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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 02:00 PM
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Disappointed Democrats protest Obama's SF visit
Make that disappointeed, wealthy Democrats. Maybe this is the wake-up call he needs.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/26/MN3J1LM0N6.DTL&ao=all


In a powerful display of profound disappointment with President Obama, some of the Democratic Party's biggest donors gathered Tuesday - not inside his tony San Francisco fundraiser at the W Hotel, but outside on the sidewalks carrying signs in protest of his policies.

"I don't even know what he stands for," said Susie Tompkins Buell, a co-founder of the Esprit clothing company and one of the most generous Democratic Party donors in the nation - instrumental in backing such powerhouse progressive organizations as the Democracy Alliance and Media Matters....

But on Tuesday, instead of dining with the elite crowd of about 200 who paid at least $5,000 a head - and up to $7,500 for a photo with the president - at the two-hour luncheon, the Democratic activist, who could easily afford the fundraiser, said it was more important to stand outside with an estimated 1,000 demonstrators.

Her goal: to urge Obama to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, a proposed 1,700-mile underground conduit linking the tar-sand fields in Alberta, Canada, to Texas refineries. Environmentalists say the pipeline would result in untold environmental damage. "I think this is a huge issue about our future, about the planet, not just America," she said. "And he needs to be a leader ... to have the awareness of it. To fight for it."

Another prominent Dem contributor is also quoted as saying that Keystone is the dealbreaker for him. Veddy in-te-resting.
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 02:20 PM
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1. You left out the third paragraph...
Tompkins Buell, who is a longtime friend of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and was among her biggest donors in the 2008 presidential race, has long played a starring role in San Francisco as a hostess for presidents, top legislators and world leaders at fundraisers for progressive campaign causes.

Phone Hillary?
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 02:22 PM
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2. Hmm. Paging Lynn Forrester De Rothschild...
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 03:20 PM
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7. We're going to need...
...the whambulance if he overrules the State Department. Which very well may happen still yet...
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flpoljunkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 03:40 PM
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11. All the more reason why President Obama might want to take note of Buell's joining XL demonstrators
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frazzled Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 04:30 PM
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16. Exactly: only the State Department has approved this pipeline
and there were a number of inside connections there that seem to have led to that approval. Tompkins Buell should definitely phone Hillary.
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Tarheel_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 04:36 PM
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18. Indeed. Do you suppose she's "disappointed" in Hillary as well? Or is this a PUMA thing?
:shrug:
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 06:14 PM
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19. Obama's not going to do it...
...because he'd never hear the end of it. He's made a careful coalition and it's prepared to set fire to the kettle yet. I remember the primaries...:scared:
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 02:25 PM
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3. Excellent - that pipeline is a dealbreaker for a lot of people!
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okieinpain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 02:45 PM
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4. the man is trying to get jobs for people any where he can. is it
true that the unions are for the pipeline.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 02:49 PM
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5. It's true that the Chamber of Commerce is trying to rush the pipeline...
Info:

http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/Policy-Solutions/Drilling-and-Mining/Tar-Sands/Keystone-XL-Pipeline.aspx
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 03:14 PM
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6. The approval process is corrupt. Hopefully it's not too late to rectify it.
Hillary’s legacy rests on fixing tainted pipeline approval process
http://news.salon.com/2011/10/19/hillarys_legacy_rests_on_fixing_tainted_pipeline_approval_process/singleton/

Hillary Clinton Has Deep Ties to Oil Lobbyist for TransCanada Pipeline
http://news.change.org/stories/hillary-clinton-has-deep-ties-to-oil-lobbyist-for-transcanada-pipeline

