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Posted By Radiofreeeuropa 8 months ago in Political News
The Republican leadership is in total disarray. Every day, President Obama and his administration prove themselves to be extremely capable of not only handling the almost mind blowing number of crisis situations we face - but also in getting a progressive agenda passed for the first time in most of our lifetimes. He strikes fear into the hearts of the extreme right wing, and exposes them for the frauds they are. They are in a state of retreat the likes of which they haven't seen in a long time.
As Bush gets even more unpopular over time, he fades into obscurity, becoming more depressed every day. His legacy is always on his mind, and he does his best to convince himself that time will make things better. But every night as he tries to drown out the feelings of inadequacy and failure, he hears the voice of his father telling him he ruined the family name, and that it should have been Jeb who got to be President. His party, and now his family have asked him to disappear. Sadness grips him, and he finally gets the gift of sleep. He is then tormented by dreams all night as well.
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Radiofreeeuropa8 months ago
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"We need another Pearl Harbor"...that is exactly what the PNAC signers agreed to. Though I don't believe for a second these clowns had the brains to pull off the 9-11 attacks like many conspiracy theorists claim. They DID believe such an event was helpful-no, necessary to forward their plan which included turning a middle eastern nation into a pro corporate-america puppet. So how hard would 5they have tried to prevent such a thing. A similar "want America to fail" chant now comes from these same parasites and their zombie supporters. In both cases, this is in order to implement some far rightwing fictional dogma. The idea of putting wacky political ideology before the health and welfare of a nation is about as selfishly amoral as it gets. These bloviating traitors deserve no more respect than a cockroach.
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hyperbola7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Actually Obama is simply continuing most of the Bush/Cheney agenda. The corrupt oligarchs and corrupt corporations that really run America haven't "changed". They simply bought a new brand to keep selling us the same old crap.
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Buying Brand Obama
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/05/05/buying-b...
Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, our elected officials continue to have their palms greased by armies of corporate lobbyists, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers. We are entertained. We feel hopeful. We like our president. We believe he is like us. But like all branded products spun out from the manipulative world of corporate advertising, we are being duped into doing and supporting a lot of things that are not in our interest.
What, for all our faith and hope, has the Obama brand given us? His administration has spent, lent or guaranteed $12.8 trillion in taxpayer dollars to Wall Street and insolvent banks in a doomed effort to reinflate the bubble economy, a tactic that at best forestalls catastrophe and will leave us broke in a time of profound crisis. Brand Obama has allocated nearly $1 trillion in defense-related spending and the continuation of our doomed imperial projects in Iraq, where military planners now estimate that 70,000 troops will remain for the next 15 to 20 years. Brand Obama has expanded the war in Afghanistan, including the use of drones sent on cross-border bombing runs into Pakistan that have doubled the number of civilians killed over the past three months. Brand Obama has refused to ease restrictions so workers can organize and will not consider single-payer, not-for-profit health care for all Americans. And Brand Obama will not prosecute the Bush administration for war crimes, including the use of torture, and has refused to dismantle Bush’s secrecy laws or restore habeas corpus.
Brand Obama offers us an image that appears radically individualistic and new. It inoculates us from seeing that the old engines of corporate power and the vast military-industrial complex continue to plunder the country. Corporations, which control our politics, no longer produce products that are essentially different, but brands that are different. Brand Obama does not threaten the core of the corporate state any more than did Brand George W. Bush. The Bush brand collapsed. We became immune to its studied folksiness. We saw through its artifice. This is a common deflation in the world of advertising. So we have been given a new Obama brand with an exciting and faintly erotic appeal.-
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hyperbola7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Obama, who has become a global celebrity, was molded easily into a brand. He had almost no experience, other than two years in the Senate, lacked any moral core and could be painted as all things to all people. His brief Senate voting record was a miserable surrender to corporate interests. He was happy to promote nuclear power as “green” energy. He voted to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He reauthorized the Patriot Act. He would not back a bill designed to cap predatory credit card interest rates. He opposed a bill that would have reformed the notorious Mining Law of 1872. He refused to support the single-payer health care bill HR676, sponsored by Reps. Dennis Kucinich and John Conyers. He supported the death penalty. And he backed a class-action “reform” bill that was part of a large lobbying effort by financial firms. The law, known as the Class Action Fairness Act, would effectively shut down state courts as a venue to hear most class-action lawsuits and deny redress in many of the courts where these cases have a chance of defying powerful corporate challenges.
