5 Great Progressive Moves by Obama That You Might Have Missed

~$10 Billion for High-Speed Rail ... projects that we don't need for companies well connected.

~Broadband Initiative ... paying broadband companies for doing what they should be doing now instead of cherry picking neighborhoods and installing sub standard internet connections.

~Commission to Review Faith-Based Initiatives ... a commission to make decisions that separate Obama from the back lash of pulling funding from religious zealots.

~A Reform-Minded Drug Czar ... but will medical marijuana be legal? Will non violent offenders be given tickets instead of jail cells? The jury is out.

~Swift Action on Arms Control ... a no brainer that will give Obama moral and political capital in negotiations with Pakistan, Russia, India, Iran, Israel, North Korea and all the middle eastern countries ...

These are progressive moves? Only when seen in the context of 8 years of Bush positions.

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I'm in favor of these things. Obama is smart. I hope he is the real deal.

The Republican cooperation he is getting is sickening. The nation is on its knees and they are willing to let it stay there.

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these initiatives are corporate back-door giveaways with a hefty sop thrown in to DC bureaucrats. Virtually zero for people on the ground. Ditto for the so-called "stimulus" package.

Meantime, Obama is finding new ways to promote the false mass murder killing fields of "war on terror" for Big Oil and more "Wall Street Bailout" looting through his economic team chosen out of the nightmare band of swindlers from the NY "FED" and tag-along Ponzi scheme artists out of Citibank, USB, etc.

Meanwhile peanut gallery "progressives" are so deadbeat naive that they suck up the MSM Obama-Bot Kool-aid like it's champagne. It's like stealing candy from distracted babies.

Amazing how foolish Americans can be.

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It is amazing that we are supposed to be grateful that Obama has done some things that makes sense in the White House for the first time in eight years.
What does not make sense is that he believes that the war on terror is legitimate and intends to fight it along the same lines that George Bush created. What does not make sense is that he has appointed the head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank to the head of the Treasury Department, appointed the son a Zionist terrorist as chief of staff(Rahm Emmanuel was also a dual Israeli citizen until recently), appointed Peter Orszag as the Budget Director. The following is a portion of an article written by Christopher Bollyn which is posted on my website.
The Israeli Who Runs the Obama White House
Written by Christopher Bollyn
Thursday, 06 November 2008
A stalwart supporter sent me a donation with this comment:
"... I hope it helps to keep you doing your great work: like outing Orszag - yet another traitorous psychopath dragged out into the sunlight! Brilliant work!!"

So, who is Peter Orszag?
(Beware: Prepare for a train wreck.)

The CV of Obama's Budget Director:
- Advisor, Russian Finance Ministry During the Reign of the Jewish Oligarchs
- Advisor, Central Bank of Iceland -- Before the Crash of 2008
- Advisor, Rahm Emanuel and Bill Clinton on the disastrous NAFTA bill that devastated U.S. manufacturing
One of the key players in the Obama administration’s $900 billion economic stimulus package is Obama’s new budget director Peter R. Orszag. Orszag, 40, is the director of the Office of Management and Budget, the arm of the White House responsible for crafting the federal budget and overseeing the effectiveness of federal programs. He worked closely with Rahm Emanuel in the Clinton administration - when the disastrous NAFTA was passed - and was one of the first Obama appointees to be approved.

go to 911insidejob.net For many articles on Obama's appointments.

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Thank you, Alexander.

One reason why we might have missed these things is that the corporate media would never report anything that could make the Democrats look good. It's a bias big enough to drive a truck through, and another good reason to avoid the right-controlled media altogether.

Even if you know it's propaganda, the media will skew your thinking without your realizing it. We see this in evidence all the time at AlterNet.

Bill Clinton is a prime example of the incredible right bias of our media. You could go on all day--and I often do--citing great things his adminstration did. There really is a list of accomplishments as long as your arm. But few people know about it, because such things are simply not reported.

Never forget: the U.S., media exists to make the Democrats look bad. They will never give the Democrats due credit for anything.

Sadly, many progressives have absorbed the lies and hatred of the Clintons the right and its complicit media cooked up for them. This stands as a signal triumph for the right-wing slime machine.

Likewise with Congress. The Democratic Congress that was elected in 2006 did a zillion great things--but nobody knows a thing about it. On the contrary, most people, even in the progressive community, talk as if they'd done nothing whatsoever, when the opposite is the case. They are unconsciously repeating corporate memes that can be easily debunked with a few facts.

Hence my gratitude for Mr. Zaitchik's article. I recommend we all make lists of what Obama and the Congress are doing. Down the line, when they start saying Obama and Congress didn't do anything, you can just clobber them with your list.

8 Years without a Leader

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Obama comes out with some great words, great speeches and appears an honest and trustworthy man determined to do the right thing. But he is increasingly beginning to resemble Tony Blair who is regarded by most people in the UK - including those in his own party - as a War Criminal.

If someone is totally incompetent at doing a highly important critical job - you can either fire them - and replace them with someone who has the skills - or (if they are your mate with powerful financial connections)you can get them out of the way by promoting them. If you promote them - this is only a short term fix - and the end result will be that they will spread their incompetence and corrupt all those who are working for them.

With the current financial crisis - Obama instead of forcing failed banks into bankruptcy - which would punish those responsible and quickly relieve the system of debt - he is rewarding the very banksters who caused the problem.

Similarly Afghanistan and Pakistan are becoming a total failure - a total disaster. If you drop bombs on peasent farmers in a place like Afghanistan - it makes them incredibly angry. Strange as it may seem most people just want to live in peace. But if you do everything you can to try and kill them - they stop being a farmer - and have as many children as possible as quickly as possible (to grow food and "cash" crops for arms) and join the local militia. So for every 10 you kill - you will generate 1,000 angry young men - armed and determined to defend their country and replace their corrupt Government.

So the Taliban - from virtually nothing have grown enormously and taken over large parts of Afghanistan - and now Pakistan - as a direct result of them being bombed by US/UK coalition forces.

