VIDEO, Keith Olbermann talks to Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, on the Republicans being Stubborn on Billions of Government Dollars for the Wealthiest and Super Rich Americans, while starving the poor

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Republicans are Freezing the pay of Government Employees and killing unemployment benefits for the poor, at the same time giving big money gifts to the Super Rich.


PresidentObama3 | November 29, 2010

Keith Olbermann Feed the rich, starve the poor

VIDEO : Rachel Maddow : Excellent Clarity explaining why Unemployment Benefits are a better policy than Tax Cuts for the Super Rich and Wealthy - Republican Madness of Gifts for the Rich. Rachel talks with Sam Stein of Huff Post

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Unemployment Benefits are immediately spent by the poor and they become a great stimulus for the Economy - The Richest People do not spend but save the Gifts and Invest them overseas to create more competition against America

Rachel Maddow


Thanks Rachel : Amazing Clarity and Excellent Explanations

Rachel Maddow GOP chooses wealthy over U.S. economy

Why President Obama is not a Political Dead Corpse and may resurrect from his coffin - He has more lives than a cat and a better bag or tricks than the Magic One of Felix the Cat - He is more alive than Dracula and may suck ( just a little ) from your precious blood

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Theme Songs', "Felix The Cat"


Misheard Lyrics:
Whenever when he needs a fix
He reaches into his bag of tricks.


Original Lyrics:
Whenever he is in a fix
He reaches into his bag of tricks.


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Obama and the Democrats will have to impose some taxes ( just a little of your precious blood ) during his second presidency. 14 trillion dollars of national debt are no small matter and Republicans are very intent on giving Big Great humongous Gifts to the Billionaires. Things can only get worse in politics, before the sun of Obama rises agains.


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According to Nate Silver ( most famous pollster ) President Obama is not politically dead and may be reelected


See Nate's opinions on the Yale University Econometric and Mathematical Statistical Study of the Future of Obama ( optimistic ).


Obama even leads all other republicans in Virginia ( Quintessential Swing State )


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/16/obama-leads-2012-rivals-i_n_784431.html


New Book : "Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now" : Obama cuts deal, grabs half the loaf - Obama seasoned Beltway wheeler-dealer - Obama Chicago Pol learned early that "sometimes you can't get the whole hog, so you take the ham sandwich"
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Obama is not an idiot but a consumate Chicago Pol - The fast change that Liberals and Democrats want is impossible, but relax, there is some shrewdness in Obama.


A book called "Kabuki Democracy" is going to be published soon by author Eric Alterman with these ideas more polished and advanced.






The Nation
Kabuki Democracy: Why a Progressive Presidency Is Impossible, for Now :
Eric Alterman
July 7, 2010




http://www.thenation.com/article/37165/kabuki-democracy-why-progressive-presidency-impossible-now?page=0,0





Vicente Duque

Washington Examiner : "The Democrats cannot overtly dump Obama. If they did, the black population would stay home and doom a number of other candidates. For better or for worse, they are stuck with Obama unless he chooses not to run"

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This Title is a comment from Rick Caird in the Washington Examiner and it contains a big truth : It is very difficult for a Democrat President to be reelected counting with 90%; of Blacks and two thirds of Latinos - Without these two ethnicities and other Minorities like Asians and Native Americans the Democratic Party is doomed.

Other Excerpt : "Just one group has stuck with Obama through it all. In 2008, he won 58 percent of people with graduate degrees. Now in Elections 2010 he's at 59 percent. It appears that academic types will be with Obama always, but they're not enough." ... This paragraph in this article shows another Great Truth : Obama is very attractive for Intelligent People and highly educated people that spent many years in Colleges or the best Universities, the better the Campus the higher Obama scores.


The typical Obama Enemy in Politics ( that will always vote for the Republican candidate in 2012 ) is the Old White Male with poor education and living in a rural setting or in a small town. That anti-Obama voter is perfectly impossible to persuade by Democrats and will always vote for a Republican President, even if this Republican Candidate is the worst Republican available.

This article is very pessimistic about Obama's Reelection, but in politics two years is an eternity and many things can change.




Washington Examiner
Obama's poll numbers point to his defeat in 2012
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
November 26, 2010

Obama's poll numbers point to his defeat in 2012


Some excerpts :

Start with voters who call themselves independents. Obama won 52 percent of them in 2008; now, according to Gallup, he is at 42 percent. Obama's party as a whole fared even worse among independents in the midterms, losing them to Republicans by 19 points. If Obama does anywhere near that badly in 2012, he'll lose.

Next, women. In 2008, Obama won 56 percent of female voters. Today, he's at 49 percent. If that number doesn't improve, he'll be in deep trouble. (Obama is also down with men, from 49 percent in 2008 to 44 percent now.)

Even younger voters, a key part of Obama's coalition, are peeling away. In '08, Obama won 66 percent of voters 18-29 years of age. Now, he's at 58 percent. That might seem pretty good, but not when you consider his deterioration among other age groups. Obama has dropped 5 percentage points among voters in and around middle age, and 8 percent with voters above 65. If those trends continue, he'll lose.

Then there are white voters. In '08, Obama won 43 percent of whites. Now, he's at 37 percent -- a dangerously low number for his re-election hopes. He won 67 percent of Hispanic voters in 2008; now, he's at 58 percent. Even support among black voters, a bedrock for Obama, has ticked downward; after winning 95 percent of blacks in '08, he's now at 89 percent.

Just one group has stuck with Obama through it all. In '08, he won 58 percent of people with graduate degrees. Now, he's at 59 percent. It appears that academic types will be with Obama always, but they're not enough.

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Despite his problems, there are still ways Obama can win. His greatest hope, as always in politics, is that the other side will screw up. Maybe the newly empowered House Republicans will do a terrible job, or the GOP will nominate an awful presidential candidate. But that just underscores a stark reality. At this point, it will be hard for Obama to save himself. He'll need a lot of help to win a second term in the White House.

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VIDEOs : The Most American of Americans or the Best Americans of America - Reverend Susan Frederick-Gray speaks out against SB1070, street rallies and friends - Wonderful Heroes of Civil Rights in modern time - Like MLK and Gandhi

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Reverend Susan Frederick-Gray of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix Arizona was arrested on Thursday July 29, 2010, with several other  UU Clergy and lay leaders.

This is like being present in a street rally before Gandhi or Martin Luther King !

soozarty | November 17, 2010


Raw footage of Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray speaking out about why she participated in civil disobedience on July 29, 2010 at a press conference preceding her hearing. Sorry for the bad camerawork - there was a lot of jockeying going on...I felt what she was saying was too important so uploaded anyway

Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray Speaks out against AZ SB-1070 (Great message, poor camerawork)

StandontheSideofLove | July 29, 2010


The Standing on the Side of Love campaign stands with Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray and the other UU clergy who are in jail after speaking out and bearing witness to the injustice that led to SB 1070. Filmed by Suzi Spangenberg.

Rev. Susan Frederick Gray offers remarks before her arrest for holding Sherriff Joe Arpaio's jail

StandontheSideofLove | July 30, 2010


The Standing on the Side of Love campaign joined immigrants and their families, civil rights and labor groups, and other faith organizations in speaking out and bearing witness to the injustice that led to SB 1070. Filmed by Suzi Spangenberg.

