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

MARCO, WHAT IS YOUR SOURCE OF INFORMATIO­N?

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Many sources, from the FEC to OpenSecret­s.com.  I included, as I usually do, a reference site on that post.  Colored text on HP (this time it's blue) means that it's a hyperlink -- Click on it and you'll be taken to the site.
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Feds Should Reclassify Marijuana To Allow Medical Use, Governors Say

Yet marijuana has yet to claim a single human life.

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The criminaliz­ation of marijuana takes lives.
About Marijuana
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Obama 2012 Campaign: Joe Biden Targets Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida

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

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

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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