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Sep 24, 2011 - 10:52am |
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hippiechick wrote: Out of curiosity, if "neither they, nor anyone else connected with Solyndra, have done anything remotely criminal" as stated in the article, then why did they feel the need to plead the 5th? Over my life I've had businesses succeed and businesses fail, but can't imagine what legal act I could have taken that would be incriminating enough for me to refuse to admit I took it.
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hippiechick
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Sep 19, 2011 - 7:37pm |
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oldviolin wrote: Just be sure to vote for him before you vote against him... I am not voting against him by expressing criticism of him... a lot of criticism against him is valid— but the Republican party offers no legitimate alternative at this point in history...
I will vote for Obama for sure, but also I will not hesitate to hold his feet to the fire...
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oldviolin
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Sep 19, 2011 - 7:14pm |
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romeotuma wrote:
Obama still be my hero...
Just be sure to vote for him before you vote against him...
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mzpro5
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Sep 19, 2011 - 7:13pm |
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romeotuma wrote:Obama still be my hero...
Obama and Jobs: Why I Don't Believe Him Anymoreby Matt Taibbi RollingStone September 6, 2011 But I remember following Obama on the campaign trail and hearing all sorts of promises before union-heavy crowds. He said he would raise the minimum wage every year; he said he would fight free-trade agreements. He also talked about repealing the Bush tax cuts and ending tax breaks for companies that move jobs overseas.
It's not just that he hasn't done those things. The more important thing is that the people he's surrounded himself with are not labor people, but stooges from Wall Street. Barack Obama has as his chief of staff a former top-ranking executive from one of the most grossly corrupt mega-companies on earth, JP Morgan Chase. He sees Bill Daley in his own office every day, yet when it comes time to talk abut labor issues, he has to go out and make selected visits twice a year or whatever to the Richard Trumkas of the world. Listening to Obama talk about jobs and shared prosperity yesterday reminded me that we are back in campaign mode and Barack Obama has started doing again what he does best - play the part of a progressive. He's good at it. It sounds like he has a natural affinity for union workers and ordinary people when he makes these speeches. But his policies are crafted by representatives of corporate/financial America, who happen to entirely make up his inner circle. I just don't believe this guy anymore, and it's become almost painful to listen to him...
Matt Taibbi has always been a favorite and this only increases my respect for a real truth seeker.c
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Sep 19, 2011 - 7:02pm |
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Obama still be my hero...
Obama and Jobs: Why I Don't Believe Him Anymoreby Matt Taibbi RollingStone September 6, 2011 But I remember following Obama on the campaign trail and hearing all sorts of promises before union-heavy crowds. He said he would raise the minimum wage every year; he said he would fight free-trade agreements. He also talked about repealing the Bush tax cuts and ending tax breaks for companies that move jobs overseas.
It's not just that he hasn't done those things. The more important thing is that the people he's surrounded himself with are not labor people, but stooges from Wall Street. Barack Obama has as his chief of staff a former top-ranking executive from one of the most grossly corrupt mega-companies on earth, JP Morgan Chase. He sees Bill Daley in his own office every day, yet when it comes time to talk abut labor issues, he has to go out and make selected visits twice a year or whatever to the Richard Trumkas of the world. Listening to Obama talk about jobs and shared prosperity yesterday reminded me that we are back in campaign mode and Barack Obama has started doing again what he does best - play the part of a progressive. He's good at it. It sounds like he has a natural affinity for union workers and ordinary people when he makes these speeches. But his policies are crafted by representatives of corporate/financial America, who happen to entirely make up his inner circle. I just don't believe this guy anymore, and it's become almost painful to listen to him...
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red5_bc
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Sep 19, 2011 - 7:40am |
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hippiechick wrote:President Obama will outline his vision for a balanced approach to reducing our deficit and living within our means. The President will also announce his recommendations to the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction. Watch live beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT athttp://wh.gov/live.
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hippiechick
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Sep 19, 2011 - 7:19am |
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President Obama will outline his vision for a balanced approach to reducing our deficit and living within our means. The President will also announce his recommendations to the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction. Watch live beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT athttp://wh.gov/live.
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Sep 11, 2011 - 9:43pm |
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Obama Against the Nihilistsby George Packer The New Yorker September 9, 2001
It was a clever speech, a reminder of two things that had gone understandably forgotten through President Obama's awful summer: he's capable of passionate feeling, and he can also be politically dextrous. The feeling was indignation on behalf of the country's unemployed, underemployed, foreclosed, stretched to the limit. Not sympathy or feeling their pain-Obama doesn't do that well and didn't try last night, because it's really beside the point. As Mark Schmitt points out in the New Republic, polls show that "people no longer care that he cares. They're fed up with gestures, empathy, or good ideas that get blocked in the political process—all they want is results." No, what the President expressed was a fairly unquiet anger at Washington's—meaning Congress'—failure to act on those Americans' behalf.
That was also the politically dextrous move. Having spent the summer futilely negotiating on the Republicans' terms, he's now calling them out to negotiate on his, trying to turn disastrous economic circumstances to his advantage by presenting the choice before the country in a simple way: do something or do nothing. He didn't waste much time arguing against the Republican idea of solving all problems by cutting taxes and regulations. He just cited it and moved on, hoping that the public will see that it's beside the point, an ideology without relevance to the facts, as the country descends into another recession. The rhetoric of the speech was all pragmatic: these are the facts—do something about them, or do nothing.
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Servo
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Sep 9, 2011 - 3:02pm |
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romeotuma wrote:There's irony for you! If he had prosecuted the crimes, he would have dealt a crushing blow to the network that's attempting the current coup against him now.