In response what does Obama - do? He talks about negotiating with the Taliban - whilst at the same time massively increasing bombing - spreading it to Pakistan - and deploying thousands more US troops.

You simply cannot beat these people on their home extremely alien territory. the more you kill - The more determined there are - and the more powerful they become.

So in two most critical policies Obama appears to be rewarding failure - by doing more of the same - more money to bankers and more soldiers to failed generals

Get all the soldiers home

The US is in Great Danger of a massive Depression. The soldiers will be needed at home to maintain essential services and prevent civil war.

Feeding monsters is not good policy.

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It disturbs me to call these progressive acts when we are only repaying for things that we already paid for, and we still have no guarantee that we will finally get them.

For instance, we paid an additional fee on all of our phone bills throughout the late 80s and most of the 90s so that the mega-bells could install fiber optics across the country. Never happened. We are something like #15 in the world as far as access to high speed internet (www.speedmatters.org), even though we already paid for this once.

We allowed the auto and bus companies to destroy the streetcar and lightrail systems across the country, gutted the rail systems because their crossings of streets were dangerous to cars, and then had to subsidize AmTrak to keep it afloat. We lulled people into thinking autos signify their right to privacy, and we are left with one of the worst mass transit systems in the world. And only after being slapped with the reality of $4 gas do we decide to pay tons of money to rebuild the people moving systems that were ripped out decades ago.

How long will our economy last if we continue to allow it to be run by corporations? That's meant to be a rhetorical question, because I think the writing is on the wall... or was the wall destroyed too? Maybe we should make the progressive move of paying some corporation a billion to rebuild the wall.

I'm afraid we are tinkering toward utopia, and it ain't gonna work.

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Since the public is paying for it, will the internet/broadband be free or will I have to pay? Same with light rail. Will this be company owned or will the government own it? If all this stuff is going to companies who will charge for it, how is it in any way progressive unless the company is offering it very cheaply? The taxpayers should not be paying companies to do the jobs they should have been doing all along.

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Why? Specific, not vague-fuzzy projects. So here's a thank you note to the Cool Man Himself:

To: Mr. Swish
From: Edgar1

We do need high speed rail. Bravo for you. It will pay for itself by moving us away in a smart business model way from cars.Cars aren't going away totally- but recession or not, CO2 or not, they are over the hill as the primary means of transportation.

Broadband similar kudo.

And libertarian moves like back off the fanatic drug war aren't just applauded by progressives. Although the Big Govt fanatics on Alternet love to hate all Conservatives, smearing them erroneously with the Bush Lover Tag, many of us are libertarian oriented, and want SMALL govt-small in spending, small in snooping, small in slobbering over our private lives when no one is hurt by private behavior.

Now, my big toothed One, let's next get rid of the giveaways to state spending that the states are too gutless to finance themselves and will want to continue forever even if better times come. This will take a while, since the Congress foolishly passed your hastily slapped together stimulus print funny money package. But you'll see my wisdom when prices are a tiny bit higher in a couple of years and the states have raised the salaries of their bureaucrats, built more roads, and we thus still have lousy infrastructure, too many cars and pollution, and the states will beg for even more at the inflated prices of 2011-12.

Oh yes. Prez for Infinity Hugo Chavez (owns hundreds of red shirts) and the Arab emirates(you know, the folks who will demand gold,not dollars for oil if you wreck the dollar) also love your build roads till you drop program devised by your oh so liberal pack of Harvard advisors sitting in their big homes in Georgetown, McLean, Brookline, Cambridge, and the East Side. (Hey, you don't need cars in most of those places. Hmmmm).

Get the feds totally out of education. Use the cash as capital to invest in community run banks and shut down national banks and international financial institutions. Years of massive fed subsidies haven't worked! There is no consistent correlation between spending and quality of education, including in areas like Title I and Special Ed. Community Control of community institutions as we retired SDS'ers used to say. (Say hi to Bombin Billy for me, he's become a Big Govt finance of education guy, buddies with your Big Bureaucrat Arne Ed Secretary.

I resigned from the revolution in 1969 when he said, in my presence, "we have to blow up the pig machine and too bad people will die". He wasn't using metaphors either.

Ah, I remember, (do you?) when we "radicals", as we were quaintly deemed, including Bombin Billy, dreamed of small, unique schools run by the community, no big govt bureaucrats, no big buildings. And we did it on a thread!) So lay off handing tens of billions of printed funny money to school districts that have managed to turn at least two generations off from learning, reading, or any knowledge of geography, history or science. What knowledge is still actually transmitted and retained is primarily done in private institutions.


Hate to say it, Mr. Whiz, but you know I'm right: you never trusted your sharp mind or that of your daughters to public education. Why should the kids of the rest of us have an honor you wisely declined for yourself and your kids?

As for foreign policy, no kudos to you yet.Out of Iraq and Afghanistan NOW Barry! Do that,and also kick Netanyahu in his kosher balls (and I guess a lot of your disappointed Zionist supporters in NY, LA(Steven Baby!) and Chicago -Penny "Hyatt" Pritzker), and we can be friends!

Finally, now that I got you covered, can my dog play with your dog when first dog arrives?

Hopefully,
Your potential friend

Edgar1

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re: "Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships"

It's a good start, but he doesn't go far enough. I would only accept the 'faith based' part if:

A) Wiccans were just as likely to get money as Christians.

B) Any group caught proselytizing while performing government-funded services would have to pay back triple the amount they received.

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These are the positive steps that this nation needs. While I realize that some on this post are not impressed, I believe that you fail to recognize the long term significance of these projects. These steps are meant as sustain us as a society now, and into our generations!

People, we need to come to grips with the reality - our selfish, Mcmansion, individualized, it's all about me first attitudes must die! We must think about "us" more collectively and what we are leaving for our future generations! As a nation we have to get out of our individual cars (even if they are hybrids) and start learning to embrace not just more efficient transportation, but more public transportation!

Will this change be easy, no! Will this change take money, yes! But I would much rather spend a few dollars now, to enrich the lives of our children, then to leave them with too little choices and not enough time to enact them!

