The Toxic Pathology of Right Wing Fascism and the Failed Communications Strategy of the White House
BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
By Mark Karlin
For nearly 10 years, BuzzFlash has focused on how Americans generally support progressive policies if asked about them individually, but are swayed against them by right wing media propaganda campaigns.
This has been the lesson since Nixon, and it has become more virulent over the years.
Now we are faced with a coordinated incendiary attack on President Barack Obama as an individual and beneficial public policies such as healthcare reform and climate control the likes of which are terrifying to a democracy.
What is occurring is the same model: corporations who control the mainstream media and control the majority of elected officials on Capitol Hill use facistic "coded" misinformation to rally a thunderously loud confused base to bollix up any legislation that would diminish their profits or power to control what happens in D.C.
The marriage of big corporations and government is fascism, and propaganda is what sanctifies the marriage and keeps it from ending up in a divorce.
Now, the White House's passivity to the imminent danger of a toxic pathology out of control has resulted in media attention once again distracting us from the issue at hand -- healthcare --by covering a right wing, GOP, Corporate PR Firm "boycott" of a speech by President Obama encouraging students to study hard and take education seriously.
Of course, Reagan and Bush spoke to students, but the "white is right" crowd had no objections then.
The White House and President Obama are to be faulted for thinking, once again, of some bipartisan heaven that can be attained on earth when you are struggling against the type of destructive and potentially violent movement that has in the recent past led to fascistic governments of "purity." (Look at Chile and Argentina during the Reagan years, or Central America at the time.)
President Obama has to stop dreaming of being voted the "most liked" politician in D.C. That aspiration was rendered impossible when he was elected, because the corporations, the GOP, and the white right wing racists were going to go after him with a machete of hate whatever he did.
If President Obama doesn't becomes less Pollyanna and more Richard the Lionheart soon, the terrorism we will face will not be from Afghanistan but from within.
It could happen at any moment, an army of Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann molded Timothy McVeighs.
The nation is afflicted with a pathological cancer that has moved into a real Red Alert for domestic and personal danger.
President Obama needs to put on his armour suit and grab Excalibur, because the right is once again defining the debate and shifting it toward igniting a powder keg.
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It's Going to come down to the March on Washington 9-12
As an old intelligence analyst what I've learned over the years is; it's not the loud mouths you have to look out for, but the guys who are quietly amassing power and recruiting! But, saying that, if this was another country, I would be advising a draw down the embassy, have the Marines off shore to protect our vital interests and prepare for the worst. But right now, its watch, listen (really listen to what’s being said—not what you think it means) and identify the major players.
We have a radicalized political alliance of splinter groups whose chief aim appears to be; the violent overthrow of the lawfully elected government. The Republican noise machine is at a totally different level than when Rush got his claim to fame, with “America Held Hostage” during the Clinton administration. Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Faux News and the Astroturf operatives from the right are stoking the fears that brought down the Weimar Republic, “Our Country isn’t ‘Ours’ anymore.” But you don’t have to worry; we know whose fault it is! Worst yet, the lawfully elected President is not US. It is resonating with some people you don’t want anything to resonate with. For some of these guys, this is really personal! Further they have tapped into our home-grown racist crazies for whom this is the “Race War” they’ve been feverishly planning and waiting for.
“Lair” from the House floor has put a rumbling through the black population that I haven’t heard in years!
Cooler heads will probably prevail, after all nobody wants this country to Balkanize into separate states, country, or whatever. The United States still is not are. That was settled in 1865, well, almost.
Cheers, Flageek
In the final chapter...
...of the novel "Shogun", the new emperor, who has decided that he does not want Blackthorne to leave Japan, and has secretly burned the ship Blackthorne constructed, says: You may build another ship, and I will burn that one as well, and the next one as well..." or words to that effect. This is the role the corporatist DLC plays in our party-a continual braking, sabotaging of what real democrats should be acheiving in order to preserve corporate hegemony, the real enemy our society faces. We can't do anything at all until this brake is removed. Just likeClinton before him, Obama roared like a lion in the election season only to retreat on his stances like a scared sheep when he came into office. Corporate power is the real enemy. They play off the hate and fear of republicans, and sucker the highest ideals and dreams of liberals. They play us all like puppets. So how does our puppet break free? We can't do anything until we take our party back.