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Sep 9, 2011 - 2:16pm |
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Obama Team Feared Coup If He Prosecuted War Crimesby Andrew Kreig Justice Integrity Project
President-Elect Obama's advisors feared in 2008 that authorities would revolt and that Republicans would block his policy agenda if he prosecuted Bush-era war crimes, according to a law school dean who served as one of Obama's top transition advisers. University of California at Berkeley Law School Dean Christopher Edley, Jr., left, the sixth highest-ranking member of the 2008 post-election transition team preparing Obama's administration, revealed the team's thinking on Sept. 2 in moderating a forum on 9/11 held by his law school (also known as Boalt Hall). Edley sought to justify Obama's "look forward" policy on Bush-era lawbreaking that the president-elect announced on a TV talk show in January 2009. But Edley's rationale implies that Obama and his team fear the military/national security forces that he is supposed to be commanding. It suggests also that Republicans have intimidated him right from the start of his presidency even though voters in 2008 rejected Republicans by the largest combined presidential-congressional mandate in recent U.S. history. Edley responded to our request for additional information by providing a description of the transition team's fears, which we present below as an exclusive email interview. Among his important points is that transition officials, not Obama, agreed that he faced the possibility of a "revolt."
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duchamp
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Aug 21, 2011 - 4:18pm |
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kestrel wrote:well..................since the article mentions my sister, I guess it's OK! but don't let it happen again Your sister is Maxine Waters?
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kestrel
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Aug 21, 2011 - 3:26pm |
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romeotuma wrote:I apologize, kestrel... I thought it would be easy to grant your wish on a Sunday at least, but this article is soooo dang interesting I could not resist posting it... looks like more food fights in Congress are yet to come... Obama's Black Backlashby a hot white chick named Patricia Murphy THE DAILY BEAST Aug 19, 2011 9:07 PM EDTExasperated with the first African-American president, the Congressional Black Caucus says it's time to emulate the Tea Party. Patricia Murphy on its vow to adopt get-tough tactics. well..................since the article mentions my sister, I guess it's OK! but don't let it happen again
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Aug 9, 2011 - 11:00am |
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What Happened to Obama?By DREW WESTEN August 6, 2011Drew Westen is a professor of psychology at Emory University and the author of "The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation." In similar circumstances, Franklin D. Roosevelt offered Americans a promise to use the power of his office to make their lives better and to keep trying until he got it right. Beginning in his first inaugural address, and in the fireside chats that followed, he explained how the crash had happened, and he minced no words about those who had caused it. He promised to do something no president had done before: to use the resources of the United States to put Americans directly to work, building the infrastructure we still rely on today. He swore to keep the people who had caused the crisis out of the halls of power, and he made good on that promise. In a 1936 speech at Madison Square Garden, he thundered, "Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred."
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AE bloodnok
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Jul 16, 2011 - 7:03pm |
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kurtster wrote: Good enough, that was the other possibility.
But of course, there is no poking fun with that one.
Carry on, amigo.
Or, like most everyone else, we assume the worst of others. Going along to get along. Ho hum.
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kurtster
Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:
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Jul 16, 2011 - 6:55pm |
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bloodnok wrote: ....but no offense taken.
Let's clear things up before unquiet minds totally unhinge at the mystery of the missing nuggler. Posted 2 days ago to the proprietor:BillThis is nuggler & I have lost my access to membership somehow & cannot log in.
Or maybe you've withdrawn it. I know I've been warned & I know I haven't exactly taken the warning but for me to be sworn to silence considering what continues to transpire, would be an impossibility. So if you have withdrawn my membership I would understand & honor your decision but I ask that you at least inform me. If you haven't withdrawn it may I request that you hook me back up.
In the interim I re-registered under bloodnok as a temporary measure. If it is your decision to be rid of me I shall cancel that & you will hear of me no more. Otherwise I'd be grateful if you reconnected my nuggler account.
Sincerely N Hope that sets minds at rest. Good enough, that was the other possibility. But of course, there is no poking fun with that one. Carry on, amigo.
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AE bloodnok
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Jul 16, 2011 - 6:46pm |
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kurtster wrote: You got me. Why change ?
The message is the same. He wasn't DD'd. He does have a genuine pearl once in awhile in the middle of his hyperventilating. Its like he has given up and is mocking himself.
No offense meant. nuggs ...
Just sayin'
....but no offense taken.
Let's clear things up before unquiet minds totally unhinge at the mystery of the missing nuggler. Posted 2 days ago to the proprietor:BillThis is nuggler & I have lost my access to membership somehow & cannot log in.
Or maybe you've withdrawn it. I know I've been warned & I know I haven't exactly taken the warning but for me to be sworn to silence considering what continues to transpire, would be an impossibility. So if you have withdrawn my membership I would understand & honor your decision but I ask that you at least inform me. If you haven't withdrawn it may I request that you hook me back up.
In the interim I re-registered under bloodnok as a temporary measure. If it is your decision to be rid of me I shall cancel that & you will hear of me no more. Otherwise I'd be grateful if you reconnected my nuggler account.
Sincerely N Hope that sets minds at rest.
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kurtster
Location: where fear is not a virtue Gender:
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Jul 16, 2011 - 6:35pm |
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katzendogs wrote: I love the players on RP.I may disagree with their positions, but i have many times benefited from the knowledge they have offered. I love them all.
Yes sir. There is ton's of honest passion, intellegence, insight from experience to be found here.
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arighter2
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Jul 16, 2011 - 5:32pm |
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romeotuma wrote: Schizophrenia is psychosis... not that there's anything wrong with that...
GFY
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