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It appears that the comments on this progressive site have been taken over by the Righties.

Who is your leader?

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Public transportation is getting axed out here in St Louis and those broadband bills aren't about to get any cheaper either. $10 billion to improve public transportation is pittance. How about cutting down all that useless "defense" spending and putting that money towards improving the rails and bus routes. Why subsidize BIG OIL and create 3 hour traffic jams just to drive 45 miles to work ?!? Plus big corporations don't bother to improve the public infrastructure and are in fact getting bought out by foreign companies even as we "borrow" from China to pay for wars and tax cuts for the wealthy/corporate elites. And faith-based stuff? Yeah right. Obama isn't about to give up his plans to fund Christian boot camps !

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Real, progressive change isn't simply appointment of a more tolerant drug czar. Legalization of the sale and distribution of drugs? Now that would be real, significant, progressive change. Or keep drugs illegal in order to fund the Taliban (so that it can continue killing with weapons bought with proceeds of U.S. drug sales) and the rapidly expanding, ever more powerful, Mexican drug cartels. Stupid.

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What kind of sick joke is this?

A 7 billion dollar grant for the internet-no control or ownership for the tax payer.

The drug czar will be Nazi lite.

OH, oh, how about separation of church and state-not anymore.

Mr. Obama is a disaster, and Alternet is just making pretend he is a progressive.

Trouble is that most people are fooled by this guy and the press which does not call Mr. Obama on his right wing stance.

How about other progressive programs like the escalation in Afghanistan, or the bankster bail outs, or the inflationary housing rescue? Anyone of those policies is going to destroy this nation with bankruptcy of the currency, maybe push us into a depression.

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These 5 things all seem half-assed, as though you were hard-pressed to come up with even 5.

Well, my support for the Obama Administration, and Democrats in general, is half-assed as well.

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I'm a liberal-progressive, semi-socialist, openly gay man with the same partner for 29 years. I'm no "righty". I believe we need to be far more "left", in a hurry, and Obama and the rest of the democrats (with only a couple exceptions) are not making it happen.

Viva protectionism.

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to post this crap and think it is of any significance.

If nothing else this nonsense proves exactly how pathetic the Obama admin and their supporters are.

Obama is a right-wing corporate errand boy and supporting him or the Dems shows an inability to wake up or grow up.

And what's a "progressive" anyway?

"Progressive" is merely a term that was salvaged from the scrapheap of history,sorry but that's too great a metaphor not to steal,by the alleged "left" in this country because the Limbaughs,Kristols,et al had so demonized the word "liberal". That's basically it,plain and simple.The problem is,that in spite of the fact they were led by one of the biggest imperialists and warmongers,the original Progressives,were a bunch of Bolsheviks,compared to the hegemonic capitalists who wrap themselves in the "progressive" mantle today.

While some of us here know that modern-day liberalism was founded to be a capitalist-friendly "third way" between socialism,and conservatism, most people do not. If they did and truly understood this history they would not waste all of their time and effort into trying to make "liberals",and The Democratic Party in particular,into the socialists they might want them to be.

A "progressive" is someone who cannot admit to the systemic failure of the society. Through this stubborn blindness, they reveal their own fundamental loyalty to the social system as a whole. The solution to the "anti-democratic" turn in American politics is not to question its foundations but to proscribe "more democracy" or "real democracy", without evaluating for a minute whether the ""turn" is really an aberration. In economics, a "progressive" is one who blames an excess of greed, a deficiency of regulation, or the corruption of the state rather than the normal operation of capitalism. In this way, "progressives" are identical to Libertarians who, in the face of insurmountable evidence, continue to insist that it is "too little" and not too much "free enterprise" which is the problem. They also both share with Nazis, their predisposition to conspiracies. It is secret societies, international bankers, "Jews", who pull the strings and undermine the New Jerusalem. We need a capitalism based on good intentions says the, one based on a strengthening of the "individual" claims the next, and one purged of racial corruption declares the last. Fixing capitalism is the highest and in fact the only slogan of all of the above, and this in the most trivial and unhistorical way possible. Those are the last and the only words of this brand of "radical" criticism which is actually a radical support for the society as it exists... if only that society could be "allowed" to achieve its "true" nature.

All too often "progressive" has come to mean someone who will offer unconditional support to The Democratic Party no matter what.

A progressive is someone who believes in the system.

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From the article: U.S. Tries a Trillion-Dollar Key for Locked Lending

The Obama administration hopes to jump-start this crucial machinery by effectively subsidizing the profits of big private investment firms in the bond markets. The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve plan to spend as much as $1 trillion to provide low-cost loans and guarantees to hedge funds and private equity firms that buy securities backed by consumer and business loans.

Simon Johnson, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, said many people might take a dim view of the TALF program because it provided government subsidies to investors like hedge funds. Investors who borrow from the Fed could enjoy annual returns of 20 percent or more.

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i was afraid this would happen.

rolling back some extreme bush policies, while necessary, is not moving forward but breaking even, which means we are still in lots of trouble.

don't forget obama's hired L. summers and T. geithner to economic posts. 2 guys more instrumental in engineering the financial crisis and the back bailout giveaway couldn't be found.

Obama is also escalating troop presences in Afghanistan. he's not ending this atrocious, unwinnable war.

He will also keep torture and rendition alive an well.

And he's a coward on Israel!

This is not Change!

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As of today, legislation has been introduced to require small farmers to adopt "site I.D's", costly documentation, and chipping of animals. This will drive small, organic, and family farms out of business and further pass control of food production to multinational corporations.
After NAFTA multinationals acquire control of the purchasing and distribution of food to grocery chains and gained control of the total sequence of production and distribution, and began freezing out the small and family farms in the U.S.
A real stimulus bill would support small family farms that substain food production and income in rural areas.
S425

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i'd be much happier if he'd simply pull the plug on this "faith-based" nonsense...including "faith-based" ecomonics aka trickle-down and "faith -based" foreign policy aka if we just will things a little harder all our efforts will pay off...