Standing on the Side of Love Participates in Day of Non-Compliance Against SB 1070

Barriozona | July 29, 2010


http://sb1070.barriozona.com/SB1070_a...
Phoenix, Arizona. July 29, 2010 - A group of protestors blocked the entrance of the Maricopa County Madison Jail to opposse the implementation of SB 1070. MCSO deputies arrested several people after some refuse to clear the entrance. The action was carried as an act of civil disobedience. Video produced by Eduardo Barraza | Barriozona Magazine | http://www.barriozona.com

SB 1070 - Protesters in Arizona Block Maricopa County Madison Jail

Eric Margolis : NATO Defeat : So what are 110,000 US troops and 40,000 NATO troops doing in Afghanistan? Certainly not nation-building. Most reports show Afghanistan is in worse poverty and distress than before the US invasion

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My Comment : A War is always a Racial and Racist Problem : Where is the War that is not racist ?? - Certainly not the Vietnam War. Certainly not this that is waged in Afghanistan killing Children, Women and the Old with Drones or Robot Airplanes. That is why I include this link in my site RACIALITY.COM


Eric Margolis asks "WHAT IF NATO IS DEFEATED IN AFGHANISTAN?" ..... My answer : NATO has already been defeated in AfPak, as it was defeated in Iraq. -- NATO is now only trying to repair the damage, but it will get worse. By staying in AfPak NATO will only make the Defeat more humiliating.


EricMargolis.com
WHAT IF NATO IS DEFEATED IN AFGHANISTAN?

November 19, 2010


by Eric Margolis
Eric S. Margolis is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles appear in the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Times of London, the Gulf Times, the Khaleej Times and other news sites in Asia.

He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Lew Rockwell and Big Eye. He appears as an expert on foreign affairs on CNN, BBC, France 2, France 24, Fox News, CTV and CBC.


WHAT IF NATO IS DEFEATED IN AFGHANISTAN?



Some excerpts :

So what are 110,000 US troops and 40,000 NATO troops doing in Afghanistan? Certainly not nation-building. Most reports show Afghanistan is in worse poverty and distress than before the US invasion.

While the delegates at Lisbon exchanged toasts and spoke of rebuilding Afghanistan, giant US Army bulldozers, demolition teams and artillery were busy leveling wide swathes of Afghan homes around the Pashtun stronghold, Kandahar. In 2006, US Marines conducted a similar ruthless campaign to crush the rebellious Iraqi city of Falluja, razing a third of it and using white phosphorous shells.

The US is using the same punitive tactics in Afghanistan and Iraq as Israel employs on the occupied West Bank: targeted assassinations, death squads, demolishing buildings or whole neighborhoods. Now, the US is sending heavy tanks to Afghanistan to crush resistance. A proud moment for our republic that recalls Soviet tanks in Budapest in 1956.

The US military establishment is determined the mighty US armed forces must not be defeated by Afghan tribesmen. Defeat in Afghanistan would bring demands for major cuts in the bloated US military, which consumes 50% of world military spending, and ending major arms systems.

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Taliban and its allies are not about to defeat the US and its allies on the battlefield, but they already control half of Afghanistan and intend to inflict the death of a thousand cuts on the financially strapped western powers until public opinion demands an end to this pointless conflict.

That is why Afghanistan so unnerves Washington’s right wingers. The defeat of Soviet armies in Afghanistan in 1989 began the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Could the same fate be in store for the American Raj?

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HuffPost : Arizona Boycott : "Analysis commissioned by the Center for American Progress put hotel industry losses during the first four months after the signing of SB1070 at about $45 million. Visitors would have spent an additional $96 million during their stays"

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Huffington Post
Arizona Boycott Cost State $140 Million Over Immigration Law, Study Finds
By BOB CHRISTIE
November 18, 2010

Arizona Boycott Cost State $140 Million Over Immigration Law, Study Finds


Some excerpts :

An analysis commissioned by the Center for American Progress put hotel industry losses during the first four months after the signing of the law at about $45 million. Visitors would have spent an additional $96 million during their stays, said Angela Kelley, the group's vice president for immigration policy and advocacy.

"This is as much I think to serve as a warning to other states, particularly those who rely on tourism and conferences and conventions, that there is an economic impact to it," Kelley said. "We feel like this is a very modest slice, just a piece of what the economic impact is, and we don't think that we're overstating it or overselling it."

The study was paid for by the group, a liberal-leaning think tank, but conducted by the respected Scottsdale-based economic firm Elliott D. Pollack & Co. It also found that canceled meetings and conferences could cost the state nearly 2,800 jobs, $87 million in lost wages and more than $250 million in lost economic output over the next two to three years.

The jump in hotel occupancy cheers tourism officials. Visitation at the Grand Canyon went up by nearly 3 percent in June, July and August, compared with the same period in 2009. Arizona hotel occupancy rose by 8.3 percent in June, 2.6 percent in July and 3.4 percent in August, according to Smith Travel Research.

But conventions and the business they spark bring in much more revenue than the leisure market, said Debbie Johnson, president and CEO of the Arizona Hotel & Lodging Association, and the increase in visitation is compared with dismal 2009 occupancy levels that were below national rates.

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New York Times Editorial : "Overwhelming support from Hispanic voters appears to have helped elect Democratic senators in Nevada, California, Colorado and possibly Washington State. Hispanic voters may have kept the Senate in Democratic hands"

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The New York Times
Editorial
The Power of the Hispanic Voter
November 22, 2010

The Power of the Hispanic Voter


Some excerpts :

Democrats were hurt in the midterm election by low turnouts or faltering support from voters who were young, black or female. But overwhelming support from Hispanic voters appears to have helped elect Democratic senators in Nevada, California, Colorado and possibly Washington State. Hispanic voters may have kept the Senate in Democratic hands.

Several Hispanic Republicans were also elected, including two governors, Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Susana Martinez of New Mexico, and a senator, Marco Rubio of Florida. But, over all, Hispanics voted at a rate of 2 to 1 for Democrats, according to several polls, and many were stirred to action by viciously anti-immigrant ads or comments made by Republican candidates.

Eligible Hispanic voters represent about 9 percent of the national electorate, a slight increase over previous years, but the percentages are much higher in the West, climbing to 22 percent in California. They are less predictably partisan than other ethnic groups and the two major parties have long contested for their votes.

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As the Hispanic electorate continues to grow faster than the overall population in the years ahead, the 2010 election should be a useful lesson. Anti-immigrant demagoguery occasionally works, as it did in a number of Republican victories in Arizona this year. But more often it will produce an angry reaction among a growing group of committed voters.

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VIDEO : Ed Schultz: Righty Media's Crusade For Racial Profiling - November 23, 2010 - Racial Profiling at the Airport - Does it work or not ?? - Anybody from the Middle East is dangerous ?? - The Racial Features of Terrorists - Cargo on airliner is never screened

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Cargo on passenger planes is not screened

Jack Rice, Former CIA officer talks with Ed Schultz


During six "good" Bush years nobody complained, and now with a "Black" president, there is an outcry about airport security !

PoliticsNewsNews | November 23, 2010

Ed Schultz: Righty Media's Crusade For Racial Profiling - 11/23/10

VIDEO, ED Schultz and Millionaire Warren Buffet enemy of extending cuts for the Rich - Patriotic Millionaires Organization opposes the Tax Cuts for Rich - Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat Ohio - Katrina Vanden Heuvel from "The Nation"

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Billionaire Warren Buffer and Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat Ohio talk with Ed Schultz - Katrina Vanden Heuvel from "The Nation" also speaks

"Republicans are Hypocrites giving handouts to the Wealthy

PoliticsNewsNews - November 22, 2010

Ed Schultz: GOP Leaders Are Unpatriotic Millionaires - 11/22/10

New York Times - Nate Silver : Yale University Econometric Models : Forecasts and Predictions : President Obama could be in surprisingly good shape in 2012, according to several mathematical simulations and computer models of Politics and the Future Economy

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The reelection of Barack Obama in year 2012 depends completely and wholly on the Economy - Excluding exceptional things, Obama will be the next president if the Economy reaches a state of prosperity.


What are other things that could kill the reelection of President Obama and that do not belong to the Economic Realm ?? :

Perhaps a Foreign Policy Crisis in which the United States is deeply humiliated ( like in the times of Jimmy Carter ) but those events are most improbable.

But of course, if the Economy does not improve, then Obama won't be reelected.


