In politics, especially the rabid politics cynical Republicans play, you turn the other cheek and you not only get slapped silly but the people you represent do as well.

Personally, I am sick of Democrats without backbones.

Re: By Inherit The Wind, November 13 at 2:30 pm

ITW wrote:
“Mr. President: If you want to get re-elected you need to STOP compromising with Republicans. Your own Democratic base won’t come back to you until you do. Let THEM compromise with you if they want anything done!”
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Keep dreaming and bullshitting yourself, or are you trying to bullshit us?.
Your beloved “Mr. President” is in complete collusion and partnership with the Republicans.
They are all one happy family who are members of the Monied People Party.

“Mr. President: If you want to get re-elected you need to STOP compromising with Republicans. Your own Democratic base won’t come back to you until you do. Let THEM compromise with you if they want anything done!”

Again, the political paranoia that the Right exploited - that Obama is a socialist progressive is a wet dream - He has turned out to be Bush without balls. His rationales and policies are often right out of the Rep playbook. The Rep naysayers were in a much better position however when they didn’t control the House - now they’re going to have to put their money where their mouth is.

Obama is a Cave-man.  He caves before the fight begins.  Caveman is a good name for him.

Someone here mentioned that progressives do not vote. I beg to differ. We do
vote. We also work hard for progressive causes and donate liberally toward
them but we are subject, as we all are, to believing in hope.

We were promised hope and we bought it with Obama rightfully steering away from the mongers of hate
and fear on the right. It is no surprise that many in the middle have now gone for their tea
bags.

What does this leave us progressives with? For me the reality that Obama will never take the fading but historic opportunity to actually give us change. We are left with empty and meaningless hope. This is not sustainable for me; we
must find someone who will provide the action to back up this hope and provide real
changes.

Who do you think is best for that progressive role in 2010? I frankly have given
up on Obama, but never on the progressive causes that benefit all Americans
not just the loud mouthed and the rich.

Re: By FiftyGigs, November 12 at 1:36 pm,

FiftyGigs wrote:

“Two facts:

1) Recent polls show a majority of Americans want them.

2) Progressives don’t vote.”
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Everyone likes tax cuts, especially the naive middle class who got crumbs in tax cuts while the super-rich got billions.
The call should be for a REAL progressive taxation with tax cuts for the middle class and tax increases on the super-rich and corporations and repealing their rebates and loopholes in order for them to pay their fair share.
Progressive vote and 2006&2008; elections proved that beyond any doubt.
This election, many progressives stayed home, because they had their fill of Obama and the Democrats who are now, are nothing but masked Republicans, but with Democratic rhetoric and slogans. Obama and the Democrats talked Democratic but voted Republican again and again.
It is a farce and theatrics, but the people are catching on.

Also keep the eye on the prize of:

unemployment insurance benefits extension.

If there is a God, then God damn that sniveling, conniving quisling, Barack Obama.

Ralph Nader says something that you will never hear from Obama, “I’ve learned from past experience that if you want to attain a goal you’ve got to be willing to lose and lose and lose, until either you prevail or those who come after you prevail. But a lot of people don’t like to lose, or they can’t endure losing. Well, I can do both—I can endure winning and I can endure losing. Enduring winning means that you don’t get satisfied with what you’ve accomplished, you keep going; you don’t become a jet-setter. And enduring losing means that you lay the basis for another push, for another struggle, for more and more people supporting reform.”

Read more: http://artvoice.com/issues/v6n9/ralph_nader_an_unreasonable_man#ixzz155ZWuRAB

http://www.NotOneMore.US

http://www.AttilaAndTheHUNZ.com - Listen to the song ‘Don’t Trust the Government’

Wow, some visceral denouncement and a few under statements. We, the People….

Have abandoned, by choice, our industrial base for Toyotas. You should have simply boycotted Detroit and insisted on a better product. Oh, that’s right. We don’t do boycotts.

Ancillary to that, have capitulated to the threat of a nuclear China for the promise of cheap labor, child labor and an authortarian Communist state with whom we are now colluded beyond recall.

Have sucked up mainstream sit-com clap trap.

Have identified with rock stars and overpaid athletes.

Have bought, on mortgage, quadruple the floor space a family of 4 made do with in the 50’s-60’s.

Have given over our earning to Wall Street hucksters and watched the mercantile exchanges become a crap shoot with no real substance backing it.

Have sacrificed collective bargaining so as to not make waves or rock the boat of they who profit widely from your productivity.

So, now, We the People are looking for a super hero to stem the tide of 30 years of proflgacy. Party on, America. You and your wordy protestations have no spine. You gave it up. You gave up the ghost of the Greatest Generation long ago.

Two facts:

1) Recent polls show a majority of Americans want them.

2) Progressives don’t vote.

You do the math. The President is suppose to advocate a tax increase backed up by what? The support of the progressive movement?

You guys are funny.

