Here’s the best column I’ve read recently on what a fraud Obama is:  http://tinyurl.com/ycx7s6s

By gerard, December 21 at 3:44 pm #

Yeah, well ... again ... scatology doesn’t get it.  Just cheapens the string.  It’s a free country, of course, but ..... poverty of thought is the worst kind of slavery.

If you think, at this late date, that Obama is owed any respect at all, then I don’t know what to say.  I’ve been watching this nation decline precipitously for well over forty years.  George Worthless Bush vastly accelerated that decline.  Now we have Obama whose shameless, almost gleeful lying further accelerates that decline.  He may very well have been the last chance to save constitutional rule in this nation.  He quickly turned out to be the worst sort of Judas.  His daily, ongoing betrayal is truly breathtaking.  I despise Obama as much as I despised Bush. Was this the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement?  A black person is finally elected president and quickly turns out to be a totally corrupt, even brutal, run-of-the-mill political vampire.  He deserves every possible permutation of insult that can be flung at him.  I, for one, intend going on insulting him until truthdig throws me off its site.

The curse of the “Gore-failure blamed on Nadar Syndrome.”  It has paralyzed the U.S.A. and threatens to garner its very own conference for this most delusional of deems. No, neither Al Gore, nor Ralphie Nadar, or his nadir, will be there; and no again, the site has not been chosen.

“These pledges are made through deliberative processes. Candidates shouldn’t make them if they’re not serious about following through—and it’s not unreasonable to ask officeholders to at least try to honor the campaign commitments that informed voters’ electoral decisions.” (quote-unquote)

It’s not merely about “honoring commitments”—it’s the bald-faced fact that campaign promises are almost always made in reference to real problems in the country that need changes.  If those promises are neglected after election, it is those real problems that are neglected, and real people suffer as a result. 

Most people vote for someone they think they can count on to do things they think need to be done. The betrayal comes not only in the neglect of promises but in the lack of accountability—that is, going before the public and explaining why this or that campaign promise can’t be fulfilled and that an apology and explanation is therefore necessary.

  Just walking away from promises is a bad deal all round, making a liar out of the candidate and a fool out of the persons who voted for him or her. The final effect is a sick society and a sick politics—which is what we have on our hands.

Trust is reborn with “fessinsg up”—but “fessing up” is sadly out of style in America where apology is considered a sign of weakness, and bulling your way through no matter what is a sign of strength.  Viz:  The wars. 

Even in personal politics, the courts are over-run with cases where a simple apology might negate the necessity of going to trial.  Yet to “confess guilt” is almost unheard-of, and guilt isn’t even felt by people who steal, cheat and lie as a matter of daily business.  Instead, they get richer and more powerful. The standard Americn “out” is religious conversion where forgiveness is automatic and payback is overloo;ed in the interests of “moving on.” Hallelujah.

Yeah, well ... again ... scatology doesn’t get it.  Just cheapens the string.  It’s a free country, of course, but ..... poverty of thought is the worst kind of slavery.

The first thing Obama does in the morning after he rolls heavily out of bed is to lubricate his backside with plenty of Vaseline.  The he proceeds, naked, to the Oval Office and bends over and grabs his ankles.  He spends 16 hours a day in this postion, being told what to do.  This is commonly referred to as “leadership”.

@JeffersonSmith
“I did not like the options when I voted in 2008.  Mc Cain vs. Obama, these are the only two people in America who are Presidential possibilities?  I voted for Obama because he said he would end the war in Iraq,”

why is it so difficult for people to move beyond the mental dem/rep shackles? YOU HAD OTHER OPTIONS: 3rd party or “write in” votes.

“I will not vote for Obama again.  I will not vote for an incumbent in the next election. I will look for primary challengers that reflect my views to vote for in 2010, instead of the incumbents.”

the reality is, very few, if any, of the incumbents will lose primary challenges. and if one is successful, all you’re gonna get is criticism of the status quo; and at the end of the day,  they will be like John Conyers, Anthony Weiner, Bernie Sanders, etc & sell your interests out. Dennis Kuninich is going to endorse and campaign for Obama in 2012.