The New York Times - and FiveThirtyEight
Nate Silver Political Calculus
Predicting the Economy, and Obama’s Re-Election Chances
By NATE SILVER
November 22, 2010, 12:36 pm

Predicting the Economy, and Obama’s Re-Election Chances


Some excerpts :

Saturday’s Times had an article by Jeff Sommer that highlighted the work of Ray C. Fair, a Yale economist who has designed a model to predict the outcomes of presidential elections based on a series of economic variables.

According to Mr. Fair’s model, President Obama could be in surprisingly good shape in 2012. Based on Mr. Fair’s assumptions about economic growth (he expects gross domestic product to improve at an annualized rate of about 3.7 points in the first three quarters of 2012) and inflation (which he expects to remain fairly low), Mr. Obama would be expected to receive about 56 percent of the vote in 2012 and the Republican candidate 44 percent (excluding any votes for third parties). By modern standards, that would constitute a landslide, with Mr. Obama probably winning in the neighborhood of 400 electoral votes.

Needless to say, there are a couple of issues with this, many of which Mr. Fair is quite happy to acknowledge, once one reads the fine print behind his forecasts.

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The New Yorker : "This year, more Democratic candidates seemed to apologize for the health-care law—notwithstanding its imperfections, their party’s greatest accomplishment in generations, the fulfillment of a century-long dream—than to proclaim it"

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The New Yorker
Electoral Dissonance
November 15, 2010


by Hendrik Hertzberg
Hertzberg originally joined The New Yorker as a Talk of the Town reporter in 1969, after serving as an officer in the U.S. Navy. After the 1976 Presidential election, he became a White House speechwriter under President Jimmy Carter. From 1981 until 1991, he was associated with The New Republic, serving two terms as its editor. During his second stint, between 1988 and 1991, The New Republic won three National Magazine Awards, including back-to-back awards for General Excellence. In 1992, he returned to The New Yorker. In 2006, his Comment essays won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary.

Electoral Dissonance


Some excerpts :

Part of the Democrats’ political problem is that their defense, confusingly, depends on counterfactuals (without the actions they took in the face of fierce Republican opposition, the great slump would have metastasized into a Great Depression), deferred gratification (the health-care law’s benefits do not kick in fully until 2014), and counterintuitive propositions (the same hard times that force ordinary citizens to spend less money oblige the government—whose income, like theirs, is falling—to spend more). Another part of the problem, it must be said, is public ignorance. An illuminating Bloomberg poll, taken the week before the election, found that some two-thirds of likely voters believed that, under Obama and the Democrats, middle-class taxes have gone up, the economy has shrunk, and the billions lent to banks under the Troubled Asset Relief Program are gone, never to be recovered. One might add to that list the public’s apparent conviction that illegal immigration is skyrocketing and that the health-care law will drive the deficit higher. Reality tells a different story. For ninety-five per cent of us, taxes are actually lower, cut by around four hundred dollars a year for individuals and twice that for families. (The stimulus provided other tax cuts for people of modest means, including a break for college tuition.) The economy has been growing, however feebly, for five straight quarters. Most of the TARP loans have been repaid and the rest soon will be, plus a modest profit for the Treasury. And the number of illegal immigrants fell by close to a million last year, thanks in part to more energetic border enforcement. The health-care law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says, will bring the deficit down.

But why don’t “the American people” know these things? Could it be because the President and his party did not try, or try hard enough, to tell them? Obama’s still loyal supporters—his “base”—are, most of them, disappointed and depressed. This year, more Democratic candidates seemed to apologize for the health-care law—notwithstanding its imperfections, their party’s greatest accomplishment in generations, the fulfillment of a century-long dream—than to proclaim it. Compromise, timidity, and the ugliness of the legislative process—not all of it unavoidable—have exacted a steep toll. Even Obama’s temperament has become a political liability. In 2008, his calm was a synergistic counterpoint to the joyous excitement of the throngs that packed his rallies. In the tidy, quiet isolation of the White House, his serene rationality has felt to many like detachment, even indifference. For him and for the country, the next two years look awfully bleak. Capitol Hill will be like Hamburger Hill, a noisy wasteland of sanguinary stalemate. There will be no more transformative legislation; it will be all Obama can do simply to protect health-care reform from sabotage. The economy, like the climate, will be left to fend for itself. And the world will watch, wonder, and worry. ?

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Events will compel the USA and Latin America to act together in an unpredictable Future. Perhaps you should add Europe - I apply the most Ancient Chinese Philosophy to think of Foreign Policy

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President Obama is an extremely intelligent politician, lawyer, professor. Mr Obama is an intellectual, no doubt of that.

The worst problems of the USA are in Asia and in the Economy : Domestic and International.

Even if Congress and Obama do not do anything in "Immigration", then problems will find their own solution.

As a young person I was very impressed by Taoism, Lao Tse, Chuang Tse, Lin Yutang, etc ...

Heaven has "automatic" solutions for problems, that is what those very ancient Chinese taught to the rest of mankind.

There will be very grave international problems in the next decades.

My guess is that the United States and Latin America will be forced to be closer by the next horrible events.

People are very aware of the Geographic Proximity of Canada, USA and Latin America plus the Caribbean Region.

But they don't realize other proximities : Cultural, Historic, Linguistic, Religious, Trade Numbers, Exports, Imports.

Who knows that the Exports of the USA to Latin America are greater than those to the European Union ??

Events will compel the USA and Latin America to act together in an unpredictable Future.

Vicente Duque

VIDEO, Ed Schultz : Sarah Palin making racist attacks against the President and his Wife - Disgusting Hate and Bigotry to sell books and make money, Hate and Fear to become popular with cretins.

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Sarah Palin is a Racist Demagogue, paling with Glenn Beck and other Racist Cretins like Jan Brewer and John McCain - The Palin, Beck, Limbaugh trio is the Glorification of Imbecility.


They become rich by manipulating and masturbating cretins and idiots.

Ed Schultz While Attacking Palin: If You Believe Obama is a RACIST That is Because You're a RACIST

VIDEO, Rachel Maddow : Republicans voted in Congress against extending unemployment benefits - Never has it happened in American History - Democrats are awakening to the necessity to resist Republican Bigotry, Extremism and Fanaticism

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Nancy Pelosi says that Democrats won't cave in to Republican Evil :

Some prominent Democrats do not want to cave in to Republican Stupidity and lack of Humanity - Democrats are forcing republicans to take a stand in unpopular and imbecile measures. Democrats can make Republicans lose the popular favor, if Republicans vote for what is unpopular.

Republicans are denying unemployment benefits to people in dire straits. - Denying assistance to people that have worked and paid taxes for many years.




dstack1014 | November 20, 2010 | 1 likes, 0 dislikes


This week our Democratic politicians in Washington are not living up to their spineless reputations. Democratic back-bone is showing up in most unexpected places, as Rachel explains here.

"Spinefulness" - Rachel Maddow

Newsweek : If Democrats remain as unpopular in 2012 as they currently are among older white voters, it could make them vulnerable in the Rust Belt states that have been essential to successful Democratic presidential campaigns and Senate majorities

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This is very sad : the Reelection of Mr Obama in year 2012 is in danger because of Old White People's Hostility to Obama, White Workers do not seem very enthusiastic towards the "First Black President of the USA" ( Insert mischievious chuckle here ). Can anything be done ??

As a great fan of Mr Obama, I am in distress and in grave need of consolation - Do you have any information to thwart the Dark Force and Evil Empire of Republicans ??


Can anybody just give me some words of advice to cheer me up ... ??


