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1: Domestic terrorism (as defined by the FBI and "patriot act"
against US citizens for peacefully gathering to petition the government with grievance against the economic destruction wrought by banksters and corporations. SHUT UP AND WATCH TV is the message. March and meet hundreds of militarized police. SHUT UP AND GO HOME. 7400+ Occupiers arrested, two brought to within inches of death by militarized police. Force and threat of force against a civilian population for political purposes. And Obama continues to bail out Wall Street and the corps with our tax dollars to this day. Where is the outrage? Then the Supreme Court makes it illegal to protest on their grounds using words directly out of the 1st Amendment. Then Obama signs HR347 which makes it a Federal crime to protest where Secret Service are working (then he gives himself and George Bush lifetime SS protection...smell the trend?)
2: Shaky; under pressure
4: DHS can steal your personal electronics anywhere along the border and up to 100 miles inland =on a hunch=. So much for warrants, courts, reasonability. Zero right to privacy in the Bush/neocon surveillance state. Where is the outrage?
5: It was made legal recently to allow silence in court to be used against you in certain circumstances. Goodbye 5th Amendment.
6: The right to a speedy trial. Have you heard of Obama's NDAA section 1021 which provides for the indefinite detention of US citizens with neither trial nor representation?
When people gleefully gloss over the loss of our very founding documents and the freedoms they guarantee and cheer the guy doing it to them, high-fiving all the while....what the actual fuck!
Force or the threat of force (arrest/courts/jail counts) against a civilian population for political purposes. Use your Google button.
If 5. is outside his authority, what is he doing to change it? Actions speak far more loudly than words. Like his bullshit about Trayvon Martin while calling the reknown unConstitutional racist Ray Kelly...well, Google that as well. 85% of stop and frisk (ruled unConstitutional) detainees were black or brown. Obama talks out both sides of his mouth; can't everyone see that yet?
And if that's the only call-out you can make on my multiple points, you are proving part of my point regarding those who WILL NOT SEE the facts of what is occurring in this country BECAUSE of Obama and his direct extension of the Bush/neocon agenda. FOUR PARTS OF THE BILL OF RIGHTS. If Bush had done even one you'd be screaming your head off.
Yep! Love how you put that! May have to steal it...
Be sure to rec this too.
I might rec it for amusement purposes, can't deny its hilarity.
Like Cali said, carry on.
President Obama's not a real Dem! much like we aren't real Americans.
The list goes on and on..
We'll Keep This List Going. Here are 221 Obama Accomplishments, With Citations! He's Done Plenty
http://pctcblog.com/index.html/obama.html?utm_content=buffer2ce73&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
And, this is in spite of the gopropaganda obstruction machine.. and the profiteering left's propaganda machine.
that Obama is a Wall Street shill and does corporate bidding again and again and again while many Americans are living paycheck to paycheck...you may have missed this week that MacDonalds actually posted a recommendation that those not making enough at their job, get a second job. This is the reality while many cheer themselves into consensus reality and alienate all who can see through the energetic effort.
I voted for Obama and got this stupid NDAA section 1021 instead, which provides for the indefinite detention of US citizens with neither trial nor representation. And the DHS destroying the 4th Amendment with its "can seize your personal electronics along the entire border and up to 100 miles inland on a hunch" concept, with Occupy having faced what the FBI and "patriot act" define as domestic terrorism, eliminating the 1st Amendment, with the Supreme Court voting that you can't protest here in spite of the Constitution, with a court ruling that silence in court can be used against you, harming the 5th Amendment, with extra-judicial executions of US citizens...how much more of the US Constitution must be shredded by Obama before people say WHAT THE FUCK and do something?
THIS IS NOT A POPULARITY OR PURITY CONTEST. The Bush family and their neocon buddies are taking over the country and Obama is adding to their works!
I love that picture.
Thanks for putting it up here.
You are a fantastic person!!!
I love it too
I even had a dream about him last night. He came in to do the dishes "because everyone else did all the cooking"! What a guy! 
That made me laugh out loud!
Really! It's posted here daily so it's true. 
He's such a mean guy that he takes pleasure in not ordering any raise for anyone!
have earned it on their own, and the wealthy could have been made to pay their taxes. But that would take a government more interested in protecting the working people instead of underwriting their wealthy friends and protecting that wealth, among them the bankers that donated so heavily to the 2008 election. Banks whose ongoing criminal enterprise destroyed the lives of tens of millions of people, and continue to do so as they reap the benefits of $85 billion a month to the primary dealers, reporting a 2nd quarter profit of $20 billion, while children cry when they leave school on Friday, knowing they won't have anything to eat until they get back to school on Monday...