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That's very nice, but: 1) He has kept the Office of Faith-Based White House Initiatives in business. 2) He is sending another 17,000 Americans into expensive, blood-letting, brain-maiming combat; 3) He is continuing to allow rendition; 4) He increased tax cuts in the stimulus bill without requiring Republican concessions in his direction before he gave the concessions. And I would like to know what he's done about the Prayer Closets Bush installed in the White House. If Obama doesn't start remembering what a Democrat is supposed to stand for, I will having pressing business elsewhere than in the voting booth the next time he runs for public office. Who is he winning over with his positions? A brief read on townhall.com will show that Republicans aren't even halfway his admirers---they hate his guts. And if Obama keeps on, he is going to lose his Democratic base.

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Here are five more important things that Obama could do.

1. GET OUT of Iraq-NAM and Afghanistan-NAM. Let the Islamic Republic of Iran and China deal with headaches caused by their unruly neighbors. 735 foreign military bases and fighting wars on at least two fronts is bankrupting us. Indeed! WE ARE BANKRUPT!

2. $top $upporting the ethno-racist Zionist regime in the theo-crazy of Israel. Zionism is racism; its days are numbered. I say go back to a one $tate solution... as was the case in the 19th century. Before 1900, before the advent of Zionism, Jews and Arabs lived together in peace in Palestine.

3. Fix talk $hit radio and tell-lie-vision with the re-introduction of the fairness doctrine. Radio and tell-lie-vision are nothing more than propagan-duh organs for the Repub-lie-con Party.

4. Stop the abhorrent practice of mountain top removal for the extraction of coal. Are you people nuts?

5. The Pentagon budget and the $uper $ecret black budget of the military industrial complex is destroying this nation. It must be reign in! We've had enough of the insanity of militarism. It brings us nothing but woe.

6. End the god damn war on drrrugs. Legalize, regulate, market and tax these substances... as we do with alcohol and tobacco. The war on drrugs fosters violent gang culture, promotes and feeds the prison industrial complex... and maintains a huge untaxed black market $ystem for the $ake of a few (at the expense of many). Prohibition is the problem. See it! See it!

7. Release all the government documents regarding extraterrestral life forms monitoring and visiting this planet satellite from elsewhere. You are NOT fooling us anymore! The earth is not flat! And the planet revolves around a star (the Sun)... in a galaxy of bilions and billions and billions of similar stars.

Come on! Dump the Catho-lick crap about humanity's origins and get over it! Contemporary humankind (a.k.a.: ewe-man-unkind) is the product of slow biological evolutionary processes indiginous to this planet... AND deliberate manipulation ('creation') of the baboonie DNA by advanced civilizations. THIS is the truth! And Old Coyote Knose that it comes from the 'Horse's Mouth'!

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We are in deep trouble. These are the classic red/blue differences of opinion that are going to sink us and take us down the road to third world status. No president can possibly please everyone and so must take a middle road that reflects our differences and not our strengths. If we can never agree on anything how can we truly solve anything? And so things will continue much as they have for the last forty years where those in power try to please those who vote for them, meaning that as far as clearly defined objectives to deal with current issues, we are hamstrung. A clear example being that our differences have prevented us from addressing the ever looming financial disaster in a manner that would prevent failure. We simply have not put enough money into it to prevent continuing decline. Added to this rapid road to poverty, the military is asking for more and more money and people, that we cannot possibly afford in these times. Sooner or later our armies will be like the soviet armies of yesterday, an attraction to get out of grinding poverty here at home, only to find themselves in an increasingly less equipped and more dangerous situation, eventually coming home to the poverty they left. Until we ALL have a more compassionate world view, practicing kindness here at home in our own communities, and work for the betterment of all, we are, I'm afraid destined to solve nothing and so slip into the collapse of America in our lifetime. Perhaps a taste of real poverty will unite us more, but by then it will be too late to do anything about it.

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This is a man who continues to promise to murder people in Afghanistan and Pakistan, not because it will accomplish anything, but to appear that he is tough. To Barrack Obama, Afghan people are just things to exterminate so that he may say he is a tough American, who is tough on terror because he is as tough as the tough guy, Bush. All fairly ironic sentiments given the only terror suffered are by the people who have America’s unmanned drones i.e. exterminators flying over their villages daily. He continues to murder people to satisfy his mouth foaming American constituents who feel they must wage genocides and perpetual war against impoverished people in order to feel they are doing something worthwhile. Given these outrages I really don’t give a god damn that this man will advocate for some Americans “progressive” cause whether it be broadband initiatives or whatever other frivolous issues you animals are rallying for as you praise a genocidal maniac for being sympathetic to your “progressive” cause while daily Afghan people die. Yes believe it or not broadband initiatives are actually frivolous in the face of hundreds of people being exterminated daily by American bastards. They have no chance to be progressives or have causes to rally behind because they have no chance to exist at all so pardon us if your president’s “progressive” measures are worth less than total utter shit. Ultimately no measure a genocidal war mongering criminal takes can give them the appearance of being “progressive. Now please proceed to be offended that anyone would dare to hold accountable this murderous maniac rather than praise him unconditionally as the messiah for promoting high speed rail so that Americans may enjoy speedy transportation while Afghans are slaughtered. This SOB has the gall to announce to the Islamic world that America is not their enemy in the same day one of his drones slaughtered sixteen Afghan civilians like pests from 20,000 feet. May he rot in eternal hell.

