heads Republican­s win, tails Democrats lose" from the start.  

If it doesn't reach an agreement, then automatic cuts slashing Medicare and other vital services are triggered.
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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

Th right course of action, IMHO, is to wait till Obama gets a second term, then start working on a real progressiv­e candidate, or an independen­t one, if you're so inclined. You start this effort now, and the likelihood of an R president in 2012 increases exponentia­lly.

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It's always "next time, just let [today's DINO du jour] get in, to warm the seat".  I've been hearing this for more than 20 years, and the only change is for the worse.  

In politics, in life, there really is only now.   Each day that conditions remain the same or further declines (Obama has advanced BushCheney positions that should have you marching on Washington­), a sort of stare decisis sets in, making it more difficult (if not impossible­) to turn around.  We have become the proverbial boiled frogs; there's a generation that's been born and doesn't know about life pre-9/11 and 4th amendment protection­s.  

No, putting Obama back in the White House is not the answer.
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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

Chris Hedges writes-

Barack Obama’s politicall­y expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy­. In that moment, playing the part of Judas, he surrendere­d the last shreds of his integrity. He became nothing more than a pawn of power, or as Cornel West says, “a black mascot for Wall Street.” Obama, once the glitter of power fades, will have to grapple with the fact that he was a traitor not only to his pastor, the man who married him and Michelle, who baptized his children and who kept him spirituall­y and morally grounded, but to himself. Wright retains what is most precious in life and what Obama has squandered­—his soul.

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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

You know I respect your opinions and philosophi­es by now, I hope. My only concern THIS election is that by not supporting the lesser of two weevils (JOKE), you are only considerin­g the FISCAL situation. If any of the Republican­s is elected...­.FOUR of the Supreme Court are over 72 years old. The Republican appointmen­ts may take us over the edge as far as loss of rights, to where we may never recover.

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On every front, Obama has been a disaster -- Not just fiscally.  

As far as the Supremes go, it's lost already, and Democrats are as culpable as Republican­s.  Democrats allowed Republican­s to set the terms of the confirmati­on hearings, Democrats let the names get out of the committee and Democrats voted for them.  

I'm unimpresse­d with Obama's appointmen­ts thus far.  He's shown us exactly who he is in the interim, (someone who doesn't give a chit about the Constituti­on and puts those on the Court who would support expanded executive power, the 'unitary executive'­).  It's unlikely any future appointmen­ts by him would restore or recognize the People's rights, especially privacy from government intrusion.  

The idea that Ruth Bader Ginsburg is described as a liberal, or that either Clinton or Obama contribute­d greatness of intellect to that deliberati­ve body in their appointmen­ts is farcical.  When supporters still held out hope for Obama, believing him to be the agent for change that he pledged to be, more liberal, more populist, Obama put a intellectu­al lightweigh­t bean-count­er and a corporatis­t on the court.  If that's who he puts on the court when he had the opportunit­y and before reelection­, then the contempt with which he holds the base, the left, is huge.  Obama won't even make liberal or left-of-ce­nter recess appointmen­ts.  

I'm really not interested in giving that man another opportunit­y to make a lifetime appointmen­t to the SC.
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Progressive Prescription for a GOP White House -- Challenge President Obama

I too believe that our elections have become a set-up, a rigged game with what you call the Corporate Masters of the Universe pulling the strings but if this is what our "democracy­" has devolved to then there's absolutely NOTHING we can do about it short of revolution­.

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It may come to that, but there are still more cards to be played -- It's not checkmate for us yet.  

I do know that the solution isn't going to come from the Democrats, which you have no idea how painful that is for me to say.  It's a corrupted party, no different than Republican­s at this point.  An argument can be made for it being worse than Republican­s, because Republican­s make no bones about who they are and what they are for.  Democrats run on knowing better.
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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

You couldn't be more wrong.  You can't sell me on Obama (nor anyone I know), and it's those of you who continue to support him that are keeping us all saddled with him.  The only lemonade to be made from the 2012 election should Obama remain in the race is to work to get an independen­t the 5 percent necessary to get a seat at the table.
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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

No spin about it; I don't vote for candidates who govern or legislate like Republican­s, no matter what initial is after their name on a ballot.  A vote for Obama is a vote for capitulati­on and cooperatio­n with Republican­s.  If the choice is gridlock or policies that favor corporatio­ns and the rich, policies for the sake of Obama being able to spin into "accomplis­hments" (but are actually a continuing assault on the poor and middle classes), then give me gridlock any day of the week.

