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I'm voting for Ralph Nader. The poor man has run for over 20 years and never won. He cares about the environment.
He runs for the green party and has socialist views. I think he would run the country far better than obama but he has no chance of winning.
I hate that it is almost impossible for a third party to win.

Nader is a sour puss. In addition, he would be totally useless in a war situation.

ruveyn

I think you're reading too much cynicism into the motivations of us Obamaniacs.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

On top of that, he's become something of an ego maniac, running even when he knows his campaign will detract from other liberals who have a better chance of winning than he does, all for the sake of putting himself in the picture.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

And I am going to walk around wearing a shirt that says Boycott the presidential election!! !! !! !

Barack's got my vote.
What's the alternative? The Republicans are running a field of candidates where the front runners are proud of being ignorant and bigoted, as if intellectuality is something bad. Huntsman is smart, but he's got a snowball's chance. Romney probably isn't a slump intellectually, but he's been working extra hard trying to fit in with dullards he at one time wouldn't have given the time of day to. And Newt, who is supposedly the intellectual center of the Republican party? When you get down to it, he's just a bully whose solution to everything is to kick the disadvantaged or unpopular minorities in the teeth. That's not even going into his hypocrisy in regard to personal morality.
Barack Obama hasn't lived up to the hype from the first time he ran for the presidency, but he still represents what is best in America.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

might as well. both parties are essentially the same. how is it a democracy when you get to pick between two identical parties. its obvious why the republicans suck but obama sucks because:
guantanamo is still open for buisiness
doma has not been repealed
he upped the number of troops in iraq and afghanistan
he has carried out many imperialist projects elsewhere
he has deported more undocumented migrants than bush, etc

there should be a 3rd option that represents the working class and is actually left wing.

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That seemed a bit over the top, even considering the source.

Even ardent Obama supporters tend to pitch him as the lesser evil rather than the savior these days.

"The problem is there is no way to say that," Gruber said. "Because they're the same f[******] bill. He just can't have his cake and eat it too. Basically, you know, it's the same bill. He can try to draw distinctions and stuff, but he's just lying. The only big difference is he didn't have to pay for his. Because the federal government paid for it. Where at the federal level, we have to pay for it, so we have to raise taxes."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/11 ... z1f6VoIgsP

Study: Mass. healthcare law a success
Finds "individual mandate" main reason some buy-in

Updated: Thursday, 13 Jan 2011, 11:54 AM EST
Published : Thursday, 13 Jan 2011, 11:54 AM EST

Nicole Nalepa
(WWLP) - New data has been released on the effectiveness of Massachusetts’s health care law, and most of the findings are positive.

The new study, released this week by a team of Massachusetts economists, shows that the state's health care insurance requirement has been key to the health care law's success. This requirement, which was enacted back in 2006, states that all Massachusetts Residents must have health insurance coverage.

Researchers believe they have pinpointed exactly why this health care law is so successful here. Based upon their findings, there was a greater increase in the number of healthy people who signed-up for coverage, compared to those who were chronically ill. Researchers say this "individual mandate" is the main reason why healthy consumers purchased insurance in the first place. If this requirement was not in place, they say, the only ones who would be buying health insurance would be the ones who were sick and more expensive to cover.

http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/massachuse ... -a-success

I bet you can't think up a single valid criticism against Obama.

might as well. both parties are essentially the same. how is it a democracy when you get to pick between two identical parties. its obvious why the republicans suck but obama sucks because:
guantanamo is still open for buisiness
doma has not been repealed
he upped the number of troops in iraq and afghanistan
he has carried out many imperialist projects elsewhere
he has deported more undocumented migrants than bush, etc

there should be a 3rd option that represents the working class and is actually left wing.

It's simply a case of good cop / bad cop being played on the public.

Democrats = good cops who pretend to listen to reason while bending to their corporate owners behind closed doors.
Republicans = bad cops who are going to push obscene and fiscally irresponsible tax cuts for the wealthy so that down the road they can go "oops we don't have the money anymore" with regard to all social spending put in place since the great depression, while simultaneously refusing to even touch "defense" spending and escalating wars around the world.

Obama to the American public: Vote for me or you'll be sorry! It's either me or we sick the crazies on you! You know they have their loyal partisan cult of a fan base who will vote while everyone else stays home.