The anger is growing, Mr. President.  I wonder when you will unbury your head and look around at the growing frustration.  You are no longer a leader in any sense.  We can all see the floundering ... you are starting to look like one of those fish in a barrel.  Grow some balls you weak, flaccid bastard.  If you need to, let the tax cuts expire for everyone and go on the offensive, telling everyone over and over that it was the fucking Republicans who did it.  And, if you make even a faint move to the Right, we will crucify you in 2 years.  If you don’t start acting like the progressive you claim to be, you can count on a humiliating primary defeat because we will no longer support you as our representative.  You have 2 years to prove you are worthy of our support.  2 years to convince us that you are not the coward we all now believe you to be.  We will be watching, Mr. President.

For two years we watched 40 Republican Senators stop any legislation they wanted
to.  Any tax cut would require legislation.  The Democratic Senate should have no
problem keeping this tied up forever if they wanted to.  Personally the treasury can
have my stinking $300 tax cut as long as the rich start paying for they party they
have had since Reagan.

Big man pig man, ha ha charade you are, you well healed big wheel ha ha, charade
you are

And when your hand is on your heart, your nearly a good laugh, almost a joker

With your head down in the pig bin, saying “keep on digging”, pig stain on your chin

What do you hope to find

Down in the pig bin

Your nearly a laugh, your nearly a laugh,

But your really a cry…

(letter to President Obama, continued from previous comment box] 

Since your inauguration, you have consistently sold out your base in a futile quest to capture the “center” of American politics, a mythical kingdom that exists nowhere but in the highly conventional imaginations of Washington career Democrats. You might as well dedicate the rest of your presidency to the quest for the Holy Grail. I, however, will not be following you there.

You refused even to put single-payer healthcare on the table and you did not support the campaign for a public option in the healthcare bills.

You refused to endorse card check in union elections.

You escalated the war in Afghanistan and drone attacks in Pakistan despite the manifest corruption of the Afghan government, the vague objectives of the war, the growing anti-American sentiment in Pakistan and the absence of more than perhaps a handful of Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan.

“Defense” spending has increased under your administration, while state governments continue to go bankrupt and are forced to close schools and parks and lay off teachers, firemen and police. 

Guantanamo bay is still open.

Nobody has been prosecuted for using torture.

Your own justice department demanded a stay of injunction that would have ended Don’t Ask Don’t Tell when a federal court had ruled it is unconstitutional and the Pentagon was all ready to stop the policy.

Your administration’s announcement that you are ready to cave in on extending the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% is the last straw.

Barack Hussein Obama, I renounce you now and forever. I intend to do just as much to prevent you from getting re-elected in 2012 as I did to get you elected in 2008, and I don’t care if the result is another Republican president.

As far as I am concerned, you, Mr Obama, are worse than a Republican president. You have destroyed the hope of the people who elected you that American constitutional government might still be capable of governing on behalf of the people instead of on behalf of Wall Street, the Pentagon and the military contractors.

Now we know that change will never occur through an elected American federal government, unless by “change” you mean that the richest 1% will continue to receive an ever greater share of the wealth and will exercise ever more complete power, while the vast majority of Americans are reduced to greater poverty, insecurity and desperation.  We have been gradually changing from a democratic republic to an authoritarian militaristic imperial plutocracy for the past 30 years and your administration has done nothing to reverse that process.

Mr Obama, you have proven to us that our only hope for change now lies in a peoples’ mass movement, employing strikes, boycotts and civil disobedience, but we know not to waste our time on elections. Either that, or we can hope that after the bankruptcy and collapse of the federal government that will inevitably follow from your insane continuation of the policy of endless debt-funded imperial wars (coupled with tax cuts for the rich), and in the ensuing chaos and probable civil war that will follow that collapse, perhaps a new democratic order will emerge, in this or some subsequent generation.

But I have no hope whatsoever for positive and progressive change under your so-called “leadership”.

I intend to vote against you in the Democratic primary in 2012 and if you are the Democratic presidential nominee I will vote for the Green Party or the Socialist Party or any third party I can find, but I will not vote for you under any circumstances.

Good bye forever,

[De Profundis Clamavi]
Former Obama campaign supporter

Here’s a copy of the letter I put in the mailbox tonight, addressed to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue:

Dear Mr President,

In the latest news I see that

(1) your administration is (implausibly) denying reports that you are contemplating the delay of withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan until 2014; and

(2) your administration is (plausibly, predictably and publicly) announcing your willingness to extend of the Bush tax cuts to the richest 2% because, you say (implausibly), that is the only way to get the tax cuts for the other 98% of the population through Congress.