Nope
Clinton never sold himself as anything other than a moderate Democrat.
Obama did, ........ well, to the delusional "true progressives" with their own interpretation on "Hope" and "Change".
Nice try, though.
There is a way
Dump the Corporate Party! Vote outside the box! Consider a non-D candidate for once and CLOSE YOUR CHECKBOOK! As long as everyone thinks that they have to vote for a D/R member of the Corporate Party nothing will change. Change starts with YOU. Vote for OUR future (not corporate fortunes) and STOP VOTING FOR THE CORPORATE PARTY R OR D.
You cannot ever win a three way split
Until and unless you can change the voting system ANY third party well simply elect the folk they hate most. Look at who is giving the money to Greens & Nadar now! The majority of money raised these days is from the Republicans, Every dollar they spend helping Greens to reduce the Democrats votes, does more than one hundred dollars spent trying to push their own stuff.
Meanwhile inside the Democratic party, the REAL battle against the Corporatists goes on, the Real Progressives don't get Republican support and don't get support from those jeering on the outside either. Progressives can take back the Democratic Party, and have elected a number of real progressives to Congress, just not enough of them.
Organize as Green Democrats and replace Blue Dogs. We did that in Central Florida, but only going door to door in parts of the Gerrymandered district that had never seen a Democrat and made the case with folk who had no clue what a liberal was, in towns where every street is named after Republicans. That is how you do the job!
If the Gang Of Pirates think that the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat, it is not any part of Bipartisan to accommodate them and roll over and play dead.
I believe the US will break up like the USSR did
I really believe we are at the breaking point where the US will cease to exist. We already see the full blown secession movement in Texas that their governor has encouraged. Other states like Alaska and Vermont have secessionist movements and hate radio is encouraging them everywhere. Now there is some rumbling of a similar movement here in California too! Obama is repeating what Jimmy Carter did as president. Just as Carter abandoned the left and moved steadily to the right based on the pressure put on him, so has Obama done the same thing. He has totally bungled the health care debate by repeatedly begging the Republicans to find common ground with them instead of standing with the single payer activists who put him in office. Time after time he has ignored the pleas of those who elected him and he's given the Republicans everything they want.Obama traded away an orchard to the Republicans and their corporate masters and he didn't even get a rotten apple back as a consolation. He got nothing and he's still begging the Republicans for a single vote. Well, the insurance racketeers can't screw me anymore, they already bankrupted me and stole my parents home. Bill McGuire cleaned my IRA out when I was forced to pay for care that my mother was denied. They can't take anything more from me. And thanks to Obama and his pal Olympia Snowe, millions of Americans will still go broke and bankrupt because Olympia is going to force her trigger into this corporate welfare bill, a trigger that Obama will squirt with enough Krazy Glue that it can't be pulled, just like the Medicare "D" trigger. Change you can believe in? It's turned into the same old SNOWE JOB!
I voted for Kucinich in the last primary and I will either vote for Dennis, Bernie Sanders or Anthony Weiner next time.
With Fascism Closing In On Us, What now?
There are only two options, doing nothing or rising up en masse. Anything else, blogging, for example, but also signing petitions, leafletting, holding a weekly candle light vigil - and other such same old same old activities, for whatever neglible difference these will make, one might just as well have done nothing. Sure, it's still possible, albeit highly unlikely, that President Obama will see the light and come out for single payer when he addresses the nation next week. But if as expected he touts his insurance company/Big Pharma/Wall Street giveaway, that's when the mobilization best begin, peacefully, relentlessly, right up to the time that Congress passes and President Obama signs a single payer bill. What are the odds? Right now overwhelmingly against us, obviously. Then why rise up? Something called momentum plus the fact that a people united can never be defeated. The teabaggers know this, how come we don't? After all, according to polls, when it comes to single payer we outnumber them four to one.
