President Obama is doing a hella job, despite the naysayers and the media.

http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2010/01/05/5658/2009-examined-obamas-first-year-in-review/

<...> Many of his detractors, and even some of his wavering supporters, will be surprised to learn that in his first year, Barack Obama has already fulfilled at least 79 campaign promises. This is one of the most accomplished records of any first year in office, and it has come with considerable difficulty in working with and around a Congress fraught with obstructionism and distracted by its own mythology regarding specific points of policy, and in the face of the most uniform and inflexible opposition any president in recent decades has faced.

The 79 promises kept, as fact-checked and reported by PolitiFact.com, the Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking service of the St. Petersburg Times, are as follows:

No. 6: Create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes
No. 15: Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners
No. 16: Increase minority access to capital
No. 33: Establish a credit card bill of rights
No. 36: Expand loan programs for small businesses
No. 40: Extend and index the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch
No. 50: Expand the Senior Corps volunteer program
No. 58: Expand eligibility for State Children’s Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP)
No. 76: Expand funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners
No. 77: Increase funding to expand community based prevention programs
No. 88: Sign the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
No. 110: Assure that the Veterans Administration budget is prepared as ‘must-pass’ legislation
No. 119: Appoint a special adviser to the president on violence against women
No. 125: Direct military leaders to end war in Iraq
No. 132: No permanent bases in Iraq
No. 134: Send two additional brigades to Afghanistan
No. 154: Strengthen and expand military exchange programs with other countries
No. 167: Make U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts
No. 174: Give a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration
No. 182: Allocate Homeland Security funding according to risk
No. 184: Create a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan
No. 200: Appoint a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security
No. 208: Improve relations with Turkey, and its relations with Iraqi Kurds
No. 212: Launch an international Add Value to Agriculture Initiative (AVTA)
No. 215: Create a rapid response fund for emerging democracies
No. 222: Grant Americans unrestricted rights to visit family and send money to Cuba
No. 224: Restore funding for the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (Byrne/JAG) program
No. 225: Establish an Energy Partnership for the Americas
No. 239: Release presidential records
No. 241: Require new hires to sign a form affirming their hiring was not due to political affiliation or contributions.
No. 247: Recruit math and science degree graduates to the teaching profession
No. 266: Encourage water-conservation efforts in the West
No. 269: Increase funding for national parks and forests
No. 270: Increase funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund
No. 272: Encourage farmers to use more renewable energy and be more energy efficient
No. 277: Pursue a wildfire prevention and management plan
No. 278: Remove more brush, small trees and vegetation that fuel wildfires
No. 284: Expand access to places to hunt and fish
No. 290: Push for enactment of Matthew Shepard Act, which expands hate crime law to include sexual orientation and other factors
No. 300: Reform mandatory minimum sentences
No. 307: Create a White House Office on Urban Policy
No. 325: Create an artist corps for schools
No. 326: Champion the importance of arts education
No. 327: Support increased funding for the NEA
No. 332: Add another Space Shuttle flight
No. 334: Use the private sector to improve spaceflight
No. 336: Partner to enhance the potential of the International Space Station
No. 337: Use the International Space Station for fundamental biological and physical research
No. 338: Explore whether International Space Station can operate after 2016
No. 342: Work toward deploying a global climate change research and monitoring system
No. 345: Enhance earth mapping
No. 346: Appoint an assistant to the president for science and technology policy
No. 356: Establish special crime programs for the New Orleans area
No. 359: Rebuild schools in New Orleans
No. 371: Fund a major expansion of AmeriCorps
No. 380: Bolster the military’s ability to speak different languages
No. 391: Appoint the nation’s first Chief Technology Officer
No. 394: Provide grants to early-career researchers
No. 411: Work to overturn Ledbetter vs. Goodyear
No. 420: Create a national declassification center
No. 421: Appoint an American Indian policy adviser
No. 427: Ban lobbyist gifts to executive employees
No. 435: Create new criminal penalties for mortgage fraud
No. 452: Weatherize 1 million homes per year
No. 458: Invest in all types of alternative energy
No. 459: Enact tax credit for consumers for plug-in hybrid cars
No. 460: Ask people and businesses to conserve electricity
No. 475: Require states to provide incentives for utilities to reduce energy consumption
No. 480: Unprecedented expansion of funding for regional high-speed rail
No. 483: Invest in public transportation
No. 484: Equalize tax breaks for driving and public transit
No. 494: Share enviromental technology with other countries
No. 498: Provide grants to encourage energy-efficient building codes
No. 500: Increase funding for the Environmental Protection Agency
No. 502: Get his daughters a puppy
No. 503: Appoint at least one Republican to the cabinet
No. 506: Raise the small business investment expensing limit to $250,000 through the end of 2009
No. 507: Extend unemployment insurance benefits and temporarily suspend taxes on these benefits
No. 513: Reverse restrictions on stem cell research

