These candidates positions on the issues are Obama's positions on the issues.
You do know that Obama supported all of these people who are being challenged, voted out in the primaries, don't you?
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Insurance is NOT medical treatment.
Having insurance does NOT mean being able to get affordable quality medical care.
What about this is so hard for 0bamabots to get?
Insurance companies have already found ways around what few regulations are in this law. Medical loss ratio, for example - http://www
Obama is a t00l of the corporations, did absolutely nothing to get either single payer universal healthcare or a public option through. He actively worked AGAINST it. He didn't pressure any of the Blue Dogs or Lieberman, and there is ample evidence that Lieberman was working on Obama's behalf to k!ll Medicare expansion. http://www
If you really believe that what stood in the way of a real healthcare reform bill passing was not having a filibuster-proof majority, Obama would have struck while Democrats had a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. That was the reason, after all, for letting Lieberman caucus with the Democrats, giving him a committee chairmanship, after all. If real healthcare reform was what Obama was after, he wouldn't have p!ssed away that majority by stalling for time with 2 dying Democratic senators (Kennedy & Byrd).
A real healthcare reform bill didn't need Lieberman, Stupak, Lincoln, Nelson -- Reconciliation was always the way to get it done.
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It was NOT healthcare reform. To call it that is the classic definition of 'lipstick on a pig'. It does NOT move us in the direction of affordable quality medical treatment for all. It actually lays the groundwork for the end of all public healthcare, and medical care only for those who can afford it.
Democrats could have passed a public option, could have included it when the bill had to return to the House at the end, but Obama nixed it. That said everything about the man and the deal that any American who wants and needs affordable medical care needs to know: There will be no public option, no affordable quality care as long as Obama is in office. That was the deal he made with PhRma, hospitals, the AMA and insurance.
These DLCers have to be tossed out along with Republicans before there is any reform that will benefit the People.
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Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama&Democrats want public health care. The DLC-controlled Democratic party gives lip service to public health care & all populist issues.
If the Bush years taught us nothing else, it's that anyone can sell anything to Americans, if you're stolid & relentless in your sales pitch & tactics. It's not that Bush&R0ve were geniuses & knew something that nobody else knew; Bush&R0ve were just more ruthless (clumsy & careless many political graybeards would say) in doing what politicians & the parties had gone to great lengths to hide from Americans.
Obama didn't get to be the first black president, vanquish the Clinton machine (to get the nomination) & the oldest, most experienced politicians in our nation's history (including the Rove machine) by not having mastered these skills. Nor do Democratic politicians (more incumbents than ever, in office longer) not know how to do it. How do you think Democrats managed to keep the impeachment of Bush&Cheney off the table & have us still reelecting them, not marching on Washington with torches&pitchforks?
Obama&Democrats know how to do it -- They don't want to do it.
The trick for them has been to keep the many different populist groups believing that they really do support our issues, but that they're merely inept. And to get us to keep voting for them in spite of their failure to deliver on any of our alleged shared objectives.
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What our elected representatives are NOT doing is getting Americans jobs, restoring the middle class, and getting Americans affordable quality health care (which will only happen with single payer universal health care, aka Medicare For All), getting us off oil and STOPPING THE GREATEST ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER EVER.
Incidentally, the loopholes reported about the healthcare bill right after its passage (one was all children were not going to be covered immediately as had been sold to get people like you on board with accepting the bill without a public option) have still not been closed. But we were told at the time that "Congress and Obama are going to get right on that!" -- It hasn't happened.
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Each party uses high-priced public relations firms, with spinmeisters crafting sophisticated propaganda campaigns to con voters into believing what isn't true. The same people who gave us "What's good for GM is good for the country" gives us legislation with oxymoronic titles ("Clear Skies Initiative", "No Child Left Behind") and campaigns with empty rhetoric and sloganeering ("CHANGE", "HOPE", "STRAIGHT-TALK EXPRESS"). All calculated to convince the left and the right within each party that their party's candidate shares their positions (Obama's most ardent supporters are still split on whether he's a centrist or a liberal).
At the top of Big Businesses' shopping lists to Democrats and Republicans is "Give us more money. And if you can't do that, if you can't fool the average American voter into going along with that, then let us be able to rake it in as we've been doing."
Obama, DLC-Democrats and Republicans have been gaming our government to deliver (and to receive, by way of contributions to their campaign war chests) more of the same. At a time when reregulating, nationalizing banks, businesses and industries (OIL) is obvious to everyone, politicians and corporate media are collaborating in Kabuki theater to drive it from the front pages and off of Americans' minds.
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And because you do not have the courage of your convictions, we didn't even get a public option.
Voters put candidates into office to achieve their objectives.
Democratic voters have mistakenly believed that Obama&Democrats were for affordable, quality universal healthcare (which ObamaCare is not), strong regulations on banks, Wall Street, investigations, prosecutions, restitution of what has been robbed from the middle class and poor for the past 30+ years, environmental clean-up, clean, sustainable renewable energy (& that isn't nuclear), putting an end to the wars and occupation of Iraq & Afghanistan, and more. The DLC-controlled Democratic party gives lip service to these & all populist issues, because like the Republican Party, the DLC works for the benefit of transnational corporations.
DLC Democrats who control the Democratic Party and Republicans are corporate t00Is. Like siblings competing for the attention and approval (campaign contributions) of a parent, Republicans and DLC-controlled Democrats try to outdo each other in delivering for their real constituent, Big Corporations. The trick for them has been to make it seem as if they were really working on behalf of We the People.
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