If you want to look for the enemy within
If you want to look for the enemy within, look no further than the US Treasury.
someone once said something wise or so it was once said in the before now
"..igniting a powder keg"
Yes, indeed, Obama is close to "igniting a powder keg". The right wing had such a successful summer of town hall meetings that they have been very encouraged. This latest hoorah over the speech to school children regarding staying in school and accomplishing something with their young lives is a good example. All the while, he and the Democrats sit back and do NOTHING. And, when they do NOTHING, they encourage all kinds of speculation among his supporters about WHY, oh WHY, oh WHY? Why won't they fight? And, the answers of course are all over the map because, after all, nature does abhor a vacuum. This turning of the other cheek when people are threatening to murder you is just too much to take for too long. Those of us who put him in the Presidency don't like it. Well, we'll see what happens on Wednesday, see if he can pull it out with one speech, providing of course that the right wing actually permits him to stand in front of the Congress and GIVE a speech. At this point, it is even conceivable that he may simply say that he's not going to do that either.
Well said, Mr. Karlin, Pres. Obama is playing with fire...
Well said, Mr. Karlin. If President Obama thinks he can IGNORE the Right-Wing HATE radio, backed up by SENATORS & CONGRESSMEN/women, people like Michelle Bachman calling for "A little BLOOD to water the tree of liberty," he ENABLES and ENCOURAGES the Right-Wing loonies to act out their violent fantasies.
Here's FOUR Wing Nut kooks who have enacted their VIOLENT FANTASIES in just over the past year!
#1. Arkansas Dem. Party Chair Bill Gwaltney SHOT & KILLED by a deranged, laid-off Right-Wing gunman
#2. Holocaust Museum shot up by another murderous Right-Wing gunman..
#3. Dr. George Tiller ASSASSINATED by ANOTHER murderous right-wing gunman-
#4. a Tennesse gunman TRIED to KILL EVERY SINGLE PERSON - man, woman, child, in a Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church one morning last year!
Here's the wiki article for "MOTIVATION" of Tennessee Right-Wing mass-murdering gunman Jim David Adkisson.... America has ALREADY HAD a REPEAT Timmy McVeigh, but because Adkisson "only" killed two of his intended victims, of a small, anonymous Knoxville Church, America's grand pooh-bahs of hate & corporate media can PRETEND he never existed:
MOTIVATION- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knoxville_Unitarian_Universalist_church_shooting
The following books were found in Adkisson's home during a police search:[8]
In his manifesto, Adkisson also included the Democratic members of the House and Senate,[10] and the 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America [10] of Bernard Goldberg in his list of wished-for targets.
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PRESIDENT Obama is DERELICT IN HIS DUTIES to "PROTECT & DEFEND the CONSTITUTION" if he CONTINUES to ALLOW these HATE-MONGERS to INCITE MURDER & VIOLENCE without addressing the FULL POWER & BULLY-PULPIT of the White House against them!
Here Arianna Huffington points out the obvious - that NO ONE ELSE will mention! - that the BOTCHED BAILOUTS for fat-cat bankers are EXTREMELY UNPOPULAR in America,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/has-obamas-handling-of-th_b_273341.html
(and here's the TRUE cost of the Bush/OBAMA GIVE-AWAYS to Wall Street: TWENTY TRILLION taxpayer dollars... and climbing, if NOT being accounted for! - http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aY0tX8UysIaM
but resentful "conservatives" are DISPLACING their anger - at losing their jobs, at mortgage foreclosure evictions, at skyrocketing health-insurance rates, and other financial pressures - ON TO the "Health Care Reform" debate - where, in fact, at behest of his Goldman-Sachs/Rahm Emanuel White House "economic advisors", President Obama has actually been trying to SABOTAGE the ONLY meaningful health care reform (single payer, or AT LEAST a "government option" like EXPANDED Medicare) all along!
Note in the wiki article of the Tennessee Church shooting, that one of the things which set of Jim David Adkisson is that his FOOD STAMPS had been CUT OFF... NOT by "liberals" who created the program, but by "conservative" Republicans who HATE those kind of programs!
