John Boehner is ready again to shut down the Government if the GOP does not get it’s way on the national debt. Now here is a fantasy of mine! Imagine if John Boehner was a Democrat and Nancy Pelosi was a Republican! Let’s remember that Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House two years before Barrack Obama became president. For two long years we continued to pile up body bags in Iraq and a mounting debt crisis because of George Bush and his vast right wing social engineering experiment in Iraq!

Well if John Boehner had been a Democrat and was in Nancy Pelosi’s shoes in 2006, then the Iraq War would have been over! You have to admire the man’s guts! He is not afraid to use the contitutionally mandated “power of the purse” to pursue his agenda. Nancy Pelosi had the opportunity to end the war before Obama even became president. But she refused to use the “power of the purse”.

Maybe the solution for Democrats is to lock Barrack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid into a “Tanning Salon Chamber” till they come out lobster red!

Instead this “Troika of Impotence” went on and on making apologies for winning the 2008 elections!

“Oh dear we would not want to use the power of the purse to end the war in Iraq in 2006. That would be to dangerous”! Can you hear the pathetic “meow…Meow…MEOW”!

Democrats Lack Testosterone!

I am a Progressive Social Democrat! Let’s be quite frank! Democrats are the biggest pussy cats going! Just look at our President! I have no respect for this wimp. Nancy Pelosi is also a wimp! Really you got to admire John Boehner! I really wish we could convert him to be a liberal Democrat! This guy is willing to bring the whole nation to a stand still while he has a temper tantrum! See the video below. Reload page if not fully visible.

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Why don’t so – called Democrats like Barrack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have the drive that John Boehner has? Instead of advancing the agenda of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who wanted a “Second Bill Of Rights” that would make us like Euro-Social Democrats we instead have the “Charge of the Castrati Brigade”… Obama, Pelosi and Reid.

Oh boy I just cannot wait till Barrack Obama wins re-election! Then we can cut Social Security, Medicare and defecate on the grave of President Franklin Delano Rooswevelt! All the time patting ourselves on the back about “how brave we are to make the hard choices this nation needs”.

My question to you dear reader is this. Are Barrack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid:

1. Corporate shrills who play make believe progressive inside the corporate sandbox? Or
2. Are they just the biggest bunch of PATHETIC WIMPS imaginable?

I actually enjoy when Republicans kick Obama around. The wimp deserves it!

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While I am a Progressive Social Democrat who may not vote for Barrack Obama I cannot believe he would actually utilize the “wag the dog” scenario! However I believe circumstances are going to make that scenario very probable this fall! Please bear with me as I lay out this scenario which which I believe is above partisan politics!

I don’t like the way our national agenda is so closely linked with Israel. I am not against Israel. But I have to wonder why all this attention to the chaos in Syria when just a short time ago a genocide was taking place in Darfur! Below Senator John McCain calls for American involvement in Syria.

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I would not be against helping the rebels in Syria but again why the collective amnesia when there was a genicide taking place in Darfur? Dear reader remember the business slogan … “location…location…location”! If you do not suffer from Sarah Palin Syndrome but understand world geography, then you realize that Darfur does not share a border with Israel but Syria does.

Now what was that slogan? Oh yes! “Never forget!” I guess genocides in Darfur do not count!

An Israeli Strike This Autumn Against Iran?

Unless events change rapidly I believe Israel will strike against Iran this fall and I have to confess I do not blame them. Economic sanctions do not work. Just look at North Korea!

The difference between North Korea and Iran is that China is most likely protecting North Korea behind the scenes! It would have been more logical for Bush to attack North Korea than Iraq except for then we would anger China.

While an Israel strike “could” have enormous consequences for the price of oil, the growing tensions will also jack up prices.  The video below discusses that issue.

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Most analysts believe that Israel could start the operation but not finish it completely! The outcome would either result in:

1. An incomplete destruction that would set Iran back but not end her program.
2. Iran then attacking American interests in the Gulf which would then bring about American armed forces finishing the job Israel started.

Thanks to the Bush Doctrine an imminent strike by Israel could be the justification of an American preemptive strike against Iranian military assets that pose a threat to our Gulf interests. This American preemptive strike would be strengthened by Iranian posturing that has already taken place and future Iranian statements and military movements!

Function Vs. Purpose: How Obama Can Wag The Dog

Many have stated they believe Israel will strike right before our elections. These analysts state such a strike by Israel would embarrass Obama into action! I don’t believe that is the full story as to why Israel will act.

There is actually a strong reward for Obama to back the Israeli strike.

Obama fears losing the support of his base. But if Israel takes the heat then Obama is free of blame but can still play the game for gain!  Since the nation will be in a quasi state of war just before the election the president’s poll numbers will rise! After all he supports the action but only wanted to delay it! Republicans will be playing the “drill baby drill” slogan and blaming Obama for higher gas prices. Obama could unleash the reserves which would fix prices till the elections. But the rising crisis may drive prices even higher. Israel will take the heat off Obama, by attacking Iran and let him enjoy higher ratings as a war time president. 

Again Obama is not doing this “on purpose”  but a “function” of his invoking the Bush Doctrine and finishing what Israel started will be a “wag the dog scenario”! 

Israel has to do this because she cannot allow Iran to have nukes – period! We cannot allow Iran to have nukes else the Gulf states will take their money and use it to develop nuclear weapons!

Function vs. purpose.

If a married couple takes out life insurance and the husband is killed six months latter the wife gets the money. That is a “function” of the act. The fact that the wife benefits does NOT prove there was a criminal “purpose” to the wife buying life insurance.

What we have in late 2012 is the overlapping of two circles in a Venn Diagram! Israel’s needs and Obama’s re-election. That Obama will benefit in no way PROVES that he set it up this way! Israel knows this and must realize that America is to indecisive to act. By acting now Israel can sooth the American government as the “function” of an Israeli attack would be to wag the dog for Obama’s gain! 

But the fact is that Israel knows there is this conjunction of circles on the Venn Diagram of life. Israel must act. I agree completely!  Israel realizes that this “function” of the timing of her attack on Iran will reduce American objections.

Perhaps if we had not been sidetracked by Iraq then Saddam Hussein would still be there to fight the Iranians and be a buffer as he was before! Israel MUST ACT! As a Liberal who believes in ethical relativism I actually believe we should have stopped the old Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear weapons by preemptive strikes! We live in a world where throwing kisses does not work. This liberal actually believes in the Bush Doctrine! You read correctly! My only problem is the wrongful application of the Bush Doctrine in Iraq!

