"Obama a disappointment" (but Zuckerman and Murdoch are FURIOUS, LOL)- Regressive Antidote
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Subject: "Obama a disappointment" (but Zuckerman and Murdoch are
FURIOUS, LOL)- Regressive Antidote
Date: Dec 20, 2009 1:57 PM
ANSWERING THE BELOW COMPLAINT ABOUT
HOW OBAMA HAS BEEN A DISAPPOINTMENT
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http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/11/16/HP/A/26588/New+York+Historical+Society+Panel+on+the+Future+of+the+US.aspx
See at ^^^ 32:30 minutes.
Zuckerman says, "We're not taking
over Canada, ha, ha, ha" <everyone chuckles>.
And he says it in a way that is backwardsp
as if Canada is a threat to us. No one
ever, ever, has said anything about a
threat to America from Canadians.
This is how one plants the seeds of an
idea. Say it sideways or backwards.
And the 2008 financial meltdown gig was
something someone obviously knew about
in what was it... 2006, 2007?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bKwH3kJew4
Start at ^^^ 4:00 Minutes.
KISSINGER "At the end of this administration,
or the beginning of the next... at
some point expectations... you cannot
wake up every morning wondering what
horror is going to befall you..."
Now, on the Jesse Ventura show,
we learned that the FBI indeed knows
the data flight recorders from 911
in fact showed that the "hijackers"
were in the cockpit before the planes
took off.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Eyj0G-U2w
See starting ^^^ at 3:00 minutes.
So, there ya have it. Now we Americans
have several armies all around the Arab
oil. 'Something Henry Kissinger planned
since the 1970s. James Baker talks about
how we're going to control the oil come
hell or high water. He does not ever
even tried to hide the fact that *we* are
controlling the oilendofdiscussion.
Now you wonder fhat the wuck Obama
is doing. Obama is one thing: THE
END of Hope.
It's like Frank Rich says:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/opinion/20rich.html?_r=1&hp
We believed it because we wanted it
to be true.
Now what?
Now what?
They want Canada (resources) next.
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/11/16/HP/A/26588/New+York+Historical+Society+Panel+on+the+Future+of+the+US.aspx
Listen between the lines. Zuckerman is
a NAZI. And he does not like the
non-MSM. He does not like the Truth
to come out. That's why he himself
bought US News and World Report, a once
respectable and intelligent magazine.
Both Zuckerman and Murdoch are furious that
the people don't believe their BS,
particularly about what happened on 911.
Zuckerman and the AIG Greenbergs were
involved in the Lyme scam. Why?
Why was Zuckerman involved with this
Yale/NYMC/Kaiser-Permanente Lyme crew?
Kissinger has already told us a thousand
times what he, Rockefeller, and the Banksters
want:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DURHAM_BUSH_CRIME.htm
"The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world
bankers is surely preferable to the National autodetermination
practiced in past centuries"--David Rockefeller in an address to a
Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991
http://www.trilateral.org/nagp/regmtgs/98/1201tribs.htm
"We were in the middle of the energy crisis, totally unforeseen by us.
[Yeahright] The last study that had been made in our government said
the oil price might reach $5 by 1980; it had reached $12 at that
point. All the industrialized democracies needed to find some method
of concerted action, a common approach."-- Henry Kissinger
GO AHEAD! IT's OKAAAY!! YOU CAN TALK
ABOUDIT!
Naomi Klein calls Kissinger/Bankster
Creating-the-Chaos You-Intend-to-then-KILL,
"Disaster Capitalism." I would call it
"Capitalism Disaster," since that's more
clearly the Order of Operations. The Capitalists
create the Disaster, like 911. And the Fed and
the CFR/AIG/ALDF.com Greenbergs, and THAT disaster....
Okay, now global warming is out of control
(not today). So, who, all along, since
the 1970s when we were way-the-hell more
pollution-and-energy-conservation-conscious
than we are now, did everything to distract
our attention and give us Walmart and SUVs?
And $400,000 homes in the suburbs for the
likes of plumbers, cops, and mechanics, and
"EVERYBODY PLAY THE STOCK MARKET!" '90s?