Regarding the timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan, I wonder why your administration is making plans for 2014?  I do not think you are going to be president after January 31, 2012. Here is why:

I believe I am a fairly typical supporter of your presidential campaign. I contributed and volunteered for your campaign and voted for you in November 2008. When I voted for “change”, this is what I thought, or hoped, I was voting for:

•  Prompt withdrawal of all American forces from Iraq
•  Quick accomplishment of what could be accomplished militarily in Afghanistan (which I think is nothing) followed by prompt withdrawal
•  Closure of Guantanamo Bay
•  Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
•  Universal National Single Payer Healthcare or at least a public option
•  Strong financial re-regulation including substantial re-enactment of Glass-Steagall, breakups of too-big-to-fail banks, regulation of derivatives markets, re-enactment of usury laws and consumer protection
•  Mortgage foreclosure relief for defaulting homeowners
•  Reduction of “defense” spending
•  End of the tax holiday for the richest 1% of Americans
•  Industrial policy that promotes American industry and full employment at living wages and provides strongly disincentives to corporations from shipping jobs overseas, including protective tariffs for American industries if necessary
•  The right to join a trade union and statutory employment rights including a living wage, paid sick days and holidays and protection against arbitrary termination and lay-offs
•  Support for public schools and teachers, not more bashing of teachers’ unions, gimmicky testing schemes, public school closures and promotion of for-profit corporate-run anti-union charter schools

Your presidency began to smell funny even before your inauguration when it was announced that you were appointing Wall Street insiders Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner, both of whom were key players in the Clinton-era deregulation of the financial markets that led to the financial debacle of 2008.

The funny smell got worse when it was announced you were re-appointing Bush appointees Ben Bernanke at the Fed and Robert Gates at the Pentagon.

The rotten smell became impossible to ignore on the day of your inauguration when you chose fundamentalist “Christian” homophobe Rick Warren to deliver the invocation, thus communicating to us that you think God favors the prayers of the “Christian” right over the prayers of the people who elected you. 

(to be continued in next comment box)

He had 2 winning issues, tax cuts for the plutocrats and not cutting social security, and he is determined to cave on both.

If the democratic party establishment allows this,I and hopefully many millions more should say f—- the democrats, we’re gone.

Democratic party, all hat and no cattle.

He must spend a lot of time realizing what a coward he is. If he fights for what is right he will be assassinated. And possibly his family, too. It may be heroic to stand up for what is right and be made a martyr, many have done so. But when the lives of their family are involved, not so many have taken that road.

That’s what I think on a good day.

Most of the time I just think of him a an effing traitor to his base.

What did people expect? Wall Street funded this guy’s ride to the White House, he’s got to pay back his supporters.

An Open Letter to Mr. Obama

[or the Rule Of Law Party Manifesto, take your pick]

  “The rule of law can be wiped out in one misguided, however
  well-intentioned, generation.”
                - William T. Gossett

Mr. Obama, when will you enforce the rule of law?

The population of this country is rapidly awakening to the realization that there
is no one in our corporately owned government willing to bite the hands that
feed them and enforce the laws of this land.

The ruling monied elites on Wall Street have raped the wealth of the nation. In
the Gulf of Mexico they have recklessly raped the land itself. And in the MIddle
East they supply the weapons and mercenaries to rape, murder and pillage in
the absolute literal sense.

From Goldman Sachs to JP Morgan Chase, from BP to Monsanto, from
Blackwater/Xe to Haliburton. They all commit foul and heinous crimes everyday
in broad daylight in full view of anyone with the audacity to not believe the
blatant misrepresentations spewed by the main stream media, itself owned by
those same elites.

And you do nothing.

No indictments. No arrests. No prosecutions.

Not for fraud, bribery, racketeering or grand theft.

Not for criminal negligence, failure to comply with safety regulations, use of
banned toxins or lying to congress.

Not for torture, indiscriminate murder of civilians or war crimes.

Even when these well-heeled, well-connected criminals admit to their crimes,
you do nothing. Have they bought you off so completely that you stand by idly
while they murder women and children?

Mr. Obama, when will you enforce the rule of law?

If the rule of law is not enforced there can be no civilized republic.

What laws would you have the rest of us obey?

Perhaps it is time for a new political system.
It is clear that our current system is a mirage. It is the illusion of choice. The
main stream media—a corporately owned propaganda machine that would
make Goebbels weep with envy—works very hard to perpetuate this myth.

  “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will
  eventually come to believe it.”
        - Joseph Goebbels

But cracks are starting to show. We see behind your curtain. Your red state, blue
state, right wing, left wing, liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat theatre
of distraction.

It should worry you to know that people have stopped looking at the left hand
waving hypnotic in their face and are now looking squarely at the right hand
that has been in their pocket emptying their wallet.

Every day that you and your fellow ruling elites sit smuggling puffing on your
cigars, drinking your expensive wine chuckling to one another about how easy
it all is to get away with is another day closer to your removal.

Because we know.

And we’re watching.

And we’re getting angrier.

If you won’t enforce the rule of law, Mr. Obama, we will.

Photo caption:

Humm, how do I dupe this suckers again.

Is there anything that this President holds dear enough to stand up and fight for?

One term, one term, one term too many.

Maybe they threatened to waterboard him.

“Obama Blinks . . .”

This is news?

Obama Blinks on Tax Cuts for the Rich
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What else is new?? He has been “blinking” since he was elected.
He was chosen and selected by the power-that-be to “blink” , of course, “reluctantly”, after, of course, voicing “opposition”.!
What a farce.!