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It amazes me that it requires someone to expalin to Boner how a Rail system is Stimulative, how it will benefit his OH constituents...AH Steel, Engine and other components for locomotion, plastics, fabric- ya know the stuff the Rust Belt produced for Cars?DUH!
Should we Be Surprised we have continued to be the Rust Belt for decades with idiots like that trying to figure out what kind of industry would benefit our States, or region??
Has Boner been Courting Lobster Fishermen? Or Citrus growers?What a flaming Dumbass.
Whats the matter Boner (Repugs) couldn't handle the Stim package because it was over 2 1/2 pages and not written in Day Glo crayon?
But I feel for my southern neighbors- MI has it's own band of mentally challenged seated in Representative office.
Funny everyone is ready to bash the Gov, but fail to admitted we have a State body under the control of the Retarded (no disrespect to those with real mental disablities- but these are apparently people in which their limitaiton are intentioally self inflicted).
Is there higher toxins ppm in the water, or have they been licking the paint on Old homes?
How can you say NO to ANY influx of funds to this area.I don't give a shit if it's to build an Underwater basket weaving pool- It's Stimulative!Pool installers, cement producers, utilities,Equipment operators, maintenance... all jobs who's workers can spend money buy the other shit we make or do!
There is not doubt in my mind Repugs have been trying to destroy this country from the inside out! F*ckin' RED COATS!Tax Break, On What? My income? My Property? oh yeah My Capitol Gains..I'll give ya a damn tax break, lean your head over this way!

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Will you people stop complaining. Never seen or read such a bunch of whiney ingrates. We finally have a man and people behind him who will move this country forward and since he hasn't jumped perfectly into the trap you have set for him--MY AGENDA FIRST and since you all are SUCH policy experts--he is a failure. Get over it and shut up if you can't be part of the solution. Listen and read yourselves. Pathetic. You know, I have better things to do than read this childish whinging. I was just curious how whiney the comments would be to good news and I was not disappointed. Republicans if some of this is from you--Party of ZERO--just like you say and will be for years--OK by me. The rest of you--no comment.

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There's a nonprogressive move that outweighs everything of a progressive nature Obama might do mon dieu.

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Anything to do with Henry Kissinger should be a red flag. Change we can believe in? This is a guy from Nixon's administration, who illegally invaded Cambodia. He overthrew the elected democracy of Chile and put in Pinochet, resulting in thousands of innocent people being killed. This guy should be in jail, not acting as a diplomat.

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A few days ago, I heard some republicans and media heads moaning about a fast rail line from LA to Las Vegas. "I mean... really... a fast train for all those gamblers?"
But they wouldn't have said a word about more freeways or air flights to "Sin City".
And, there was no mention of the fact that the system would have paid for itself quickly. It would have also provided seed money for fast rail lines in other locations.
A fast rail line from LA to Las Vegas is a brilliant idea.
Also, there was nobody on TV rebutting their argument. That bothers me a lot.
There seems to be a heard instinct among talking heads, and a natural inclination to spout the Republican party line.

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lets see a few billion here .. certainly under 25 and a trillion for wall street and the banks, business as usual ... keep doing what you have always been doing but throw a few bones to the citizens to keep them happy... it isn't that the programs aren't worth while and needed but the implementation is more of the same in that the public has got to stand in line behind the private sector to feed on the leftovers as versus own it. These areas, internet, transit etc etc should be part of the public domain.. why is it that we pay more for internet then most all all nations in the world??? privitization of "necessities", those areas in which there can't be competition in the market place.. ie internet.. i have one cable provider, no other choice.. these should, by definition, be regulated if not run by the govt in a partnership way. But why not have billions for the programs simply by stopping our armed aggression abroad...when will be stop be cowards and start spending bucks at home first... at least to the degree that we do not have starving and dying people living in the streets here.

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repeal the patriot act-- first litmus test.
Leave our 2nd ammendment right alone
legalize drugs---
free all drug war prisoners
stop funding the drug war in Mexico

if these things happen I would say he is progressive-- passing out money for things that the corporations have decided was not profitable to do on their own does not seem progressive.

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Four weeks in office and you're already complaining. If Obama legalized pot today, you'd be complaining that hash wasn't legalized too.
It's good to hold one's feet to the fire, but don't throw him in!!!!
Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

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as initiating the death of a thousand cuts.

First, Obama had to get elected and to do that he had to say certain things to Jewish Americans (remember the vote in Florida in 2000?). He had to take corporate money to compete on TV and maybe even to look more conservative and pro-corporation than he actually is.

Maybe he is pouring oil on troubled waters with the bailout and sending more troops to Afghanistan. Maybe he is living to fight another day.

If we have some grasp of how treacherous the powers that be are (and have a good idea where actual power lies), then a full-frontal attack could be downright suicidal.

Obama isn't letting sleeping dogs lie but he is gently tickling their tummies. Is this an act? Is it for real? All I know is that everyone in the whole world is better off with him as president instead of the really scary alternative.

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Well I say...thank you to the author...for trying t o present us with Obama's beginning steps to change dispite Republican time wasting interference ....

also, thank you, for saying one good word for Rahn Emanuel...a Jew...who once served in the Israeli army........a Jew...on a web site.....where not one positive word...for a Jew or Israel's point of view...is ever presented...

a web site that permits all sorts of low level misconscrewed Arab propaganda....and is mostly anti anyone who happens to be a Jew that does not trash Western Civilization.....while allowing plenty, who twist truth till they represent lies..("oh I don't know what a holocust looks like...but this looks like a holocust to me"....a contradiction in thinking if ever I heard one)..commentators who negate factual historical documented and still standing evidence of truths .......a web site where almost all articles blame AMerica and Western Civilization for most everything...and demands that it pays dues..while exonarating all those that are atleast equally guilty of a long chain of historic and present day crimes against humanity.....and cries loud and clear for its world staged and self-planned tragedies .....

So, thank you again.......and do keep up the beam of positive thinking that we in these dire times so deperately need to find our way.

And to all others...critic what is happening.....and offer options of change.....and methods for how change can come about...instead of just casting a negative spell over all attempts of a positive outcome.

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Watch this and weep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knJV4fBCm3Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuS1LReRI-E

Tony

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LIMIT the Governments Illegal & Immoral Spying on "We, The People", I MIGHT get onboard the Hurray for Obama Train!

From PERSONAL Experience I KNOW Obama's Administration is doing the SAME CRAP Bush's Administration was doing: Targeting Citizens who do not "fit" Their goals or Ideas of Good Little Americans!

I am amazed by this UNJustified Praise Obama is getting when IN FACT, He is doing the SAME things Bush did & got NAILED for! It WAS BAD when Bush did it & it IS bad Now REGARDLESS of Our "new" President!