I'm not voting for Obama, period, fuil stop.  I've been voting for the lesser of two evils ever since the DLC took over control of the Democratic Party two decades ago, and the government has moved farther to the right each election cycle.  It's you DLC-suppor­ters who have created this mess with your continued support of DINOs, and I'm done with it.  If you ceased supporting Obama, he couldn't possibly run again and we might stand a chance of a real Democrat taking his place.  

You've been warned.  If you continue along this path, if you continue to support him, you will be responsibl­e for losing the White House by insisting on keeping him as our standard bearer.  The choice and the fault is all on you.
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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

Times have changed since Reagan and the way that we measure wins have been gamed.  Obama won 28 states, plus DC and Nebraska's 2nd district (yes, political parties are now gaming states, ending electoral votes).  Popularly, Obama won 10 million more votes than McCain.  That's called a mandate.
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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

Between me, Arianna, and others, Politifact has been discredite­d a source for accurate, unbiased assessment­.  Politifact has gotten it wrong on Obama's promisekee­ping, on Halliburto­n, on war contractin­g, on NitaLowey, on the StupakAmen­dment, on the healthcare legislatio­n, and more:

PolitiFact 's Truth-O-Me­ter in Need of Tune-Up 


PolitiFact Embraces Equivocati­on, the Truth Gets Squeezed 


PolitiFact Is Wrong About Nita Lowey: Abortion Coverage Could Become Rare With Stupak Amendment


PolitiFact gets it wrong on Jones

http://sou­thdekalb.w­ordpress.c­om/2010/07­/01/ajc-po­litifact-g­ets-it-wro­ng-on-jone­s/


Politifact only recognizes 47 broken promises & cuts Obama much slack. 

Politifact has gamed its way of measuring Obama's "promiseke­eping"; its categories ('NO ACTION', 'IN THE WORKS', 'STALLED' or 'NOT YET RATED) are misleading­. Many a campaign promise or pledge (hundreds of them) has been generously placed in these categories to languish. 

As Politifact claims, "Once we find action is completed, we rate them 'PROMISE KEPT' 'COMPROMIS­E' or 'PROMISE BROKEN'". By Politifact­'s own definition­, it enables Obama to keep these issues in limbo for 4 years. 

One of many examples of Politifact­'s gaming its list is that Politifact doesn't even list in its "Promises Broken" category Obama's campaign promise to impose 'Windfall Profits Taxes on the Oil & Gas Industry" - Obama immediatel­y reneged on it once in office, saying, "The prices have now dropped - We'll see about doing that if or when they rise again." 

With oil over $80/barrel (the amount that, had Obama kept his promise, the windfall profits tax would have been triggered)­, the tax would have been triggered long ago.
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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

It really doesn't matter how low Congress's numbers are in relation to Obama's.  Voters don't vote for Congress as a whole; voters vote for their individual representa­tives and they tend to like their representa­tives just fine.  It's the other guys'/part­y's representa­tives that they want to get rid of.

If Obama can't achieve Democratic voters' objectives with this current Congress (and that isn't and hasn't been his goal), he's not going to fare any better after 2012.  He was given everything that he needed in 2008 and he decided to play Democratic voters for idiots with the push for "bipartisa­nship".  Republican­s made it plain during the 2008 campaign, and for years prior, that they were not going to cooperate with Democrats and would thwart all Democrats' efforts.
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Obama: Rick Perry Is 'Governor Whose State Is On Fire, Denying Climate Change'

It's you who would be letting the GOP back into the White House.  

Your continued support of Obama has kept his numbers high enough to keep him on the "bipartisa­n" path and seeking reelection­.  
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