So what are you going to do in 2010/12? More likely, you will vote for democrats and nothing will change.

President Obama*s complicity in maintaining the status quo in the financial
system and the endless war industry and his delusional “war on terror ’  shows
we have a one party system in reality. Democrats being the more articulate,
sensitive side to a nation controlled by Christian/Jewish zealots , corporations,
television media, the military,and fear.Science is a left/right issue only in America.
The only hope for real progressives is to take over a state or states politcally,
environmentally, socially, and legally.Take over California,Oregon,Washington.
Create a sustainable ,humane,progressive block of states and lead America .

Since I didn’t vote for BO, I had no allusions about what he said, and what he meant.  The tools of politicians today demand a public honed on the practices of the mass media manipulators.

so far undeserving of capitalization I fear,‘big b’ says:

Here is a woman who did not even have the guts to publicly admonish her sleazy hubby’s behavior. A person who is willing to sell their self respect for a potential political future should not be trusted with your vote.

That you do not know what was said in private between the two is obvious. That some might think her refusal to air their dirty linen in public a rather brave stance is overlooked in your zealous effort to denigrate the woman rather than comment upon the politician. That seems a bit more than a bit buffoonish if not pretty typical of far right wing politics.

The “dick sucking ” part and the alliance with the jackass from Montana both point to the worthlessness of this effort. But thanks for trying, albeit in such a limited and shallow capacity.

disclaimer:
The above should not be taken as a defense of the politics of Hillary Rodham Clinton only of my rejection of such childish commentary.

It was President G. W. Bush and not Mr. Obama who “ended the war in Iraq” although Bush was forced by the deadline of 31 December 2008 to accept the Iraq SOFA agreement lest the UN would declare our presence in Iraq illegal.

Senator Obama did nothing to “end the war in Iraq”; in fact by voting funds for that war he helped continue it.

In case you haven’t realized it by now, president Obama is a fraud.

He is nothing more than the hand picked candidate of the plutocracy, he will continue what Bush began.

Each time you see him making a speach, you will realize your about to be screwed yet again.

Nausea,is the reaction I have to this constant “hyping” of the American political process. When did we become “consumers of politics” voting along “brand” lines, as if, candidates were packges of laundry detergent, candy, or frozen dinners. This constant lament that politicians don’t do what we want is only possible because we as an electorate do not hold them accountable. I will not vote for Obama again.  I will not vote for an incumbent in the next election. I will look for primary challengers that reflect my views to vote for in 2010, instead of the incumbents. 

It is time to start voting our interests and not for or against politicians because of their “brand”, and vote them out if they do not serve us as they said they would during the election.

I did not like the options when I voted in 2008.  Mc Cain vs. Obama, these are the only two people in America who are Presidential possibilities?  I voted for Obama because he said he would end the war in Iraq, address the financial and economic crisis and work to bring effective governance to America.

I assumed he knew, being a professional politician, how dificult keeping those promises would be, apparently not…  Was there a plan, for actually doing something besides promulgating the status quo while trying to give the appearance of “change we can believe in”, another marvelous bumper sticker slogan to go along with the “Hope” logo.

Until Americans are employed at good paying jobs, at peace, with health care (not insurance policies), and living in a country with good schools, infrastructure and a clean environment, or at least making significant, demonstrable progress towards these ends, I am not voting for an incumbent and I hope you won’t either…

Big B, 

I believe you did a superb job summing up Hillary Clinton’s character….  And thank you for not calling her an evil bitch….  I so don’t like it when people use that kind of language on this post…

and you are so right “Some of them have no confidence that they can do anything”

there is A Lot we can do! stop with the complaining and get to work!

you are so right, Jean Gerard “The prospects are exciting. The challenge is thrilling.  The need is acute”

Yes!!