Some people see that as a success. I think it's shameful that we let billionaires avoid taxes and give these people less to eat than we contract to pay private prisons to feed people.
We don't have to have tens of millions of people grubbing for too few crappy jobs, and people trying to sell it as good news when 70,000 of the 195,000 jobs in our last report pay less than $15/hr, while in the same report it shows a net loss of over 200,000 full-time jobs and a 14.3% U6 unemployment rate.
He chose his side. "Obama to Bankers: I’m Standing ‘Between You and the Pitchforks’" Here.
It didn't have to be this way...and I don't have to like it. Your opinion differs, clearly you have other concerns.
Btw, the adolescent and snide pictures above mean nothing to me.
But you are correct, it started long before him. In the early 1900's, when Democrats, and Gompers of the AFofL, and others helped business kill off the people who thought the power should be with the people, that what was good for business (i.e. the greedy capitalist) was good for America. For several decades, as long as there were natural resources and people to easily exploit, countries to rebuild that we had bombed into oblivion, or countries that stayed in the past, that worked to our advantage.
But about the time Carter came along, while telling told us that we needed to grow up and take control of our economy and act like adults, quit spending so freely, the world started exerting itself. Americans forgot what had gotten them to the point they were at, threw it all out the window, rejected Carter and put RR in the WH. And the time of living on the plantation began in earnest.
Bill Clinton signed NAFTA,a horrible piece of legislation which shut down factories all over the place and began a wholesale process of replacing good jobs with shitty ones, too preoccupied with blow jobs from an intern to tell the country that it would require 20 or 30 times the investment we were going to make in retraining and retooling to simply stay competitive, which is partly why tens of millions of people are vying for even fewer McJobs today. Even worse, he then signed the Securities Modernization Act, on the advice of Larry Summers. That legislation allowed the banks to hide the transactions which ultimately led to our current financial crisis.
Clinton acknowledges that error. From an interview "I asked former President Bill Clinton if he thought he got bad advice on regulating complex financial instruments known as derivatives from his former Treasury Secretaries, Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. He acknowledged that he was wrong to take the advice of those advising him against regulating derivatives." He said he regretted Larry Summers' advice. I am guessing a hundred million other people regret it too.
So back to your question. Obama? Knowing what we know, and after putting Ben Bernanke into place, who protected the banks and the assets of the billionaires we call the 1% to the clear detriment of tens of millions of people, Obama now wants to appoint Larry Summers to that same job, giving this person who was directly responsible for destroying the lives of millions of people the keys to our economic future.
It, perhaps, didn't have to be this way. He could have told the banks that helped him get elected that their money wasn't going to keep him from staffing the FBI with forensic accountants (which he could have called for) and investigating the same criminal behavior which sent S&L officers to prison just a few years ago. He could have chosen to stand in front of the American people and tell them they had been snookered, but that he was going to work on their side. That he knew it was going to be hard, but that the alternative was that, just like Abraham Lincoln was afraid of and warned, the finance people, (banks back then), would take over our lives and turn us all into slaves. He could have called for a hundred million people to take to the streets and take their lives back from the bastards that now own them.
It would have been the greatest community organizing project of all time, and we would have been unstoppable.The bankers would have been in jail, people would be in school learning new things, people would be working, this terrible and costly inequality would be far less the tragedy that it is, and we could have shown the world our promise. But he didn't. Instead he cashed the checks, makes his speeches, and our economy is clearly and without question markedly increasing the wealth of those with the most, on the backs of those with the least. In so doing he gave away the power that it would have taken to get sensible gun control, to keep women's health clinics open, to jail the criminals that we are paying billions in profits to keep them fat and happy, to take a leadership position in addressing the global climate issues (which, if the latest information coming out is any indication, may make all this moot within the lifetime of the children I see on the playground across the street). It also gave new life and vigor to the Republican Party, and the lever they needed to bring most any progress forward to a screeching halt.