Hillary Clinton’s State Department Sued Over Failure To Reveal Contacts With TransCanada Lobbyist
http://dirtyoilsands.org/blog/article/hillary_clintons_state_department_sued_over_failure_to_reveal_contacts_with
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 03:21 PM
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8. Time to ask Hillary to resign...
She'd sure take that well :rofl:
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 03:31 PM
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9. This whole project has reeked from start-to-finish.
Can't say I'm hopeful it will be rejected. It will be argued on the basis of job creation, but it will most certainly jeopardize the environment. At some point we have to stop promoting dirty and hazardous energy sources.
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 03:37 PM
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10. The State Department did conlcude...
...that it will jeopardize cultural resources - which I take to mean Native American lands. My best guess - it will never get built after being tied up in court for a decade. They're just waiting to see how it hashes out in the executive branch before taking it to the other two branches of government.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 04:08 PM
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15. I've been reading up on it and North and South Dakota tribes aren't happy.
Edited on Wed Oct-26-11 04:10 PM by AtomicKitten
Thanks for your post. I did not know this particular angle of the story. Glad to know there is more to throw under the wheels of this project hopefully to bring it to a screeching halt.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 03:55 PM
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12. I agree - she should resign.
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Whisp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 06:38 PM
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21. conflict of interest? who? Hillary?
she'll just do her Crazy Lady laughter like when she was asked about the conflict of interest during the primaries, re the Columbia Trade Deal.

And what the PUMAs say about this is: ahhh, that's just not Fair to ask Hillary stuff like that! it's not FAirrrrrrrrrr!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tngWyRHIjYU
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 03:56 PM
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13. Hillary Clinton should be ashamed of herself.
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ellisonz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 04:05 PM
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14. I think we all learned long ago...
...that the Clinton's have no shame.

I mean what was Hillary's reaction to reports that Gaddafi was dead: wow! Not let's hope this is true - or something else more sobered - but wow - amazement.
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 06:21 PM
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20. So we're back to "Drill Baby Drill," but with a blue banner?
:argh:
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 09:13 PM
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25. With a great big old
ridiculous circle D.
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 04:30 PM
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30. Don't you cast asparagus at our incredibly fresh, creative symbol!
Er, what was it again? I've already forgotten. :boring:
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Autumn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 05:20 PM
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33. I'm sorry I cast asparagus at our incredibly
boring stinky symbol. It's easy to forget.
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occupyeverywhere Donating Member (324 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 06:43 PM
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22. Yeah, the "unions" are for the pipeline
At the State Department's last public hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline, there were all kinds of union people demonstrating outside the Reagan International Trade Center in D.C., they even came into the hearing, they were some what thuggish, they were also mostly poor hispanics that couldn't speak a lick of English and poor African Americans. Pipe-fitters union. when some of the against the pipeline people questioned them they admitted that they had been paid by the pipeline promoters. I witnessed this first hand.
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 04:36 PM
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17. r2z
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 07:28 PM
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23. First of all, the State Department hasn't yet made a decision on the pipeline.
Second, does anybody really think that Obama will have no say in that decision or is this another opportunity to bash a Clinton?

Same old crap around here.

:crazy:
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 10:23 PM
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26. Other posters may be "bashing a Clinton"
I posted in order to illustrate that Obama's centrist policies are beginning to tick off his financial backers as well as us unwashed lefties.
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 12:13 AM
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27. I wasn't directing my comment to you, but to others.
They act as if Obama won't have a say in this decision. How ridiculous is that?

;(
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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 11:19 AM
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28. its just a clinton bash
which surprises me since she is about the only member of this administration not constantly shooting off their own feet
i had my doubts going in about her but she has proven herself the most capable member of the whole damn group
and the only one who has kept a consistency of what she said and what she has done
this wont sound like much in the way of praise to anyone but my gator sister
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 12:19 PM
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29. Hi, Gator!!!
Well, you know how I feel. She should have been president. It's no surprise to anyone who knows her that she is capable, decisive and consistent. She's also caring and funny.

Thanks for your kind words.

Take care!!!

:hug:
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Tarheel_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 04:39 PM
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31. !
:puke:
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Beacool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 07:44 PM
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34. Try taking some Pepto, it might help your tummy.
:7
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Tarheel_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 04:40 PM
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32. Well, you certainly know from "bashing".
:hi:
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SwampG8r Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-27-11 11:41 PM
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35. mmkay
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-26-11 09:04 PM
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24. They're well within their rights to do so. One of the perks of the First Amendment.
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