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For the past few weeks we have heard the chorus of endless right wing apologists saying that the murder of Travon Martin was a mere regrettable accident. His “stalker”, George Zimmerman was an individual who was defending himself at least in his own mind. In the midst of this debate is the Florida law that gives a potential “victim” the right to:

1. Stand their ground and not retreat even if such retreat is possible. Most states demand that you first take advantage of a retreat strategy if that is possible before using deadly force.
2. Use deadly force if they believe they are being attacked or about to be attacked.

It alleged that Travon Martin attacked Zimmerman! Well here is a thought!

Picture a light weight teen age boy carrying skiddles  and a soft drink who then realizes a huge man is following him. The boy (if he were white) would be “allowed” to fear that this was either a mugger or a sexual predator! We have cell phone evidence that Travon Martin actually believed he was going to be attacked by what he perceived as a male pursuer!

Why isn’t the right wing news media asking questions concerning the following facts”

1. Doesn’t Tavon Martin have the same rights under Florida’s law to STAND HIS GROUND and ATTACK?
2. Travon Martin was being pursued and Zimmerman had no right to pursue only to report!
3. Zimmerman did not identify his motive to Travon Martin. Apparently if you are white (by the way I am white) you have the “right” to fear black males and males with hoodies even if they are not following you! But a frail young black boy does not have the same right even when he is followed by a stocky older white male!
4. If Zimmerman was going to his car after it was established that he was pursuing Travon Maritn, then Travon Martin had the right to believe his unknown pursuer may have been going for a gun!

The Bush Doctrine And Travon Martin

Under such conditions I believe Travon Martin had the right to believe he was still under attack and do launch a “pre-emptive strike” while his pursuer did not yet posses an ultimate weapon!  Why isn’t ok for Trevon Martin to use a Bush Doctrine Strategy? Especially since this occurred in Florida?

Who “Owns” The  Right To Fear?

We don’t know if Travon Martin attacked Zimmerman but it was already established that Zimmerman was following young Travon! Furthermore Travon knew he was being followed and was scared beyond belief. The teen boy even told a girl this on his cell phone!

What teenage male would say such a thing to a girl unless he was really in deep fear?

If it is latter shown that Treveon Martin did attack Zimmerman I believe such an attack was justified!

• Doesn’t Travon Martin have the right to fear for his life and under Florida law not retreat but stand firm?
• Doesn’t the young, small framed Travon Martin have the right to fear that a psychotic or even sexual predator is after him after it has been established that George Zimmerman was following him? Or is the “RIGHT TO FEAR” only reserved to whites when they simply merely see a black person?
• Does  just the presence of a young male, black or white, in a hoodie give a white adult the “RIGHT TO FEAR” while a young black boy who has a stocky older white male pursueing him does not have such a right? Much less the right to defend himself?

Maybe Travon Martin should have been a member of the NRA and had a gun along with his skittles and then he would be alive today!

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I abhor the killing of two American servicemen due to the regretful burning of Koran’s. I agree that apologizing was the correct response.  That apology should still stand BUT  Human life comes before a book!  Therefore no further apologies should be made. Not only were our service men killed but many civilians!

Imagine if Christians or Jews continued today to follow the idiotic law of Leviticus! We as Progressives must face the dual idiocy of Christian and Muslim Fundamentalists! (Not to mention Marxist Atheist fundamentalists)  We must not have a “double standard”! Let me be clear I am not saying Muslims are inherently  worse then Christians and Jews. What I am saying is that:

1. Human life comes before any scripture!
2. All scriptures have both positive and negative passages that can sanction or condemn violence.
3. Because of a quirk in history, Europeans had to deal with various hostile religious groups in close proximity! Hence the evolution of secular humanism!

We in the west have learned to distance ourselves from our scripture and/or have created nicey nice strings of passages while forgetting the more horrible ones.

Muslims have not yet evolved past their Deuteronomy stage! Some Christian fundamentalists are also stagnated in this stage of their development.

The time has come to stop making excuses for Muslims! Yes we are all grateful for the creation of algebra and the preservation of Greek philosophic writings but when push comes to shove we must face the facts that Islam is way behind in it’s evolution to modernity and toleration! I urge you to watch the short video below!

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

True we Christians have problems in Northern Ireland and the former Yugoslavia! None the less Muslims lag far behind the evolution of Christians in the development of toleration. Europeans had to deal with not simply two brands of Christianity but multiple groups of Protestants as well. We developed a secular humanist society in response to centuries of killing each other!

Let’s stop pretending these were not MASSIVE advancements in human history that far outweigh the development of algebra or for that matter any scripture!  I agree with Bill Maher in his video comments below! 

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At the same time Christians and Jews want to play make believe that there is something inherit in the Koran that predisposes believers to bigotry. They do not want to deal with the dark side of Christian and Jewish Scriptures!

The Bible has passages that condone slavery, genocide, and the killing of Gays and others! Let me refresh your memory!

Genocide –  It’s The Biblical Thing To Do

No these passages below are not from Hitler’s Mein Kamp but from the Bible! What is worse is this is an incomplete list!

 Deuteronomy 20:16

¹⁶ However, in the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

Deuteronomy 2:33-36

33  the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck him down, together with his sons and his whole army. 34  At that time we took all his towns and completely destroyed  them-men, women and children. We left no survivors. 35  But the livestock and the plunder from the towns we had captured we carried off for ourselves. 36  From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead, not one town was too strong for us. The LORD our God gave us all of them.

 Joshua 10:40

⁴⁰ So Joshua subdued the whole region, including the hill country, the Negev, the western foothills and the mountain slopes, together with all their kings. He left no survivors. He totally destroyed all who breathed, just as the LORD , the God of Israel, had commanded.

 Jeremiah 48:10   

¹⁰ ”A curse on him who is lax in doing the LORD’s work!
A curse on him who keeps his sword from bloodshed!

 

Imagine if the ancient Jews had access to zykon–B poison gas like the Nazis had? Genocide is just plain old Bible fun! This is merely the “final solution” to that nasty pagan problem!

But wait? What about “beating swords into plow shares you say”? Sure what about it? The Bible says that but also the opposite!

Joel 3:9 + 10
⁹ Proclaim this among the nations:
Prepare for war!
Rouse the warriors!
Let all the fighting men draw near and attack.
¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords
and your pruning hooks into spears.
Let the weakling say,
“I am strong!”

