Saturday, March 31, 2012

President Obama: 'You Are On Your Own'




One may strongly disagree with President Obama on a number of issues, and I can respect people who do.
But I guarantee you that you will never hear a Republican running for office with his philosophy. Here are some remarks he made about conservatives and right-zealots in a speech this week in Maine.


This is a man I am not ashamed to support.

26 comments:

  1. I support this president too....he is the only one that can get us on the road to recovery. But he has an uphill battle with all the dirty politics that will be thrown at him and I for one will not watch any of it...will turn it off or change to another channel. He is the MAN!!!!!!

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  2. I was certainly at that stage back in 2008.

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  3. Certainly the only viable option, Marty. And the only viable candidate I'd want in office for next four-odd years. Maybe the GOP will recover from their flight with lunacy by then. Or not...

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  4. I've had my doubts, I'll admit, Chuck but the more I've seen of the class-war rightists in the opposition, the more this guy and the job he has done (with some criticisms) impress me.

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  5. Therein lies the major rub for me. The Republicans are out chasing wild hares into the right-wing ionosphere, not that I would ever vote for a neocon anyway... but I'm also incredibly disappointed with Obama's in-office trajectory.

    I has hoping for a liberal, forward-thinking civil liberties champion and instead I got W Lite.
    Not what I wanted then and certainly not what I want now.

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  6. "This is a man I am not ashamed to support." I felt that way then, & I do now.

    I've had my minor 'shocks' & misunderstandings...but, after all, I'm not an expert on the workings of the government, & I realize there are many rows to hoe.

    Even if the Republicans weren't such a sorry lot, I don't know of any Democrat I'd rather do the job.

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  7. He is now not just taking the punches he is coming out well prepared to engage.
    A big yeah Doug!

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  8. Obviously a lot of people feel that way about Obama, which to them overrides what positive results he has made. But as you say, Chuck, the neo-Cons are off in the ionosphere.

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  9. I think we are of similar views on this Lucija.

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  10. Yes, he needs to engage more Jack. During the last big budget debate this last summer, Obama in his press conferences seemed a bit detatched, not emotional enough.

    He reminded me of a Sidney Portier as a young black college professor who just made tenure in some 60-70s "white liberal" movie--trying to be too damn nice to angry anti-public policy types who just want hiim gone from office.

    . He now appears to have moved on from that approach.

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  11. I take it you agree as well, Sigurd.

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  12. I never thought of it within that manner but I think he has been very wise in watching things take place and I think he has done his homework regarding what "the rest". Much like the actor, Micheal Douglas did in "the American President"

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  13. I think he will be more aggressive in his next term. He tried too hard to get the other side to help out, but he found out that could never be...so now I think he wont worry about what the Right wants, he will go it alone and do what he thinks is right for this country. GO OBAMA!!!!!

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  14. Puts on a good show Doug, plenty of stirring rhetoric but there are Americans fighting in Iraq while combat troops are leaving, for now at least, the U.S. government is creating a staff of 16,000 for its newly constructed embassy in the heart of Baghdad.
    Fortress America, Baghdad is protected by five thousand mercenaries and has a further staff of eleven thousand, a large number, seemingly in a “military advice” capacity, training Iraqi forces – a nation that, ironically, nine years ago the US and UK cited as having a military capability not alone a threat “to the entire region”, but to the West.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28982

    And then there is healthcare, or the lack of it:-

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30010

    I really struggle to see what choices are available in the US election Doug, I also have the same dilemma here of course, but Obama just comes across as a corporate construct to me, designed to press buttons but incapable of effecting any change whatsoever. Only democracy could ever do that, it's a long hard road we trudge Doug and there are no shortcuts in my opinion. Its the Obama Show, my money is on him to pull this damn thing off against all the odds and with the full fury of the Republican Muppets ranged against him, he will be bound for glory and will go forth to a second term of institutionalised insanity. Will our brave hero ever get those cheque book wielding lobbyists off his back? Will he come through against all the odds and make it back to the White House with arrows in his saddle bag in time to initiate the Big One? Or will the forces of mediocrity stop our young hero in his tracks and condemn him to a life of multi-million dollar public appearances and his own seat at Bilderberg Group shindigs?

    Who can say Doug?

    Better watch the same time next week for the latest adventure of Obama Drama, for the present I'm not at all convinced of anything he says here, but the worst thing is Barack is the only choice, so the show rolls on...and on.

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  15. Except that, if I recall the film correctly, Obama has stayed away from handgun control. Thats is, shall we say, a touchy subject in some places.

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  16. That's what I believe as well, Marty. There are limits to how far a President can "go it alone", of course, as you know but he can go a longer way in that direction with no more elections facing him. A lot also depends on how much public and Congressional support he gets.

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  17. Yes, my main focus is on the first part of the video, AA, pointing out the GOP toward citizenship--AKA, All Men (and Women) are Islands, so to speak. The Iraq situation has been a perfect disaster.

    The health care situation in America is hamstrung by the power that medical lobbyists have over lawmakers, and a very conservative-leaning Supreme Court. The Single-Payer system is what we need; but the medical industrial complex is more powerful on this issue than the public need for a comprehensive health care system.

    I wish more newspapers would print that map that Global Research has published there on the link.


    I certainly enjoyed your image of Obama as a brave cavalry scout--of course some might see it that way, but I've never believed Obama was as transformative a figure as most enthusiasts made him out to be. Of course a President is by nature part of the American elite. But when you look at who could replace him, the choice is easy. I'd rather have an adult in the White House than an overgrown spoiled kid like Mitt Romney or any of the priggish reactionary nimrods of the Santorum ilk.


    Money is the root of politics in America now, not free speech. I wonder if it ever wasn't that way frankly. A firmer democracy may be the answer but the USA will be nowhere near that in November 2112 and electing an all-GOP government will makes things worse.

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  18. The only way he can do anything in the White House as our president is if Congress changes radically in this next election....the Right has to be moved out and more saner heads need to be seated. There are too many in the halls of Congress that do not like this president no matter what his voice says or what he wants to do for this country. Even thou they themselves have initiated so many policies or bills....but now because he agrees, they say NO NO NO! If a Republican gets into the White House...we will surely be in a state just like we were when Bush was in that hot seat...and it got awfully hot for him at the end...and I think we need a cooler head to prevail and do what is best for all the people not just the privileged few.

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  19. Great speech. I`m a fan of Obama. Let`s hope he whups them Republicans in November.

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  20. True Marty. As someone on television put it, "If Obama cured cancer, he's be attacked by Mitch McConnell and John Boehner for "making war on oncologists".

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  21. Well no matter what the right says about this man...he is my choice for president...the other 4 have nothing to make this country great.

    I was just listening to Gingrich and what he was saying about Obama's government reaching into our lives and making us do things we dont want....well what the hell is his bunch trying to do? Interfering with what women can and cant do...doesnt that constitute govt overreach? Bunch of hypocrites and liars is all they are.

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  22. Exactly Marty. Gingrich and others in the GOp were all for the individual mandate in health insurance until the Democrats compromised over the "single payer system" it to get GOP support for the Affordable Care Act.

    Then Gingrich and the neo-Con pack ran away, ran away from a Republican idea!

    I think Obama and the others have learned--you cannot compromise with these people. The GOP big dogs see it as weakness and redouble their "big lie" tactics.

    These folks like the aptly named Newt are the MOST cynical pack of slippery characters to have success in American politics since Nixon and Joe McCarthy and his ilk called all their opponents "unAmerican". They simply have no decency.

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  23. They have always struck me as indecent too Doug - well said!

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