Johhny Rock and the Banksters:
http://www.actionlyme.org/DURHAM_BUSH_CRIME.htm
Zuckerman, in that video, is talking about
the very thing that stops this Johnny Rock
gang from getting what they want-- the US
Constitution and Bill of Rights.
What they want, is the RIGHT to kill and
destroy whatever stands in their way; to
control of the world's wealth, because they
really do think they're the intellectual
elite and are *entitled* to do this.
I have seen no sign of intelligence
from among them, however, and that is why
Murdoch and Zuckerman are so angry at
the non-MSM. Lyme is not "a knee," OspA
is the "Stealth Antigen," and 3 buildings
went down with 2 planes - the third one at
the acceleration due to gravityendofdiscussion.
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/20-8
Published on Sunday, December 20, 2009 by CommonDreams.org
Now I’m Really Getting Pissed Off
by David Michael Green
Hey did you hear about the iconic African-American guy who plays golf,
and whose relationship with the public is in a free-fall lately?
No, as a matter of fact - I'm not talking about Tiger Woods.
You know, I've really been trying not to write an article every other
week about all the things I don't like about Barack Obama.
But the little prick is making it very hard.
Like any good progressive, I've gone from admiration to hope to
disappointment to anger when it comes to this president. Now I'm fast
getting to rage.
How much rage? I find myself thinking that the thing I want most from
the 2010 elections is for his party to get absolutely clobbered, even
if that means a repeat of 1994. And that what I most want from 2012 is
for him to be utterly humiliated, even if that means President Palin
at the helm. That much rage.
Did this clown really say on national television that "I did not run
for office to be helping out a bunch of you know, fat cat bankers on
Wall Street"?!?!
Really, Barack? So, like, my question is: Then why the hell did you
help out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall Street?!?! Why the hell
did you surround yourself with nothing but Robert Rubin proteges in
all the key economic positions in your government? Why did you allow
them to open a Washington branch of Goldman Sachs in the West Wing?
Why have your policies been tailored to helping Wall Street bankers,
rather than the other 300 million of us, who just happen to be
suffering badly right now?
Are you freakin' kidding me??? What's up with the passive president
routine, anyhow, Fool? You hold the most powerful position in the
world. Or maybe Rahm forgot to mention that to you. Or maybe the fat
cat bankers don't actually let do that whole decision-making thing
often enough that it would actually matter...
But, really, are you going to spend the next three interminable years
perfecting your whiney victim persona? I don't really think I could
bear that. Hearing you complain about how rough it all is, when you
have vastly more power than any of us to fix it? Please. Not that.
Are you going to tell us that "I did not run for office to be shovel-
feeding the military-industrial complex"? But what - they're just so
darned pushy?
"...I did not run for office to continue George Bush's valiant effort
at shredding the Bill of Rights. It's just that those government-
limiting rules are so darned pesky."
"...I did not run for office to dump a ton of taxpayer money into the
coffers of health insurance companies. It's just that they asked so
nicely."
"...I did not run for office to block equality for gay Americans. I
just never got around to doing anything about it."
"...I did not run for office to turn Afghanistan into Vietnam. I just
didn't want to say no to all the nice generals asking for more
troops."
Here's a guy who was supposed to actually do something with his
presidency, and he's turned into the skinny little geek on Cell Block
D who gets passed around like a rag doll for the pleasure of all the
fellas with the tattoos there. He's being punked by John Boehner, for
chrisakes. He's being rolled by the likes of Joe Lieberman. He calls a
come-to-Jesus meeting with Wall Street bank CEOs, and half of them
literally phone it in. Everyone from Bibi Netanyahu to the Japanese
prime minister to sundry Iranian mullahs is stomping all over Mr.
Happy.
And he doesn't even seem to realize it.
Did you see him tell Oprah that he gave himself "a good solid B+" for
his first year in office? And that it will be an A, if he gets his
healthcare legislation passed?
Somebody please pick me up and set me back on my chair, wouldya?