Newsweek
The Democrats’ 2012 Rust Belt Problem
Republicans made big midterm gains in the Upper Midwest, an area Democrats need to carry in any presidential election.
By Ben Adler
November 10, 2010

The Democrats’ 2012 Rust Belt Problem


Some excerpts :

Amid the rubble of the midterm results last week, two small signs of hope for Democrats—their strong performance among Latinos, which helped them save a handful of officeholders in the West, most notably Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada, and their continued advantage among young voters—were widely noted in the press. Every wag loves counterintuition. So, at the apparent apogee of Democratic unpopularity it seemed worth noting that, if present trends continue, Republicans will be in for a rude awakening sometime between now and, oh, 2050, when the U.S. is projected to become a majority-minority nation. But 2050 is a long way off, and even then the electorate, which excludes noncitizens and children, changes more slowly than the population.

Meanwhile, the Democrats have a problem: if they remain as unpopular in 2012 as they currently are among older white voters, it could make them vulnerable in the Rust Belt states that have been essential to successful Democratic presidential campaigns and Senate majorities. The Rust Belt—the industrial stretch from upstate New York, where the Democrats just lost at least four House seats, through Pennsylvania, where they lost five seats and a Senate race, to the Upper Midwest, where liberal titans such as Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Rep. Jim Oberstar of Minnesota were knocked off and a raft of Republican governors were elected—is essential to any Democratic presidential victory.

President Obama turned a handful of traditionally Republican states blue in 2008: Virginia, North Carolina, Indiana. But if the 2012 race is closer, and those states return to the Republican fold, Obama cannot win in 2012 while also losing all the big Midwestern swing states—Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

The drop-off in Democratic support among older voters and white voters from the last midterm election is remarkable. In 2006 Democrats lost white voters by 4 points in House races, which are a fairly good indicator of party preference, and they tied among voters 65 and over. This year they lost whites by 23 points and lost older voters by 21 points. Luckily for Democrats, the electorate in 2012 will be younger and more diverse, as it always is in a presidential election. (Last week voters under 30 years old were only 11 percent of the electorate, but they were 18 percent in 2008.)

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Hope Springs eternal in the Human Heart - I hope that Obama becomes a Great Statesman, he may be in the path of Greater, Bigger and Nobler Achievements.

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I have not lost my Hopes and Illusions on Mr Obama and the Noble Democrats :

If Obama is reelected in 2012, then he will be more self-assured and will have a great second term in office. Obama is a Man of Intelligence, a Great President and a Great Human Being - He may become a Great Statesman.

If he seems weak, irresolute, wavering or vacillant ( before the Republican bullies in Congress ), then perhaps that is because he is a prudent and wise man, a professor and great lawyer, and needs some time to learn, digest and become tougher ( with Republicans in Congress ).

Anybody elected president of the USA can not solve all the problems in five minutes.

Consider the pack of furious wolves against Obama : in Foreign Policy, Wars, Health Care, Tax Cuts, Budget, Environment, etc ...

And those mad wolves have power : in Congress, Governorships, State Legislatures. And do not forget the Powerful Demagogues in the Media : Television Madmen, and the failed "war pundits" that are covered in awarded prizes, but whose forecasts and predictions have failed by 180 degrees of direction.


Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a consummate political leader. In one situation, a group came to him urging specific actions in support of a cause in which they deeply believed, this was Civil Rights for Blacks. He replied: "I agree with you, I want to do it, now make me do it."

Lyndon Baines Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act and Progressive Legislation in favor of Blacks. LBJ was helped and pushed by a Big Movement.

Both men FDR and LBJ greatly suffered because of the many things that they couldn't do.


Vicente Duque

VIDEO, Keith Olbermann : Republican Death Panels in Arizona : Jan Brewer cuts the services of State Medicare - People are going to die because of these cuts - She blames Obama but she is the only responsible for these deaths

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A beautiful example of Republican Hypocrisy and Irresponsibility :



FixedNewsChannel
November 19, 2010

Death Panel Invades Arizona! State Medicare Cut By Jan Brewer

POLITICO.COM : Republicans believe that they can defeat Obama in "Government Shutdown", where Newt Gingrich failed against Bill Clinton - "There’s now a Fox television network. There’s now the Internet, in a way there wasn’t back then. So ... when Bill Clinton" - Republicans repeating History

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The head of the influential Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist, is encouraging the new House Republicans to shut down Government :

Norquist told POLITICO : “There’s now a Fox television network. There’s now the Internet, in a way there wasn’t back then. So ... when Bill Clinton vetoed the budget and closed the government, saying the Republicans had closed the government, ... [that] is not something you could sell again,”




POLITICO.COM
Another 1995-style government shutdown?
By JEANNE CUMMINGS
November 18, 2010

Another 1995-style government shutdown?


Some excerpts :

The 2011 Republican freshmen — and most of their veteran mentors — weren’t in town in 1995 when President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich engaged in a political game of chicken over spending cuts, including curbs on Medicare, which led to two partial government shutdowns

Yet, they are arriving with the same sense of conviction, zeal and confidence that sent the historic 1994 class on a course of confrontation that had devastating results. In the aftermath, Gingrich’s approval ratings tanked, his party lost seats, and Clinton went on to win reelection in 1996.

It was a searing experience for all involved, and Boehner was one of them. He was a Gingrich loyalist, fourth in rank in the GOP leadership as Republican Conference chairman, and people close to him today say he has scant interest in reliving that fight.

“Our goal is to have a smaller, less costly and more accountable government here in Washington, D.C. Our goal is not to shut down the government,” Boehner said in September after Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-Ga.) urged conservatives attending a Faith and Freedom Conference to stand by Republicans if a shutdown occurs.

Boehner, who declined to be interviewed for this article, also has drawn attention recently to legislation drafted by Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas), the newly elected House Republican Conference chairman, that would essentially take off the table the risk of a government shutdown during a budget fight.

The Family Budget Protection Act would trigger an automatic continuing resolution at current spending levels if Congress and the White House fail to meet budget deadlines. The provision would keep government offices open while lawmakers and the administration continued negotiating — or fighting.

In addition to the shutdown provision, the budget-reform package would impose spending caps on Congress, require that every government program include an expiration date and provide the president with new authority that would operate essentially as a line-item veto.

“Hensarling has a bill that would prevent a government shutdown in the event of a budget standoff,” Boehner said last month. “We’re going to stay focused on doing what the American people want, and what they want is less spending.”

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VIDEO, Ed Schultz : Great disrespect of Republican Congress Leaders for the President - John Boehner and Mitch McConnell decided to stand the President up on his invitation to a White House summit with the Republicans

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Disrespect for the President is Disrespect for the Nation that elected him democratically in a landslide




golefttv | November 18, 2010


John Boehner and Mitch McConnell decided to stand the President up on his invitation to a White House summit with the Republicans. They claimed that they couldn't meet with him because they were busy organizing their caucus. These people are filled with loathing and disrespect for President Obama, and Ed Schultz tears into them during last night's "Fired Up" segment.

Ed Schultz: GOP is Party of Disrespect

POLITICO.COM : Four Million unemployed Americans will lose their benefits in the coming weeks. - The House failed to pass a three-month extension of jobless benefits on Thursday

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If People continue voring for Republicans they will end up as beggars.
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POLITICO.COM
Jobless benefits bill fails in House of Representatives
By MEREDITH SHINER
November 18, 2010

Jobless benefits bill fails in House of Representatives


Some excerpts :

The House failed to pass a three-month extension of jobless benefits Thursday, 258-154, meaning that millions of unemployed Americans could lose their benefits in the coming weeks.

The legislation, which required a two-thirds majority because it was moved on the suspension calendar, would have extended the filing deadline for federal benefits to Feb. 28. Without the extension, benefits are set to expire Nov. 30. With only 258 "yays," the House fell short the

Approximately 4 million people could lose benefits if an extension is not approved by the end of the month. Americans are eligible to receive federal unemployment benefits for up to 73 weeks after their state aid has expired, and Congress has moved to extend the program four times this year — despite growing Republican opposition and procedural tactics.

House Democrats placed the measure on the suspension calendar at the last-minute as they sought to move as much legislation as possible through the chamber before it turns over to Republican control in early January. Had they placed the bill on the regular calendar, it likely would have cleared easily.

