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Akamai

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23. Jacob--absolutely right about the oath. They now swear an oath to Grover Norquist and the billionaires
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 03:24 PM
Jan 2017

Who fund their candidacies. Their big fear in the red states is not the general election--the states are so gerrymandered that they know that a Republican will win--but the big fear is that in the primaries, people will accuse them of being progressive and knocked them out of the race. And we have a Supreme Court that seems utterly unconcerned about this.

We also have voter suppression with Crosscheck and voter ID laws, we have a Supreme Court that enables corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited sums of money, we have a mainstream media that pretends that Trump's allies and misdoings are not disqualifying to someone running for the office of the President. The incessant nattering on about Hillary's emails, about Benghazi (those deaths caused by the Republican House's slashing of security funds--almost never was that brought up), and we had lie after lie after lie about Obama--about the unemployment rate, about the "failure" of Obama care, about the need for austerity spending (funny how they didn't mention that when Bush and Reagan were in office), etc.

I remembered one point during the 2004 race when on the stage once Sen. Kerry said to Sen. Edwards, "These guys will lie about anything." And I cheered that statement. Sen. Kerry never said it again. I always thought that his refusal to repeat such ideas helped lead to his loss.

I really like Alan Grayson's pugnacious "in-your-face" style of taking on the Republicans. At one point during Obama care debates in the house, he started to name how many people from the different Republican districts were dead as a result of not having Obama care and the speaker the house then for bid him to continue with such statements, and I think his words were "taken down"--that is, erased from the record.

Just my two cents.

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I adore Obama Phoenix61 Jan 2017 #1
Before he could engage in any official act they declared unyielding opposition. Akamai Jan 2017 #2
Agree. Duppers Jan 2017 #3
Is it possible that they just didn't know it by that name? I never heard that meeting pnwmom Jan 2017 #4
I've never heard of it either, meadowlander Jan 2017 #11
Actually, Obama and Hillary both played it right and therefore won by almost 3 million votes. world wide wally Jan 2017 #5
Obama's mistake was hiring that prick, Comey. Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2017 #10
Exactly. narnian60 Jan 2017 #28
+1,000 malaise Jan 2017 #34
One person didn't know something. THANKS, OBAMA!!!!!111 betsuni Jan 2017 #6
lol............sigh. JHan Jan 2017 #17
"Any reactions?" Well, mine is that you seem to be prepared to rag on Obama til the end of time.... Hekate Jan 2017 #7
End thread Egnever Jan 2017 #8
Indeed. nt JTFrog Jan 2017 #15
Didn't Alan Grayson Lose the Election ? Obama won Florida both times he ran JI7 Jan 2017 #9
Good post malaise Jan 2017 #12
I forgot the "name" of it, but I knew it happened. n/t Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #13
Hartmann warned us repeatedly about the Caucus Room Conspiracy -- Akamai Jan 2017 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author JTFrog Jan 2017 #16
I am no longer interested in Hartmann's criticisms of Dems or prescriptions on how we shd proceed Hekate Jan 2017 #20
Me Neither otohara Jan 2017 #25
you really think President Obama is stupid? snooper2 Jan 2017 #18
You have to wonder, since the (old) info is framed the way it is: more against O than the traitors Hekate Jan 2017 #21
Obama is brilliant. Absolutely no dummy at all. But he, himself, the 60 minutes interview Akamai Jan 2017 #22
And yet Hillary has 3 million more votes than Trump. The majority of voters went with her. Hekate Jan 2017 #32
I sure agree that Hillary won the popular vote and would have won the electoral vote if the system Akamai Jan 2017 #33
Stating the Obvious Jacob Boehme Jan 2017 #19
Jacob--absolutely right about the oath. They now swear an oath to Grover Norquist and the billionaires Akamai Jan 2017 #23
Thanks, and I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. Jacob Boehme Jan 2017 #26
Jacob--absolutely terrific early post! If I had seen it, I would have commanded you for your important insight. Akamai Jan 2017 #31
I watched the show last night,I'd never heard of the meeting.... Bengus81 Jan 2017 #24
They referred to a dinner held at the time of the first inauguration in which Republicans promised Akamai Jan 2017 #29
Republican traitory runs deep. Now with Russian collaboration against America Achilleaze Jan 2017 #27
You bet! I was telling my far better half last night that the current plot line for presidency Akamai Jan 2017 #30
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