Death Penalty For Blasphemers, Gays And Teenage Girls Who Use Love Spells

Kill the blasphemer!

Leviticus 24:16

¹⁶   ’Moreover, the one who  blasphemes the name of the LORD shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.

Kill the Gays!

Leviticus 20:13
13 If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

Death to the pagans and teenage girls who use a love ritual to get a boy friend. The parents must do the killing! It’s called “family values”!

Deuteronomy 13:6-10
⁶ If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, ⁷ gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), ⁸ do not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity. Do not spare him or shield him. ⁹ You must certainly put him to death. Your hand must be the first in putting him to death, and then the hands of all the people. ¹⁰ Stone him to death, because he tried to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out ofEgypt, out of the land of slavery.

Brothers and sisters do I hear a “hallelujah”?

We Christians must always be on guard as our scriptures are loaded with passages from hell! The scriptures are like a Trojan horse! Bigotry is always underneath along with the good stuff. We in the West have either placed a greater distance between ourselves and our scriptures or we have created a string of nicey nice passages and forgotten the rest.

Muslims, like us have scriptural problems! However our european values have given us a layer of protection! Sorry giving us algebra does not equal the advancement of western secular society!

We were right to apologize for the burning of the Koran but now they have gone beyond anything we have done. Let’s stop making believe that Islam is a religion of peace while also being vigilant for our own scriptural trojan horses!

Our advantage over Muslims is not something inherent but due to the fact that in Europe we had not only Catholics fighting Protestants but also Protestants fighting each other. Eventually secular humanism emerged while the combatants also evolved! Muslims will eventually follow the same “evolution” but lets stop pretending that their level of toleration is as high as ours! Even with all our faults!

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As you already know Mitt Romney made a stupid remark about the poor. I believe Republicans actually would have loved his remark after the primary! His remarks were a perfect set up for a Richard Nixon “silent majority” strategy that would pit the middle class against the poor. The idea being to alienate middle class Americans from Democrats and their “so-called” worsey welfare state!

The ONLY reason why this strategy failed Mitt Romney is because he is not yet facing Barrack Obama. If that were the case I believe Republicans would have loved the strategy! But there still is a primary and  Newt Gingrich saw a chance to score on rich Mitt.

Please note I don’t believe for one second that Gingrich gives a krap for anyone but himself. But he used this occasion and perhaps saved the Democrats from defending against a “welfare Cadillac” GOP strategy!

Once Gingrich said his piece then the rest of the GOP had to back away from Mitt Romney’s stupid remark about the poor! Even Rush Limbaugh has criticized him.

Gov. Romney stated that his focus will be on the middle class not the rich! He says the rich  are well off while  the poor have a safety net.

How We Progressives Can Exploit This

Frankly I have to confess that while I care about the poor, I believe most middle class Americans could be swayed by a new GOP  ”welfare Cadillac” strategy.  But Progressives have not been so naive as in the past. You know when we progressives used to call ourselves “liberals”! We allowed the Republicans to “steal the football”. Now we know better and have to relate the progressive agenda to middle class concerns while not forgetting the poor.

The problem is that many middle class Americans worry about becoming poor. That fear is how we progressives should connect to the middle class rather than altruism!

This fear even extends to millionaires! In fact a recent survey by the Fidelity Investments Corporation of multi-millionaires said that 42% not only do not feel they are rich but they will outlive their investments! When asked what would make them feel rich they responded having at least 7.5 million! Wow so many millionaires do not feel “self sufficient”. Gee how are we middle class Americans to feel?

While Newt Gingrich criticized Mitt Romney for desiring to “divide Americans”, Newt Gingrich wanted to put poor children to work. Poor kids could replace unionized janitors at their local school. (See short video below).

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

Newt Gingrich Wants Poor Kids To Know Their Place

Can you imagine a kid going to school in Newt Gingrich’s America? Under Newt Gingrich’s plan only one janitor would remain in each school to be assisted by poor kids. Meanwhile Johnny rich brat can piss on the bathroom floor and the poor kids can then be made to clean the rich kids mess!

What a valuable life lesson “class” they can learn at an early age!

They can lean to know their place in the CLASS STRUCTURE of America! It is bad enough that kids in school bully other kids. Now we can make it “classy”! Teach the kids their place in the class structure of America using Newt Gingrich’s class syllabus! But wait all is not lost!

Meanwhile Senator Rand Paul, who is Ron Paul’s son, wants to “unleash” the power of our ever glorious free market to bring full employment by eliminating those nasty minimum wage laws! That is how you become “self-sufficient” in Republican Party America! Just ask anyone who has to use a hospital emergency room for their average medical treatment! Most work but at such low wages they cannot afford to go to a doctor!

Dear reader let’s connect the dots. Let’s remember about the plight of our social betters that was uncovered by the Fidelity investments Corporation study that says 42% of millionaires believe they will outlive their investments!

Amazing millionaires who do not believe in this great land of free enterprise, that they have NOT yet reached the point of being self-sufficient!

Pity the poor job creators!

That is why I know my place and am so happy that pensions are becoming a thing of the past! I would rather middle class Americans feel insecure in our old age instead of those millionaires cited in the study above! After all they are the “producers” and the “job creators”! I would not want the millionaires to feel so insecure in their old age.

Besides even if we have lower incomes, little or no pensions we in the middle class still have social security and Medicare! – Right?

All is not lost. Let us “turn the page”!

Barrack Obama: From Poor Kid To 2008 Winner Of The Goldman Sachs PAC #1 Award

Well I realize my readers may be discouraged after I discussed Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul all is not lostl! Now enter Barrack Obama – our hero!

Yes the spunky lad grew up and worked his way up from humble origins with an African born father and American mom to become the coveted 2008 GOLDMAN SACHS PAC #1 AWARD WINNER!  And they said American corporations are racist!

The GOLDMAN SACHS PAC in 2008 considered Barrack Obama to be their best investment of PAC money!

Is it any wonder that Barrack Obama has in his words decided to “turn the page” when it comes to how we got into this fiscal mess rather than investigate the crooks on wall street. Oh but wait! Now three years into his presidency President Obama wants to start some investigations!

This financial crisis could have been played to the hilt to move the nation leftward. Barrack Obama could have been the 21^st Century FDR. But what do we get instead? “Barrack the wimpy hearted” who plays liberal inside the corporate sandbox like a good little boy!