I threatened to show up in Denver to ask Obama WHY I was & AM being targeted for Harassment by the NSA, in PUBLIC: The Response? The "Gathering" in Denver was PRIVATE! By Invitation ONLY! NOW THAT is saying something & it AIN'T GOOD!

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. . .doesn't pull off election wins. The amount of wisdom here, you'd think you wouldn't need Nader; YOU'D all be shoe-ins. Isn't winning eventually the point?

Oops, must be some kind of Botting I'm missing out on.

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things like drug-czars and 20th century rail tech weren't progressive.

But hey, this from the same dude who screamed Obama was a progressive so what do we expect...

Once again reality is showing Obama to be the center-right wing faux liberal we knew he was; the status quo is preserved and this time with a nice smile instead of the smirk. gawd dang, you gotta love 'Merkuh, land of the fucking stoopid owning-class craptasm.

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Depending on what Capitalism means to the whole of the world as seen in America, but not a Dictated Capitalism as it has soon become for the world to witness Automakers being pushed thru paces by a Auto Union that does not pay its electric bills, water bills, sewage bills, trash bills for using Automakers Businesses as a means of income. If they occupied my business they would be charged for their occupation and that cuts their income as I see it not their insurance rating as UAW is seeing it for a pay increase, therefore when we turn everything off and start anew we see that these things will add up, if a Union Workforce uses to much electricity either discredit the Workforce or find another way to pay the Automaker business these bills, otherwise the problem continues as a progressive movement which abuses the right of the Automaker which is not owned by the UAW. When a government continues to feed into the pocket of the UAW and the UAW does not pay its share of ovehead cost this is not democratic, this is a dictatorship and we are not respecting dictator or a monopoly organized UAW that fundamentally tramples businesses for their own gain. Government either lays down a law or Automakers must force the requirement. Any machine that is patently owned by UAW must have its bills paid in full operation of that machine, for UAW to see a turn in profit the workers must work harder to make that machine produce above the waste levels else the paid amount will not equal a amount that shows the remainder amount to be a value of the product as produced and the product is under valued which means labor for that product is excessive and would never show a true value of the products worth. Recognize this factor with every job the UAW supports and you have a larger cost factor versus payoff factor and determine if the product values produced is equal to the value which is placed on a wholesale price for that entire product, if the value is to low then the business representing that entire product is being short changed by UAW. It is that simple, UAW must pay the overhead for the value of the entire product to be greater without being to expensive for sales by the Automaker to earn a profit from its customers which are dealerships and other nations. The same sinister argument is at any producers location that uses skilled Union Workers anywhere in the world.

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Not in regard to the above ....

The Progressive Movement did not fundamentally understand that ---

No Where In The World Should A Entire Nation Be Forced To Remain Within Its Own Borders For Their Entire Lifetime, Year After Year. But its ok to demand that such occupied nations cannot come to your nation that borders it or to restrict those from certain locals within other nations. Evil processes are seen by mannerisms and this is a bad ideology, its like requiring all visitors to have their arms and hands tied if they come into your nation or pass through your nation, being restricted inside a train is OK, being restricted to stay on a ship is OK, but being restricted to freedom which is not causing endangerment is not OK. When certain isolated groups take advantage of the rules they should be punished, sent back to square one or ordered to finish their required travel, if a group commits a crime then it becomes a factor of many against a group and the process of eliminating such groups a factor. Crime is not and should not be allowed to be a objective. A group that engages in a crime for their own gain should be punished, you just do not punish a entire nation for the crime of a group. A group can be a number between ten or as many as 30,000 people as a militant body but surely no nation should allow that many people to travel at the same time. If restrictions are to be emplaced, a maximum number of traveling peoples in a group should be no more that four but allowed in groups of four with a total of no more than ten groups. Each group would have a chaperone, each ten grouping would have ten chaperones. Therefore the duration of travel should be restricted to a distance of three days going, with one day allowed for stays and three days returning which totals to a duration of seven days only. The distance formula can be increased as necessary if violence is not observed by a group or the body of ten groups as time progresses. Why is this significant -- if Hamas is claiming to be the government for a region it must have these restrictions placed on it to be considerate to those whom would allow their travel. The duration divides as follows, since seven days total, if one day going and one day returning then five days stay, if two days going and two days returning then two days stay. Others that are not Hamas should be allowed a duration of travel to twice the duration of Hamas, that would be six days going two days stay and six days returning. If travel fits within the fourteen day period and only one day going and one day returning then there is twelve days stay. If two days going and two days returning then theres ten days stay. Isn't that like a democracy and not like a dictatorship. Let's say that Hamas must be responsible, Hamas must show honesty and responsibility otherwise Hamas is and will always be considered as a illegal operation and not a viable factor to consider itself as a government body amongst free nations that are democratically organized and have respect and are honest with their objectives. If Hamas respects these rules it is a start at a lasting peace, if Israel allows this it is a start at a lasting peace, if the world sees this as a peaceful, organized behavior and as responsible behavior then the world may consider to look at the Hamas as a respectable democratic organized operation which sees itself as a government then the rest of the region hamas considers to govern can decide if Hamas should be their government. If this is OK with Fatah and Fatah agrees to these circumstantial Chaperone group arrangements then there will be peace. If no agreement can be reached which serves to honor these restricted traveling rights --- No Peace Can Be Legislated For Those Whom Oppose It. There should be penalties for not abiding as a peaceful group which includes imprisonment for the neglect of peace at large.

