I've figured out the hostility to the President, and its not "Obama Derangement Syndrome"...

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130. no, I am old

I meant the USSR, which certainly does exist - in the past.

Is the USA being pillaged by Wall Street, or ruled by a Chamber Of Commerce politbureau?

And the wealthiest .01%? Are you joking? They don't get excrement when it comes to the income of the USA.

With the richest .01% you are basically talking about the 14,000 tax filers with incomes over $10,000,000. In 2005, there were 13,776 such filers and they got a mere 5% of the national income.

The rest of us got the other 95%. Even the top .67% got a mere 18.7% of the national income.

"Mere" I say, compared to the slice going to the top 10% - 48.6% http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/123

Now THAT, to me, is an outrage. Almost half going to 10% and the bottom 90% with the other half. But the hits just keep on coming. Divide that bottom 90% in half. The top half gets 40% of the national income, and the bottom half gets a mere 10%.

There's even a little bit of symmetry there - 50% of the income to the top 10% and 10% of the income to the bottom 50%. Approximately. My point being, it is not just the top .01% who are squeezing the rest of us.

As for Obama being "sold" as a progressive, who is doing that, and who cares? Obama is a lame duck. He's not running for anything. He doesn't need to sell himself.

Progressives, however, do need to sell themselves, or to sell the progressive point of view to the American voter. For myself, I am not even sure what a progressive foreign policy is supposed to be. I probably do not have well defined ideas about foreign policy myself because I tend to care more, far more, about domestic policy.