Remember before I mentioned our declining incomes and the weakening of our pensions!

But with Barrack Obama as our remaining jobs get off shored we can enjoy four more years of even bigger concessions to Republicans. So far we have enjoyed a toothless health care reform and financial reforms that have not ended “to big to fail”! We have “enjoyed” financial reforms” that force disclosure of the interest rate but still allow the practice of USURY! 

Despite the biggest financial avoidable meltdown since the Great Depression and an easy opportunity to exploit the situation for the Progressive Agenda, Barrack Obama has chosen to “turn the page” on FDR style leadership to be the wimp that he is! 

So when the GOLDMAN SACHS 2008 (and perhaps 2012) PAC winner gets re-elected instead of those nasty horrible Republicans I mentioned above, we Democrats can all pat ourselves on the back with a glowing sense of great accomplishment!

WE SHOWED THEM!

After all no real progressive had the guts to stand up in a primary fight with Obama!

It is going to be great the next four years with Obama as president!

1. He can kiss Joe Lieberman’s ass some more!
2. While the banksters run amok with our nation as too big to fail still remains.
3. Usury reigns supreme!
4. We will soon reach full employment by middle class Americans  knowing our place in the corporate sandbox and working at Walmart wages.

Yes Sir we will show those damn Republicans by re-electing Barrack Obama! Lead by our glorious Democratic Party under Barrack Obama, who it turns out was never from Kenya but from the linage of GOLDMANS SACHS!

The great Democratic Party, the successors of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, will all be ecstatic with orgasmic ecstasy as Barrack Obama does his youth stlye hip hop to the podium to compromise and undermine everything that FDR did and stood for with his crippled legs. While Europeans will laugh but true Obama believers will all rise and call this “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN”!

Yes my friends ONLY IN AMERICA! ONLY IN AMERICA!

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As a Progressive Democrat I am enjoying the Republican circular firing squad. However the fun and games may come to an end because the people’s voice does not count. Their corporate sponsors may pull the plug on this delightful TV program we witness every night! What Newt Gingrich is facing is the karma of patronage campaign financing!

Running even in the primaries is very costly. We have heard calls for Newt Gingrich to step aside for Mitt Romney! The logic being that the contest is over and to continue will only help the Democrats!

We have only seen three states pick their delegates!

Most Republicans have not even voted yet! But then again that is really cosmetic since in 21^st Century America corporations are people! The money changers have decided that the contest should now be coming to an end. You cannot continue a viable campaign unless you have patrician patrons or are one yourself!

That is why Democrats have to give Republicans a helping hand in continuing this circular firing squad!

I would like to see Democrats follow the strategy that was advanced by Rush Limbaugh to keep the fight going. If you remember the last primary some states allow any registered voter to vote in “one” primary regardless of party affiliation.

Rush Limbaugh wanted Republicans to vote in the Democratic Party primary for Hillary Clinton to keep the fight going on. What was worse is that Rush Limbaugh actually said he wanted “blood in the streets” at the Democratic Party convention between Obama and Clinton supporters! He called this “Operation Chaos”. If you watch the video below you have to wonder which is bigger Rush Limbaugh or his ego! (see video below)

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

I would hope that Democrats would now reciprocate and vote for the underdog in the Republican Primary if their state so allows it! Newt Gingrich would most likely run out of money as the GOP establishment and big money would dry up his supply of cash. Then  I would love to see is a bitter Newt Gingrich go on the attack against the money changers in politics and make speeches that could be used via YouTube against the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling.

I would like to see Gingrich and his supporters become so bitter that they would support the move for a Constitutional Amendment to separate corporation and state!

You will hear a lot of nicey nice talk from Obama on the separation of corporation and state! But I don’t believe the winner of the 2008 Goldman Sachs PAC, “Barrack Obama”  is going to do a damn thing to bring this separation about!

Meanwhile poor Ron Paul whines that the nasty news-media are not giving him the attention that he deserves! Ah poor baby! Ron Paul the champion of our ever glorious free market system is whining about “corporate persons”!

Ron Paul Whines Against The News Media

When Ron Paul gets the short end of our glorious free market system he whines and complains! My answer to Ron Paul is:

The news corporations are private corporations!

They are a part of our free market system! Who are we to tell our ever glorious free market system how to do their business! Besides if Ron Paul’s supporters don’t like the treatment they get from CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN or MSNBC they can always turn the channel to FOXNEWS! Ah yes FOXNEWS that bastion “fair and balanced journalism”! The problem is that FoxNews is not too hot about Ron Paul.

I admit the news media does seem to pass over coverage of Ron Paul! However that is not because they have an anti-conservative biases! They just see him as a non-entitly. Is this wrong? Yes but it has nothing to do with being conservative!

Two examples come to mind.

1. Buddy Roemer.

Most Americans don’t even know he is running! Buddy Roemer is not a liberal but he wants to keep money out of politics and bring jobs home to America. Unlike Herman Cain, Buddy Roemer actually was an elected official but he gets no press attention! Buddy Roemer was a four time congressman and served as Governor of Louisiana! Buddy Roemer was the founder of a bank and he did not take bail out money! So why wasn’t he at least invited to the first few debates and take it from there?

The problem for Buddy Roemer is that he will not accept the patronage of organized money! Buddy Roemer will not take more than $100.00 from any individual and he rejects PAC contributions outright!

2. Howard Dean

If conservatives want to whine about the news media let me remind them it goes both ways! I remember one speech by Rick Santorum that ended with him giving a motivation yell to his followers! You know the same thing that Howard Dean did!

The difference is that the corporate news media crucified Howard Dean. The result of their intrusion into the Democratic Party primary process was that we ended up with the lackluster John Kerry instead of a real Progressive like Howard Dean.

Gingrich And Limbaugh Paying Their Karma

Newt Gingrich is rich but he does not come close to Mitt Romney in terms of wealth! I want Newt Gingrich to stay in the race! He is making excellent talking points for the progressive agenda. Are Republicans such wimps that they cannot take an in fight like the Democrats took in the last primary?

My hope is that the fight between the Republicans will serve as an educational experience for many informationally challenged Americans.

Barrack Obama should have used his three years in office to educate the public but he instead choose to “turn the page” on the banks and Bush. As I have said in prior posts, as a progressive I have serious doubts about Barrack Obama!