Democrats were quick to highlight the GOP opposition. "This vote was a stark test of our priorities, and House Republicans showed that their priorities are decidedly in the wrong place for middle-class families," Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said in a statement.

The last unemployment package, a 6-month extension carrying a price tag of $34 billion, cleared Congress in July, though it faced significant scrutiny from more deficit-conscious members. The measure that failed Thursday would have cost the government $12.5 billion.

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VIDEO : Super Racist Demagogue Rush Limbaugh's Fury against Lisa Murkowski for criticizing the Low Intelligence of Sarah Palin and defeating Joe Miller - Hate against Obama : "Obama is succeeding"

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Why do I feel pleasure watching the rants of a Clown and Idiot ??

Or perhaps Rush Limbaugh does not believe in the garbage that he preaches, in that case he is a Hypocrite becoming rich by stimulating fools.



Rush Limbaugh : "Lisa Murkowski is an Idiot" :


Because Lisa defeated the stupid and bigoted Tea Party candidate Joe Miller for a U. S. Senate Seat for Alaska. And Lisa explained that Sarah Palin was worthless as a Republican Presidential Candidate.




uffdamega52 | November 18, 2010 

Rush - Lisa Murkowski is an Idiot

VIDEO : Keith Olbermann and Bill Maher - Bill : "Harry Reid seems and talks like a Drugstore Clerk but he is more intelligent than Sharron Angle" - Tea Party Cretins that were not elected

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Keith Olbermann interviews Bill Maher  :

November 16, 2010 MSNBC Keith Olbermann



MOXNEWSd0tCOM | November 16, 2010


November 16, 2010 MSNBC Keith Olbermann

"People Weren't Voting FOR The Republicans They Were Voting Against The Democrats" Bill Maher

Typical 2010 voter : Old White Protestant : age 50 and older were 57% of Electorate - 65 years and older voted for Republican House candidates 58 to 40. Protestants were 54% in House races and voted Republican 59 to 39. Rurals voted Republican 60 to 38

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Democrats lost the election because Youngsters and many others that are the base of the Party did not show up on November 2, 2010.

We already know that Blacks vote 90% for Democrats, Latinos vote 2 to 1 for Dems, and Gays, Lesbians, etc ... are strong supporters of the Democratic Party. Women were very enthusiastic about Obama in 2008 but failed him in 2010.


Strongly educated people still vote for the Democratic Party but are losing enthusiasm.



American.com
What the Voters Actually Said on Election Day
By Karlyn Bowman
November 16, 2010

What the Voters Actually Said on Election Day


Some excerpts :

Older voters. Voters who were 65 years and older voted for Republican House candidates by 58 to 40 percent. In 2006, they split their votes evenly. The electorate tends to be older in midterm elections, and voters age 50 and older constituted 57 percent of all voters.

Religion. Protestants were more than half of all voters (54 percent) in House races on November 2, and they voted for Republicans by 59 to 39 percent. Catholics composed a quarter of the electorate and voted for Republicans more narrowly, 53 to 45 percent. White Catholics, one of the true swing groups in our politics, voted more substantially for the GOP, 58 to 40 percent.

Suburban swing. Demographers like to say that “density equals Democrats.” And indeed, the 30 percent of the electorate that resided in urban areas voted 56 to 41 percent for Democratic candidates in House contests. Voters in the suburbs (half of all voters) voted for Republican candidates by 54 to 43 percent. In 2006 and 2008, more suburban voters voted for Democrats than Republicans. True to type, voters in rural areas leaned heavily to Republican House candidates, 60 to 38 percent.

Postgraduates were 20 percent of voters, and they supported Democratic candidates in House races on Election Day by 52 to 46 percent. The only other educational group to support Democratic House candidates was those with less than a high school diploma. This small group (3 percent of voters) voted 60 to 36 percent for Democrats. All other education groups (high school grads, those with some college education, and college grads) voted in majorities for Republicans.

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POLITICO.COM : Majority Whip Jim Clyburn likened the advancement of the health care law at the expense of House seats to the achievements of the Civil Rights Act of 1964-65, which also cost Democrats at the ballot box - Why Democrats don't dump Nancy Pelosi

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Historcal Note :

U.S. House election 1966 : this occurred in the middle of President Lyndon Johnson's second term. As the Vietnam War continued to escalate and race riots exploded in cities across the country, Johnson's popularity had fallen, and the opposition Republican Party was able to gain a net of 47 seats from Johnson's Democratic Party, which nonetheless maintained a clear majority in the House.

The Vietnam War was a factor in the Republican Gains but probably the Civil Rights Act and Social Legislations of Lyndon Baines Johnson during 1964 and 1965 and the Race Riots were a very important factor against Democrats, 47 seats lost are no small matter.


POLITICO.COM
Why Democrats don't dump Nancy Pelosi
By JONATHAN ALLEN & JOHN F. HARRIS
November 17, 2010

Why Democrats don't dump Nancy Pelosi


Some excerpts :

Many House Democrats view the last two years as a permanent gain for progressive values, particularly when it comes to a health care law that ensures nearly every American will be insured. They believe it would discredit these achievements to humiliate the House leader most responsible for these gains.

Many of these Democrats believe that the gains for progressives are worth spilling blood over, and so they are not holding election losses against Pelosi.

During a closed-door caucus meeting on Tuesday, Majority Whip Jim Clyburn likened the advancement of the health care law at the expense of House seats to the achievements of the Civil Rights movement, which also cost Democrats at the ballot box.

"I don't think it was wrong to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965," noting that most of the black and Hispanic members wouldn't be members of Congress if not for the legislation. "I don't think it was wrong to pass the health care bill.

"Sometimes doing the right thing will cause you to pay dearly," Clyburn argued, according to a source in the room. "What's good for the American people sometimes is not good for a few of the high and mighty."

This is a view shared by many liberals in the caucus, particularly those who represent underserved minority communities, where Pelosi has strong support.

There's no one else

Even lawmakers who wish Pelosi had made a different choice about remaining in leadership know you can't beat someone with no one. And by definition, anyone who would run against Pelosi right now is not a legitimate threat. The No. 2 force in Democratic ranks, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, chose not to mount a campaign against her. He has the only truly independent power base outside of Pelosi – but his convincing victory over Murtha was fueled in part by people who would vote for Pelosi over him in a heartbeat.

If Pelosi does not emerge from Wednesday's meeting as the new minority leader, this surprise outcome would be because of a vote of no confidence in her -- not because there is any credible challenger on her right or left flanks.

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VIDEO : Rachel Maddow attacks the Great Hypocrite and Racist John McCain - He is his own greatest enemy, contradicting everything that he previously said - It is a chameleon without morals

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The Old Senile Angry Hypocrite :

John McCain can not control his temperament and his view points.

Rachel Maddow - Senator John McCain versus Senator John McCain

VIDEO : Keith Olbermann : "Mitch McConnell is responsible for more Pork than a Sausage Factory", Christopher Hayes from "The Nation" - killing the Filibuster Process

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The GOP propaganda machine wants to destroy the Obama Achievements and Projects for the Future.


A filibuster (also known as talking out a bill) is a type of parliamentary procedure. Specifically, it is a form of obstruction in a legislature or other decision-making body whereby a lone member can elect to delay or entirely prevent a vote on a proposal.

Keith Olbermann: Establishment Caves To Tea Party Demands - 11/15/10

Video, Ed Schultz : Rush Limbaugh attacks that Highest Ranking African American in Congress, Rep. Jim Clyburn, and he calls Clyburn the "Chauffeur of Miss Nancy". This is Miss Nancy Pelosi as in the movie "Driving Miss Daisy" of a black chauffeur and his White Lady Employer..

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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Thursday suggested that Rep. Jim Clyburn — the highest-ranking African American in Congress — serve as chauffeur to Nancy Pelosi in the event he fails to win the race for House minority whip. 