Most of these items are complex campaign pledges that Pres. Obama has been able to follow through on. Some just show he’s a man who follows through on his word, something the media should take more note of. But PolitiFact’s research shows a long list of serious political accomplishments, many of historic import, yet the mainstream media continues to report on the delays seen in enacting the most complex and comprehensive reforms undertaken in a generation, many of which —like healthcare reform, energy policy reform, terror prosecutions and financial regulatory reform— are actually moving forward at a historically meaningful pace, and will likely be achieved in the first half of 2010.

There are a further 226 campaign promises officially listed, after extensive fact-checking, as “in the works”, as of this morning. Many of these will be accomplished in 2010, giving Pres. Obama the most extensive record of success in fulfilling specific campaign promises in US history. We can expect this fact will not be widely reported, as the mainstream news media appear determined to posture “objectivity” by refusing to report successes Obama’s opponents refuse to acknowledge.

The perception that Pres. Obama has failed to aggressively pursue the progressive agenda he ran on is owing largely to the fact that his legislative and governing style is rooted in principled coalition-building. As both state senator in Illinois and as US senator from Illinois, Obama had important legislative successes that required building consensus across the aisle, with often ideologically-opposed allies on specific issues, like predatory lending and ethics reform.

It is likely the legislative schedule of 2010 will demonstrate that no president in recent history has had so many major legislative achievements, and that will be due to Obama’s insisting that principled policy-making move forward, even where compromises need to be made with ideological opponents, all in the interests of progress. Perhaps no president since John F. Kennedy so deliberately sought to move a progressive legislative agenda forward, and Obama is already being compared to Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson in terms of the scope and historic import of his legislative agenda.

<...>

My pony is Health care reform, but I will not denigrate all that HAS been done in the past year. I also know that I may not get my pony, BUT -- my pony is not the be all and end all. He is doing a fine job as President.

to that site, Raine.

I hope you and everyone get the best Health Care.

I am not sure if you were being sarcastic or not.

I hope you know my OP was not.

it really wasn't.

I meant every word.:)

You said that was your main concern in your OP and I thought I'd give some postive affirmations to get this done to make the most people happy and healthy.

sometimes it is hard to 'get it' around these parts...

I still think we will get HCR. (but that is another OP for another day - like maybe tomorrow? )

in the meantime... :D thank you.

WOW, now THAT's some kind of change I can believe in.

I didn't hear him out there today overruling the career nobody at DOJ who decide Yoo and Bybee and pure as the driven snow.

Let me know when you add that to your list.

First five, for example:

No. 6: Create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes - of almost zero importance

No. 15: Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners - epic failure, virtually abandoned

No. 16: Increase minority access to capital - oh really? In any significant fashion?

No. 33: Establish a credit card bill of rights - minimal, usury still legal, backpeddling on enforcement agency

No. 36: Expand loan programs for small businesses - certainly not significantly, small businesses are fucked in trying to get loans, the banks won't lend.