But for now let the circular firing squard continue. They are doing a better PR job than Michael Moore to undermine the conservative cause. Keep up the good work Newt Gingrich! It is fantastic that Rush Limbaugh wants this fight to continue. As progressives let’s do our best to help keep this comedy show alive! See video below. Note some times if you don’t see the box you may have to refresh the page!

Yes there is a law of Karma! Listen to the video above he whines about how the poor conservatives are victimized by the GOP establishment! He even talks about how the GOP establishment blames the media – falsely according to Rush Limbaugh! Wow Rush Limbaugh backing the news media!

Please Rush Limbaugh keep up the circular firing squad! i love it! Rush can generate the funds to keep his “KARMIC OPERATION CHAOS” going! Yes indeed   Rush you Republicans are going to pay for your karma of “operation chaos”! And it is “Karmic”!

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While we are all happy that President Obama finally found “some” testosterone he just does not want to take responsibility for his lack of mojo over the last three years! Obama seems to have amnesia when it comes to the progressive agenda. Well until now! Recently he gave a speech (see video below) where he questioned how some could have “amnesia”.

“After everything that’s happened, there are people in Washington who seem to have collective amnesia. They seem to have forgotten how we got in this mess. They want to go back to the very same policies that got us into it. Same policies that stacked the deck against middle class Americans for years”.

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Currently I am reading a box called “Pity The Poor Billionaire” by Thomas Frank. The author raves that unlike 1929 when the nation was on the brink of revolt; today people actually seem to believe the real issue is how we can best help our social betters!

Mr. Frank’s bewilderment is almost the same as President Obama’s! The answer is simple!

Americans are stupid! Yes I can say that I am not running for political office! Our society not only suffers from “trickle-down economics” but the parasitic schema of “Trickle Down Identity”.

But how can this be after the debacle of 2008! Everyone knows that the Republicans took us from a budget surplus under President Clinton to ruin as National Guard deserter George Bush played field marshal in Iraq!

Why Our Nation Has Amnesia

The first reason is that most Democrats don’t want to face their own cognitive dissonance and accept the fact that our party has joined the Republican party to serve the corporatists agenda! Republicans outright while Democrats play liberal inside the corporate sandbox! Bill Clinton was part of this and we have to stop closing our eyes!

Bank deregulation and globalization advanced under President Bill Clinton and then exploded under George Bush. Congress is bought! When both parties go to bed with the CUT AND RUN CORPORATISTS that off shore our jobs, technology and future to our future military rival China, and no party stands up to this the answer is simple!

Democratic politicians have “testosterone reduction induced Amnesia” from “playing liberal” inside the moneyed confines of he corporate sandbox! 

Stop making excuses and looking the other way while Democrats play this game! Obama’s re-election will not solve this problem! We need a birth of “Middle Class Consciousness” in America! The silent majority needs to stand up to these effete snobs of privilege! 

Our corporate news media don’t challenge us but instead look the other way while the right wing continues the false charges of a pro-liberal news media bias!

As ST Augustine warns us that our decision making processes are corrupted!

One does not decide to commit a major crime outright! First smaller decisions are made and these then skew the evaluation processes to go further down the wrong path making worse decisions possible.

Democrats have started us down this faulty road by looking the other way as K-Street influenced the political decision making processes of our society. “Amnesia” – yes because even today most progressives don’t want to face the facts that our hero Bill Clinton was a part of this processes! Our society also has to face that some of our assumptions are wrong.

The “free market” does not always translate into “our freedom”! But instead we sit back and accept the bromides to lull us into “amnesia”!

The Schema Of Trickle Down Identity

As I have said in a prior post our nation does not simply suffer from “trickle down economics” but “trickle down identity”.

Our society perpetuates certain trans-generational parasitic belief structures!

1. The well-being of our social betters, the so called “job creators”, must be our prime concern!
2. Their freedom to receive dividend income from the work of their ancestors and/or their current lavish employment compensation’s translation into stocks, must come over the security of our income from paychecks!
3. The right of my social betters to enhance and increase their dividend income steam by off shoring and increasing the competition for American jobs pre-empts my right to a paycheck income!
4. The “innovation” of sending Apple jobs to China where some workers have committed suicide because of low pay, seven day work weeks and unsafe work environments is a the mark of a true entrepreneurial spirit! If you don’t like this then you can vote with your meager dollars for other products! This is called “FREEDOM”! Yes indeed the FREEDOM TO SERVE OUR SOCIAL BETTERS! To believe otherwise is unpatriotic!
5. Our social betters have the right to put their dividend incomes in the Cayman Islands and Swiss Bank Accounts! Maybe if we middle class Americans would just know our place then they would bring their dividend incomes back to America and grace us with minimum wage jobs!

The above are the values that have been internalized and accepted by most Americans! These assumptions must be exposed in the light of day! They can never be as long as Progressives do not face their cognitive dissonance and existential anxiety that Bill Clinton was a part of this along with George Bush!

The Democratic Party has “played liberal” inside the moneyed confines of the corporate sandbox long enough! All of the above is historical! Now the reason why the meme of ”Trickle Down identity” continues! The answer is  BARRACK OBAMA!

Barrack Obama Contributed To The Amnesia He Complains About

Barrack Obama was the 2008 winner of the Goldman Sachs PAC! If dollars are votes then Barrack Obama was their guy in 2008. Dear reader stop practicing amnesia. Click on the link above I have provided from opensecrets.org!

Barrack Obama did not push for real investigations into the Federal Reserve and the banking cartel. Barrack Obama spoke about “turning the page”! Three years into his presidency is a little late to begin initiating an investigation!

Barrack Obama chose to resign from the Presidential bully pulpit and allowed instead the Tea Party to control the definition of issues and the battlefield.

The ONLY reason he now shows some testosterone is because of the Occupy Wall Street Movement!

Barrack Obama has been the champion of Amnesia!

He has served his masters in Goldman Sachs well and played liberal while never really pushing for “change we can believe in”! Barrack Obama has just discovered people are suffering from unemployment. Even if the trickle rate of growth continues it will be YEARS before we are back to before the crash! I know he is not God and I do not fault him for the economy. I fault him for “playing liberal” instead of being liberal.

We never had a real stimulus and now information challenged Americans believe that Keynesian Economics does not work because Obama:

1. Never gave us a real stimulus package three years ago.
2. Surrendered the bully pulpit to the Tea Party who have now defined the issue as debt reduction!
3. Tea Party rage has become the “model” for change as Obama was to busy being a Rogerian Facilitator instead of being an FDR style leader for “change we can believe in”!