I am seriously beginning to worry that this cat is delusional. He has
lopped off twenty full points from his job approval rating in less
than a year's time, falling now below fifty percent. His party, once
dominant in generic congressional election poll questions, is today
almost even with hated Republicans in the public mind. Last month,
Obama's inverted coattails (don't even ask where those go) got two
Democrats clobbered running for governor in New Jersey and Virginia.
The otherwise obnoxious George F. Will (very) rightly points out that
in Kentucky, "a Republican candidate succeeded in nationalizing a
state Senate race. Hugely outspent in a district in which Democrats
have a lopsided registration advantage, the Republican won by 12
points a seat in Frankfort by running against Washington". Wow. Obama
is now wrecking state senate races! What's next? Will local Republican
candidates for sheriff win office just by opposing the embarrassment
in the White House who chooses abysmal policies and then refuses to
fight for them, lest he should ruffle any feathers?
"For Democrats, the red flags are flying at full mast," said
Democratic pollster Peter Hart in a recent AP article. "What we don't
know for certain is: Have we reached a bottoming-out point?"
Au contraire, Peter. Au contraire. I think anyone more sentient than a
newborn amoeba can answer that question. The first thing to note is
that the economy is not coming back anytime soon, if it comes back at
all. Unless, of course, you're a fat cat Wall Street banker. Then
you're just fine, because the Bush-Obama administration took care of
you quite nicely, thanks very much. The rest of us poor slobs out here
in real-world land, on the other hand, got a "jobs summit".
I can't even begin to describe how insulting Obama conducting a "jobs
summit" is to me, or what an unbelievably ham-fisted piece of public
relations that was for the White House, which is increasingly showing
itself not just to be sickeningly regressive, but also fully inept. I
think I speak for a whole lot of Americans when I say that, one year
into his stewardship over a destroyed economy that was actually
atomizing for at least six months before inauguration day, I don't
want my president sitting around a table, running a dog-and-pony show,
pretending to kick around ideas on how to generate jobs. I wanted him
to have those ideas, himself, before he was inaugurated. I wanted
those to be real ideas, that produce real jobs for real Americans who
are really hurting. I wanted that to be, and still be, the be-all and
end-all of his presidency, not some distant fourth-place priority,
behind healthcare and the White House dog selection process. And,
especially not some fourth-place priority behind jive healthcare
reform.
Which brings us to the second answer to Mr. Hart's question. If
Democrats think they'll be screwed next November because of
unemployment, wait till Congress passes this healthcare monstrosity.
Or doesn't. At this point, either way they're gonna get slammed for
it, and rightly so.
If they don't pass anything, they will be seen as unable to govern.
This perception will be quite true because they will have failed to
pass a major piece of legislation, despite having 60-40 majorities in
both houses of Congress and control of the presidency. It doesn't get
much better than that for a governing party in the American system.
But it will be true in an even more profound sense, because the whole
priority structure of the Democratic agenda is wrong. Sure, people
want healthcare reform right now (especially if it were to
miraculously also have the virtue of being authentic healthcare
reform), but what they really want, overwhelmingly, is jobs. This
choice of priorities is the equivalent of, say, invading Iraq when
you've been attacked by people in Afghanistan. Surely no president
would be that stupid, right? Surely any political party would realize
the costs of having priorities so divorced from those of the voters,
right?
On the other hand, the Democrats and their hapless president are
probably in worse shape if they actually pass this legislation.
Especially now that it's been stripped of nearly every real
progressive reform imaginable, it has become an incredibly stupid
bill, from the political perspective. It will force people who can't
afford it to spend a giant amount of money on lousy insurance, without
any real choice to hold down costs, and it will fund this by hacking
away at the Medicare budget. No wonder an insurance industry lobbyist
broadcast an email last week declaring: "We WIN. Administered by
private insurance companies. No government funding. No government
insurance competitor."
But here's a little riddle that any sixth-grader can easily figure
out, although it seems to have eluded the brain trust at the White
House: If insurance companies are winning big-time, then who is doing
the losing? Something tells me that if Democrats are dumb enough to
pass their own legislation, voters will provide them the answer to
that puzzle in November of 2010, and then again two years later. What
could be stupider than saddling thirty-five million Americans with a
new monthly bill that will probably represent the second or third
biggest item in their budget, in exchange for crappy private sector
health insurance that is unlikely to pay out when needed, and wastes a
third of the dollars paid in premiums on bureaucracy and profits
anyhow? Slapping big fines on them if they don't pony up for the
insurance, perhaps? Yep, that's in there too.