Sadly the strategy going to work for me. No way in hell should the Republicans be put in power when 60% of the voting age public opposes their nonsense. It's either vote for Obama or demand that we start doing policy by public referendum and bypass the corporate sponsored politicians completely. Unfortunately the latter would require some kind of mass uprising. It might be warranted if voter turnout is at unprecedentedly low levels due to everyone but the Fox News drones boycotting the elections.

No-trial assassinations of US citizens?

Anwar al-Awlaki (also spelled Aulaqi; Arabic: أنور العولقي‎ Anwar al-‘Awlaqī; April 22, 1971 – September 30, 2011) was a Yemeni-American[9] imam who was an engineer and educator by training.[10][11] According to U.S. government officials, he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved with planning operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda.[2][7][12][13][14][15] With a blog, a Facebook page, and many YouTube videos, he had been described by Saudi news station Al Arabiya as the "bin Laden of the Internet".[16][17]
U.S. officials allege that Al-Awlaki spoke with and preached to a number of al-Qaeda members and affiliates, including three of the 9/11 hijackers,[18] alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan,[19][20] and alleged "Christmas Day bomber" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab;[21][22][23] he was also allegedly involved in planning the latter's attack. The Yemeni government began trying him in absentia in November 2010, for plotting to kill foreigners and being a member of al-Qaeda, and a Yemenite judge ordered that he be captured "dead or alive".[24][25]
According to U.S. officials, al-Awlaki was promoted to the rank of "regional commander" within al-Qaeda in 2009.[4][26] He repeatedly called for jihad against the United States.[27][28] In April 2010, American President Obama approved Al-Awlaki's targeted killing,[29][30][31] an action unprecedented for an American citizen and an action unsuccessfully challenged by al-Awlaki's father and civil rights groups.[32][29][30][31]
Al-Awlaki was believed to be in hiding in Southeast Yemen in the last years of his life.[24] The U.S. deployed unmanned aircraft in Yemen to search for and kill him,[33] firing at and failing to kill him at least once,[34] before he was killed in a drone attack in Yemen on September 30, 2011.[35] Two weeks later Al-Awlaki's 16 year old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen who was born in Denver, was also killed by an American drone strike in Yemen.[36][37][38]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

Persecution of whistle-blowers in direct contradiction of his campaign rhetoric?

Bradley E. Manning (born December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed restricted material to the website WikiLeaks. He was charged in July that year with transferring classified data onto his personal computer, and communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source. An additional 22 charges were preferred in March 2011, including "aiding the enemy," a capital offense, though prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty. He was found fit to face court martial in April 2011, and currently awaits the first hearing.[1]
Manning had been assigned in October 2009 to a unit of the 10th Mountain Division, based near Baghdad. There he had access to the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet), used by the United States government to transmit classified information. He was arrested after Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker, reported to the FBI that Manning had told him during online chats in May 2010 that he had downloaded material from SIPRNet and passed it to WikiLeaks. The leaked material is said to have included 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables; footage of a July 2007 Baghdad airstrike; and footage of the May 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan.[2]
Manning was held in maximum custody beginning in July 2010 in the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Virginia, which in effect meant solitary confinement, conditions that Amnesty International called harsh and punitive. In April 2011, 295 scholars, including legal scholars and philosophers signed a letter saying the conditions he experienced amounted to a violation of the U.S. Constitution; later that month the Pentagon transferred him to a medium-security facility in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, allowing him to interact with other pre-trial detainees.[3]
An article 32 hearing will be held on December 16 in Fort Meade, Maryland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning

A federal agency violates the Whistleblower Protection Act if it takes or fails to take (or threatens to take or fail to take) a personnel action with respect to any employee or applicant because of any disclosure of information by the employee or applicant that he or she reasonably believes evidences a violation of a law, rule or regulation; gross mismanagement; gross waste of funds; an abuse of authority; or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has jurisdiction over allegations of whistleblower retaliation made by employees of the SEC.