“Clyburn's worried about not having the perk of a big office, driver and so forth,” Limbaugh said on his radio show. “The way this can all be worked out, Clyburn's new position: 'Driving Miss Nancy.'

Ed Schultz reviews the many Racist Narratives of Rush Limbaugh - The last one is to consider Black Congressmen as chauffeurs of rich White Ladies.

And a diversion to the Racist Hate of Glenn Beck. This Hate Talkers are not called out.

DailyRushbo | November 14, 2010

"Driving Miss Nancy" Ed Shultz , Al Sharpton, Sheila Jackson Lee, Limbaugh 'Abusing' First Amendment

New York Times : Comments : Arizona's Beautiful Race to the Bottom - By KurtRex from Tucson Arizona - Nov 10, 2010 : Poverty, Low Spending on Education, Closed Parks, Weird Stupid Laws, University Tuitions up, Big Fines, No Health, Crumbling infrastructure

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The New York Times
States Out of Balance
The Republican Party’s most visible election triumph was in the House, but the more lasting result was in statehouses across the country.
November 10, 2010

States Out of Balance


Some excerpts :

Arizona has had a Republican Legislature for decades now with a more radical sort for the past decade or so. The result has been the lowest spending per pupil in the nation and the highest rate of poverty in the nation except for Mussissippi. A continual shifting of state mandates and programs to the counties and cities has occurred. The state parks system has been decimated with local jurisdictions picking up the tab to run state parks, otherwise would close.

Another result has been weird laws like SB1070 which would jail undocumented workers and using the $61.64 per prisoner per day cost per the Arizona Dept of Corrections web page, if even 10% of the 485,000 illegal aliens as reported by Jan Brewer were caught and housed the cost is something the state cannot afford. We're talking about an extra $1.09 Billion per year or about an extra 11% of the state's budget.

Phoenix has had to pass a tax on food to keep afloat, the most regressive of taxes. This in a state where almost 1/3 of the kids live in poverty.

Plus, the tuition at our public universities has gone up to over $8000, thus forcing generations of college educated workers into massive debt which only benefits the banks and student loan people.

Then, we can talk about the crumbling streets of our cities and highways, the continual attempts to cut health insurance and health care for kids and Az's version of Medicaid and the excessive cost of any sort of fine - jaywalking tickets are now $160 with most of the money going to the state.

So, if you like a state with a crumbling infrastructure, where your officials kowtow to the über rich and religious, and an indifference to education you will LOVE Arizona and given the results of the elections in many states you will find out. It will all be a glorious race to the bottom.

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Comparing America to the Spain of King Phillip the Second ( 1527 - 1598 ) : the resistance of Netherlands ( comprising Holland ) and Belgium to the Spanish Rule and the Empire where the sun never sets.

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I read some books in the past about the resistance of Netherlands ( comprising Holland ) and Belgium to the Spanish Rule of King Phillip the Second of Spain.

Thousands of People died in this useless enterprise of keeping these Northern European Countries into the Catholic Faith and under the rule of Spain.

The Spanish Troops squandered valor and bravery but this was useless because they were against the arrow of History. Meanwhile the Dutch and English advanced the Art of Navigation and Shipbuilding and Spain became a backward nation of priests, nuns, and fear of Hell and the Devil.

The Spaniards won all the battles in Flanders, but lost continuously the ideological and moral war, and began to be hated in all courts of Europe. The Spaniards were greatly deceived by their military prowesses and proficiency, they never understood their subjects in Northern Europe.

And worse for the Spaniards, Queen Elizabeth I of England took advantage of the Spanish Predicament and became a corsair queen  and a predator nation against the Spanish Galleons, the British ships finally defeated the "Invincible Armada".

Any resemblance to the useless attempt of the USA at dominating Iraq and Afghanistan is sheer coincidence.

And perhaps today's England is China and today's Elizabeth I is Deng Hsiao Ping or Mat Tze Dong if you prefer.

By trying to dominate these smart and beautiful people of the Low Countries, the Spaniards became fools and idiots, dominated by the worst bigotry and fanaticism of their times.

Spain produced Great Paintings, Theater, Literature, etc ... at that time and a little later, but the effort at domination ruined and exhausted the Mediterranean nation while the Northern Europeans became more technologically, scientifically and culturally advanced.



Vicente Duque

Paul Krugman : At G-20, Obama faced demands from China and Germany that the Federal Reserve stop its policy of “quantitative easing” — Obama caving in to Republicans on Tax Cuts and many matters - Obama's Weakness, Indecision, Irresolution

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If Obama continues being a Hamlet then he has no political future and the Democratic Party will fall from power in 2012 :

Obama has to show courage, resolution, bravery and valor against the Arrogant Republican Bullies in Congress. Show Decision Mr President before these inflated fools.

I have no doubt that Barack Obama is one thousand times more intelligent than the Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, or the new expected Republican House Speaker John Boehner.

And these guys are Great Masters of the Order of Hypocrisy. Then why should Obama kneel before them ??


The New York Times
The World as He Finds It
By Paul Krugman
November 14, 2010

The World as He Finds It


Some excerpts :

At the predictably unproductive G-20 summit meeting in South Korea, the president faced demands from China and Germany that the Federal Reserve stop its policy of “quantitative easing” — which is, given Republican obstructionism, one of the few tools available to promote U.S. economic recovery. What Mr. Obama should have said is that nations’ running huge trade surpluses — and in China’s case, doing so thanks to currency manipulation on a scale unprecedented in world history — have no business telling the United States that it can’t act to help its own economy.

But what he actually said was “From everything I can see, this decision was not one designed to have an impact on the currency, on the dollar.” Fighting words!

And then there’s the tax-cut issue. Mr. Obama could and should be hammering Republicans for trying to hold the middle class hostage to secure tax cuts for the wealthy. He could be pointing out that making the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy permanent is a huge budget issue — over the next 75 years it would cost as much as the entire Social Security shortfall. Instead, however, he is once again negotiating with himself, long before he actually gets to the table with the G.O.P.

Here’s the thing: Mr. Obama still has immense power, if he chooses to use it. At home, he has the veto pen, control of the Senate and the bully pulpit. He still has substantial executive authority to act on things like mortgage relief — there are billions of dollars not yet spent, not to mention the enormous leverage the government has via its ownership of Fannie and Freddie. Abroad, he still leads the world’s greatest economic power — and one area where he surely would get bipartisan support would be taking a tougher stand on China and other international bad actors.

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Huffington Post : "Decision Points" by George W. Bush is a classic recipe for a benign dictatorship, an American form of dictatorship, rigid understanding of morality (good versus evil, distorted valuation of life (only American lives matter)

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My own comment :

The personality of George W. Bush has always intrigued me : drug-addict, alcoholic, a fool that needed to be prompted to horrible decisions and actions with "Bible Quotes" - This is the classic Christian fixing the World by the use of the "Terror" that he decries.


George W. Bush is the perfect Republican Personality of our days : Without Mercy, Compassion, Commiseration, without Charity, Empathy or Sympathy for others.


There is no doubt for me that America has been in decline in this third millennium and George W. Bush has been the main actor in this tragedy. He has given a big push to the ongoing process of DeWesternization and DeWhitenization of the World, but this process has been evident since the British Empire began to be liquidated.



Huffington Post
Bush's 'Decision Points' Is A Terrifying Journey Into the Authoritarian Mind
November 14, 2010

By Anis Shivani, fiction writer, poet, and critic in Houston, Texas.

Books : "Anatolia and Other Stories was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor short story award, and listed by Rigoberto Gonzalez of the National Book Critics Circle as the best small press book of 2009. The collection deals with the dilemmas of multiculturalism in diverse locales, including Ottoman Turkey, contemporary Dubai and Tehran, and the Manzanar internment camp.

