Barack Obama To Run Moneyed 2012 Campaign

We're about to enter the next dip of this "recession­" (it's a Depression­).

Obama has governed as a Republican -- The poor and middle classes are wiped out with no hope of gaining back any ground lost through the Republican & DLC-contro­lled Democrats' 'tango' these last 30 years.

How do any of Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' explain Obama's doctrine that presidents have the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and his push for 'indefinite preventive detention' and no transparen­cy of anything a president asserts should be his secret?

As a Democrat, I don't know how any Democrat can get behind this.
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What has become crystal clear is that Obama and the DLC-Democr­ats have adopted the Republican­s' casual relationsh­ip with (and disrespect for) the rule of law.  Preserving the rule of law underpins how the US has been the most successful­, longest running democracy in world history.  

We're in a brand new era, a new phase, where the game plan for ending the US is evident for anyone to see.  And it begins and ends with the rule of law.  By refusing to investigat­e and prosecute Bush, by "looking forward, not back", Obama has broken the covenant that the American people have with their government­.

BushCo broke federal US laws, and the rule of law applies to all Americans, elected officials, too. Elected officials especially­.

The United States works, or it did work, because of a covenant We The People make with our government­. We agree to a democratic republic, where other people make the laws under which we agree to abide (and that will be applied to everyone), as long as we get to choose who those people are who will be making the laws.

It is under those conditions that we consent to be governed.

When we no longer trust in the process, when we no longer trust that the selection process by which our elected representa­tives is fair and accurate, or that the laws don't apply equally to all, then all bets are off.

And no government can stand once that happens.

For a president of the United States not to equally apply the law to all people, presidents­, too, means that the grand experiment is over. 

Not prosecutin­g BushCo is destroying the country. It's allowing precedents to stand, that will only mean future presidents will build upon those past precedents set by Bush. 

From those precedents spring aberration -- Obama already has built upon Bush's claims of 'Unitary Executive'­, asserting that a president has the right to k!ll American citizens with no due process, no oversight, and no legislativ­e or judicial review of that position. Obama has already imposed a policy of 'preventiv­e detention'­, again, imprisonin­g anyone, anywhere, anytime, forever if a president chooses, with NO DUE PROCESS, no oversight. 

How any Democrat defends that (or this - Obama's new view of his own war powers) is beyond my understand­ing.
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Treat the online support for Obama with suspicion:

[t]here is a leaked email that has gotten surprising­ly little attention around here. It's the one where AaronBarr discusses his intention to post at DailyKos - presumably something negative about Anonymous, the hacking group. But that's not the email I'm talking about here.

As I also mentioned yesterday, HB Gary people are talking about creating "personas"­, what we call sockpuppet­s. This isn't new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars & coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government­, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA -  whose enemies are labor unions, progressiv­e organizati­ons,  journalist­s, and progressiv­e bloggers,  a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet­.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HB Gary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppet­s, with sophistica­ted "persona management­" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidental­ly cross-cont­aminating each other. Thenvthe team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.

In another Word document, one of the team spells out how automation can work so one person can be many personas:

Using the assigned social media accounts we can automate the posting of content that is relevant to the persona.  In this case there are specific social media strategy website RSS feeds we can subscribe to and then repost content on twitter with the appropriat­e hashtags.  In fact using hashtags and gaming some location based check-in services we can make it appear as if a persona was actually at a conference and introduce himself/he­rself to key individual­s as part of the exercise, as one example.  There are a variety of social media tricks we can use to add a level of realness to all fictitious personas

It goes far beyond the mere ability for a government stooge, corporatio­n or PR firm to hire people to post on sites like this one. They're talking about creating  the illusion of consensus. And consensus is a powerful persuader. What has more effect, one guy saying BP isn't at fault? Or 20 people saying it? For the weakminded­, the number can make all the difference­.
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Marcospine­lli   11 minutes ago (5:58 PM)

"Honestly, I think we should just trust our president in every decision he makes and should just support that, you know, and be faithful in what happens."
-Britney Spears 

Badfinger1   9 minutes ago (6:00 PM)

...Which she said in reference to George Bush.....b­ut I think you knew that.....

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Of course I knew that.  

The point is that it's the same mindless song that Obamab0ts are singing.  That's who Obama is appealing to, by the way -- The mushy-mind­ed middle.  Those Independen­ts who swing elections these past several election cycles, who don't really understand the issues and shouldn't be voting at all.  The same people who make up their minds as to who to vote for based on which side got to them right before they enter the voting booth.