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When Hamas is occupying the State of Minnesota [LiveLeak Video] it is -- Very bad craziness in Minnesota, where Hamas supporters burned an Israeli flag in front of the state capitol. These incidents should not be overlooked by anyone. There needs to be restrictions placed on what Hamas can legally get away with just like any other group that occupys America. If these are American Students converging on State properties in what they consider as Legal Rallies then American Leadership must descend on their locations when they least expect it and bring them to justice to answer to their misconceptions. Watch the video yourself as a rally takes place on the steps of Minnesota Capitol.
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[U.S. firm CEO admit weapon nuclear-linked export violations]
A Minnesota company MTS Systems Corp. was fined 400,000 dollars after it pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with submitting false US export license applications over proposed shipments to India, the Justice Department said.
The company admitted to two misdemeanor counts of "false certification or writing" by omitting critical information linked to test equipment for nuclear-power plants.
"In this case, the omission clearly was an attempt to disguise the end-use of testing structural components of nuclear-power plants," said Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement Darryl Jackson.
In 1998, the United States imposed economic sanctions on India after it conducted a series of nuclear weapons tests.
The sanctions prohibit American companies from exporting certain goods and services to various Indian entities without first obtaining an export license.
Washington and New Delhi had signed a pact in 2005 for export of US nuclear technology to India but implementation has been delayed as the two countries work out complex international regulations governing such trade.
The 47-year-old Sudarshan faces a maximum punishment of five years in prison, a 250,000-dollar fine and three years of supervised release, a justice official told AFP. He is to be sentenced on June 16.
Sudarshan routed the products through his company's Singapore office and then sent the packages on to India to conceal that goods were going to entities on the Entity List, officials said.
In addition to supplying VSSC and BDL with components, Sudarshan acquired microprocessors for the Tejas, a fighter jet under development in India.
The microprocessors were necessary for the navigation and weapons systems of the Tejas.
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Good to know about what a Zionist might think about this invasion.
'using' might like to comment.

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The Al-Qaeda in Mexico does not care about Cocaine, if they had a pick up of that vehicle by someone they were to meet at the vehicle and those people dead the Al-Qaeda does not care. The point is that either Columbian drugs or Mexican drugs are of no value to Al-Qaeda whom desires only Opium from the Middle East. Special body work seems to indicate a Al-Qaeda lead terrorist operation within Mexico. Take heed of this oman, it could mean a insurrection is to occur soon within Mexico.

Mexico finds pickup truck with cocaine panels

Friday, February 13, 2009 | 10:28 AM

February 13, 2009 (MEXICO CITY) -- Police at a Mexican seaport say they have found a pickup truck with body panels and a bumper made from fiberglass -- and cocaine.

The Attorney General's Office says a trained dog picked up the scent of drugs during an inspection of a shipping container sent from Colombia.

Officials in the port of Manzanillo dismantled parts of a 1990 pickup truck inside the container and found that its rear bumper and some of its body panels appeared to be made from pressed cocaine base coated in fiberglass.

The office said in a statement Thursday that the cocaine-mix parts weighed 164 pounds (74 kilograms). No charges have yet been brought in the case.

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#1) there is NO such thing as Al-Qaeda. #2) wouldn't closing Guantanamo be on this list anywhere? the torture thing has been a major concern of mine. No matter the policy following it, I thought talk of closing this gulag and adhering to the Geneva Conventions was fairly huge. Sorry if I missed this in the article anywhere.

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I don't know if the President was responsible for it or not, but I thought it was a "progressive" move to drop the loan guarentees and tax subsidies for nuclear and coal industries in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Also, Lisa Jackson, the new head of EPA has stated that she's reviewing each and every one of the off shore drilling leases so quickly awarded prior to Bush leaving office.

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Ok, lets all get on the steamroller where the "left" meets the "right" to fume and spit. Have we forgotten that this guy has only been in this job for 30 days? What have any one of you done in the span of 30 days? A huge stimulas bill got passed through both houses of congress. Did legislators tinker and mess with it? Yes. They always do. But it got through. Something got through and that is phenominal. I hope for much much more from this administration. But, you have to begin somewhere. So, lefties, this guy hasn't delivered every single package on your secret wish list? And the righties, your gonna hate any Democrat in creation and your gonna double hate an African-American Democrat no matter what happens, even if what happens turns out to be beneficial to you.

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But you're standing knee deep in the same old shit.


FREE AMERICA

REVOLUTIONARY (DIRECT) DEMOCRACY

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I introduced him to Deek

http://www.fknnewz.com/

link 1 for you guys who haven't yet worked out how to copy and paste

Hey Deek - I'm into full screen

Which button do I click on on your website

I click on the normal button that gives full screen porn

But - you are still little

How do I make you Big?

Have You Been Banned From Youtube?

I tried and got

"Connection Interrupted

The document contains no data.

The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again."

I tried again

And Got

http://www.youtube.com/user/fknnewz

link 2 for you stupid cunts who aren't watching Deek like Barry is



I am now hearing you in quadrophonic

Two videos in stereo all at the same time

But will anyone send you any money?

Well I'm skint - go and fuck yourself


Tony

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First of all, it's amazing that we are all gaga about these "moves" that are about 20 years too late.
Second, it's "under the radar" for a reason . . . the corporate-controlled-media is still the rule.
And third, look at us . . . we're already labelling acts of common sense as "progressive."


$10 Billion for High-Speed Rail
What good is a high-speed rail if nobody rides it? Americans need to be weaned away from their precious cars. Basic public transit systems in all major cities face dwindling funds while roads and highways are always at least adequately funded. What's wrong with this picture?

Broadband Initiative
What good is broadband telecommunications if people only use it for . . . what? To watch TV? To download porn? Spend countless hours on My Space and Facebook? Great . . . now you can download that movie faster. Getting broadband to people in non-populated areas is great. What they will do with it is another story.

Commission to Review Faith-Based Initiatives
A noble cause, but deciding who does or doesn't get federal funding pales in comparison to the fact that these same groups DON'T pay taxes. How about removing tax-exempt status of these offenders? Watch what happens then.

A Reform-Minded Drug Czar
Not much to criticize here . . . ANY advancement away from the medieval "war on drugs" is a good thing. The bad thing will be when the drug companies step in and profit from all this. And, they will.

Swift Action on Arms Control
Since America is the most nuclear-proficient country in the world, let's just make sure that our own house is in order first. For us to dictate another country's (Iran) nuclear ambitions seems a bit hypocritical.