A second story collection, The Fifth Lash, will be published by C&R Press in early 2011. A book of criticism, Against the Workshop: Polemics, Provocations, Controversies, will be published in July 2011. Another book of criticism, on the evolution of the short story in the U.S. over the last half century, is in progress for a university press.

Anis has just finished writing a novel, The Slums of Karachi.

His fiction, poetry, and criticism appear in leading literary journals such as the Boston Review, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Iowa Review, Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Pleiades, Boulevard, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Poetry Northwest, Washington Square, London Magazine, Stand, Times Literary Supplement, Meanjin, Cambridge Quarterly, Contemporary Review (Oxford), and elsewhere.

Bush's 'Decision Points' Is A Terrifying Journey Into the Authoritarian Mind


Some excerpts :

Decision Points is a classic recipe for a benign dictatorship, a uniquely American form of dictatorship, to be sure -- from its rigid understanding of morality (good versus evil) to its distorted valuation of life (only American lives matter; Bush is not concerned about the loss of civilian life in the countries he attacked) -- that gives comfort to many in a time of economic and cultural stress.

The beauty of the Bush philosophy of governance is that it creates and accelerates those very conditions of stress (radical economic inequality promoted by tax cuts for the wealthy and concomitant cuts in public services for the less well-off) that then provide fertile ground for popular acceptance of measures intended to further worsen conditions for the subject class. An example would be to purposely inflate the housing bubble and then use the succeeding bailout to further enrich the wealthy elites at the cost of the average worker. Or to execute a reckless Medicare drug expansion plan, catering to pharmaceutical companies and knowing it would lead to insolvency, to set the stage for drastic future cuts in Medicare -- and other entitlements, while they're at it. The same principle applies in foreign policy, such as in retreating from Bill Clinton's tentative rapprochement with Iran and North Korea as Bush's first order of business, demonizing these countries as evil, and then setting in motion offensive strategies once those countries predictably react. The principle is evident in attacking and occupying Middle Eastern countries, then justifying the war on terror by pointing to the increased radicalization ensuing from the invasion.

Decision Points reveals the blend of personalities within Bush that makes for a rather unique combination, a big reason for his enormous impact. The faux Western/cowboy personality (derived from Reagan, but extending much farther in Bush's case, setting up West Texas's American virtues against the corruption of the East Coast elites) is his persona of choice, along with high doses of the decisive commander-in-chief (he relishes this role, and there is something for psychologists to ponder with regard to his avoidance of active military duty and his great passion for relating to soldiers and their devastated families as protector and comforter). Another favorite persona is the perpetual crisis manager; he reveals that his favorite question to world leaders was: "What keeps you up at night?"

Other elements of his personality contribute to the anti-intellectual populist appeal: he struggled with drinking and will be open and honest about it, like anyone else bent on self-improvement; he doesn't ever question the foundations of religion, it's enough that Billy Graham takes him aside one day and asks him if he's "right with God"; and he reduces the honor and dignity of the presidency to not having affairs with interns, rather than anything involving public policy.

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The Republican Party is all about Race. It is a Party on How to hinder the progress of Minorities. And how to make the rich richer while the poor become poorer and poorer

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This is a very simple truth - It is useless to write more about this powerful truth that you see every day and every evening on Television and the news.

What is Glenn Beck doing ?? - What is Rush Limbaugh doing ?? - What is Sean Hannity doing ??

What are the Republican Politicians doing in Congress ?? - Raising Havoc for Minorities.

Representing the interests of the Rich and Wealthy against the poor and destitute.

The Republican Party is the Party of Zero Sympathy for Other Human Beings, Zero Empathy, the simple word "Empathy" is considered obscene and impudent by Republicans.

Yes, the Republican Party is the party of no Charity, no Compassion, no Commiseration, no Help for others, not being the keeper of your brother and sister.Waging Eternal Wars and Permanent Wars in the poorest countries is easy for them.

It is the party of narcissism, selfishness, egoism, egotism, egolatry, jingoism, militarism.

It is also the party of Hypocrisy and Irrationality - Each time that we discover a new scandal like Meg Withman, Lou Dobbs or Mitch McConnell doing Hypocrisy, I am not surprised.

The Ethos of the GOP is Racism plus Hypocrisy.

The Republican Party is not the party of Abel - It is the party of Cain.

Vicente Duque

VIDEO : Bill Maher and Michael Moore - "Many People do not want a Black President and that was an important motivation to vote Republican" - Old Whites went to vote but the Obama Base didn't show up

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Michael Moore : "The American Underdog stayed home, that dog has been foreclosed, is unemployed and stays at home - Obama lost the White Vote"


mccainisthrough1 | November 13, 2010


Bill Maher and Michael Moore discussing President Barack Obama and the recent Midterm elections.

Bill Maher and Michael Moore - November 12, 2010

VIDEO : Super Racist Bigot Rush Limbaugh accusing the Democrat Leaders of being Racists - Ed Schultz exposes the Racist in Rush Limbaugh - Rush invented the "Reverse Racist" Fairy Tale. - The Brand of Racist Radio and Television that Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity invented.

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Reverend Al Sharpton comments on the racist escapades of Rush Limbaugh. These are the diversions that Rush Limbaugh uses to deceive fools. After all Rush Limbaugh is a "Welfare Baby", since the airwaves and frequencies have been given to him.

Representative Sheila Jackson Lee ( Congressional Black Caucus ) talks to Ed Schultz and speaks of the Honor and Seriousness of the Democratic Leadership : Whites, Blacks, Latinos, etc ...

Sheila says that "The Laxity and Misuse of Words of Rush Limbaugh are insulting. The Democratic Party and its leadership is very diverse and tolerant".

Ed Schultz : "Where is the Decency ?"

Ed Schultz: Rush Limbaugh Says Dem. Leaders Are "Racist"!? - 11/12/10

POLITICO.COM : Obama, your bulwark are the West and Latinos, fight like mad for Ohio and Florida - Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana are dangerous but possible for you. If you still win Ohio, you can get to 270 and be second term president - Democrats’ best hope is the economy

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Obama needs to focus in a few states, this is because the weird electoral system that Americans have for Presidential Elections. Which are the "Swing States", "TossUp States", "Contested States", "Dangerous States" that Obama needs to be a second term president ??

POLITICO.COM
Map narrows for Obama reelection
By JONATHAN MARTIN
November 12, 2010

Map narrows for Obama reelection


Some excerpts :

Prince suggested that the 2008 race didn’t represent a shift from the red-and-blue trends but reflected the voters’ response to a deeply unpopular president and a lackluster GOP nominee.

“All the anger that built up favored the Democratic side and opportunities opened up that don’t normally happen and shouldn’t happen,” he said.

The three most extraordinary wins came in Virginia, North Carolina and Indiana — none of which had been carried by a Democrat presidential candidate in decades.

Yet, the swing voters who lifted Obama in these states — which are likely to have a combined 39 electoral votes in 2012 — wholeheartedly supported the GOP last week, leading local party officials to warn that Democrats must find a way to appeal to the political center again if they expect to compete there in two years.

“It’ll be more difficult,” conceded Indiana Democratic Chairman Dan Parker, adding that Obama must make progress on job creation and deficit reduction to win back the moderates who fled the party last week.

North Carolina

Noting his state’s growing minority population, he argued: “It would be a huge mistake for Democrats to abandon us.”

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Older voters made up an outsized share of the electorate, younger Americans voted in smaller numbers than in 2008 and Hispanics were pivotal in a handful of key Democratic victories.

Even as the industrial states of the heartland look more difficult for Obama after this year, much of the West showed signs of promise. With fast-growing populations of voters with loose political allegiances, the region could offer the president a bulwark.

Most reassuring to party strategists about last Tuesday was the exit poll data that showed Hispanics breaking overwhelmingly for Democrats in the region.

“The key to Democrats in the long run are Hispanics,” veteran consultant Harold Ickes said. “They are clearly an offset against losses in other segments of the vote.”