On the important stuff - health care reform, protecting the middle class, ending recklessness by the banks, enforcing the rule of law, etc - zip.

Face the facts: Obama's effectively a Reagan Republican, tossing a few insignificant bones to the bottom 99% of the economic ladder.

No. 15: Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners - epic failure, virtually abandoned

He announced more help today.

No. 36: Expand loan programs for small businesses - certainly not significantly, small businesses are fucked in trying to get loans, the banks won't lend.

That is not his fault. Because of this problem:




You say because Obama failed he is a Reagan Republican. I say because the banks failed the first time, Obama is trying again, because he is a Progressive.

You are so derogatory and dismissive with cheap one-liners, that I wonder why you are on this board.

It's how hard he works for it, and whether he delivers, that tells what he's really made of.

He's fought like a bulldog for bankers, and he's delivered for them - we are now risking $25 Trillion, two full year's GDP, of our tax dollars on these degenerates with zero new regulations. For the rest of us it's http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x187823">lies and excuses.

Unless he has an Epiphany and changes his approach he is sliding into the "below average" category of presidents, unfortunately we have needed a much stronger and more principled leader at this time in history.

You: "No. 33: Establish a credit card bill of rights - minimal, usury still legal, backpeddling on enforcement agency"

Reality

keep perpetuating this stuff.

I really do. WE can't win a damn thing if we can't get on the same side of this fight.

We have a weak president who is not taking strong stands at a time when it is necessary. The strong stands that he does take are often the approaches that the elite and rich would prefer, not the principled progressive stands that those of us who are old know work.

Many of the progressives on this board who are not content are older citizens, like me, who have been around long enough to know what a strong, principled, Democrat can achieve and how our party works best.

If I might add, there is nothing un"democratic" about expecting people who want better and more principled leadership and fighting for it even within the party, even to the point of critisizing leaders that don't live up to our principles and don't take progressive positions.

It isn't the progressives that are causing this mess and moving us to potential losses next November. No, those of us who don't believe this President is the best Democratic President will be at the polls and voting for Democrats. It is off the mark to spend angst trying to blame us, and it only keeps the focus away from where the attention needs to go.

The problem is LEADERSHIP, APPROACH, and PRINCIPLES. If it isn't evident to OFA representatives here they are simply being ignorant at this point. The administration needs to seriously restructure their cabinet and find more effective, and LESS CORPORATE leaders. There are plenty of them out there.

You would think Obama would undersand this, given that he was an activist himself. The best leadership comes from the active progressive class, the University leaders, the champions of progressive and Populist causes. People like Robert Reich, Paul Krugmen, etc, who have the energy and background to challenge and move us forward, but instead we have a cabinet made up of corporate insiders and traders, and we are surprised they are inefficient and stale??? It's almost laughable if it weren't so serious.

So don't blame us, because that only keeps everyone from really looking at what is failing.

-1,000,001

then I feel sorry for you. Enjoy your bitterness.

What is the point?

This is a reality. These things have happened. WHY would it not serve the administration?

Why would it not serve this country? Why are people on DU denying these things? Why are they denying facts? I am not trying to be sarcastic here, I am truly wondering why.

My OP question the media, and no one seemed to notice that, instead we are in a debate about how the President is not meeting expectations.


He met mine. I never really NEEDED a pony. I wanted one.

and not one bit of evidence to back it up.

Defend, please.

really?

Tell that to the people who are directly effected by these actions.

Here is a reality: this shite happened. Your President made this happen.

it is an affront do dismiss any of these things for the people who will benefit from them.

Is this still Democratic Underground?

Sorry, but I am a little surprised at this response.

there are dedicated Obama haters who will insist - despite the avalanche of contradictory evidence - that Obama IS JUST THE SAME AS BUSH, and will gleefully dismiss anything that contradicts their view as "insignificant" or "meaningless".
In this, they are much like the freepers they claim to despise. They absolutely refuse to let reality alter their preconcieved notions.
They are shocked, SHOCKED to find that Obama actually IS the moderate he ran as.

and if you want to blame all the Administrations problems un progressives here you will completely miss the boat.