President Obama is NOT EVEN TRYING to tell us, that those Americans ON MEDICARE, LOVE IT! (Especially compared to the alternative, which for many seniors would be _nothing_.)
And that Medicare recipients are being SOCIALISED by ALL taxpayers, Earned Income is TAXED at nearly 3% (employer + employee contributions = 2.9%) of every earned income dollar goes to fund Medicare - from which anyone under 65 is EXCLUDED!!
The root of right-wing resentment isn not just race, but is also the SECRECY and CORRUPTION of the Big Financial markets. But President Obama is so wedded to his Goldman-Sachs bankers & lobbyists, that he can no longer see the forest for the trees (or see his own campaign videos from 2008 pledging "tranparency & accountability" either, apparently.)
The other day, Buzzflash's own David Lindorff all but said that the Obama administration is doomed by the president's failed choices of the past 9 months. Whether or not that will prove true, Mr. Obama needs to ADDRESS the HATE-MONGERS, STAT, before he has ANOTHER JIM DAVID ADKISSON - and the BLOOD of MORE INNOCENT AMERICANS - on HIS hands!!
BENIGN NEGLECT, and COWERING in the White House as Republicans, FOX 'news', and other corporate media WHIP UP A CLIMATE OF HATE, is NOT an option!
The team around Obama evokes no confidence
Clinton had Mickey Cantor and the DLC selling him policies that sunk healthcare but supported many anti-worker initiatives. Obama has Rahm Emanuel and a clique of advisors who seem hell bent on "bi partisan" goals that can't be achieved. Thisstrategy is sinking his ship. The GOP has become a runaway freight train filled with far out hate speech and lies that "stick" because the media in this country loves to stir up controversy. Of course, if someone gets hurt, they'll be the frist ones to pontificate that they had nothing to do with spreading that hate with their 24/7 coverage of the most outrageous hate.
So far Obama's only bi-partisan accomplishment is the reality that he could probably find three Republican pallbearers to match the three Democrats on the other side of the casket when his presidency succumbs to the rightwing wacko hate mongers.
Obama needs a Michael Douglas "American President' moment. He needs right smack dab in the middle of his speech before a joint session of the Congress to call out in public on national television scumbags like Jim Imhoff. He needs to say, "Sir, the comments you've made that I want to make the country weak and flood cities with terrorists, is not true and you know it. I love this country as much as you claim you do. To suggest the I or any President wants to see this country fall to terrorism is as disgusting and untruthful a comment as I've ever seen a member of the Senate make about any president. You should be ashamed of yourself."
He needs to say, "Senator Grassley, you've disappointed me. I feel deceived by your comments that any element of any of the health reform proposals under consideration contain any language that would threaten anyone's grandmother. Your comment suggesting, even hinting, that such a thing was on my agenda is untruthful and you knew that when you made your comment. You have now said your support of health reform is no longer based on doing what you think is right, but what the majority in your caucus tell you they think. Senator, with all due respect, that's a pathetic philosophy coming from someone who fancies himself as a leader committed to doing what he thinks is right and best for our country."
Mr. President, we are waiting for you to start acting like a leader and not just another smling face out to win an election or a bi-partisan popularity contest. The time to lead is now. The country is waiting.
BobNJ2009
"Meet the New Boss"
That just ain't gonna happen Bobnj. Hell, he could not even handle the racial profiling cop hauling his friend's ass to jail with any degree of conviction. Now he says that the "public option" is just a "sliver" of the health-care reform solution even though it was a cornerstone of his campaign. The day of the Speech may just be the day when progressives realize that once again, they have been sold down the river.
Bi-partisanship is the excuse, not the reason
Obama is doing what he is very well paid to do - continuing Dubya's pro-corporate pro-corruption pro-billionaire policies.
Bi-partisanship is not a goal or a reason for his actions.
Bi-partisanship is merely a convenient excuse for his actions.
exactly-
Rahm Emanuel is a "Democrat" in the way that Senator Joe Lieberman is a "Democrat" - they will both PRETEND to be "Democrats" if that is what it takes to be elected, but at heart they (and the entire Obama Goldman-Sachs White House "economics" team") are ALL _RIGHT-WING BIG FINANCE economic hit-men, flim-flam con-artists, and Extortion artists... and "US WARS IN MIDEAST" warmongers to boot!