Don’t get amnesia friends! Remember we were told that the PRIOR stimulus had shovel ready projects that would turn the nation around! Yet we spent more money on AIG than infrastructure!

OBAMA HAS AMNESIA

President Barrack Obama has forgotten his base and has forgotten about “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN”! Because he did not remind Americans day and night about the “lessons of history” we now have amnesia concerning how Keynesian economics got us out of the depression!

We cannot have “change we can believe in” unless the assumptions I listed above are brought out in the open and challenged. To do so does NOT require a super-majority in Congress! It requires only one person! That person is the President of the United States! He alone has the bully pulpit!

Barrack Obama has failed also because he did not become an “ACTION FIGURE”! Americans will always choose the action figure over the wimp. Even if the action figure advocates positions that are against people’s interest! Why? Because Americans see weakness without testosterone!

But wasn’t Ronald Reagan successful while being nonaggressive? Yes Reagan was friendly in his speeches but he was active! Reagan constantly pushed his message. Obama is passive!

Again I repeat. I don’t care if Obama did not get one law passed!

Why I am angry at Obama is because he did not even try! He did not rally the nation to attack the assumptions that I have listed above! Barrack Obama spent years being a Rogerian Facilitator kissing Joe Liebermann’s butt and making nicey to Republicans when he should have been out in the streets as a 21^st Century FDR!

I refuse to vote for Obama simply because he is the better of the two. Actually if we had a Republican President then Democrats in Congress would be tougher! My God what will Obama give away if he is re-elected? Senator Bernie Sanders was correct in the video clip I showed in the prior post. He noticed that Obama was speaking about cutting Medicare and Social Security! For Christ’s sake pensions are becoming a thing of the past! When Obama started there was talk about expanding union memberships by legalizing the “card check method”.

Now because Obama has demonstrated such weakness we now see unions fighting for their very existence!

“Change We Can Believe In” starts with a shake up of the underlying assumptions that prevent it. Legislation is merely the after glow!

Barrack Obama resigned from the most important de-facto position of the presidency! That of “pontifex maximus” to define the issues. To use the bully pulpit. Obama valued playing liberal inside the corporate sandbox and being a rogerian facilitator instead of using his feared oratorical skills like FDR did. Obama choose to have testosterone reduction induced amnesia and forgot about “change we can believe in”!

Yes it is fine that Obama got Bin Laden. But domestically I want Obama to fire a cruise missile targeted to go up  Joe Liebermann’s ass! Let’s make some Santorum froth splash all over the Tea Party by a direct cruise missile hit on Liebermann butt! 

 

God damn it I am sick of Tea Party folks thinking they have a monopoly and an “entitlement”  on rage! Obama should have called for an investigation of the banks years ago and pushed to break up the financial cartel. Instead we got wimpy financial reforms while banks paid off their federal loans by continuing the practice of USURY!

I will not practice testosterone reduction induced AMNESIA! I will not call this “Change We Can Believe In”!

Do you really think that the winner of the Goldman Sachs Pac campaign funding of 2008 is really going to push for a serious investigation of the financial cartel or merely a dressing down of their CEO’s!

Obama needs to get a fire under his butt and apologize to his base! Even better do the patriotic thing! Step aside and let Senator Bernie Sanders or Howard Dean lead the party to victory in 2012!

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Yes I did like that President Obama was more forceful in his “state of the union speech”. Sure he has been victimized by Republicans and the nut job birthers. But if President Obama kept his eye on the goal of the Progressive agenda from the start of his administration instead of how best he could kiss Joe Liebermann’s ass, I believe Republicans would not have been so successful with their filibusters! Obama practically trained the Tea Party and the GOP on how best to succeed. Remember we actually had a super majority in the Senate back when Obama took office!

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What Obama Needs To Learn To Receive This Progressive’s Vote

I am fed up with making excuses for Barrack Obama. Again I understand he was confronted with nut jobs from the Tea Party accusing him on not being an American. The problem with Obama is that he did not call these nuts out as insane from day one! That only reinforced their zany behavior.

The progressive agenda needs an FDR not a Rogerian Facilitator!

Obama has never understood that to have “change you can believe in” you have to become the “campaigner – in – chief”  to change values! This is what Republicans feared most about Obama, that he is a great orator!  His recent state of the union speech proved it. Yes he is a great orator so why did we have to wait till three years into his presidency to hear him become forceful?

But there is more. To be a successful as President and create “change we can believe in” President Obama needs to learn something very important!

That lesson is:

The passage of bold legislation in Congress is the function of a massive public outcry from a populist movement that can be from the ground up or pushed by a President who uses the bully pulpit! Presidents are in effect the “Pontifex Maximus” of the nation. They “define” the issues! When a President stands by and only operates to create a Congressional consensus change occurs instead  at the “initiative” of corporate funding. We need a liberal Pontifex Maximus, a modern leader like FDR not a Rogerian Facilitator!

The issue facing our nation today and the Democratic Party is:

Republicans will naturally attend to the wishes of their corporate sponsors! We know that! But Democrats are “confining” their liberalism to becoming actors! Democrats are “playing liberal” inside the moneyed confines of the CORPORATE SANDBOX!

Doubt me? The time has come for us to challenge certain assumptions out in the open! This challenge to underlying assumptions must be lead by a President who has guts and is not afraid to use the bully pulpit.

What are these assumptions that Americans accept without question?