While I could have told you that prez Barry was going to be a sellout, I still do not understand these mindless Hillary supporters that still want to put on the blinders and suck her dick.

Here is a woman who did not even have the guts to publicly admonish her sleazy hubby’s behavior. A person who is willing to sell their self respect for a potential political future should not be trusted with your vote.

But then again, how many of our politicos are cut from the same cloth? Maybe that’s our problem.

The signs were all there for anyone to see; the Obots chose not to see—and look where we are now, with a liar and incompetent person as our president.

An excerpt from:  http://tinyurl.com/yj4dj5l

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During the primaries,Obama’s selling out promises were rampant. He promised to use public financing if he was the nominee then reneged as soon as became the nominee. He promised to filibuster and vote against the FISA bill if it gave telecoms retroactive immunity then reneged, didn’t filibuster and voted for it. And lied, until he couldn’t lie any longer about his relationship with Jeremiah Wright and on sending on his economic advisors to the Canadian embassy to tell them to ignore everything he was saying publicly about NAFTA.
This is the person that liberals and Democrats who supported him are now surprised has sold them out when it was apparent that Obama was probably the most underhanded politician since Richard Nixon. The difference between the two is that Nixon used deceit to get even. Obama used it to get ahead.

“I try to avoid hyperbole, but I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had.” — Nat Hentoff

http://tinyurl.com/y9mwkjb

Barak Obama would do well to remember the trashing John Kerry endured for allegedly being too much of a ‘flip flopper’.

Yeah sure, Obama is winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan . . .

— excerpt from: http://tinyurl.com/yllecdw

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... the Obama administration has picked up the Bush-era war privatization baton and sprinted with it. Overall, contractors now comprise a whopping 69% of the Department of Defense’s total workforce, “the highest ratio of contractors to military personnel in US history.” That’s not in one war zone—that’s the Pentagon in its entirety.

In Afghanistan, the Obama administration blows the Bush administration out of the privatized water. According to a memo [PDF] released by Sen. Claire McCaskill’s staff, “From June 2009 to September 2009, there was a 40% increase in Defense Department contractors in Afghanistan.  During the same period, the number of armed private security contractors working for the Defense Department in Afghanistan doubled, increasing from approximately 5,000 to more than 10,000.”

At present, there are 104,000 Department of Defense contractors in Afghanistan. According to a report this week from the Congressional Research Service, as a result of the coming surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, there may be up to 56,000 additional contractors deployed. But here is another group of contractors that often goes unmentioned: 3,600 State Department contractors and 14,000 USAID contractors. That means that the current total US force in Afghanistan is approximately 189,000 personnel (68,000 US troops and 121,000 contractors). And remember, that’s right now. And that, according to McCaskill, is a conservative estimate. A year from now, we will likely see more than 220,000 US-funded personnel on the ground in Afghanistan.
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Yeah, Geez Jan, there’ll be no more killing of “countless civilians and soldiers for no good purpose” with Obama in charge <sarcasm>.

starfish, show me where I said I prefer to be lied to.

And according to you, “She said she would start at once removing brigades every month, and then see how events shaped up. That, at least, was honest.”

How do you know she was honest? How do you know she wouldn’t have broken as many promises as Obama? Do you have special powers?

By the way, since you’re not paying attention, you should go reread what I wrote about Obama.

Oh, well, Clinton lost. You’ll have your chance to pledge your blind and mindless allegiance to her again soon enough. At least you have that to look forward to.

Well, I haven’t forgotten WWII.  A prescription drug which costs $400 in the US cost $40 in Germany -  same drug, same manufacturer, same dosages.  (Geez, only 65 years ago we were carpet bombing that country and now we’re (I guess) subsidizing their drug habit?)

Geez Jan:

It is you who is having reading comprehension problems.