This bill alone could mobilize legions of people to go to the polls
and vote for whichever party didn't do it, and I'm pretty sure the GOP
won't be shy about reminding Americans who that is. I mean, if
Democrats were searching for legislation less likely to win them
votes, why didn't they just bring back slavery or the debtor's prison?
Why not come out for pedophilia? It would have been so much more
efficient. At least they wouldn't have spent the last year looking
like idiotic bunglers who, in addition to sponsoring really unpopular
ideas, also inadvertently left their testicles at the coat check and
have spent the last thirty years trying to find their way back to the
gala.
Ah, but wait! If you order now, there's more!
As I understand it, the bill doesn't even actually force insurance
companies to cover people, at least in the sense that they can charge
prohibitive amounts to those with whatever they define as pre-existing
conditions. You know, like the young woman who had a policy but died
when she was denied cancer treatment because she had a bad case of
acne as a teenager.
This will be a total train wreck for the Democratic Party. Already,
the public opposes the plan by a ratio of 47 to 32 percent. And they
haven't even been handed the bill for it yet. And they haven't even
had their premiums skyrocket yet. And they haven't even seen insurance
corporation executives buy small countries for use as second homes
with the increased compensation they will be floating in. And they
haven't even found out what this does to their Medicare yet. And they
haven't even seen the impact on the national debt yet. And they
haven't even realized that the ‘good' parts of the bill don't go into
effect until FOUR YEARS from now.
You know, elite Republicans may be sociopaths, and they may be lower
on the moral totem pole than your basic cannibal, but they're not
stupid. I bet they're salivating at the idea that this thing passes. I
bet they'd even have Olympia Snowe vote for it if necessary, just to
put it over the top. They must be laughing their asses off at this
gift. All they have to do is oppose it right down the line, then say
"Told ya so!" at the next election, squashing the pathetic Demognats,
one after the next. Hey, even if worse comes to worse and the thing
eventually becomes popular, they can always wait a decade or two and
become champions of the new publically beloved healthcare system -
just like they did for Medicare, Social Security, civil rights, etc.
This is President Nothingburger's great gift to America, along with
doing nothing about jobs, doing nothing about the Middle East, nothing
about civil liberties, nothing about civil rights, and now doing
nothing at Copenhagen. Regarding the latter, the world is literally on
fire, and he jets in, gives a speech haranguing the delegates that
"Now is not the time for talk, now is the time for action", then
splits even before the vote in order to beat the snowstorm headed to
the east coast that might delay him getting home to his comfy bed. I'm
not kidding. You can't make this shit up, man.
This guy is killing me, though at the same time I still can't quite
figure him out.
Here's what I get: This president is a corporate hack. Like Bush or
Clinton, he has constituents, alright - but you and I are not on that
particular list.
Here's what I don't get: He is radically tanking, at a moment when
people no longer have patience for those kind of politics anymore.
Here's what I get: This president has his fingers in many pies, as he
needs to, ranging from global warming to economic implosion to two
wars abroad to massive federal debt.
Here's what I don't get: Why does he bother to do these things in a
way that pleases no one, and only dramatically undercuts his own
political standing? Why does he refuse to make anyone his enemy, thus
making everyone his enemy?
Is he just massively deluded? I wouldn't have thought so, but watching
the guy give himself a very good grade for 2009 - straight face and
all - during the same year he's lost twenty points off his job
approval rating, and at a moment when even blacks and gays are
deserting him, you know, you have to wonder.
Is he happy just to be a one-term president - just to say he's been
there and done that, and then sell some more books - even if he is
reviled as one of the worst in history?
Maybe. But what about the rest of us?
The rest of us, indeed. It's been quite some time since anyone in the
White House ever cared about that sorry pack of rabble.
Obama looked like he could've been something different. He ain't.
So this is it, folks.
Change you can believe in?
More like bullshit you can take a bath in, if you ask me.
David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra
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