Whistleblower Protection Act Complaints should be sent to
U.S. Office of Special Counsel
Complaints Examining Unit
1730 M Street, NW, Suite 201
Washington, DC 20036-4505

The required Whistleblower complaint form is available online at
OSC (www.osc.gov)

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Securities and Exchange Commission will also investigate allegations of retaliation against SEC employees for cooperating with the OIG or for other protected activities. For information on how to report reprisal to the OIG, see http://www.sec-oig.gov/.

Escalating the drug war and prosecutions of state approved medical marijuana dispensaries, again in direct conflict with Obama campaign promises?

WASHINGTON -- U.S. attorneys have a message for California's medical marijuana advocates: Don't blame Barack Obama. After it was announced that the crackdown on medical pot establishments in the Golden State was a collective decision by the four U.S. attorneys in California and not the result of any directive from Washington, spokeswoman Lauren Horwood emphasized that the administration never even green-lighted the ramped-up enforcement actions.

The only D.C.-based official with whom California U.S. attorneys coordinated, Horwood said, was Deputy Attorney General James Cole, who was chosen by Attorney General Eric Holder, an Obama appointee.

"He's the one who provided the quote for our press release, and he's chosen by Eric Holder," Horwood told HuffPost in an interview. "But we didn't have direct talks with Eric Holder -- not that we wouldn't, he's been out and visited -- but just the way the Department of Justice works, he's not that hands-on on these kinds of details."

An article by Phoenix Times reporter Ray Stern claimed Horwood acknowledged that California's U.S. attorneys received "Obama's blessing" in implementing the crackdown. But in an interview with The Huffington Post, Horwood, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner in California's Eastern District, distanced herself from that language.

"What I said, or at least meant to say, was that the U.S. Attorneys in California saw the need for coordinated enforcement actions and spoke with folks in Main Justice in D.C. (not the Obama Administration)," she told HuffPost in an email.

Cole declined to attend any California press conferences on the issue not, Horwood insisted, because he was distancing himself from the crackdown, but because California is a long way to travel.

California voters approved the use of medical marijuana in 1996 with the passage of Prop. 215, later named the Compassionate Use Act, which allows patients to possess and cultivate cannabis with a doctor's permission. The law has been interpreted many times since then. In City of Garden Grove v. Superior Court in 2007, the trial court sided with the patient, finding that it "is not the job of local police to enforce the federal drug law." A California Supreme Court ruling in 2010 found that residents may grow or possess "reasonable amounts" of marijuana with a doctor's permission.


But under federal law there are no such allowances.

Obama as a candidate promised to maintain a hands-off approach toward pot clinics that adhered to state law, with Attorney General Eric Holder publicly asserting that federal prosecutors would not initiate enforcement actions against any patients or providers in compliance with state law, deeming it an inefficient use of scarce government resources.

Such language didn't stop federal prosecutors from launching an attack on medical marijuana shop owners earlier this month, vowing to shutter state-licensed marijuana dispensaries regulated by local governments and threatening landlords with property seizures.

State Senator Mark Leno (D) has joined Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) in requesting meetings with the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service to discuss the reasons behind the crackdown.

So far their requests have gone unanswered. "They're talking amongst themselves," said Ammiano of federal prosecutors, "and really causing tremendous, unnecessary chilling effects."

Steve DeAngelo of Oakland medical cannabis club Harborside Health Center said such effects may be the end goal.

"Federal prosecutors are not trying to clean up the regulated medical cannabis industry, they are trying to destroy it," he said at a Tuesday press conference in San Francisco. "Their real target is not criminal gangs, but rather the systems of licensing and regulation implemented by dozens of communities state-wide. This is destroying tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of tax dollars in local, state and federal tax revenue."

The crackdown comes even as 50 percent of Americans favor legalizing marijuana, according to a recently released Gallup poll, up from just 36 percent in 2006.

When asked to respond to the claim that the Obama administration isn't implicated in the decision, Ammiano was indignant.

"Somebody's going to have to fall on their sword about this," he said. "This is becoming more of a mainstream issue. I mean, this was really a mistake."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/2 ... 33482.html

Let's just toss in that DOJ scandal with the gunrunning just for laughs.

Any of this ringing a bell for you?

I can do this all day if you like.

On top of that, he's become something of an ego maniac, running even when he knows his campaign will detract from other liberals who have a better chance of winning than he does, all for the sake of putting himself in the picture.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer