Fuck Obama

[Bruce Dazzling]

To many liberals and progressives, the president's unwillingness to veto any measure that includes continued tax relief for billionaires is the last straw, building on a record of spinelessness that includes his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, abandonment of a public option for health-care reform, refusal to prosecute those who tortured in Iraq or lied us into that war, and unwillingness to tax carbon emissions.

Until more than a few of us (the majority of whom are on this board) realize that Obama's doing these things to serve his actual base, NOT because he's spineless, there will never be any hope of progressive change.

Unfortunately, the vast majority are far more interested in the ego stroke of being mindless team blue warriors than they are in honestly appraising their messiah.

[Simulist]

You beat me to it.

I rather enjoyed that.

[justdrew]

this country is un-saveable. It's over. The sooner we get on with the collapse and civil war the sooner it'll be over.

[Simulist]

To many liberals and progressives, the president's unwillingness to veto any measure that includes continued tax relief for billionaires is the last straw, building on a record of spinelessness that includes his escalation of the war in Afghanistan, abandonment of a public option for health-care reform, refusal to prosecute those who tortured in Iraq or lied us into that war, and unwillingness to tax carbon emissions.

Until more than a few of us (the majority of whom are on this board) realize that Obama's doing these things to serve his actual base, NOT because he's spineless, there will never be any hope of progressive change.

Unfortunately, the vast majority are far more interested in the ego stroke of being mindless team blue warriors than they are in honestly appraising their messiah.

Right on.

The fact that so-called "liberals" fulminated on and on against George W. Bu$h, but make excuses for, tolerate, and often even praise Barack Obama as he perpetrates the exact same evils as his predecessor is clear and convincing evidence that modern Democrats — exactly like their repugnant Republican analogs — are nothing other than complicit cretins who have no business managing the distribution of towels in a men's room, let alone running a nation that fancies itself a moral beacon.

To hell with them all.

[Montag]

You beat me to it.

I rather enjoyed that.

I love that these Obama apologists (hopefully Olbermann may be at the beginning of the end of his Obama apologetics) always trot out the public option. The public option was a trojan horse. It was a public option set up to fail, to put the most sick into it -- only the people that were toxic to the for-profit "health" system. The original public option -- that a professor named Jacob Hacker -- came up with was supposed to be viable and have around 100 million people in it. The Dims know people are uninformed about a great many aspects of their government (and would not know one public option from another), so they traded away the trojan horse public option, and passed the health boondoggle (minus it). But it was feckless public option anyway.

This article explains the worthless public option that their was so much ado about. A real viable public option was never even offered.

Bait and switch: How the “public option” was sold
http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/07/20/bait-an ... -was-sold/

[freemason9]

fuck obama

[Jeff]

And negotiators have agreed that the estimated $900 billion cost of the cuts will simply be added to the deficit — not covered by reductions in spending or increases in other taxes. That is good news for hedge fund managers and private equity investors, who appear to have withstood an effort to get them to pay more by eliminating a quirk in the tax code that allows most of their income to be taxed at just 15 percent.

In fact, the only groups likely to face a tax increase are those near the bottom of the income scale — individuals who make less than $20,000 and families with earnings below $40,000.

“It’s going to look like the rich are getting richer again,” said Anne Mathias, an analyst for MF Global Inc.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/po ... ml?_r=2&hp

[Skunkboy]

freemason9 said:

fuck obama

Indeed!

[Gouda]

Armed services are urged to stock kitchens with Gulf seafood

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who doubles as President Barack Obama's point man on Gulf Coast oil spill recovery, is pressing America's armed services to consume as much Gulf seafood as possible.
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In a meeting Monday with Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, Mabus reaffirmed his commitment to using the tools at his disposal to help the Gulf seafood industry recover from the damage the BP oil spill has done in reality and perception. The board is gearing up for a large-scale national marketing campaign, with $30 million in BP money and millions more in federal dollars, to reassure restaurants and markets across the country that Gulf seafood is safe.

"He expressed what we wanted to hear: He is in favor of the federal government buying seafood from the Gulf," said Smith, who said he would like to see Gulf seafood as the choice throughout the public domain, "whether it's the military or prison systems or school systems."
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BP is giving the Louisiana marketing board $30 million to spend over the next three years to promote Gulf seafood, and Smith said a request for proposals from agencies that would craft the marketing campaign will be going out shortly.
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Wal-mart, for example, plans to buy all of its wild-caught fresh and frozen fish from MSC-certified fisheries beginning next year.
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The still unanswerable question is the long-term effect of the oil spilled and the dispersants used to break it up, effects that might not show up for years. "We don't know that answer and I don't think there's a scientist that could give you a definitive answer," Smith said.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill ... to_st.html

[Jeff]

White House Privately Pushing Data Showing Bush Tax Cut Extension Politically Popular

WASHINGTON -- Hoping to build support for the tax-cut deal that the president reached with Congressional Republicans, the White House has begun pressing Hill Democrats with polling data showing that extending the tax rates for the rich is politically popular.