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Clinton, Bush and Obama all smoked grass but they are still willing to put people in jail for smoking pot. Our jails are filled with pot smokers, mostly black kids, we can watch their miserable lives in jail on Nat Geo on TV, Its now high entertainment so to speak and we are spending ten's of billions on them. Its crazy! People are andgry about their tax dollars going to some unforunate family who could lose their home but its ok to pay $40,000 per yr for some kid who was casught smoking pot when 400 million people die each yr from smoking cigarettes. People don't get it. The cost to the public for illness due to cigarettes is passed on to us. But thats OK?

Also how is compuerizing healthcare records going to lower my huge monthly healthcare costs? Do you understand it?

People are dying out there due to lack of health care. This seems like it should be at the top of the list.

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if confronted by financial crisis would not grab the credit card and head for the mall. Obama calls this "stimulus." You and I and all of us are now about $170,000 in the hole. We did not approve this loan. We are on the hook for it. "Stimulus" added $30,000 to our tab. Every man, woman, and child in the nation. All of us do not pay taxes. This means that if you work, you will pay several times this amount. That's a lot of work. Enjoy the "progressive victory." See you at work.

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It’s clear that Obama is a right centrist rapidly moving further to the right to prop up a dying economic system based on looting by the rich and an attempt to prosecute an unwinnable series of wars from Palestine to Pakistan. Attempts to ferret out something, anything, to show him in a reformist ‘progressive’ light are simply silly.

A high speed rail system, one capable of significantly cutting smog and reducing fuel consumption by long haul trucks and aircraft will take hundreds of billions and will have to be accompanied by the nationalization of railroads (without compensation) and their reorganization. Teamsters union members, IAM and UAW aircraft workers and union airline workers effected will have to be compensated by heavy taxes on shareholders in their companies. It’s take back time!

In terms of faith based funding that's simply a source of anti-constitutional bribes. The original idea to use federal funds to bribe greedy, lying clerics is the brain child of Rick Santorum and Hillary Clinton, fellow Senators and members of the Fellowship, the protestant version of Opus Dei.

The Santorum/Clinton bipartisan concept was perfected by Rove who used it to whip up a storm of anti-GLBT sentiment around same sex marriage. Now that strategy is being refined by Obama and his Minister of Pandering Joshua DuBois, who like Leah Daughtry, CoS of the DNC, is a bigoted anti-GLBT Pentecostal cleric.

Joshua Dubois organized the religious support groups for Obama's presidential bid that began with vermin like MaryMary and Donnie McClurkin and ended with Obama's sanctimonious statement that "god's in the mix" at Warren's Saddleback bigotfest. Those four words, repeated millions of times by Yes on 8 doomed our chances of defeating Prop 8. Along the way he had kind words to say about the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, George Bush's 'spirit' advisor?

Now Dubois will repeat, and this time with even more money, Rove's goal of harnessing religion to politics. In practice, as we've seen, it's the other way around: politics are harnessed to religion and Dobson and scum like him smile all the way to the bank.

The Democrats (sic) are our enemies as much as the Republicans. Rail workers and the GLBT movement have the same pressing task, to create fighting left wings and to form alliances to oppose the Democrats and Republicans.

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On February 17 Amnesty International sent out this email alert to supporters:

"Last week we got new, startling evidence that the Obama administration may continue the failed Bush policies on torture and illegal detention.

"The first blow came last Monday, when a lawyer for the new administration used the same 'state secret' (or national security concerns) argument put forward by the Bush administration in an attempt to dismiss the case of Binyam Mohamed, who was reportedly brutally tortured and detained without charges.

"Then on Wednesday, before a key Republican Senator, Solicitor General Nominee Elena Kagan said she believed the government had the legal authority to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely, without charges.

"We fear that the Obama administration is feeling intense pressure for its early, bold actions against Guantanamo Bay and torture, and may be compromising to win political allies."

The case in question is Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen. A few days earlier the ACLU had expressed similar alarm and outrage. Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU, said:

"[New U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder's Justice Department stood up in court today and said that it would continue the Bush policy of invoking state secrets to hide the reprehensible history of torture, rendition and the most grievous human rights violations committed by the American government. This is not change. This is definitely more of the same. Candidate Obama ran on a platform that would reform the abuse of state secrets, but President Obama's Justice Department has disappointingly reneged on that important civil liberties issue. If this is a harbinger of things to come, it will be a long and arduous road to give us back an America we can be proud of again."

* * * *
Obama is a statist. He's seizing control of the economy, building a massive Democratic political machine under the guise of economic recovery. He's continuing the War on Drugs. He's a hawk -- ramping up the Afghanistan fiasco and pondering interventions elsewhere. He's already betrayed the Constitution on wiretapping. He won't go after the Bush administration criminals.

How much more do people need to see before they realize this Emperor is very, very naked?

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WELL, THE DEMOCRATS ARE BACK IN CONTROL ONCE AGAIN — ALL OF THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR.

1. The American people elect a black president with a total of 42 days experience as a U S Senator from the most politically corrupt state in America whose governor is ousted from office. The President’s first official act is to close Gitmo and make sure terrorists civil rights are not violated.

2. The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm a black Attorney General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out represents seventeen Gitmo terrorists.

3. The CIA Boss, Leon Penetta, with absolutely no experience, has a daughter Linda we find is a true radical anti-American activist who is a supporter of all the Anti-American regimes in the western hemisphere.

4. We got the most corrupt female in America as Secretary of State; bought and paid for.

5. We got a (4 year) Tax Cheat for Treasury Secretary who files his own taxes.

6. A Commerce Secretary nominee who withdrew due to corruption charges.

7. A Tax cheat nominee for Chief Performance Officer who withdrew under charges.

8. A Labor Sec’y nominee who withdrew under charges of unethical conduct.

9. A Sec’y HHS nominee who withdrew under charges of cheating on his taxes.

10. Obama borrows a trillion on our VISA and the DOW falls to an 11 year low.

America is being run by ~ Curly Barrack, Larry Nancy, and Moe Harry…the most ethical…yeah, sure…suckers.

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