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I have had it with this smooth talking con man who played off Now he seems no longer to be trying. Obama and his lackies are making it illegal, punishable by a prison term, to take pictures of the Gulf <\/p>\n Mr. “transparency in government” Think I am too harsh? Watch<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n For details Glenn Greenwald, as usual, gives you the scoop<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n In addition, the corporatist government now ruling us has Someone might defend Obama by referring to the $20 billion Remember, Exxon Valdez took 20 years to settle, and then paid for only a small amount <\/a>of the damage they caused, aided by a subservient Supreme Court that cared more for corporations than human beings. (Not much has changed, none for the better.) C<\/span>riminals But of course, if few Americans know how bad Or maybe Obama has found BP to be a decent working partner? He This company needs to die, not be coddled by Republicans and Obama cannot blame the Republicans or “blue dog Democrats” in The Liar in Chief complains we are “obsessed<\/a>” about his stupid, corrupt<\/a> and senseless war in Afghanistan, but he is certainly not obsessed about I hope there are Democrats with the courage to primary him basing their campaign on the promises he made and broke, the hints he dropped and forgot, and the And I have little patience with Teabaggers saying “I told
\nour disgust with Bush and distrust of Clinton style politics in order to get himself
\nelected and jam the worst of Clinton style politics down our throats. Since then he has provided the absolute minimal leadership to
\nachieve a minimal health care reform with a huge Democratic majority, undermined efforts at financial reform, and
\ndeep kissed his corporate allies over and over again. At our expense. Obama had seemed to try and walk the balance between serving Americans and serving business. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nspill except from a distance. <\/span>For
\nObama apparently taking pictures of corporate disasters in our own country is worse, far worse, than torturing people to death. Details and documentation below the fold.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
\n(remember all his promises to that effect?) has decided, like the corrupt hierarchs in
\nthe old Soviet Union, that citizens should not be allowed to take photographs
\nof the catastrophe unfolding on the Gulf Coast. It’s not their coast, it’s the
\ngovernment’s, or maybe it’s BP’s, or maybe there is no difference anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n
\ndecided taking pictures of other BP facilities that might be breaking the law is verboten <\/a>without official permission<\/span>. <\/span>Transparency? <\/span>Fuggetaboutit.
\nFreedom of the press? <\/span>Nope. <\/span>Freedom of speech? <\/span>Surely you jest. <\/span>Informed citizenry? <\/span>No thanks. Just contribute money to the “Mr. Yes-We-Can but No-I-Won’t” fraud’s reelection.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nescrow he got from BP. I once did.
\n<\/span>This again is about the minimum he needs to avoid being saddled with the blame
\nafter BP drags out people’s efforts at being compensated for the damage done to
\nthem. Damage far exceeding $20 billion. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nlike Exxon, BP and their crooked lawyers can afford to wait and nickel and dime their victims.
\n<\/span>Human beings cannot. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nit is because the media is kept away while the locals keep quiet because they depend on BP for their income after it wiped them out, well that’s gravy for BP. Meanwhile it waits for corporate justice to reduce their liability years down the road, after it’s out of the public eye.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nmay have. Americans have not. <\/span>In
\nthe 77 days since the spill BP has skimmed or burned about 60%<\/a> of what it had
\npromised regulators it could remove in one<\/i> day. Sounds like how people used to
\ntalk about Communist efficiency. <\/span>Mere human beings would be liable for fraud and perjury
\nsaying stuff like that while promising in their documents that walruses and other Gulf life<\/a> would not be seriously affected. <\/span>But our little corporate servant in the White House
\njust asks how much more he can be of service to our overlords. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nDemocrats.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nCongress for these most recent travesties of decency and legality. They are occurring
\non his watch and under his authority. They are his. <\/span>Yes – he inherited a huge mess
\naccomplished by the worst group of incompetents and ideologues this side of the
\nold Communist Party. <\/span>But since
\nobtaining his inheritance he has spent more time and treasure licking corporate
\nbehinds than serving this country.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nserving the constitution or the people who voted for him. He badly needs
\nto be primaried because the Republicans will offer us nothing any better, and
\nprobably far worse. Like they did last time. In my view
\nObama has lost the right to represent decent Americans, no matter how
\nlikeable his wife and kids are.<\/span><\/p>\n
\ncravenness he has demonstrated once too many times. I’d vote for them, and I am
\nfar from alone. Till Obama is dumped in the primaries we have a choice between a corporate hack in the Democrats and an nutcase corporate hack in the Republicans. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nyou so” so save us the crocodile tears. The difference between good Americans’ dismay over Obama and yours is that you oppose him only because he is not a
\nRepublican. A<\/span>s you proved over and over under Bush, y<\/span>ou really do not care about the constitution <\/span>Obama’s tactics are your
\ntactics, only he is slightly nicer. We oppose him because he is attacking the
\nfoundations of our system when we elected him to reverse the damage Bush did
\nwith your enthusiastic support.
\n<\/span>You, by contrast, simply contribute to the destruction of our country.<\/span><\/p>\n