Here is what I wrote:

“Hillary never said she wouldn’t remove the troops; she said she doubted anyone could make such a pledge (as Obama had) that far away in time. She said she would start at once removing brigades every month, and then see how events shaped up. That, at least, was honest. Obama was dishonest and won votes on Super Tuesday because he was willing to be dishonest.”

P.S. Despite what Obama said to get votes, the TROOPS ARE STILL THERE, you dummy.

You prefer people to lie to you; I don’t.

I think it’s nap time for you.

starfish, you need to learn some reading comprehension.

We should think Clinton “decent” because she was honest about intending to keep us in an illegal and pointless war? She is “decent” for being honest about keeping us in a war that kills countless civilians and soldiers for no good purpose? You have a warped sense of “decency.”

With people like you, who needs Republicans?

I really got a kick out of this part:

Disenchanted activists, said the White House, “need to take off [their] pajamas, get dressed and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated.”

As Gandhi’s famous quote portends: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” one can assume by the White House statement that they are on a path to being routed by a bunch of people in their pajamas.  Just an interesting thought.

It has been my impression that Mr. O has done pretty much as he said he would do.  The genius of his campaign was to convince the progs that he didn’t mean what he said but what they wanted him to be saying.  I think one must appreciate the Machiavellian skill and chutzpah with which this game was carried out. Although given the eager credulity of those who were taken in, I suppose it wasn’t all that difficult.

Progs, although probably not as numerous as right-wing religious fanatics, could form a significant political force in the country, but they would have to adopt a new strategic philosophy, something like “Don’t get mad, get even.”  I don’t see any sign of that yet, however.

Geez Jan:

Hillary didn’t lie about her views; Obama did.

So I guess we have to assume you would rather be lied to than told the truth.

Hillary never said she wouldn’t remove the troops; she said she doubted anyone could make such a pledge (as Obama had) that far away in time. She said she would start at once removing brigades every month, and then see how events shaped up. That, at least, was honest.

Obama was dishonest and won votes on Super Tuesday because he was willing to be dishonest.

Yes, I think it is decent when people do not lie to me.

I guess you prefer liars to straight talkers.

The article assumes that we have a “republican democracy”.  More accurately, it is
an oligarchy - ruled by pharma, oil, banks, military / industry (remember Ike’s
warning??) agribusiness - the list goes on.  The population of this country is kept
and tended as livestock to be milked and bilked by these and we happily go along
with the charade.  We still have our bread and circuses.

starfish, I don’t know if I’d call it “decency” to keep troops in an illegal and pointless war just because you won’t lie about it…

During the campaign, Clinton was at least as scary, if not more so, than Obama. I guess Clinton has the “decency” to be up front about how much she loves war and threatening other countries. No thanks.

David Sirota,

You are either (1) dishonest, or (2) stupid.

During the campaign, while you were buying into the Obama “magic,” many of us were trying to inform the voting public regarding the REALITY of Obama’s political (and life) record. You CHOSE to ignore that reality.

You also routinely bashed Hillary for (1) not being as willing as Obama was to set a date certain for taking our troops out of Iraq, and (2) not promising to make the sun rise in the west and set in the east (as Obama did).

Just in time to persuade Super Tuesday primary voters to vote for him, Obama said at the Jan. 15, 2008 Democratic debate: “I have put forward a plan that will get our troops out [of Iraq]  BY THE END OF 2009.” http://tinyurl.com/67nhtg”  Obama promised the moon and delivered baloney. Obama said he would have the troops OUT of Iraq within ELEVEN months of taking office. Do you see our troops evacuating Iraq? No, and neither do I. Hillary had more sense (and decency) than to lie and say she had a plan to get the troops out of Iraq by the end of 2009. So, Obama (thanks to gullible voters) won the primaries he needed to win on Super Tuesday, the voters got duped, you kept your job, and the American people got scre__d.

