I hate what W. did to this nation. Like the holocaust where people look back and say ‘how could we let this happen?’ the same held true with Bush. I lived with 8 years of pure disgust at every turn of his administration’s actions. Cheney, too. Evil men. Then Obama came along. Wow! At least you can sit and listen to someone speak intelligently and not be distracted by a 2nd grade grammer mistake. All that aside, the wave of hope grabbed hold of me and finally a ray of optimissim was shining through. But he was still a democrat. I’ve voted faithfully down party lines 90% of the time because I’m a middle-class blue-collar citizen. I was also a Reagan democrat who bought into the myth of trickle-down, take off the restraints, let me be an un-regulated entrepenuer and I’ll make sure you get a piece of the pie idealistic LIE! I would love for a viable 3rd party system to take hold someday. So I vote for my own self interest. And someone who is electable. I cringe to think my vote was wasted. Point is, Dems have to be watched too. They are put into place the same way ALL politicians are. By money. Lobbyists and special interests AND MONEY! So our job as concerned citizens should be to watch with close scrutiny even the powers that we are faithful to and hold them accountable. Even more so than our adversaries. You hit it on the head jjohnjj, ‘keep your friends close but your enemies closer’ I want Obama to succeed more than anything I’ve ever wanted in my life. But I, like every other supporter, should not support with blindness. Keep him accountable and question why. Find out the truth and the facts on these issues and let the fundamentalists branish their creed. Be Real.

jjohnjj, July 23 at 4:47 pm #
What cave have you been hibernating in?
  The insurance lobby is spending 1.5 million a day to get their message across Big Pharma spent 40 million in the past two months, to see that the health bill will protecting their interests.  Yet no will meet with a single payer representative?  There are currently more paid lobbyists working for the insurers and drug companies then there are representatives in Washington!  Don’t you think the access to the President is hum?? Slightly unbalanced?

ODE TO OBAMAGEDDON

During the campaign many of us were blinded by the illusion of hope
Post inauguration we watched shocked & dismayed as this TROJAN HORSE slid down the slippery slope

Dark clouds covered the banana moon as the trap door opened & out came the Bush swarm
Primed & eager to prey, plunder, deceive & misinform

Obama’s relentless PR campaign stressed the family’s charms
Many citizens were too transfixed to sound the alarms
One even came forward & professed love for Michelle’s arms

Despite all the deception & obfuscation his ratings haven’t suffered
As main stream media keeps the news carefully filtered & buffered

Persuing cabal business while using his family as a diversion
He also used the Bo Obama distraction to expedite his subversion

Obama is moving quickly forward with his hidden agenda
After all, he’s the great pretender

Obama swiftly escalated the wars in Afghanistan & Pakistan
And gave $trillions to the banksters faster than anyone can

Obama gave carte blanche to the FED pretending it would improve financial regulation
The reality is that it cleared the way for the final destruction of our nation

The FED is an integral part of the largest private criminal cartel in the world,
With arrogance & impunity the FED sent trillions of dollars to it’s European cabal members
faster than the merry-go-round whirled

Despite Obama’s health care rhetoric & sham arm twisting, it’s just a gimmick
The new plan should be no surprise when compared to the old finger prick

Even Obama’s personal Dr. from 1987 until his annointment
When asked what he thought of Obama’s health bill expressed great disappointment

MIPIC:MEDICAL INSURANCE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX has already written the “HEALTH CARE BILL”
Just as Exxon , KING COAL & Philip Morris wrote their respective energy & tobacco laws guaranteed to fill the till.

lester333 hit the nail on the head with “placebo.”  As voters we need to recognize the difference between reform and lipstick on a pig.  Can we do a better job at convincing our elected representatives than Obama can?

http://therehearsalstudio.blogspot.com/2009/07/will-health-care-really-be-reformed.html

How much would PNHP have to pay for an audience with the Leader of our Homeland?

Disgusting.  Michelle the fashion star.  Children in special schools.  Obama the Bushman.  Obama is nothing but a “placebo” for health care.  What an outrageous individual.  Power has eaten him up and it took only short while.  Tragic.  Pathetic.

Yes, all the lobbyists are present and accounted for. What is missing are the Peoples Representatives - And I am not talking about elected Representatives.

Over and over again, the People openly advocate Single Payer Health Care. Over and over again we are blatantly ignored.

Not enough money in one pocket I assume. God knows we pay plenty in the aggregate!

It took a Freedom Of Information Act request to lift this much of the veil. But it’s nothin’ anybody couldn’t have figured out for themselves. This administration is bought and paid for, and we know who wrote the checks…..