I’m still looking for one time where Obama
represented the majority population of the
United States and haven’t found one,
can’t remember one and don’t know anyone who
does.  I am a member of the majority population,
which means I have no political representation
whatsoever from Obama or any member of the
Corporate DLC New Democrats in Congress that
joined the Republicans and brought the majority
population to their knees with all the
economic woe carried out consistently for the past
40 years against the majority population,
and Obama goes along with the Right-Wing’s
agenda of not representing the majority
population, as if the majority population
aren’t suppose to be represented. 

Neither Obama nor any member of the Corporate
New Democrats deserve to be reelected.  As
with Bush, Obama should be impeached as a
traitor to the majority population of the United
States, but as with Bush, if there is still enough
Corporate New Democrats in power in Congress
impeachment will be taken off the table.

If Bernie Sanders would run, I would vote for
Bernie Sanders, he has always stood up for the
majority population, as does Governor Howard
Dean.

Mack, April 18 at 11:58 pm.

Obama is a DLC New Democrat that argues within
the Right-Wing’s frame of dialectic.

When the candidates of the Left start arguing
dialectical frames of the political Left with the
political Right, instead of arguing within the
Political Right’s dialectical frames, the Left will
win, but the conservative DLC New Republican
Lite Democrats argue for the supposed Left
within the conservative safety of the Right’s
dialectical frames and it isn’t logical for the Left to
argue political benefit and best interest of the
Left using the frame of the political dialectic of
the Right, because dialectic is a logical LOOP that
is causal in nature and arguing a causal loop that
does not support the thesis of your argument is
not beneficial to the best interest and outcome of
your argument, therefore the DLC New
Democrats always help the Republicans with the
appearance of representing the Left.

Sorry, I fell for Obama’s rap in ‘08! Mr. “Look Ahead, Not Back” is trying to pander to the base he so fervently betrayed in an effort to raise a billion for another go-round! I find our dear POTUS to be every bit as reprehensible and criminal as his predecessor and no longer believe anything that he says!

Political dialectic of the Left is the logical
proof of the political agenda of the political
Left.

Political dialectic of the Right is the logical
proof of the political agenda of the political
Right.

It is not logical for the Left to argue political
benefit and best interest of the Left using the
frame of the political dialectic of the
Right, because dialectic is a
logical loop that is causal in
nature and arguing a “causal loop” that
does not support the thesis of your own
argument is not beneficial to the best interest
and outcome of your argument, but is always
how the Left argues with the Right.

There is more space for logical discourse in
political dialectic than there is for emotions that
lead the logically challenged to support the
argument of opposing political dialectic by
arguing within the frame of opposing political
dialectic while never becoming aware that
their own argument is false to the frame
of their own political dialectic.

Does anyone think that it will serve the aims of
the Left’s political agenda to use the proof of the
Right’s opposing political dialectic to prove the
Left’s argument? —— Or, do you think that it
would better serve the Left’s political agenda to
use the proof of the Left’s political dialectic to
prove the Left’s arguments??

Success in any argument on logic lies in the
latter, rather than the former argument; this is
why the Right has been so successful since the
time of Nixon and why the Left has been so
dismal and pathetic.

My natural inclination is to believe that no one is
ignorant and unaware enough to willingly
use someone else’s dialectical frame that
is contrary to their own frame of dialectic,
and that when it is done, that it is done with
disingenuous intent and purpose to lead others
to accept false conclusions and a false sense of
advantage.

There is no organized Left in mainstream American politics today.  While leftist ideas of peace, freedom and equality are widely dispersed among the people and have many admirers, they are not represented by any large organizations or voting blocs.

The present struggle in Washington, if it is not entirely a sham, is between capitalists who think, rather reasonably, that their position at the head of the social order can be assured and stabilized by a certain amount of Welfare and regulation—we can call these people ‘conservatives’—and a rather variegated collection of right-wing radical dissidents who oppose this existing order on a variety of grounds.  Both groups are heavily infested with kleptocrats.  This is more of a problem with the conservatives than the radicals, since the conservatives want to save something whereas the radical prefer mere destruction.

Mr. O’s political fate depends on whether he will be able to convince the ruling class that moderation, rather than radical kleptocracy, is the best policy.  Whether moderation includes Medicare and Medicaid is hard to say.  My guess is this: the poor have been quiet in recent years, so Medicaid will be gutted.  The working class made trouble in Wisconsin, so Medicare will be saved.

