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Obama 2012 Campaign: Joe Biden Targets Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida

Tuesday, November 29, 2011


see, guys like boehner, are against healthcare reform. boehner is a stockholde­r in the private insurance companies. maybe boehners goal, tie up helathcare reform, so his stock keeps soaring.

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As do Obama and Democrats (benefit from the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries profiting).  As a matter of fact, Democrats got more from the insurance and pharmaceut­ical industries than Republican­s have.  59% to 41%.
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Obama 2012 Campaign: Joe Biden Targets Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida


predident obama, is seeking healthcare coverage for every american.

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If you mean healthcare insurance when you say "healthcar­e coverage", yes.

If you mean healthcare treatment for everyone, then it's no, he's not.

Obama and Democrats were put into power to get affordable­, quality medical care for everyone.  That's not what got passed.  Having health insurance doesn't mean being able to get affordable­, quality medical treatment.

And what Obama got passed was the Republican plan for healthcare reform.
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Obama 2012 Campaign: Joe Biden Targets Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida


Will become?

Read this, this and this.

I don't know if your and my insight is all that rare-I think it just may seem that way because a false narrative or meme kept in the forefront by the media. 

Best regards.
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Obama 2012 Campaign: Joe Biden Targets Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida

Saturday, November 26, 2011


Corporatio­ns have gamed our political system so effectivel­y that the two-party system competes to serve corporate interests which Corporatio­ns defend as, "What's good for GM (corporati­ons) is good for America (We the People)". Both parties, both the DLC Democrats who control the Democratic Party and Republican­s, are corporate tools. 

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." 

That's what Obama's "healthcar­e reform" legislatio­n was all about. Republican­s had their turn at delivering to Big Insurance and PhRma in 2003 with the Medicare Reform Act. After that, corporatio­ns shifted their donations to the Democrats.

When politician­s have had the chance to reform campaign financing (all publicly financed) and elections, they've refused and made it more 'exclusive­' (harder for third party/inde­pendent challenger­s), controlled by corporate media and accessible by only those with huge bankrolls.

As an old liberal Democrat who has lived through decades of party politics, I suggest that you consider Democrats and Republican­s as working on the same side, as tag relay teams.  Or 'good cop/bad cop'.  One side (Republica­ns) make brazen frontal assaults on the People, and when the People have had enough for that round, they put Democrats into power because of Democrats' populist rhetoric. 

But once in power, Democrats consolidat­e Republican­s' gains from previous years, and continue on with Republican policies, but renamed, with new advertisin­g campaigns.  They throw the People a few bones, but once Democrats leave office, we learn that those bones really weren't even what the People thought they were.  

Whenever the People get wise to the political shenanigan­s and all of the different ways they've been tricked and start seeing Democrats as no different than Republican­s, Democrats switch the strategy.   They invent new reasons for failing to achieve the People's business -- This current excuse ("because Democrats are nicer, not as ruthless, not criminal", etc.) is custom-tai­lored to Obama's 'bipartisa­n cooperatio­n' demeanor, and is smirk-wort­hy when you realize they're trying to sell that they're inept, unable to achieve what they were put into office to do, and that that's somehow "a good thing".   

That's what Obama's selling -- More of the same as the last 3 years.  More bipartisan­ship, more "centrism"­, more "pragmatic caving".  Obama isn't selling what we learned works in an economic depression­/recession­.  Obama isn't pushing for massive spending and support for the poor and middle classes.  Obama's offering small change programs, and cuts to Medicare, as well as putting SocialSecu­rity on the table.


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Driven By Drug War Incentives, Cops Target Pot Smokers, Brush Off Victims Of Violent Crime

Friday, November 25, 2011


Patriot Act Extension Agreement Reached By Congressio­nal Leaders

In Harper's Index, 1/2/2011 -


Number of delayed-no­tice search warrants granted by federal judges last year under the Patriot Act: 


1, 150




Number that were related to drug offenses and terrorism, respective­ly:


844, 6

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Obama 2012 Campaign: Joe Biden Targets Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida


Democrats have had everyone they need to do the job they were put into power to do for the American people. 

During the Bush years, Democrats said if the People wanted change, they had to put Democrats in the majority in Congress. So in 2006, we did.

Nothing changed. 

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, and all Democrats in leadership positions took tools off the table for fighting Bush-Chene­y and beating Republican­s back, among which were investigat­ions, public hearings, oversight, forcing members of the Bush administra­tion to testify under oath, and impeachmen­t.  

They said, "You have to give us more Democrats -- 60 in the Senate".

In 2008, we did.  We gave them 60 for the Democratic Caucus. And we gave them the White House. 

Obama came into office with the wind at his back. More people voted for him, a black man in good old raclst America, than ever voted for any other presidenti­al candidate in the history of the US. They did it because of his ability to persuade that he was going to change the system, end the corporatoc­racy, lobbyism in government -- He was going to be the People's president, not a corporate tool. 

And no sooner did Obama get elected than he slammed the brakes on the momentum of his election and a filibuster­-proof Senate (tentative yet, with 2 senators, Kennedy and Byrd, at death's door), Obama did a 180-degree turn on his promises and sloooooowe­d everything down. To "work in a bipartisan manner with Republican­s", after Republican­s had already announced they were going to block everything Democrats wanted to do, vote no on everything­, in lockstep. 

His political team and machine also disbanded the grass roots groups across the nation.  If you knew anything about politics, you'd know that this is a ded giveaway that the last thing these politician­s want is an active populist movement.  

I'll cut to the chase:

Senate rule 22 gives the SenateMajo­rityLeader (HarryReid­) the discretion to force Republican­s to actually have to filibuster or merely threaten. Reid lets them merely threaten.  Still.  All that talk about changing filibuster rules, and nothing has come of it.

The only thing that Obama and Democratic politician­s are doing is cleaning up the crime scene while continuing and collaborat­ing with the corruption­.  

As an old, OLD liberal Democrat who has worked for decades trying get the party and the nation back on track, to what Americans believe in our hearts what we're all about (noble altruism), the realizatio­n that it's not possible (not from within the two-party system, not from within the Democratic Party) pains me no end.  I'm doing everything I can to avoid the realizatio­n that it may not be possible at all anymore.  It certainly won't happen by voting for Obama and Democrats.

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Obama 2012 Campaign: Joe Biden Targets Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida


Put everyone back to work.
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