I don't know how old you might be, but having been around many years and been a Democrat for all my life this President is not one of the better. Sorry, that is just the fact. He has a terrible administration made up of the corporate class, many who come from the failed banks, and we are surprised that he is having trouble????

As that famous Star Trek Medic would say "Open your eyes man"!

I don't know what forum YOU'VE been looking at. Broad brush, my left foot!
And I go back to Johnson - who firmly helped get us into this mess.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/damonm/11

and demonstrate leadership on some issues, but to deem him a failure and "like Bush" only after one year?

I wonder why the standards placed on Obama are so high. Some call it the "black tax."

he hired many of the same criminals Bush had in his criminal administration..

He hardly changed any of the Bush US Attorney's ...with... a majority in congress and the senate.

He and re-upped the Patriot Act..making it worse.

Pushed to keep Bernanke..one of the many crooks who robbed this nation..and some would call it ..raped this nation ..and world economies!



Bernanke Channels Willie Sutton In Assault On Social Security: 'That's Where The Money Is'
By Ryan Grim
December 3, 2009

In testimony before the Senate Banking Committee today, where he's seeking re-appointment as the Fed's chairman, Bernanke called for cutbacks in Medicare and Social Security even as unemployment rises and the middle class is endangered.

Citing legendary bank robber Willie Sutton, Bernanke said of the retirement and health care funds that are the legacy of the New Deal: "That's where the money is."

Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) sympathized with Bernanke, saying that, because of entitlement spending, "you're going to be looking at a situation where the Congress will be unable to provide any kind of fiscal discipline because of the mandatory spending. That puts an enormous burden on your plate."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/03/bernanke-chann...

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

he surrounded his administration with crooks..with Goldman Sach's and JP Morgan..

the very JPMORGAN..that got Bail out money and has the contract to administer Food Stamps in my state and many other states and out sourced to India a call center for those people in need that have to contact the Food Stamp program!!


Food Stamps Create Jobs… in India
Several States With High Unemployment Are Outsourcing Food Stamp Services
By SCOTT MAYEROWITZ

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7452561

Michele Brown has seen Americans' struggles with jobs first hand. She lives in hard-hit Florida, spent 20 years in the real estate business and recently had her days as a nanny cut back after her boss had his own hours reduced.

Several states with high unemployment rates are outsourcing their food stamp services to call centers in India, angering many residents. Michele Brown learned about Florida's outsourcing when she called regarding a problem with her benefits.
(ABC News Photo Illustration)
But nothing prepared her for what happened one day when she called a toll-free line to inquire about her food stamps.

"The woman who answered the phone -- it's not like she wasn't nice or anything -- but it was kind of evident that she wasn't in the States," Brown said.

It turns out the woman was at a JP Morgan Chase call center in India.

"That really put me over the edge," said Brown, 52, of Jupiter, Fla. "It's not right because we need the work here. People are in a bad way here." Americans have never liked the idea of jobs going overseas. But for many, it's more offensive when taxpayer dollars -- including those in the federal stimulus plan -- go to create those jobs. And when those jobs deal with food stamps, unemployment insurance and other public benefits, well forgot irony, to many it's just downright plain insulting.

Unemployment in Florida is now 9.7 percent.

"Why is the state of Florida sending these jobs away?" Brown asked. "The thing that really iced it for me, I knew that JP Morgan had gotten bailout funds."

So she called her local politicians and then she reached out to her local newspaper, the Palm Beach Post. The paper did a story two weeks ago about the $50 million Florida paid JP Morgan in the last three years to administer the food stamps distribution.