1. Corporations have the right to move their assets abroad! We should not “just” reward corporations that keep jobs in America we need to penalize those CUT AND RUN CAPITALISTS who ship our wealth abroad. This wealth is not their God given right! It was produced in America and is subject to this society’s permission before it can be shipped abroad.
2. Free Enterprise means “freedom”. This is yet another example of what I term “trickle down identity“! “Free Enterprise” does not always mean our freedom! That we want to reward innovation is true. Being rich is not a sin. But being rich by an UNPATRIOTIC means cannot be tolerated any longer in this 21st century! Nor can the “innovation” of slave labor and an unsafe work environment be rewarded by a value oriented society.
3. Compensation is always fair. ”If you are rich you entirely earned it”.  No not always. We tolerate the wild compensation packages of some. That is why a progressive income tax is just a value oriented society’s way of saying “reality is calling”! Further some of the super-rich’s only claim to wealth is that it was be inherited. Those who inherit  huge wealth, in effect inherit  ”perpetual unearned incomes from the work of their dead ancestors“! They then believe that they have an “entitlement”! Yes an “entitlement” to increase their unearned dividend check at the expense of your “pay check”! They call this “freedom”!
4. The Inheritance Tax On The Rich Is A Death Tax!  No in this great land of self determination of self made individuals that conservatives term “American Exceptionalism”, we don’t want the children of the rich to be crippled by a nanny trust! After all this is a land of equal opportunity where anyone can, if  left to themselves with gosh darn doggedness, rise to be rich! That is what defines “American Exceptionalism“! To cripple the children of the rich with a “nanny trust” is to lack faith in American Exceptionalism and our ever glorious free market system to reward ruggard individualism,  persistence, initiative and innovation! Therefore let the funds from great estates be taxed to provide “equal opportunity” via reduced costs of higher education to all. Don’t call it a “Death Tax” but rather call it an “AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM PRESERVATION TAX”!
5. Liberals Want A Welfare State! No we progressives want a “Social Contract State” that “values” real persons over corporations and challenges all of the assumptions above!
6. Rage is only justified for the mindless viewers of FoxNews! We hear it constantly since Obama became President. When real single payer universal health  care wasn’t being undermined by Obama and Lieberman we had the rage from  the Tea Party at town hall meetings! Republicans seem to believe they have a “right to rage” and that their primary should be won by the candidate who satisfies this need to rage! We liberals are fed up! Perhaps owning a gun is a good idea in an age when Halliburton can have private militias!
7. The news media has a liberal biases! Wrong we have the corporate news-media not the liberal news media. Check out the posts under “Conservative news media biases” that I have on this blog. One in particular drives me nuts. The way the corporate news media destroyed Howard Dean’s candidacy by labeling him a nut just because he gave an enthusiastic yell to his followers. The result was the corporate news media pushed the lackluster John Kerry to win the primary. I remember Rick Santorum giving a similar yell but the corporate news media did not attack him!. You can also check mediamatters.org for numerous instances of anti-liberal news media biases!

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Could I vote for Obama? I still have some problems with President Obama. I liked that he was forceful in the state of the union speech but:

1. President Obama  still spoke about compromising on social security if millionaires paid more taxes. Listen to Senator Bernie Sanders in the first video above.
2. He still seems to believe job training is the answer when even our white collar technical jobs are going to China and other nations. Yes he did address this issue some what. But I only heard about ‘carrots” for the CUT AND RUN CORPORATIONS that will return. I did not hear about punishments for those Cut and Run Capitalists who don’t want to invest in the nation that gave them their birth, profits and protection! Barrack Obama must end this age of licentious permissiveness and force these effete snobs of privilege to be just stewards of this nation’s capital. Instead terms like “tariff increase” are not part of Barrack Obama’s vocabulary! But then again we don’t want to anger big campaign contributors!
3. He still seems to believe we have achieved financial reform. But where is the prohibition against usury? Sure now they have to tell you that you are being screwed. But how about ending usury – period.
4. Obama wants to investigate the banks so we can “turn the page“! Gee I heard that line when he passed up investigating the Bush administration for their role in the financial meltdown and our involvement in Iraq. It’s  2012 not 2009 and I am frankly tired of making excuses for Barrack Obama.
5. I did not hear any call for a constitutional amendment to achieve the separation of corporation and state!
6. Even if he did all the above he still needs to become “campaigner – in – chief” for “change we can believe in“! He can do that by making  forceful speeches all over this nation, day in and day out. If we have a rise in “middle class consciousness” then the effect will be to have legislation that brings “change we can believe in”!

Why? Because at least he would have tried and he would have made in roads into some of the core Republican talking points that a latter president could benefit from.

I will say this again! American love action figures! To be an initiator of change the American electorate demands TESTOSTERONE!  The message is not internalized unless the “messenger” exhibits testosterone because Americans have a self image as being action oriented and despise wimps! If you doubt this ask why “liberals” now term themselves as “progressives”! The former term was neutered of testosterone by Republicans and by liberal masochism. But that is for another post.

“Barrack Obama OR Change We Can Believe In”!

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Carl Rogers took his “person centered approach” from the school of psychotherapy that he created. This approach has a non-directive leadership style. This style may very work for some therapy clients.

Exporting the Rogerian approach from psychotherapy, as a management style, may work for a “community organizer”! That is because you are dealing with volunteers who generally share your values. However this methodology does not work in running the United States of America! Especially now that “corporations are people”!

The Person Centered Approach Does Not Work When Those Persons are Corporations

Barrack Obama has lead us progressives down the road to impotency. Thank God for the patriots in the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The Tea Party was shaping the definition of the battlefield. That is because Barrack Obama did not want to be a leader but a Rogerian “facilitator” instead! The Occupy Wall Street Movement is doing the job that Obama should be doing.

The problem is Obama weakly uses  the presidential bully pulpit to counter-act the money from corporations. (When he is not taking Goldman Sachs money)

While the #OWS movement has to use the “people’s microphone” instead. This involves repeating what the speaker said as they are not allowed to use electronic equipment. After all in this era of “change we can believe in” money is speech and corporations are people!  

Sure Barrack Obama had testosterone in going after Bin Laden. I agree. But would he stand up to Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson?

Let’s return to the comments by Harry Reid about “Obstructionism On Steroids”.

While the Republicans would have used this tactic they might not have done it so long or have toned it down except that the Democrats actually encouraged them all along the way by their pathetic lack of testosterone.

“Obstructionism on steroids” might have resulted in a powerful counter offensive. But Republicans correctly believed that the Rogerian facilitator, Barrack Obama would not do that as the president has a history of his head up Joe Liebermann’s ass kissing his hemorrhoids instead of speaking with steroids!

How can you throw away a 60 vote majority in the Senate and not do some serious arm twisting to advance the progressive agenda? Easy!

Barrack Obama and Harry Reid “play” progressive but they act progressive only within the constraints of the moneyed corporate sandbox that finances elections in this nation.

In the corporate sandbox good little Democrats will “play” progressive and not annoy their corporate mentors! Just like Charles Schemer and the so-called financial reform law. What a joke. They never outlawed usury! Now at least you can know up front what your usury rate will be! Wow “change we can believe in”. With the recent ruling of “Citizens United” it will be worse.

The Democrats just like the Republicans have to raise money from their corporate sponsors. Wow but at least the Democrats will “play liberal”  like good little kids inside the corporate sandbox while the Republicans (most) will do the corporate agenda even without campaign financing!