“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and
causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. ... corporations
have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will
follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to
prolong it’s reign by working upon the prejudices of the people
until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is
destroyed.“Abraham Lincoln

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the
growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than
their democratic State itself. What, in its essence, is Fascism, but
ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any
controlling private power.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The project of the left will be supported by this centrist President, http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/04/president-obama-on-taxing-and-spending-and-the-american-center/

Yes, Obama was eloquent.  Yes, he did draw a line in the sand.  Yes, he said he was not an extreme republican. 

But the real ideas presented yesterday were way out in the cheap seats when Maxine Waters and the rest of the progressive caucus presented what should be discussed in the unveiling of the People’s Budget.  Obama was as close to that as he was to appointing Krugman to a cabinet position.

“Power politics will give way to the politics of food, shelter and protection.
This will spread the world over. Socialism and capitalism will converge. They are the two wheels which are essential. Politics cannot function with only one wheel.”
- World Teacher Maitreya through an associate as reported by Share International

Cash pours in for Obama’s events

President Obama is starting his fundraising for the
2012 election by raising money from some of his
richer supporters.

An hour after Obama lands in Chicago Thursday
evening, he’s scheduled to start his parade of
campaign events that will benefit his own war chest
and that of the Democratic National Committee. In the
course of three hours, Obama will speak at three
fundraisers — two at restaurants and one at Navy
Pier.

The Chicago Tribune reports that the restaurant
appearances are “high-dollar events,” and that the
Navy Pier “fundraising kickoff” will include the
Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose. The paper says that
for each donor, the first $2,500 goes to Obama for
America for the primary election for which he is
unlikely to be challenged; the next $2,500 is for the
general election; and another $30,800 benefits the
DNC.

The fundraisers are expected to raise more than $2
million. Read more about the expectations, and the
guest list including Rahm Emanuel, in Mike Allen’s
Playbook.

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0411/trifecta
_09197e15-e85d-4d58-954b-518b163ddbca.html

What? Our President has finally drawn a line in the sand? Tell me this has been Obama’s take on Ali’s rope-a-dope; he covered up on the ropes, looked deliberately more tired than he actually was, and now he’s going to zero in for the kill on tax breaks for the super-wealthy. Someone said: “if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything”. I hope in going to bat for the little guy, if that’s what he’s doing, he sharpens his critique of the Republican house-of-mirrors. They deserve to be called out on the carpet for their truly reactionary and cutthroat program.

justconnect—can you give URLs?  I’d like to follow up your observation.  I think some investigation and research is called for.

Within the past two weeks, I’ve seen 3 different ads (Craigs List and local ad circular) recruiting people to be paid right-wing bloggers on popular websites.

I used to read TruthDig comments, but now believe they are being populated by pay-for-post “writers”.

I have no solution, no recommendation. Perhaps only: “reader beware.”

A battered wife that keeps on going back…

“Obama is back on the field and this is where he needs to stay”. Why, so he can fumble or throw another interception?  This guy is the Ryan Leaf of presidents.

Wanna bet on that one?  It’s not over till the fat lady sings and I say Oblahblah will do a 180 before long.  That’s all he knows how to do, shoot his mouth and then turn around and do the complete opposite of that which he said he would or wouldn’t do.  I’m so sick of the guy and his forked tongue.

Great Speech!  But I don’t believe it anymore than the Re-thugs do.

And I WON’T believe it until he signs his first veto, when he FINALLY decides that as bad as the Fed Govt closing down, giving in to Ryan’s insane budget demands are worse, and lets it shut down.

They call his bluff every time and every time he folds rather than calling them and laying down his hand.

E.J. Dionne licks the Blue Dog Democratic Lollipup once again, up to and including praise for the Reaganesque part of Obama’s speech. “Rugged indiviualism,” “faith in free markets,” and “skepticism of government” are Reagan talking points. Speak for yourself, E.J. and Ronnie Obama.
Furthermore, as John Nichols wrote:
“At a time when House Republicans are talking up the notion of raising the retirement age to 70 and otherwise reducing benefits and imposing budgets on the elderly, the president is expressing a willingness to negotiate away a lot of what is social and secure about Social Security.”
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/04/13-6
As long as Ronnie Obama starts with a belief that the budget should be balanced on the backs of the citizens, he is worthless as a President. As long as he believes in giving our hard-earned money away to military contractors and defense corporations, he is worthless as a President. As long as he believes that the rich should get richer and the poor should waste away, he remains the same lying creepy narcissist, enchanted by opulence—a con man who who’s so stupid he’s conning himself.
Don’t let him con you. He is not a man you can take at his word.