Hillary had spent eight years in the White House and knew what the real problems were and what the real possibilities for action and reform were. Instead of giving Hillary credit for that awareness, you joined the camp of those ridiculing her assertion that the White House experience had given her any real understanding of what a president could and should do.

David Sirota, you are one of the many media people who foisted this arrogant jerk (Barack Obama) on this nation, and it’s time—now—for you to apologize.

They say, “Leave it to the markets.” And, “The markets will provide the solutions.”

That is unless you’re a pharmaceutical corporation in America. Then you have
private meetings with the President and lawmakers to ensure your “market” is not
unfairly undercut by those pesky Canadian and European pill pushers. Then, you
see, pharmaceutical corporations in America “just say no to drugs [that ‘they’
don’t profit from].”

This is why no one should look to campaign promises s a reason to vote for anyone, regardless of your political leanings.  Politicians will say anything to get elected.  I has always been that way and it will continue. 

You should elect someone to office based on there character and past action.  Obama has never been in a position to make tough choices in his career so no one could possible judge how he would govern.  But you shouldn’t act hurt.  When was the last time any politician did what he promised to do.

Obama was sold like any other product. The advertising lies about the product to its buyers. The buyer is a willing participant in the scam: he wants to believe.

Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign won awards from the Cannes Lions International Advertising Awards, Advertising Age, and the Association of National Advertisers. I’m sure there’s others I don’t know about. But that should tell you something.

You know how corporations tell you they love you and want to make your life better? And instead they just want your money in exchange for the crappiest product they can get away with? That’s Obama.

What bothers me the most are all the so-called progressives who gave me a hard time for voting for Nader (and not just in 2008) who are now twisting themselves into knots trying to come up with theories about why Obama is betraying them. Or worse, getting angry at Obama for it. They wanted to be chumped, and Obama obliged them. They have no one to blame but themselves.

For chrissakes, wasn’t anyone paying any attention to who Obama had on his staff and coterie of advisers during the campaign? Rubin? Summers? Did you think they were there to stuff envelopes?

I’m really getting sick and tired of the whining, especially since I bet these same people will vote for Obama again in 2012 for the same lousy reason: he’s not a Republican. Pathetic.

McCain and Palin would have been so much more better in the White House…. I mean if politics is only about lies and entertainment why not Go For the Gold…...

Can you imagine how much more exciting life would be knowing that Palin was a heartbeat away from the Presidentcy????  You wouldn’t have time to worry about your shitty job, lack of health care and perpetual war….. 

Man it would have been Glorious…....

Look David, Obama is a one-time loser. His lies will defeat any re-election plans he might have and as compensation the fat cats of Pharma, Wall street, Military and the auto industry will make him a very wealthy man.
He will now have the means to join the Have Society and not worry about the Have Not Society. Like the Clinton’s the Obama will live in luxury for the rest of their lives.
With our present political system, only a revolution will make a significant change.

“The train won’t stop going—
No way to slow down.”

Thank you Jethro Tull for this insightful lyric…..

Some of us didn’t rely on promises, but on history.
Which was uniquely slight in Obama’s case. No one
wanted to hear how much of a disappointment he became
as my senator.

But he was sold as a brand, and very skillfully, too.
Fooled a lot of people.

If he fooled you David, and that’s why you became so
crazed about him that you passed on vicious lies
about Hillary and her supporters, why haven’t you
apologized for being punked?

Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com

“In America, we get to choose presidents only every
four years, meaning we must rely on campaign promises
as metrics for electoral choices. But if the entire
idea of the campaign promise becomes an assumed joke,
then we have zero metrics by which to elect leaders.”

Actually, another metric exists.  Voters can take
their heads out of their rear ends and face the fact
that the two main parties are nearly identical.  If
America’s so-called “liberals” would show some
backbone and vote for liberal candidates (Nader, for
example) instead of conservatives in liberal clothing
like Obama and most other Democrats, the world might
be a better place.  http://theunpeople.blogspot.com/