A Senate aide sent over a copy of the email that an administration aide sent to offices on Wednesday morning. In it, the aide touts Gallup polling data showing that "Two-thirds of Americans (66%) favor extending the 2001/2003 tax cuts for all Americans for two years, and an identical number support extending unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed."

That an administration would promote polling data backing its policy preferences is normally not an astounding revelation. But the private push of the Gallup study struck the Senate aide as depressing if not counter-productive. Even as the president was insisting that he thought an extension of rates for the wealthy is poor economics -- "I'm as opposed to the high-end tax cuts today as I've been for years," Obama said on Tuesday -- his aides were privately embracing the idea that extending the Bush tax cuts across the board was politically prudent.

"We are making the argument for them," said the Senate aide, who sent over the email on condition that it could not be reprinted. "The White House now wants us to defend extending the Bush tax cuts."

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If the fraying of relations between the White House and congressional Democrats wasn't apparent enough, an "administration official" was quoted in Politico late Tuesday evening relaying that Obama was so dispirited with his party's leadership that he felt compelled to place his faith in direct talks with McConnell instead.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/0 ... 93732.html

[sunny]

[justdrew]

Obama was so dispirited with his party's leadership

FFS he really doesn't know. Obama YOU ARE THE FUCKING LEADERSHIP.

well, he were supposed to be. now he's just toast.

It's long past time to DESTROY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. FUCKING TRAITORS to everything this god damn country is supposed to stand for. two faced disingenuous liars each and every one... CLASS WAR MUTHERFUCKERS they should all DISAPPEAR ONE NIGHT. never to be heard from again. It's fucking legal after all.

[Simulist]

Obama was so dispirited with his party's leadership

FFS he really doesn't know. Obama YOU ARE THE FUCKING LEADERSHIP.

well, he were supposed to be. now he's just toast.

Obama knows damn well what he's doing.

This isn't ignorance or incompetence or spinelessness — this is willful culpability.

And it always has been.

[justdrew]

Obama was so dispirited with his party's leadership

FFS he really doesn't know. Obama YOU ARE THE FUCKING LEADERSHIP.

well, he were supposed to be. now he's just toast.

Obama knows damn well what he's doing.

This isn't ignorance or incompetence or spinelessness — this is willful culpability.

And it always has been.

I agree. The only reason his candidacy took off was when the corporate media handed him endless blow jobs. I think he's been made his whole life by the secret powers who have ruined this nation. Of course, it's always been corrupt as hell.

[justdrew]

President Obama is right about one thing -- Republicans in Congress are holding the middle class hostage.

We have a $13.8 trillion national debt, a collapsing middle class and the most unequal distribution of wealth of any major country. With all this in mind, Republicans in Congress say they will block tax cuts to the middle class and block unemployment benefits to more than two million families unless the President gives huge tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires.

Their behavior is morally bankrupt. It is reprehensible.

But instead of challenging the Republicans for their absurd demands and their outrageous tactics, the President gave them virtually everything they wanted.

I cannot and will not support this deal. I will do everything I can to uphold the promise made to the American people to end the Bush tax cuts for the rich.

Join me and my friends at Democracy for America today and sign our pledge calling on Congress to reject this deal.

One of the most underreported parts of this deal is a cut to the Social Security payroll tax. In just one year, over $120 billion of revenue will be cut from Social Security under the President's compromise plan, weakening the program and virtually guaranteeing benefit cuts in the future.

Make no mistake about it. Social Security has not added one dime to the national debt and this cut will only embolden Republican attempts to privatize the program and increase the age of retirement. Social Security is a vital safety net for all Americans and a cornerstone of our commitment to protect the middle class.

We are not alone in standing against this compromise. Republicans are holding the middle class hostage and the American people know it. I come from a small state and yesterday my office received more than 1,000 calls on this issue, with over 90% of them in opposition to this deal.

Last night, thousands of DFA members joined me on DFA Live where we had a lively discussion on this issue. One thing was clear to me during that call -- DFA members nationwide want Democrats to stop this deal and fight for the middle class, working people, senior citizens and the unemployed while making sure that millionaires and billionaires are not given massive tax breaks.

Make sure Congress gets the message -- Join the fight now and sign the petition opposing this so-called "compromise."

Thank you,

-Bernie

Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/