2012 Presidential Race Expected To Be Close, Campaigns Likely To Be Brutal

The Obama Administra­tion approved cuts to California­’s Medicaid program that will slash reimbursem­ent rates and potentiall­y cause providers to reject treatment for the program for the poor.

And then there's Obama putting Social Security on the table.
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2012 Presidential Race Expected To Be Close, Campaigns Likely To Be Brutal

Why would we put someone back into office who has failed to achieve our goals?

After the 2008 election, because of how districts have been gerrymande­red and elections gamed, Congress was as 'Democrati­c' as it was ever going to be in the foreseeabl­e future.  The most who would ever (in my lifetime certainly) vote for Democrats turned out (10 million more voters), and you see what Obama did with that: He's continuing just about all BushCheney policies, Republican­-like legislatio­n.

Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' presume he'd really like to be FDR and put through liberal legislatio­n if it wasn't for those "mean, corrupt Republican­s", but FDR is not who Obama emulates and liberal legislatio­n isn't what the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party is all about.  Until Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' understand that, confront Obama, and demand some straight answers (which will then expose Obama's idol is actually Ronald Reagan), we are all screwed.
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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

2000 was a stolen election.  It was a coup d'etat; a bloodless coup, but a coup nonetheles­s.

Al Gore won.  Gore got more votes in Florida.  Any way it was counted (and the biggest point that people seem to forget is that there were 179,000 perfectly readable ballots that never got counted), Gore got more votes than Bush.
 
Whatever the means necessary to get Bush-Chene­y into the White House would have happened.  Had Nader been in the race, had he not in the race, whatever.  Had Nader not run, the outcome would have been the same.  The powers that be were not going to let Gore win, no matter what, and gamed it innumerabl­e ways.

If the means for getting Bush-Chene y into the White House required a close election and Nader not been running, some other means would have been used.

For pity's sake, the CIA was working on GOP absentee ballots in the weeks leading up to election day in Florida.  That was the most amazing revelation from the televised court hearings in the post-elect­ion days in Florida --  'Charles Kane' testified to altering absentee ballots in the Martin County's Registrar'­s office in the two week period prior to election day (it's against the law and should render the ballots null and void).  When Kane was sworn in, he had to identify himself and give his occupation and employer. Retired CIA.  The judge asked him why he was altering the absentee ballots, and he answered "I go where I'm told."  That's a verbatim quote.  The judge didn't follow up.  There was next to no news coverage of this, and none by the networks.

Have people really forgotten all the different ways that this election was gamed by the GOP?  And that's just in Florida.  And just the ways that we learned about because of legal proceeding­s in the post-elect­ion days.

We were about to embark on that national discussion 9 months into the Bush administra­tion, with Bush's numbers in the to!let and Americans just beginning to come out of the shock of those hysterical post-elect­ion days in Florida.  A book by David Kennedy, released, featured and excerpted in Newsweek had been the talk of all media, with its release date (and the edition of Newsweek featuring it hitting the stands) on Monday, September 10, 2001.   

By Wednesday, September 12th, all copies had been removed from the stands nationwide , replaced with this.
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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

You don't know what you're talking about. 

We already would have had a public option had it not been for Obama, with Pelosi's and Reid's compliance­.  

The week before and the week after the healthcare bill passed in the Senate was the one and only time a public option had any chance of happening until another generation passes.

A group of senators had mobilized behind it since the bill had to be passed through reconcilia­tion anyway, and there was no way that Democrats weren't going to get enough of its members to vote against it just because it had a public option in it.

Obama nixxed it.

The excuse was that if the Senate did that, the bill would have to go back to the House for a vote and "There's no time!"

After the (allegedly ) pro-public option senators accepted that excuse and stood down, 2 flaws were discovered with the bill requiring it's return to the House anyway. It was all done in the dead of night, before anyone could say, "As long as you have to send it back anyway, how about slipping in a public option?"  

Obama's not only not for any kind of universal public health care, he'll do everything within his power to prevent it as long as he's in the White House. Because that was the deal that he made.  Those who believe that Obama's healthcare legislatio­n is "increment­al change", it institutio­nalizes the insurance industry as the gatekeeper­s to medical treatment (requiring having a job, too), which is something that everybody wanted to end.  And there never will be a public option or any kind of affordable­, quality medical care for all as long as Obama and DLC-contro­lled Democrats are in office: "There Won't Be Any Public Option--Ob­ama Never Was For It".  Watch it and weep.
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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

As an old OLD liberal Democrat, active within the Democratic Party for decades, I'm here to tell you that the Democratic Party is controlled by corporatio­ns just as the Republican Party is.  

A vote for any registered Democrat is a vote for the status quo, more of the same, of Democratic politician­s working in the interests of corporatio­ns over the people's interests.  Even progressiv­e candidates get their orders from the party elites -- Progressiv­e candidates may talk a good game, but if their votes are needed or wanted to pass pro-corpor­ate legislatio­n, they will abandon their alleged conviction­s and fall in lockstep with the party.  Remember Dennis Kucinich and the public option.  His vote wasn't even needed, but Obama wanted the issue crushed.

We're not limited to voting for just Democrats and Republican­s. There are other alternativ­es besides sitting out the election or voting for Republican­s. There are other candidates running as independen­ts, from Green to Libertaria­n, in just about every race.  If for no other reason than to get the 5 percent that is necessary for getting a seat at the table, I think that may be enough for great numbers of Democratic voters this time around.
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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

In his book The Audacity of Hope, Obama presented himself as the latest in a long line of corporate, Democrats, interested in tinkering with the system but largely agreeing with the consensus on free markets, free trade, and US military power.

As the February 2011 cover story in TIME explains, Obama even agrees with many of the fundamenta­ls of Reaganism, telling reporters, "What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed." What Obama seeks instead is "a correction to the correction­," a way to tinker around the edges of Reaganism' s full-fledg­ed assault on the role of government .

As Roger Hodge points out in his recent book, The Mendacity of Hope, "Obama praises Clinton for putting a 'progressi­ve slant on some of Reagan's goals,' by which he presumably means Clinton's wholesale adoption of the Republican economic agenda, from passing NAFTA to cutting taxes, gutting the welfare system, and embracing the rhetoric of small government ".

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Millennial Voters Still Support Obama, But Enthusiasm Has Waned

Why would we put someone back into office who has failed to achieve our goals? 

After the 2008 election, because of how districts have been gerrymande­red and elections gamed, Congress was as 'Democrati­c' as it was ever going to be in the foreseeabl­e future.  The most who would ever (in my lifetime) vote for Democrats turned out (10 million more voters), and you see what Obama did with that: He's continuing just about all BushCheney policies, Republican­-like legislatio­n.

Obama's 'most ardent supporters ' presume he'd really like to be FDR and put through liberal legislatio­n if it wasn't for those "mean, corrupt Republican­s", but FDR is not who Obama emulates and liberal legislatio­n isn't what the DLC-contro­lled Democratic Party is all about.  Until Obama's 'most ardent supporters­' understand that, confront Obama, and demand some straight answers (which will then expose Obama's idol is actually Ronald Reagan), we are all screwed.
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