If he can hold all the western states he won in 2008 and pick up Arizona — which, as John McCain’s home state, wasn’t competitive last time — Obama very likely will have won 109 electoral votes. That’s more than one third of the 270 he would need to be reelected.

“Part of President Obama's remarkable victory in 2008 was how he spread the field,” Begala observed. “f I were advising him, I would tell him to press that strategy; do not retreat to fighting only in Ohio and Florida" although they're critical. "The demography of many of the Obama states that went red in 2010 is working in favor of Obama and the Democrats — in 2012 and beyond.”

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Arizona Republic : Trying to assess the Economic Impact of the SB1070 Boycott to Arizona - Worries about impact linger - "SB1070 was our Katrina" - Nobody knows what will happen in year 2011

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Reports from the cursed land of Arizona :


The Arizona Republic
As controversy wanes, economic hit uncertain
Tourism future brightens; worries about impact linger


by Betty Beard and Megan Neighbor
October 30, 2010

As controversy wanes, economic hit uncertain

Some excerpts :

The initial impact after the bill was signed April 23 was bruising, with almost two dozen cities and towns vowing not to do business with Arizona companies and not to pay to send their employees here for business-related events. Many more municipalities and groups have condemned the law.

Meetings were canceled. Hotel and resort inquiries from meeting planners plummeted. Many Hispanic residents fled the state, hurting the businesses that catered to them.

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Tourism hurt the most

The tourism industry relies on conventions and meetings that take up a lot of hotel rooms. It suffered the brunt of the damage and probably will for years.

The biggest lingering concern is not over the groups that canceled but those that quietly decided to go elsewhere.

"It's unfortunate that a political issue became such a controversial issue for the tourism industry," said Debbie Johnson, president and CEO of the Arizona Hotel and Lodging Association. "To have Arizona's reputation damaged when we as an industry had done nothing was really difficult."

Of course, it's difficult to sort out the effects of boycotts from the downturn in the economy. But whatever the reason, the hospitality industry in the state has been hurting.

Revenue per available room, a key industry measure that takes into account daily rates and occupancy, fell 0.5 percent from January through September compared with the same period in 2009, according to Smith Travel Research.

The average daily room rate fell even steeper - 6 percent. And 2009 was one of the hospitality industry's worst years to date.

The Phoenix Convention Center reported three group cancellations that represented $23 million in business due to the boycotts: Alpha Phi Alpha, the National Minority Supplier Development Council and the National Council of Teachers of English.

Lost tourism revenue

Hoteliers reported about 40 group cancellations to Johnson, although she suspects there were more. She estimates those cancellations represent about $15 million in lost revenue for the hotels, not including the revenue lost by feeder industries such as restaurants, entertainment venues and rental-car agencies.

"What we don't see is most concerning," said Greg Miller of Destination Hotel and Resorts, the management company for the Wigwam in Litchfield Park, Royal Palms Resort and Spa in Phoenix and Tempe Mission Palms. "It's the inquiries that we are not getting, the groups that are looking at their third or fourth options."

The Arizona Biltmore's lead volume, or potential future group business, is down 30 to 40 percent year over year, said Andrew Stegen, general manager.

Leo Percopo, general manger of the Sheraton Downtown, reported about $2 million in lost convention business for 2010.

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VIDEO : Young Turks : Idiot in Tennessee House of Reps wants American Babies being born with three feet and two heads - Racist Republican Rep. Curry Todd Says Latinos "Multiply Like Rats!" - No Prenatal Care to produce monsters to vote for Republicans in 2030 elections

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This asshole Curry Todd should be "Pro-Life" - But he has a valid point : A big Army of Cretins and Frankenstein Monsters should vote for the Tea Party and Republicans in year 2030, and perhaps raise him to the U. S. Congress, under president Sarah Palin.

'Multiply Like Rats' - Rep. On Pregnant Undocumented Women

CBS News : Hispanics supported Democratic Terry Goddard over Republican Jan Brewer 71 percent to 29 percent. Goddard was defeated, because of poor Hispanic turnout. Hispanics comprised only 13 percent of the electorate in 2010, compared to 16 percent in 2008. If Hispanics turn out heavily again in 2012, then the state should be very much up for grabs.

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Arizona Politics : Things can change a lot in two years in Arizona - Particularly if the U. S. Economy has a good performance and there is a good decrease in Unemployment and beautiful growth of the Gross National Product - A good value of stocks in 2011 and 2012 can convince the Rich and Wealthy that Obama is good for their economic interests.  U. S. Presidents are always elected when the Economy is buoyant.


CBS News
The November Nine: How to Win in 2012
November 11, 2010

by Samuel J. Best, Brian S. Krueger

The November Nine: How to Win in 2012

Arizona

Arizona has been a reliably red state for decades, voting for the Republican presidential nominee in nine of the last ten elections. In 2008, John McCain won his home state of Arizona 55 percent to 47 percent over Barack Obama. The composition of Arizona, however, is changing, likely making the state more competitive in the next election, especially without a "favorite son" on the ballot.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Hispanic population in nearly all of Arizona's counties has been growing faster than all other groups, which increases the chances they will determine the electoral outcome. In 2008, Hispanics in Arizona preferred Obama to McCain 56 percent to 41 percent. The margin amongst Hispanics was even larger in Tuesday's gubernatorial election, where Hispanics supported Democratic Terry Goddard over Republican Jan Brewer 71 percent to 29 percent.

Goddard was defeated, though, in part because of poor Hispanic turnout; Hispanics comprised only 13 percent of the electorate in 2010, compared to 16 percent in 2008. If Hispanics - many of whom are upset with the state's controversial new immigration law - turn out heavily again in 2012, then the state should be very much up for grabs.

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CBS News : Nine Swing States that are crucial for President Obama reelection on 2012 : Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire. - EuroFoolishness and AmeriFoolishness

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Under my comment you find a serious analysis of CBS News on the possibilities for Obama's Reelection in year 2012.

So the West and the Midwest are very important for Mr Obama and he should work very hard to get those electors. Latinos will be very important in Arizona, Colorado and Florida.

It has been said that the Germans, French and Italians are more "European" than other like the Spanish, Portuguese or the Russians ( Fear of Fears ! ) ..... Of course this is biased, ethnic prejudice or racism. But those bad or racist jokes are useful to understand the "Europeans" and their Euro-Things and Euro-Foolishness.

In the Midwest Obama has to conquer the hearts and minds of  "White Americans", these Americans are probably more "American" in the Sarah Palin sense or Tea Party sense that those liberals of California or New York ( states where Obama is very popular and Democrats should win without risk ).

Please Californians and New Yorkers do not feel insulted, probably you are more cosmopolitan because of the close presence and importance of your Oceans, Big Harbors and International Trade. And you are Obama Land without any doubt.

Obama has to be a friend of Pastors and Evangelicals to win those Midwesterners. A little Hypocrisy can be very useful. After all Republicans are masters of Hypocrisy.


These are the Nine States that Mr Obama has to pamper - So Obama has to pamper and pander to the MidWesterners and to the Far West ( buy only Arizona and Colorado ).

It has been said that Harry Reid should learn to say Victory in Spanish "Victoria" and pronounce a "Victory Speech" in the Spanish Language. Obama once pronounced a beautiful speech in Perfect Spanish without "Gringo" accent. Of course that was written for him, and he was trained by the best professors and linguists to avoid the unclear vowels of English and pronounce the very clear and sonorous vowels of Spanish.

Obama should also take a course on SarahSpeak and Tea Party lingo, and watch the movies that tune him in to the Midwest and the mentality of these folks.

And what about Texas ?? - It is very difficult for Obama to win Texas, but if the Economy is very prosperous and Unemployment is strongly reduced, then that would not be an impossible dream.


Read a serious analysis here :




CBS News
The November Nine: How to Win in 2012
November 11, 2010

by Samuel J. Best, Brian S. Krueger

The November Nine: How to Win in 2012

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