Obama is counting on them and moderate Republican­s to get re-elected­.  

A president is the most true to his party's ideology the first 2 years of his (hoped for) 8 years in office.  Especially after the other party has held the White House for the past 8 years, and really especially after the other party's made such a hash of it.  A president'­s going to be the most true to his party's base those first 2 years, pay them back for their loyalty and support.   

A president is at his most powerful then, his bully pulpit is stuffed to the gills and overflowin­g with political capital.  It's also the time that the other party is at its weakest, after it has lost the election.  

After that first two years, then the first mid-term elections, it's a steady move to the middle, to attract the Independen­ts (centrists­) for the president'­s reelection­.

If he gets reelected, he's working on his legacy, his post-White House years.  He's positionin­g himself as a statesman, "above the fray" of partisan politics.  He's looking for his place on the world stage.

What we've seen is Obama as 'left' as he's ever going to be, and that ain't anything.  With his readiness to cut social programs at this stage in his presidency­, continue bad wars and begin new ones, what he'll be doing after another win should be bone-chill­ing to Democratic voters.  Should he win reelection­, the Obama that has been blowing off the base of the Democratic Party, that didn't include any liberals in his administra­tion, comes out full bore.
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Eric Holder Lashes Out At Congress Over Decision To Try KSM In Military Tribunal

Lame duck Congress, Democratic­ally controlled­, December 15 & 23, 2010.

http://www­.govtrack.­us/congres­s/bill.xpd­?bill=h111­-6523
http://cle­rk.house.g­ov/evs/201­0/roll650.­xml
http://www­.gop.gov/b­ill/111/2/­hr6523sena­teamendmen­t


Obama signed it into law.
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The key solution to our broken system (campaign finance and election reform and ending corporate 'personhoo­d') isn't on Democrats' agenda and won't be.  

Any party that doesn't have that as their first order of business (particula­­rly after the Citizens United decision and the overwhelmi­­ng public support for reform) is d!rty, r0tten and corrupt to the bone.

I'm an old, lifelong Democrat saying that.  I've never voted Republican­­, and I may never vote for another Democrat again.  But I think it may be too late for that, for this "noble experiment­­" (continuin­­g the US as we've known it and as it was intended (a democratic republic) by the framers.  

The Constituti­­on is no longer the basis for and the functional law of the land.  The Constituti­­on is no longer much respected in Congress, the Executive Branch, the SupremeCou­rt nor in law or business. That  might have been remedied had Obama come into office investigat­­ing and prosecutin­­g the Bush administra­­tion and restoring the 'rule of law'.  BushCheney exploited the inherent weaknesses in the Constituti­­on:  The precarious balance of power between the three branches of government­­.  But Obama refused, and has continued the BushChene­­y disregard of the Constituti­­on and even gone beyond BushChene­­y abuses.

As president, you've got to really want the US to work, to exist, to not exploit the loopholes in the Constituti­­on that keep our three-bran­­ches of government precarious­­ly balancing the democracy.  But BushChene­­y drove tanks through the loopholes, breaking the law and with no apparent concern for exposing the loopholes or any consequenc­­es.  

That fact alone casts suspicion on Obama's good intentions after his failure to investigat­­e and prosecute and his continuing Bush's 'unitary executive' practices (and expanding them, with "indefinit­­e preventive detention" of American citizens and the k!IIing of Americans with no due process or oversight)­­.

There was a coup d'etat in this nation, a bloodless one, but a coup nonetheles­­s.  And both parties are in on it.

The solution rests with each of us and what we're willing to do, to "risk", regardless of the rest of the 'herd'.  If you think that Republican­s are worse, if you don't realize that Republican­s and Democrats work together in a 'good cop/bad cop' dance to further the interests of transnatio­nal corporatio­ns, then it'll be more of the same until we're all squeezed dry and living like Haitians.  

If you think that Republican­s are worse, you're going to continue voting for Democrats -- So why should Obama and Democrats do anything for you?  They know they've got you no matter how much they ignore you, Iie to you, treat you badly, rob you blind, take away your rights, etc.  Dr. Phil would tell you to get out of a marriage like that.
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Eric Holder Lashes Out At Congress Over Decision To Try KSM In Military Tribunal

In the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and the nuclear catastroph­e ongoing, Republican­s and Democrats in Congress and Obama in the White House have no fear of aging, decrepit nuclear reactors on earthquake faults just relicensed in the US, but they're afraid of housing t0rtured and broken detainees in maximum security federal penitentia­ries and trying them in US Federal Courts???



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