THAT is NOT a "Democratic" agenda!
Emanuel "earned" $18 million - EIGHTEEN MILLION! - in just 2 1/2 years as a Wasserstein-Perella Chicago "boutique investment banker." http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/rahm-emanuel/
What is a "boutique investment bank"? ans- a Chicago mini- version of the 800 lb gorilla of the "investment banking" (aka "loan sharking & casino") world, Goldamn-Sachs.
Emanuel "earned" his pay using his CONTACTS in the Clinton White House & Dem Party to HELP FORCE THROUGH the "LEVEREGED BUY OUT" (LBO) and "MERGERS & ACQUISTIONS" deals, that saw large companies take over smaller companies - usually with workers from the taken over company fired, laid-off, and (often robbed of their pensions & overtime, etc.) - SO to PAY OFF the BANKERS and their fees and interest on the LBO loans.
In short, RAHM EMANUEL does NOT CARE HOW MANY AMERICANS GET LAID OFF, as long as HE gets HIS MILLIONS. This past month, ANOTHER QUARTER OF a MILLION Americans lost their jobs, but ALL Obama has done about it is GIVE TWENTY TRILLION+ DOLLARS to WALL STREET!!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aY0tX8UysIaM
With that kind of money (TWICE the annual US GDP), Mr. Obama COULD have CREATED A PRODUCTIVE JOB for EVERY man, woman, and child in America - INCLUDING the 70%+ who already have jobs!
But CREATING JOBS is NOT Mr. Obama's priority... keeping his fat-cat banksters happy handing them taxpayer trillions like so much halloween candy, and kissing up to the hate-inciting Republicans in House & Senate , seems to be President Obama's REAL top priorities!
I just can't understand this
Obama's approval rating are tanking and while it's clear to all that the reason is because he has abandoned many of his promises to make nice with the Right..
..And yet, Like Clinton before him, and the long depressing line of spineless, worthless Democrats in Congess, he is convinced that the answer to his problems is to bend over even further for the GOP, to jettison even more of the progessive agenda, to sell out his base in a ever-more craven way..I know Obama is a smart guy ..i just don't understand
Follow the money and you will find your answers
What motivates Obama to become a puppet slave to the upper 1% plutocracy and their multinational corporations???
Why, it's the money, of course!
We need to end the unconstitutional and absurd "corporate personhood", and we need to end private campain contributions. Not much of what they do can be considered to be "freedom of speech", especially their lies. Rather, their actions are more like freedom to thwart democracy and hijack the will of the people.
"Put on his armour suit and grab Excalibur"?
Obama???
LOLOLOLOL.......
If only we were as poweful as the GOP and the industries.
Is it really a matter of Obma trying to be the "most liked politician?" He obviously wanted to be liked by big Pharma, given all the closed door meetings he had with them for almost 6 months that culminated in some sweet laissez faire on pricing regulations. Let's face it, like any other politician, he has his vested interests. In addition to pharma and the insurance industries donating very generously to him in 2008 (his donations from both approach roughly 2.6 million dollars according to Open Secrets), not to mention the financial sectors. It would be disingenuous to assume that the continuation of mostly business-as-usual on Wall Street and his largesse towards the pharma and insurance are an attempt to be likable, along with his apparent concern about a party that only obstructs legislation and dangerously sensationalizes his actions.
He needs to try to please those that voted him in, many whose lives depend on authentic healthcare reform. If he can't summon up compassion for Americans, he should at least appease them better than this. If only we had the bargaining strength that the GOP or the financial, insurance, pharma, and war industries have had with President Obama.
We are more powerful...if we'd only use that power
Look at the latest example of unified, right-wing pressure: school boards and superintendents caving to the squeaky-wheel minority on Obama's address to students after only a few days of concentrated (but well-organized) "protest."
