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I just hope all those people who were inspired by obama, can now remain active, remain voters, learn more... b/c we will need them to pressure obama all the time. For example, he is going in the wrong direction so far.. (still better than bush, or course - but come on - we want much better). I don't want clinton2.
more: http://www.alternet.org/workplace/108539/obama%...
Report: Brennan Out of Consideration For Intelligence Post
and the money quote from BTD:
"In case people were wondering, THIS is why you do not wait to express your "concern" about issues and personnel."
A simple question..
What musical genre of music would you place Frank Zappa?
There are still some who remain confused about President-Elect Obama because he is moving beyond the political cliches with which we cling..
tap yer toes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX8415wWqU4
I just saw a friend of mine who said people are really getting scared about the financial situation in this country. A few are moving to the mountains, but most people will stay where they are.
But it's pretty bad out here, I kid you not.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122747548224451...
[Remember, FDR had a potpouri semi-socialist, pacifist cabinet until Pearl Harbor. Then he tossed out all of them and appointed a war cabinet full of hawks.]
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She's "too big to fail". As such, it's dangerous for the Party.
This invites so much ... controversy. The Press will have an endless meme, "Does Hillary agree with the President or not, today?" It's a distraction.
I do not know if he can fix the economy, but if he stops warrantless wiretapping, gets us out of Iraq and gets some form of healthcare through then I will be happy with his 1st term.
Meet the news boss.
Same as the old boss...
Someone PLEASE explain to me why Wesley Clark is not the new Defense Secretary!
I guess change wont come to the Pentagon anytime soon.....
why not gates? Hmmm let's see...BUSH PICKED HIM!
Name the last GOOD thing that George Bush did.
Go ahead.
Some dipsh*t from one of the major weekly newsrags that nobody reads any more was just on with Rachel, yapping about Gates.
Rachel sneered at the reaction from the "netroots," and the newsrag guy sneered at "the Left," saying that everybody else, the people who "mattered" in DC were applauding the Gates retreading. As if those of us who were foolish enough to support Obama from jump were now utterly irrelevant, and not worthy of a voice. When, of course, it's the Right who are irrelevant and unworthy.
BTW, how is Rachel, as an un-expert who keeps up with the news and comments on it, any better or worse than any blogger? Because GE or NBC Universal or whoever has anointed her? Likewise the newsrag dick. F*ck 'em all.
This ain't over, corporatista's. We won it, and we're not giving it back. If Obama has to go in 2012, so be it. It's the policies, not just the people that we object to. And we object to Gates on both counts. "Extraordinary rendition," anyone?
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Most importantly of all, keeping a steady hand at DOD gives the new administration cover to focus on an ambitious domestic agenda.
If Obama is going to spend political capital, he will do so by expanding entitlement programs, especially Health Care, not by appeasing the idealists who see his election as the repudiation of every last second of the past 8 years.
I truly believe irony is the fulcrum in our lives. The basic common denominator that we are criticizing or supporting a President-Elect over his choices by the content of his character and not his melanin just like previous Presidents IS exactly what Obama represents.
We are entering an era where the lazy tags...niches...labels....are being reduced to ashes blowing in the wind.
As we are a nation of lazy tags...niches...labels...this change is uncomfortable for many.
It's cool if you do not get it now...but the to the bone reality will take place in Washington in January..
Tap yer toes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bEQCRiWR2Y
You guys bought into the retarded marketing. Each new bit of news will extinguish your hopes and make you realize that you enthusiastically kept the status quo firmly in place.