06-08-09
- Barack Obama's BAIT AND SWITCH Hallmark - Time to Take Off the Obama T-Shirts:
- David Sirota: President Obama has reneged on many of his campaign promises. Why are we letting him get away with it? (alternet) -- Obama's actions to date remind me so much of candidate George W. Bush's proclamations in 2000 that he himself was a "compassionate conservative". It seems clear by now that Obama's problem telling the truth and his pandering to the Establishment retrogrades is going to cost a lot of Democratic seats in Congress in 2010. After all, the Republicons lie as a unified bloc and have a bigger bullhorn in the right-biased MSM than Obama has. Distressed victims of this rich elites' theft of America's riches are going to be all the more enticed by RW lying promises of something better, since Obama will have disappointed 2008 Democratic voters on so many fundamental fronts. Lest we forget, the brilliant Obama seems completely oblivious of the Republican controlled national election machine. Maybe he thinks he can produce a tsunami of Democratic votes twice in a row and swamp the Republicons' well-oiled machinery for stealing elections -- not very likely in 2010. On a happier note, maybe just such Congressional losses (not a very cheap price) is exactly what he may need to knock some of that cocky self-assurance out of him and turn him into an American president we could really be proud of. If he smartens up a LOT and tosses out a large part of the pack of Clintonian Establishmentarians surrounding him, maybe he could even have a chance at a second term in 2012. It's a lot of if's.
- Obama's Healthcare Travesty - Continued U.S. Healthcare Disaster in the Making for the Benefit of Healthcare Profiteers:
- Robert Parry: 119 million Americans are ready to dump their private plans and jump to something more like Medicare - and that's why the choice can't be permitted (consortiumnews)
- Bill Moyers -- One of the Few Reasonable and Compassionate Members of the Broadcast Media -- on the "Single Payer" plan for health care on PBS (crooksandliars)
- The Bush/Obama Atrocities Against Innocent Men Continues:
- Greenwald: ABC News' interview with Lakhdar Boumediene and our current policies (salon with video interview) "Those who voted for the [since-ruled-unconstitutional] Military Commissions Act of 2006 -- all GOP Senators (except Chafee) and Democrats Jay Rockefeller, Ken Salazar, Tom Carper, Mark Pryor, Tim Johnson, Bob Menendez, Frank Lautenberg, Ben and Bill Nelson, Debbie Stabenow, and Joe Lieberman, plus 219 GOP and 34 Democratic House members ... Does anyone object to the term "moral depravity" being applied to those in Congress who voted to keep completely innocent people in cages for life without any opportunity to have a court review the accusations against them?"
- Obama's Cairo Speech Disappoints Muslims:
- Lendman: Obama's Outreach to Muslims - Empty Rhetoric, Same Old Policies (sjlendman)
- Life Insurers in Bed With the Devil - Given Corporate Greed, Nothing New Here:
- Canadian, U.S., U.K. life, health insurers investing heavily in tobacco companies (theprovince)
- No, Virginia, Man Is Not the Center of the Universe:
- Possible Jet Blown Shells Near Microquasar Cygnus X-1 (apod) "Rolling your cursor over the image will bring up an annotated version."