Honestly, how often do progressives manage to muster that kind of unity and organization? And my answer to anyone who claims the effort is pointless because "the game is rigged" or "politicians have all sold out" or whatever is to point to the success that the right-wing achieves because they're not content to sit and sigh, "Oh, what's the point?" about things they oppose. You want "bargaining strength?" "Strength in numbers" is more than just a cliche.
If nothing else, you gotta give the wingies credit for action. And, yes, I know plenty of we progressives do more than just complain, but, dammit, not enough of us.
Buyer's Remorse
President Obama, with huge Democratic majorities in both Houses of Congress, was in a position to lead this country in a way that would have fulfilled his campaign promise of "Change You Can Believe In". How he ever came to the conclusion that he could effect change while playing patty-cake with the Right must be left to future sociologists and psychiatrists to pontificate. Unfortunately already, he has made many mistakes and squandered a myriad number of opportunities, so much so that the Left is prepared to abandon him and to write him off as just another pol. Keith Olberman even suggested last night that he could face a primary challenge in '12. Face facts 'Flashers, Obama is not a strong leader.
toxic pathology of right-wing fascism
Mr. Karlin:
Thank you for telling it like it is. The proto-fascists have created a dangerous atmosphere in this country. The situation with health care, the birthers, the deathers, and assorted others whose common sense is somewhat lacking has re-created the same explosive mix that the paranoia around civil rights created during JFK's term, and we know how that ended. One can even draw parallels to the Nazi ascdendency in the 30's, when the Brown Shirts disrupted what they could and intimidated the opposition. Bipartisanship is not the answer, in my opinion, because the Republicans have no interest in change, only obstruction. They resent having lost power. While not necessarily racist themselves, they have no compunctions about fanning racism with artfully coded rhetoric. They also resent not being able to funnel money to their rich friends, corporate and private, often at the expense of ordinary people.
I have believed for some time that Republicans want to win only for the sake of having power, whereas Democrats actuallywant to do something to help people while in office. Currently, it seems that the only objective of the Right is to destroy Obama's presidency regardless of the consequences. This is no time for compromise. It is time to show them for what they are, a collective personification of Joe McCarthy.
toxic pathology of right-wing fascism
Quite true. We are near to, or moving toward a precipice. Fascism in any culture is about purity. The right-wing in this country is just the same. The right-wing has finally come of age in America, in as unmasked and unabashed fashion as you might have seen in Italy before 1920. Economically if things don't improve the Democrats will be swept out of office again, only this time the Republicans will be even more rigid and 'purified', and seeking candidates who will enforce rigid adherence to the ideology, which will no doubt reflect the attitudes of the people they got in bed with to win the election: the Fox News propagandists and their corporate thugs. If the economy slips away and reduces the power of the U.S. in the world against China, India, Japan, Europe, and even some South American countries, there will be similar fascist-speak as was in Germany, Italy, and other parts of Europe following WWI with the economic downturn and real and perceived national humiliations.
True, it will probably be the last gasp of real white political power in this country, but it could also turn out to be a sustained and bloody paroxysm. All, or at least most of the actors are assembled on or near the stage. The play has already begun.
What an insult to Joe McCarthy
At least McCarthy's actions only destroyed the lives of his victims.
After doing a pretty good job of destroying the U.S. Constitution, the Neocon-Fascists, aided by the DINO-Fascists, and financed by the upper 1% plutocracy instigators, actually want to bring down the country, as evidenced by their illegal militias, verbal assaults against Democrats and progressives, and their treasonous calls for secession.
Toxic Pathology
This whole idea that Hilary Clinton would have been better is a fantasy. Look at reports of her position on Afghanistan - she is pushing more and more and more troops. She wouldn't have even tried health care - using the depression as an excuse. She would have triangulated faster than you can breath, and the right would still have come after her just as hard or harder than they are Obama.
The sickness starts in the culture, not in our politicians, as much as we may despise them.
That being said, Obama has to stand up to the right-wing bullies somewhere, somehow, or they will just gain momentum and continue to diminish his efforts.
Clintons proposal was the
Clintons proposal was the "individual mandate". Obamas was the "public option". Clinton's support for the public option during the campaign was late and weak - it was the mandate that she emphasized. The looming individual mandate - made inevitable by the "get tough on deadbeats" theme of American politics - is precisely why there has to be a Public Option.