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While Gaza was being bombarded and hit with airstrikes in the weeks before Obama took office, “the Obama team let it be known that it would not object to the planned resupply of ‘smart bombs’ and other hi-tech ordnance that was already flowing to Israel,” according to Seymour Hersh. Even his one vaunted anti-war speech as a state senator, perhaps his single real act of defiance, was swiftly reversed. He told the Chicago Tribune on July 27, 2004, that “there’s not that much difference between my position and George Bush’s position at this stage. The difference, in my mind, is who’s in a position to execute.” And unlike anti-war stalwarts like Kucinich, who gave hundreds of speeches against the war, Obama then dutifully stood silent until the Iraq war became unpopular. ....
.... The junk politics practiced by Obama is a consumer fraud. It is about performance. It is about lies. It is about keeping us in a perpetual state of childishness. But the longer we live in illusion, the worse reality will be when it finally shatters our fantasies. Those who do not understand what is happening around them and who are overwhelmed by a brutal reality they did not expect or foresee search desperately for saviors. They beg demagogues to come to their rescue. This is the ultimate danger of the Obama Brand. It effectively masks the wanton internal destruction and theft being carried out by our corporate state. These corporations, once they have stolen trillions in taxpayer wealth, will leave tens of millions of Americans bereft, bewildered and yearning for even more potent and deadly illusions, ones that could swiftly snuff out what is left of our diminished open society.
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HOUSEMD7 months, 4 weeks ago
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obama has his whole agenda planned out for him, not by him but by his handlers. sosos and company, the far left and the marxis cadrey. he is an incompetent telleprompter reader and nothing else. he is a good little socialist, following orders like a compliant serf he is. too bad for all the people of the USA, democrats included.
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Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 4 weeks ago
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Actually the far left are the group that has seen the least of it's goals given any attention.
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But it seems the moderates have slowly but surely been redefined as "the far left". If centrists are deemed leftists then the right wing extremists look a little less extreme...if your the gullible sort. -
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Radiofreeeuropa7 months, 4 weeks ago
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I understand this line of thinking but disagree. Though I am not sure I agree with the Obama administration's approach to the Wall St. and comercial investment banking bailout this would be a matter of whether or not their collapse was viewed in a positive light or not. Sometimes I think it would be best to allow it all to collapse, but that may lead to very hard times as easily as it would lead to something better. If you listened to Obama on the campaign trail, he was not a "tear it all down" kind of guy, rather a fellow who seemed to believe the system was a good one, that change could be achieved by working within it, and that the government could in fact be improved. As whether people with vast wealth have power that us regular folks don't...well I can't name a nation that ever existed where that wasn't the case...every once in a while the regular folks are raped a bit too hard and revolt...the French Revolution for example...yet within a generation some new aristocracy assumes the position of "top dog".
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Though a remarkable amount has been done to set the stage for Obama's campaign promises (certainly more and faster than any president in my lifetime) as he himself said...it's merely a start. Is he an ultra left agent of revolution? I think not.
But rather a fairly middle of the road guy who is attempting to restore a degree of integrity and transparency to the office and government in general. He's no Che, but honestly that's not what he campaigned as. In my view government usually takes 30 years or so to respond to the citizens needs.
We have seen remarkably fast competent work from this administration so far folks. Whether they are right about the bailouts remains to be seen. This speculative crony type of capitalism that has emerged isn't really valuable to me, it isn't "free market" it's a rigged roulette. But this has been the case for many generations. It has just become so obvious and cartoonish that more people see it's inherent sinister side. But again I'm not surprised at Obama's tack regarding the financials, they became far too big and far too large a factor in the nation's GNP. It's not a course I would take but you didn't elect me. Of every administration I've witnessed, these folks are doing the most the quickest. Do I agree with all of it? No. But I agree with more than any other administration in my lifetime...I wish us well and hope more changes are coming...I'm confident they are.
There is likely no earthshaking revolution, but a gradual turn into a more favorable wind.
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