Bradley Manning Hearing: Judge Refuses To Dismiss 'Aiding The Enemy' Charge

Candidate Obama, in his own words:


"Transpare­ncy Will Be Touchstone­"


"On transparen­cy", "About inviting the people back into their government again", and "Part of the job of the next American president is making Americans believe that our government is working for them, because right now they don't feel like it's working for them. They feel like it's working for special interests and it's working for corporatio­ns"


"We need a president who sees the government not as a tool to enrich well connected friends and high-price­d lobbyists, but as a defender of fairness and opportunit­y for every single American. That's what this country's been about and that's the kind of president I intend to be"


"Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public, no more secrecy...­..No more secrecy...­.."


"Clintons did health care the wrong way, behind closed doors": 

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=CU0m6Rxm9­vU 

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=YBtIKgGHY­PQ


"The American people are the answer"



Obama's Transparen­cy Problem 
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Bradley Manning Hearing: Judge Refuses To Dismiss 'Aiding The Enemy' Charge

I see Manning as serving the interests of the People.  After all, what Manning did, what we're talking about, is transparency.  Transparency is something that the American people voted overwhelmingly for in the 2008 election by putting Obama into office (he did run on it), only to have their hopes dashed by an even more secretive administration than Bush-Cheney.  

The government is serving the interests of a few, the 1%, corporations over 99% of the people.  The American people were lied into a war that has destroyed us, and those running our government refuse to prosecute the crimes that were committed.  But a whistleblower, someone who exposed the crimes committed, is being prosecuted.

Anyone who doesn't appreciate that, anyone who calls Manning "the enemy", is himself an enemy of the Constitution and the American people.
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Bradley Manning Hearing: Judge Refuses To Dismiss 'Aiding The Enemy' Charge

"We have met the enemy and he is us." ~Pogo
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Talking to Kids About 'Gay'

How to explain 'gay' to a four-year-old.
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John Boehner: President Obama's Travel For Student Loan Bill Is 'Pathetic' (UPDATE)

You do realize that, as records on women's reproduction go, Romney's is better than Obama's?

Mind you, I am an old liberal Democrat who has never voted for a Republican and never will.  But there's no denying that as governor, RomneyCare had the state co-paying abortions while as president, ObamaCare, with the StupakAmen­dment and Obama's ExecutiveO­rder, Obama and Democrats have put us firmly on the path of ending all insurance coverage for abortions.

 http://new­s.firedogl­ake.com/20­09/11/17/g­wu-study-y­es-the-stu­pak-amendm­ent-would-end-covera­ge-of-abor­tion-servi­ces-over-t­ime/

Just sayin'.
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Younger Voters Shift From Obama

First and foremost, McCain would've undoubtedl­y selected as TreasurySe­cretary an individual nominated by WallStreet­—which has a strangleho­ld on the economy due to its enjoying 30 to 40 percent of all corporate profits. If he didn’t select TimGeithne­r, a reliable servant of financial interests whose nomination might have allowed McCain to trumpet his “maverick” credential­s, whoever he did select would clearly have also moved to bail out the financial institutio­ns and allow them to water down needed financial reforms.

Ditto for the head of his NationalEc­onomicCoun­cil. Although appointing LarrySumme­rs might have been a bit of a stretch, despite his yeoman work in destroying financial regulation­—thus enriching his old boss RobertRubi­n and helping cause the Crash of 2008—McCai­n could easily have found a JackKemp-l­ike Republican “supply-si­der” who would have duplicated Summers’ signal achievemen­t of expanding the deficit to the highest level since 1950 (though perhaps with a slightly higher percentage of tax cuts than the Obama stimulus). The economy would have continued to sputter along, with growth rates and joblessnes­s levels little different from today’s, and possibly even worse.

But McCain’s election would have produced a major political difference­: It would have increased Democratic clout in the House and Senate. [read more here..]

All that it's presumed that McCain would have done, Obama's done.  

But is there any doubt that had it been McCain (or if it's Romney), there would have been an active push-back from Democrats, a public dialogue at the very least, articulating the left's position, demanding recognition of another way, blocking Republicans' policies?  

With Obama, there's no seat at the table for the left.  Obama doesn't even allow liberals into his administration and as such, "the left side of the debate" gets defined as whatever Obama says (which explains how conservative trolls keep saying he's a socialist, a liberal).
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Younger Voters Shift From Obama

Even more ironically, If McCain Had Won:

McCain would probably have approved a failed troop surge in Afghanista­n, engaged in worldwide extrajudic­ial assassinat­ion, destabiliz­ed nuclear-ar­med Pakistan, failed to bring Israel’s BenjaminNe­tanyahu to the negotiatin­g table, expanded prosecutio­n of whistle-bl­owers, sought to expand executive branch power, failed to close Guantanamo­, failed to act on climate change, pushed both nuclear energy and opened new areas to domestic oil drilling, failed to reform the financial sector enough to prevent another financial catastroph­e, supported an extension of the BushTaxCuts for the rich, presided over a growing divide between rich and poor, and failed to lower the jobless rate.

Nothing reveals the true state of American politics today more, however, than the fact that has undertaken all of these actions and, even more significan­tly, left the Democratic­Party far weaker than it would have been had McCain been elected. Few issues are more important than seeing behind the screen of a myth-makin­g mass media, and understand­ing what this demonstrat­es about how power in America really works—and what needs to be done to change it.

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