Why isn’t Obama screaming for the 28th Amendment that would separate corporation and state! Obama’s lack of testosterone in this matter insures that our democracy will be a “game” played inside the moneyed confines of the corporate sandbox while our jobs flow to China!  Sure Obama is starting to give nice speeches but why did he just sign yet another free trade deal?

Yes Obama did do some things right. But the banks should have been broken up.

Instead they paid off their government loans with the slave debt of usury on Americans via their credit cards and loans. These financial institutions can still use our economy as a casino parlor instead of investing in products and services of value! Yes we can thank the Republicans but stop closing your eyes to the part the Democrats played in this.

In 2008 Barrack Obama was the top beneficiary of the Goldman Sachs PAC. Harry Reid had strong ties to big pharma. In fact opensecrets.org says Bain Capital gave more money to Democrats then Republicans!

Ever wonder where your public option went?

The same place your jobs, pension and future went! All to the sponsors of the Democratic Party and the corporate sandbox into which these good little boys and girls play “make believe liberal”.

There is one final reason why Republicans got away with “obstructionism on steroids”!

The reason pre-dates Obama. Two years before Obama took office we Democrats took control of the House of Representatives! Did Nancy Pelosi dact as forcefully as John Boehner? We could have ended the war in Iraq by the House’s power of the purse. Instead all we got was a pathetic meow!

That is why the Republicans were so encouraged to practice what Harry Reid calls “Obstructionism On Steroids”! It could get worse. If progressives do not stand up to Obama he will give away everything in his second term.

Doesn’t any progressive realize that Obama is staying on with the same rationale that the banks used! “To Big To Fail”.  We are so afraid of what will happen if a Republican wins! I say we need REAL PROGRESSIVES in Congress and the White House!

That is why I will vote for a third party candidate or just write in Michael Moore if there is no progressive running an independent candidacy in November!

If Reid and Pelosi would role model John Boehner and Eric Canter then we could protect the progressive agenda from both the Republicans and the corporate Democrats. Yes I would prefer a progressive president but Barrack Obama is not that man!

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I am a Progressive and I will not make excuses for Barrack Obama! What burns me up is to hear Obama devotees give their endless litany we have financial reforms in America due to Obama! What reforms? The speculators are free to destroy our economy once again! Oh but now we have a small insurance fund in case we have to bail them out! The fund is a pittance in terms of what it cost the last time to bail them out. Some will say “didn’t the banks pay back their loans?”

The repayment was done on the backs of middle class Americans with credit cards and loan rates raising though the ceiling. College students are being shackled with loan payments but they cannot find jobs!

Obama’s solution is to call for tax cuts that would make Social Security and Medicare more vulnerable to Republican cuts down the road!

Meanwhile the rich keep their Bush era tax cuts. Obama now brags that the unemployment rate has fallen to 8.5%! Face it the first stimulus was too weak. Obama stated when he began his term that unemployment would not pass 8%! Obama was too busy trying to compromise!

If Obama would have looked around him at the suffering of the American people instead of keeping his head up Joe Liebermann’s ass perhaps he would have tried to outlaw the practice of usury. The only thing his reforms did was to require banks to make their disclosure forms more readable!

Nanny State For The Banks While Obama Plays “Make Believe Progressive” Inside The Corporate Sandbox

Barrack Obama has stood up for the middle class only if it would not hurt his patrons in Goldman Sachs! While the Republicans argue for Old Testament values and morality they condone the practice of “usury’ which the Bible prohibited!  I want to make it clear that even if someone does make bad financial mistakes they should NEVER be the victims of usury!

This practice makes loan repayment impossible. Maybe the Government should have given Goldman Sachs a “payday loan” with usury rates!

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Meanwhile President Obama and Wall Street Chuckie Schumer are just so proud of their new Financial Reform Law!

This law does not address:

1. The crime of usury by which Americans are turned into interest slaves to the banks!
2. The continuation of “too big to fail” and the reckless leveraging practices that resulted in record profits for Obama’s patrons at Goldman Sachs.
3. That America was protected by the Glass –Steagall Act but this law was weakened in 1999. The Glass – Steagall Act kept investment institutions separate from commercial banks.
4. The banking cartel: This cluster of power  has not been broken up! There have been no real prosecutions but instead a cloud of secrecy under the President who promised transparency! Amazing isn’t that Barrack Obama was the largest beneficiary of the Goldman Sachs PAC in his 2008 election!
5. The big boys can escape their responsibly but middle class Americans have less access to bankruptcy laws because these were weakened in 2005.

Now we learn that the Federal Reserve made trillions in loans without transparency. Many loans were made to institutions outside the United States. See the video below!

I am tired of making excuses for Barrack Obama. Yes I understand that he now has to fight against a Republican House and a Senate where Republicans can filibuster!

Perhaps if Barrack Obama had stood up to the Tea Party we would not have lost the ideological battle in 2010 that resulted in our loss of the House!

That laws where not passed is not the issue! Obama is a wimp of a failure because:

1. He did not try!
2. Obama did not take this case to the people using the Presidential bully pulpit. Obama did not fight the ideological battle. This from the man who was supposed to be the greatest orator of our time!

But then again it is hard to wage the fight when Barrack Obama is playing “progressive” inside the moneyed confines of the corporate sandbox of his patrician sponsors!

Accomplishing “Change We Can Believe In”

There are two battlefields. The Congress via legislation and the people via the war of ideas! If Obama had tried and failed completely to get any legislation passed I would not call him a wimp!

The problem is that not only did he not try to push for real reforms but he did not take his case to the people in the “battle of ideas”!

With the Citizens United ruling that unleashes corporate super-pacs, we need a president who will use his oratory and the bully pulpit. Instead all we have is a wimp with the foul smell of keeping his head up Joe Liebermann’s butt!

The battle of ideas was being won by the Tea Party until the patriots of the Occupy Wall Street Movement said “ENOUGH”! If we did not have the Occupy Wall Street Movement then Barrack Obama would be even more of a wimp then he is and make even more concessions.

Just think of how much more Barrack Obama can give away if he gets elected to a second term! He will use ‘our pain” to have his goal of a grand compromise!

QUESTION:

Where is Obama in the fight for the 28^th Amendment that would separate corporation and state?

ANSWER:

He is too busy raising funds from his friends on Wall Street for his re-election!

I have had it! Dump the wimp Obama.

We need Buddy Roemer for President!

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