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Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:39 AM

The Fat Lady has left the building.

We will get no health care bill. We were never going to get a health care bill. It has been a setup from the beginning. Why did Max get the lead for the Dems? Because they knew he would give away the store. Why did Obama let Pharma roll him? It was always the plan. Why is Obama breaking campaign promises left and right? Because he had no intention of fulfilling them. This 'debate' is nothing more than a sick and twisted theater for the populace. Obama is a failure of his own making. Right now, I'm of a mind to support impeachment. This president is working actively to twart the will of the people and should be removed. The Republicans want to enslave us to their Corporate Masters. I have always known that. But the revelation that the Dems seek the same end is truly depressing. We have no saviors. Both political parties want nothing less than slavery for the populace. It is getting dangerously close to a time for the people to stand up for themselves.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 10:07 AM

Ah, well

Have Jon and Kate reconciled?

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 02:00 PM

Troop safety

So Obama wants to prevent our troops from becoming targets? Uh, correct me if I'm wrong, but after tearing through two counties, raping, pillaging, bombing, murdering, and generally destroying their civilizations, these pictures are going to make them more dispised than they already are? Obama is a liar and a coward. He wants to save himself so hassle with the media so he obstructs justice(he can't be prosecuted because Unitary Executives are exempt from the law). This was done with our money, with our sons and daughters, in our name. We deserve the truth. And yes, we can handle the truth.

Thursday, August 13, 2009 07:11 AM

Trust?

What has Obama done to earn your trust? Reestablished the rule of law? No. Brought transparency to the WH? No. Stopped torture and rendition? No. Released torture photos? No. Closed Gitmo? No. Ended either war? No. Pushed through universal health care? No. Shunned lobbyists? No.

So really Joan, he has done nothing to earn your trust except get elected. He has talked a lot but he just keeps getting rolled by lobbyists and Republicans. He would rather appease the people who hate him than provide health care for those that voted for him. This man cannot be trusted. He is blind to the threats that face the middle class.

To say I am disappointed is to put it mildly. I am outraged. Obama now is not the man he represented himself to be. He is a fraud. When his health care plan gets crushed and the stories start coming out of more sweetheart deals with lobbyists by the WH maybe you will face facts. Obama is just another Clinton. More than willing to sell out the American people for a few pats on the head from Republicans and their Corporate Masters. We have been conned.

Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:01 PM

It's not a lie

If someone believes it. That should be the Republican motto. We have ZERO chance of ever having a decent health care system in this country. Too many people willing to sell out too many less fortunate people for a little pocket change. But I guess that's the core spirit of America: I got mine, to hell with the rest of you.

This country is over.

Friday, August 14, 2009 07:14 AM

Obama's change?

Looks like the change Obama was talking about was not changing Washington but being changed by Washington. All I can say is that Obama, by threating the withholding of intelligence to the British if they released details of torture, is complicit in war crimes and should be impeached. I guess it's good for Obama fans that we no longer live under the rule of law.

Friday, August 14, 2009 07:48 AM

The cool thing is

That the Army still is willing to honor the contract and will be shipping the servers to the jail where Garrett is being held. They have also hired attorneys for him and are funding his 'stable' of young girls while he is 'away'. Once the Army contracts with you, there is literally nothing you can do to fall out of their favor. i.e. Xe. Is this a great country, or what????

Friday, August 14, 2009 07:57 AM

I see no evidence

I see no evidence of Obama's willingness to do anything but capitulate on health care. He is calling it 'insurance reform' now so that means no public option. I am more than willing for him to be a one term president because it looks like the 'reform' that will be passed will only enrich the insurance and pharma companies even more than they are being enriched today. Besides, with his threat to withhold intelligence information from the British if they speicfy the torture techniques we used on their citizen, both he a SOS Clinton are now complicit in war crimes. He should actually be impeached if this country operated under the rule of law. But we all know that the law is an illusion only to be used on citizens and not Unitary Executives. Kucinich 2012.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009 09:05 AM

But what about OUR whores

Wouldn't it be nice if our whores who supposedly work for us would come clean on their affiliations also? I ascribe to the theory that when a congress person's name comes up on TV, they not only identify which party they belong to but who are their top 3 contributors.

Joe Barton(D-Texas,Exxon-15%,UBS- 7%,United Health 6%)

But the people cannot pass laws. What exactly are we supposed to do when congress sells out the nation and it's citizens? By the time voting time comes, they may have made voting illegal.

What power do we really have? None.

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