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

shortly after taking office..Obama asked Henry Kissinger..knick name.."The Butcher of Cambodia"..to represent his administration in Talks with Russia..

lets look as some serious connections here of Geithner , Kissinger and Obama...shall we..( edit to add: much of this i have posted many times in the past.)


TIMOTHY GEITHNER

Biography

Early life and education
Geithner was born in Brooklyn, New York.<2> He spent most of his childhood living outside the United States, including present-day Zimbabwe, Zambia, India and Thailand, where he completed high school at International School Bangkok.<3> He then attended Dartmouth College, graduating with a B.A. in government and Asian studies in 1983.<4> He earned an M.A. in international economics and East Asian studies from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in 1985.<4><5> He has studied Chinese<4> and Japanese.<6>

Geithner's paternal grandfather, Paul Herman Geithner (1902–1972), emigrated with his parents from the German town of Zeulenroda to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1908.<7> His father, Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York.

During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by S. Ann Dunham-Soetoro, President Barack Obama's mother, and they met in person at least once.<8>

Timothy Geithner's mother, Deborah Moore Geithner, is a pianist and piano teacher in Larchmont, New York where his parents currently reside. Geithner's maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company.

Early career

After completing his studies,

Geithner worked for Kissinger and Associates in Washington, D.C., for three years and then joined the International Affairs division of the U.S. Treasury Department in 1988.

He went on to serve as an attaché at the US Embassy in Tokyo. He was deputy assistant secretary for international monetary and financial policy (1995–1996), senior deputy assistant secretary for international affairs (1996-1997), assistant secretary for international affairs (1997–1998).<5>

He was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (1998–2001) under Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.<5> Summers was his mentor,<10><11> but other sources call him a Rubin protégé.<11><12><13>



In 2002 he left the Treasury to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Senior Fellow in the International Economics department.<14> He was director of the Policy Development and Review Department (2001-2003) at the International Monetary Fund.<5>


In October 2003, he was named president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.<15> His salary in 2007 was $398,200.<16> Once at the New York Fed, he became Vice Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee component. In 2006, he also became a member of the Washington-based financial advisory body, the Group of Thirty.<17>


xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Timmy's dad :


Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York. During the early 1980s,

Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by

S. Ann Dunham-Soetoro,

President Barack Obama's mother, and they met in person at least once



Geithner's maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


now this should alarm every true democrat on these boards!!!!!!!


and From an April post of mine here at DU: and please, don't believe me ...click the link..it was in the CFR publication!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Remarks by National Security Adviser Jones at 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy

Published February 8, 2009




Speaker: James L. Jones


U.S. National Security Adviser Jones ( edit to add: new advisor hired by Obama!!!!) gave these remarks at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof on

February 8, 2009.





"Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today.




Source: http://www.cfr.org/publication/18515/remar ... ...

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Report: AIG bailout money behind banks' recent profitability

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2009 /...

snip:
The financial blog Zero Hedge has posted an "exclusive" that claims that according to an insider's account, AIG (yes, that AIG) "was responsible for the banks' January and February profitability."


Saying it is "rarely speechless," ZH offered "a moment of silence for the phenomenal scam that continues unabated in the financial markets, and now has the full oversight and blessing of the U.S. government, which in turns keeps on duping U.S. taxpayers into believing everything is good."


ZH says the insider perspective came in an email from "a correlation desk trader." Unless you're a finance whiz (and who is these days?!) you might get lost in the explanation of how AIG supposedly engineered this feat of profitability. But ZH tries to explain the "mumbo jumbo" in "layman's terms":


AIG, knowing it would need to ask for much more capital from the Treasury imminently, decided to throw in the towel, and gifted major bank counter-parties with trades which were egregiously profitable to the banks, and even more egregiously money losing to the U.S. taxpayers, who had to dump more and more cash into AIG, without having the U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner disclose the real extent of this, for lack of a better word, fraudulent scam.