Are there some people that are better off because of some of the things that have been done during these past few years, Unquestionably. Is the price worth it? That's the question. Some people will certainly get health care that didn't have it before, but the insurance companies, judging by their stock performance, stand to make a killing. (Back to What's Good for Business is Good For America). And the reason that profit flows to the insurance companies instead of in benefits to the people, as Social Security did, is because the power, that could have been seized at the beginning of this presidency, wasn't. Better rights for the LGBT community, a few other things - he can take some credit for no longer standing in the way, but most of that groundwork was done by other people. Unemployment is a disaster - ask the DUer in the other forum who has been out of work for 3 years - and there are tens of millions of families and individuals just like him, and their future is very likely to be living in near poverty on a part-time job, or a full-time position from which there will be very little to help fund any kind of investment in our country as was done in past decades, so a gradual decline. Compared to what could have been done, had we started repairing the people instead of building outwards from the boardroom of Goldman Sucks, I mean $achs, some of the accomplishments seem almost like those balloons that businesses put on roofs, that must be filled with hot air to look as large as they do.
The reason people hold Obama responsible is because of the decisions he has made, and is making. It is the direction he stand up and talks about every time he speaks. As in the speech last night, others make excuses and point fingers in a vain attempt to explain away what could have been, and what we are left with.
I get that this is how some people do politics, and they fervently believe this is how it must be. But I think they are only convincing themselves, and we are smaller for it. The history books won't include their point of view, and I think it will look much different in retrospect.
But hey, I just help people with dogs...
plutonomists and the Bush family and neocons, I get angry and tell people about it. No matter who is doing it.
How about some facts to go with your opinion?
Corporate Profits Have Grown By 171 Percent Under Obama -- Highest Rate Since 1900
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/corporate-profits-have-grown-171-percent-under-obama-highest-rate-1900
"Average annual corporate profit growth under Obama is the highest since 1900, whereas profit growth declined during both Bush presidencies. As a share of the economy, corporate profits have never been higher.
Unfortunately, this profit deluge has not been shared by workers, whose wages as a percentage of the economy have fallen to all-time lows. Workers also got dinged by the recent increase in the payroll tax, which was large enough to wipe out a minimum wage increase in some states."
8 Huge Corporate Handouts in the Fiscal Cliff Bill
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/8-huge-corporate-handouts-fiscal-cliff-bill
"Throughout the months of November and December, a steady stream of corporate CEOs flowed in and out of the White House to discuss the impending fiscal cliff. Many of them, such as Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs, would then publicly come out and talk about how modest increases of tax rates on the wealthy were reasonable in order to deal with the deficit problem. What wasn’t mentioned is what these leaders wanted, which is what’s known as “tax extenders”, or roughly $205B of tax breaks for corporations. With such a banal name, and boring and difficult to read line items in the bill, few political operatives have bothered to pay attention to this part of the bill. But it is critical to understanding what is going on.
5) Subsidies for Goldman Sachs Headquarters – Sec. 328 extends 'tax exempt financing for York Liberty Zone,' which was a program to provide post-9/11 recovery funds. Rather than going to small businesses affected, however, this was, according to Bloomberg, 'little more than a subsidy for fancy Manhattan apartments and office towers for Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Corp.' Michael Bloomberg himself actually thought the program was excessive, so that’s saying something. According to David Cay Johnston’s The Fine Print, Goldman got $1.6 billion in tax free financing for its new massive headquarters through Liberty Bonds."
The Untouchables: How the Obama administration protected Wall Street from prosecutions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/23/untouchables-wall-street-prosecutions-obama
Yes, Virginia, the Rich Continue to Get Richer: the Top 1% Got 121% of Income Gains Since 2009
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/02/yes-virginia-the-rich-continue-to-get-richer-the-1-got-121-of-income-gains-since-2009.html
U.S. banks in 2012 post highest profits since '06
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/26/us-usa-fdic-earnings-idUSBRE91P0N820130226?utm_source=Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=de8376aab3-DD_2_27_132_27_2013&utm_medium=email#.US5jjkXSlU8.twitter
This Year’s Subsidy to Wall Street = the Amount of This Year’s Sequester Cuts
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/02/this-years-subsidy-to-wall-street-the-amount-of-this-years-sequester-cuts.html#.US_yiFwwnHY.facebook
Don’t Blink, or You’ll Miss Another Bailout
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100466032
America faces more than a dozen deadlines, all caused by billionaires and wealth transfer
http://americablog.com/2013/02/america-faces-more-than-a-dozen-deadlines-all-caused-by-billionaires-and-wealth-transfer.html
Bank Bailout 2: Obama Lets Mortgage Abusers Off the Hook
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/09-5
I am okay with NONE of the above, and that only scratches the surface of Obama's collusion with the Plutonomy and doesn't even touch upon the loss of four sections of the Bill of Rights.
