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Under Obama's leadership the democrats have:
1. given over $780 billion in corporate welfare.
2. increased the amount of our tax revenue that goes to churches via the "faith based" initiative.
3. increased the military budget by $40 billion.
4. increased the covert war in Pakistan.
5. increased our military presence in Afghanistan.
6. approved the building of new coal plants.
7. have not ended the Iraq War.
8. defended Bush's illegal actions under the guise of National Security.
There is no liberal or left wing in the democratic party anymore, one or two people in the senate and house but hardly a wing.
Name one liberal thing Obama has done?
stem cell research doesn't count because any thinking human being supports it, only the religious fanatics don't.
and of course how to bulk up.....why in the world do we give these criminals free weights to get even bigger and stronger,
instead of making their minds bigger and stronger?
Because that means the current leadership would lose much of their power.
Some examples of the caucus system at work:
North Carolina, which holds its primary Tuesday, got an additional 24 delegates for moving its presidential nominating contest from April to May. Indiana, which also has its primary Tuesday, got six extra delegates for keeping its primary in May.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/campaign_delegates;_ylt=Anh_EB4axu1.o2AbNobVRHUDW7oF
WASHINGTON — When Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill endorsed Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, she said she'd found a candidate who "gives us a reason to believe again."
Obama believed in her, too, donating $10,000 from his political action committee to McCaskill's 2006 campaign. She received nothing from the PAC of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton.
And when California Rep. Doris Matsui endorsed Clinton, she said the former first lady had been "a consistent champion and friend" of Asian Americans. Clinton's PAC had also befriended Matsui, giving $5,000 to her campaign. Matsui received nothing from Obama's PAC.
And if that's the case, it's good news for Obama. Since 2005, his PAC has donated $710,900 to superdelegates, more than three times as much as Clinton's PAC has. Her PAC distributed $236,100 to superdelegates during the three-year period.
The study found that the presidential candidate who gave more money to the superdelegates received their endorsements 82 percent of the time. That's based on a review of elected officials who are serving as superdelegates and who'd endorsed a candidate as of Feb. 25.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/31905.html
But I think my favorite is the rule that lets the last state to vote get and extra 2 delegates......I mean why not, it's not like this is a democracy or anything.
And let's not forget Hillary actually won the popular vote in Texas and Neveda but got less delegate votes.....now there is the democratic caucus in action!!!!!
University of California $1,392,675
Goldman Sachs $1,035,095
Harvard University $831,110
Microsoft Corp $809,799
Google Inc $796,564
JPMorgan Chase & Co $700,808
Citigroup Inc $681,318
Sidley Austin LLP $604,938
University of Chicago $599,089
Stanford University $584,904
Skadden, Arps et al $564,345
Time Warner $540,051
UBS AG $529,869
IBM Corp $525,857
WilmerHale $525,792
Morgan Stanley $513,623
Columbia University $507,316
National Amusements Inc $506,751
Kirkland & Ellis $501,335
US Government $482,956
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638
I'd say over $1 million in one year entitles Goldman Sachs to pull a string or two.
The following link is just for Goldman Sachs contributions http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000085
since Wall Street, which is located in the United States, caused this mess isn't that appropriate?
a truly beautiful person inside and out.
that child abusers use?
something as a pollutant.
I thought we finally got past the people who don't think the greenhouse effect is real?
they all claim to be under attack meanwhile they campaign to take away other people's rights.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress are taking only baby steps with his budget, putting off crucial decisions on his ambitious plans to expand health care, curb global warming and raise taxes on the wealthy.
Indeed, key lawmakers are already playing "taps" over his proposals to chip away at wealthy people's ability to deduct charitable donations and mortgage interest at higher rates.
Instead, they designed a host of so-called reserve funds that give some modest procedural help to Obama initiatives but do nothing concrete to really advance them.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUDGET_BABY_STEPS_ANALYSIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
how long are we going to allow people's personal religious choices to trump the law.
Israel's new ultra-nationalist foreign minister has said it is not bound by a US-sponsored 2007 agreement to reach a peace deal with the Palestinians.
"The Annapolis conference, it has no validity," Avigdor Lieberman said.
He was speaking at a handover ceremony at the foreign ministry, prompting his predecessor Tzipi Livni to interrupt and diplomats to shift uncomfortably.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7977002.stm
that a virgin human female got pregnant, that just being born makes a person automatically guilty (original sin), that any person who isn't a catholic will go to hell, etc.
Why on earth would anyone take these people seriously???
Oh yeah, Wall Street couldn't pay for all of Obama's campaign.
Religion is all about denying reality.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama's Democratic allies in Congress are taking only baby steps with his budget, putting off crucial decisions on his ambitious plans to expand health care, curb global warming and raise taxes on the wealthy.
Risk-averse Democrats, however, are merely kicking the can down the road rather than using the budget to give a real push to the president's agenda. On health care, global warming and even Obama's signature "Making Work Pay" tax cut, the pending House and Senate budget plans offer no clues as to how those big ideas might advance.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUDGET_BABY_STEPS_ANALYSIS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
that's a new one!