But first...
Before Obama can "stand up to the right-wing bullies", he must first stand up to the Blue Dog DINO-Fascists.
Of course, it's pretty hard to stand up to yourself.
The left really ought to
The left really ought to consider alternatives to the words Nazi and Fascist - how about "Authoritarian"? Authoritarian Conservative ought to be considered a single compound-word. Well, the word Conservative needs another term to tie it to - such as "Liberal" has been tied to "Socialist". Note the Conservatives have settled for "Socialist" rather than "Communist" - because the understated indictment is the more dam-ing. Nobody is truly Nazi or Fascist except: Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Fascist Spain, and WalMart.
I like "Regressive Party"
Motto: those bad old days were bad only for you.
Too funny
People used to limit themselves to reading the minds, motives and hearts of the Clintons.
Now some of them think they know what she would be doing if she was in Obama's place.
BTW - "Triangulated"?
Obama will need to move significantly to the left just to get to triangulation.
remeber when?
I remember just how gaga BFlash was over Mr. Obama, and how nasty to Ms. Clinton. Maybe next time - say during the '12 primary challenge - this blog will be a little less self righteous?
Don't blame me I voted for Hillary
Yes, I remeber the primary season all too well. This Blog became so anit-Hillary I could not bear to read it anymore. Everyone in the progressive community said Obama was to the left of Hillary. I said no she isn't, they say hindsight is 20/20! Well, he has already thrown the gay community under the bus, guess now is everyone else's turn. We really needed a STRONG LEADER this time around but all it seems we received is another Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid. If Hillary would decide to run in 2012, please support her next time!
Ned Lamont?
It would be sweet justice if Ned Lamont beat Obama in the primary, forcing Obama to form the Amerika for Obama Party, in order to stay in office.
Hillary in 2012? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Clinton shot herself in the foot during the primaries and pissed off over half the Democratic base!
She will never, ever become president after test marketing every dirty trick in the book for McCain.
We need a REAL Democrat in the house, someone like Dennis Kucinich who was completely blacked out by the MSM during his presidential primary campaign because they fear his words would resonate with the people.
Dennis Kucinich in 2012? Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
"Clinton shot herself in the foot during the primaries and pissed off over half the Democratic base".
Uhhhm ..... hate to break it to you, but Hillary got half the Democratic primary vote, and her approval rating is over 70% (over 90% among Democrats).
Too funny.
BTW - "test marketing every dirty trick in the book for McCain"? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ......
What is it with you guys and your fairytales?
Don't blame me I voted for Hillary
Kucinich was my first choice but he couldn't pull it off unfortunately so I moved a little more to the right with Hillary as opposed to the Bush-lite we have now. I don't remember Hillary running a dirty campaign, I remember the other person running one. Anyway, what do you expect from someone who voted present more than took any stands (yes or no) on any issues in the Senate. Wasn't a leader then and most certainly isn't one now! The Repugs are winning and it is ALL his fault for squandering a landslide victory with major majorites in both houses, a little LEADERSHIP could have gone a long way. If he fails to keep his promises, he will not get my vote or support again.
Hillary is a bigger DINO than Obama!
So stop fooling yourself if you think she would have been less of a sell out in the White House than Obama.
It is largely due to Bill Clinton's support of Free Trade and the elimination of Depression Era enacted banking laws that put us in the current depression.
And your selective memory of Clinton's dirty presidential campaign only serves to discredit yourself further.
Kucinich couldn't pull it off because of the complete MSM blackout of his entire presidential campaign, including his Articles of Impeachment. If the MSM did to Obama what they did to Kucinich, someone else would now be in the White House.
Don't blame me I voted for Hillary
It's not a matter of "sell out", it is a matter of strength to stand up to the repugs. He has/is caving and she would have stood strong. Oh well, not much we can do now other than find someone else (with experience) for 2012. I hope you are taking ownership of what we have now, we could have had a true LEADER so be happy! That radical church should have been your first clue (leaning right), I don't think Hillary attends a church.