1: Domestic terrorism (as defined by the FBI and "patriot act"
against US citizens for peacefully gathering to petition the government with grievance against the economic destruction wrought by banksters and corporations. SHUT UP AND WATCH TV is the message. March and meet hundreds of militarized police. SHUT UP AND GO HOME. 7400+ Occupiers arrested, two brought to within inches of death by militarized police. Force and threat of force against a civilian population for political purposes. And Obama continues to bail out Wall Street and the corps with our tax dollars to this day. Where is the outrage? Then the Supreme Court makes it illegal to protest on their grounds using words directly out of the 1st Amendment. Then Obama signs HR347 which makes it a Federal crime to protest where Secret Service are working (then he gives himself and George Bush lifetime SS protection...smell the trend?)
2: Shaky; under pressure
4: DHS can steal your personal electronics anywhere along the border and up to 100 miles inland =on a hunch=. So much for warrants, courts, reasonability. Zero right to privacy in the Bush/neocon surveillance state. Where is the outrage?
5: It was made legal recently to allow silence in court to be used against you in certain circumstances. Goodbye 5th Amendment.
6: The right to a speedy trial. Have you heard of Obama's NDAA section 1021 which provides for the indefinite detention of US citizens with neither trial nor representation?
Being quiet about the actual theft of the economy and the destruction of our guaranteed freedoms is not the answer!!!
as Obama legislates it to Plutonomists...what does it take to penetrate, to provide awareness and acceptance of such horror?
IT IS NOT ALRIGHT. Not if Bush did it, not when Obama does it. Supporting this monster is to support the destruction of this very country, and it's not because some people don't have his back. Obama is personally signing the legislation. Personally. It's not attack, it's fact which some are savagely determined to ignore and ridicule as if that will make it go away and somehow save the democratic party.
Obama's own personal actions are driving people away from the democratic party. Many Americans are smart enough to understand what he's doing to them. Want votes in 2016? Stop Obama today!
I don't want "the last word"; I want you to LISTEN and GET what is wrong, and to join those willing to save the country from it.
That's what counts, don't you get it?
the heads exploding appear to be those of you who freak out over every criticism of the President and who defend policies that they'd savage were they from a repub President.
There is more bashing of the President on DU than bashing of the loony and obstructionist rightwing Congresscritters. It's quite remarkable that a so-called "progressive" site is littered with libertarians and extremists.
There is constructive criticism from a tiny fraction of DUers and then there is the daily hate-filled invective that completely negates any constructive criticism that was purportedly the goal.
Fortunately DU is not a reflection of the general populace when it wallows in lala land.
but you knew that, right? 
Calling individuals "authoritarians" or "totalitarian" or the other such hyperbolic nonsense that has littered DU to the exclusion of much eise, is not "criticism" by a long shot, unless one is a junior high school Mad magazine reader.
has become anything liberal or progressive that's not extreme "leftist".
Bottom line, the continual use of this sort of "labeling" accompanied by nonsensical definitions of such, is nothing but an admission of poor debate skills.
When I was going to college some of my upper level classes got real small. One had just myself and one other person. The teacher used to joke about curving it. By a strict classical curve, one of us would get an "A" and the other and "F." Of course, if one of us offed the other, we would get a guaranteed "C". The jokes in the statistics of small numbers write themselves....
The problem comes only when your scale has only two settings. My take? He's done alright with a list of very glaring moments where it feels like he threw the game. Probably a low B on my scale at the moment. Better than the "alternatives" we were allowed to choose from, but nowhere near what could have been.
Much of the friction I've seen comes from people who think he deserves the highest "A" possible (and maybe even deserving of a special new grade we create above that like an "A+++ Awesome" . That isn't true in any objective accounting and like any pre-med-school student worried about their GPA, we fight brecuase anything less than that "A" simply must be a hater's "F."
Anybody but Hillary! Please.
RAHM '16!
Love the drama! Love the cat fights! 
Openly declaring your support for the second term Democratic President ... and doing so on a site dedicated to electing more democrats to office.
Are you insane??
"you make no sense"
The Judges would have also accepted:
Why is that I wonder? 