In simple terms think of it as an auto dealer, which knows that U.S. taxpayers will provide for an infinite amount of money to fund its ongoing sales of horrendous vehicles (think Pontiac Azteks): the company decides to sell all the cars currently in contract, to lessors at far below the amortized market value, thereby generating huge profits for these lessors, as these turn around and sell the cars at a major profit, funded exclusively by U.S. taxpayers (readers should feel free to provide more gripping allegories).



xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

and let us not forget his secret deals with Big Pharma and the Insurance big boys selling us all out on our "HEALTH CARE"

I'm wondering, could you call the three people in my neighborhood who have or are losing their homes on my street?

Could you tell them about this one? I'm sure it would make them feel better.

Actually, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. We've managed to help one family out of the four losing their home with this act.

You just have to realize, some parts of the country, some states are in far worse shape that others parts of the country and other states.

(So that I can go through the entire thread in detail later this evening.)

I knew I was stepping in it when I posted it.

but keerist, is nothing good enough for some people?

I do not get it.

We laugh at the tea baggers for their lack of facts and reality, and yet, here we are. that is all I will say.

flame away. All I wanted to do was show that our Democratic President is actually succeeding, and yet people are still pissed.

I still want my pony. But I am pretty happy with what is happening.

I just wonder if some of these "There's not a dime's worth of difference between...." were the same on's who get hysterical at the mention of "Nader in 2000"!

that should make us all proud. :patriot:

BUT...

To no surprise, some of usual suspects - the serial whiners - have appeared with their debbie downerisms is tow. Bah... They fail.

Reminds me of when the fundies raptured like this over the chimperator.

I see no reason to abandon warranted critism of ANY administration -- D or R. Nor do I engage in useless cheerleading because "our guy" is in the White House.

"blah blah blah ... warranted criticism ... blah blah blah."

And I see you have nailed the quota of cheesy talking points.

Use a chess reference? Check.
Compare Obama supporters to Boosh supporters? Check.
Compare Obama to Boosh? Check.
Use a cheerleader reference? Check.

Actually, you bore me.

precision and are not bothered by disruptors in any shape or form. :)

I really feel this had to be said. I don't like arguing with people, but it is high time we understand that this President has done a lot of good. That was my point.

and his Intrepid Team working for us and many of us are working with them to make our goals a reality~

http://www.barackobama.com/recovery/video.php

Cha --

In just the last 3 days, OFA volunteers like you have pledged an incredible 4,000,000 (and counting!) hours to support members of Congress and candidates who fight for real health reform.

We can prove to Congress that health reform is good policy and good politics, but we need to go as big as possible. So today we're setting a new goal: 5 million hours pledged.

If we hit it, the country will know. We'll be running an ad with the final tally in USA Today, the nation's largest newspaper. And to make sure your voice is heard where it matters most, we'll run radio ads in critical states and districts, featuring local voters announcing the pledge total from their area.

Your hours will make a huge difference wherever you live, and there's many different ways to get involved. Can you help us hit 5 million hours by pledging today?

http://my.barackobama.com/YouFight

Beginning soon, we'll talk to voters state-by-state, district-by-district, about why it's important to stand with those who fight for progress and reform -- and reject those who stand with big insurers to protect a status quo that is devastating our economy, families, and businesses.

Thanks for making it happen,

Mitch

Hurts.

Run away.

ignored.:P

Sub-thread removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

Stop insulting everyone. The guy wins us one step forward so he can bank three steps back for his wall street cronies.

I thought the excuse for no health care reform was the the president can't do anything by himself, that he is powerless against all those bad people, that the office of president isn't a kingship so that it really can't do anything.

How come he gets credit for all those things but the things he can't do are some one else's fault? Maybe it's a matter of priorities. Got that puppy so health care and peace and jobs can wait for next time. Eyes on the prize.

Love, Goldman Sachs

thanks Raine1967~ Is that your birth year? :)

Let's see if people are able to realize it before it's too late.

the alternatives......


mark