It would be absolutely foolish to believe Obama again.  This was the same crap that he spewed during the last election only to turn around and betray Progressive values.

How dare you put on the smiley face and ask us to believe that this time Obama really means it?

There have been far too many eloquent speeches followed by inaction or even opposite actions from President Obama for me to believe this latest one.

Much of the economic problems are caused by theft, by fraud, and there has been little to no attempt to punish the guilty and correct the regulations that failed to regulate. Further, this nation’s wealth is being squandered in the Middle East with no solutions occurring and no end in sight.

The ire of much of America is being directed at unions and decent working people while firms such as General Electric pay no taxes on 16 Billion in profits. Obama then rewards the CEO of GE with a place in his administration! So do not expect me to swallow his kool aid .

The president took some small steps in the right direction. He did not say many things that needed to be said. If he were to try to state all the corrections needed in this society in one speech, he would need to speak continuously for months.
But he better follow up his words with actions on the corrections he did outline, increased taxation and sharing of the load for the wealthiest amongst us, and continued protection and support for the disadvantaged amongst us, or he will have lost the last vestiges of his credibility, and deservedly so.
He will not only have lost his personal credibility, but it’s possible that if he caves in yet again to the amoral ‘powers-that-be’, the tipping point for the patience and forbearance (some would say ‘stupidity’ or ‘inertia’) of the public, the poor saps putting up with all this crap from ‘their’ government, will have been reached with the realization that ‘their’ government is a fake, a fraud, a malignant enterprise with a phony facade.
And massive, widespread, hopefully non-violent but effective resistance to the charade the US ‘democracy’ has become, could commence. At least we can so hope, we cannot continue as we are indefinitely.
One last thought re: our President. If he were to try doing all the things that need to be done to reverse and correct the disastrous courses our nation has taken for the past five administrations, as his campaign speeches seemed to promise he would, his sworn, determined enemies would be the current ‘powers-that-be’. Since they are cumulatively not only the wealthiest, most powerful creatures on earth, and have proven themselves almost unanimously, completely self-interested and amoral, just imagine the pressures, tactics, and threats that they pose to anyone who opposes their interests. The Presidency is not only a very wearing, tiring, aging occupation, but for Obama, or any aspiring reformer, it may be a matter of life or death, as it has so proven in the past.

The first shovel throw of manure is only a first step, Mr. Dionne,Jr. His fretting over President Obama becoming “the left pole” is utter nonsense. No, the pole he should be fretting over is the one used by the shameless ones, as the late Hunter Thompson referred to it as: “No, this pole is different. It is dark like a stovepipe and slick with human grease, criss-crossed with long scars and teeth marks that will give you a queasy feeling if you stare at them too long.”

This guy must get paid by Obama and his corporate pals.  He’s one of the most
disgusting journalists posing as a progressive, and that’s saying a lot.

Just wondering with whom Dionne has a rapport at Truthdig?  I mean, did Scheer
and Dionne have lunch before he was hired? Who talks seriously with this
intellectual fraud and can still look in the mirror?  Except, our frenemy Obama,
perhaps.  Yes, they’re probably great friends.

Nothing at all said about stopping the wars?  Nothing about the preponderant economic dependence upon the military industrial complex for jobs and revenues?
  Nothing about the obscenity—the absolute obscenity of permitting a tiny percent at the top to steal its riches from the poor and confine millions of their fellow citizens to poor education, poor health and poor job prospects? 
  The truth has still not been stated frankly enough;  only hinted at, in terms so vague and inoffensive that most ordinary people will still not have the root facts of the situation to guide their attitudes and decisions.
  “Prevarication Lite” is an all too accurate judgment, sad to say. These ignorant Republicans really have Obama over a barrel—also sad to say.
  We citizens are going to have to do more to make an impact on the national decisions somehow.

I am sorry to say that Mr. Dionne is suffering from Alzheimers, because if he was well he would remember we heard this same speech from Obama back in 2007-8
I suggest he start using google now that his memory is falling; and google the phrase ” fool me once shame on you , fool me twice shame on me”. So in conclusion Shame on Obama.

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