OBAMA IS 98% FRAUD
AND 2% BACKBONE
"BAIT AND SWITCHER."
EACH DAY BRINGS ANOTHER DISAPPOINTMENT
TO
FOLKS WHO VOTED FOR HIM.
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OBAMA CYCNICALLY BETRAYS HIS SUPPORTERS
ORATORY,
BUT NO BACKBONE
Obama campaigned for health insurance
reform. In the Presidential
campaign
he told potential
voters over and over that he wanted all Americans insured and they
should all have
the choice of a public Medicaire insurance plan to save them billions
from price
gouging, monopolistic private health insurance companies.
We
warned readers he was spineless. We warned that his words were
meant to get votes and his
promises could not be trusted. We warned that his first
loyalty was to Wall Street.
His populist oratory was designed to deceive his supporters
into thinking he was still their
man.
His
treachery was very clear to me a year ago. Consider the evidence now.
Above all, on August 17, 2009, he
told the country that such a public health insurance option
was "just a sliver: in his
plan." In other words, he would not fight for it. It was not
important. Not surprisingly,
progressives everywhere feel utterly betrayed. Progressive
Congressmen and women feel the same, but
are mostly more cautious in their
criticism. Not so, Rep. John
Conyers, whose anger and sarcasm about Obama's
turn-around ae clear.
"I'm
getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House.
I
mean, he only won by five votes in the House, and this bill wasn't anything
to
write home about. The public option is only available, which is the only way
you
manage cost and get some competition to 1,300 other health insurance
companies,
the only way he could have got that through is that progressives
held
their nose and voted for it anyway."
When Conyers was asked if the president had shown
leadership in the
health care debate, Conyers replied:
"Of course not, of course not. You know,
holding hands out and
beer on Friday nights in the White
House and bowing down to every nutty right-wing
proposal about health care, and
saying on occasion that public options aren't all that
important is doing a disservice to
the Barack Obama that I first met who was an
ardent single-payer enthusiast
himself....
"Essentially
... Rahm Emanuel has said: Just give us anything and we
will declare victory. Not only is
it not a victory, but when it doesn't work, guess who
will come at him: the same guys that were
saying let's go along with anything... (L)ook
the bill doesn't go into effect for three
years. Many of the people that we are trying to help
will be dead by then."
 
As
the year winds down, it is crystal clear that Obama "bait and switched"
his backers. He absolutely cannot be
trusted. He will accept "any old" health care bill,
just to boost his image among his less
attentive, more emotional backers. But I predict
he badly underestimates how angry his former
supporters will now be at him.
Get a taste of how angry progressives are at Obama
for this clear
betrayal of his promises. Many consider
his health care cave-in a "comprehensive
betrayal.".
"Obama's health
care plan is so full of concessions to drug companies, so crammed with
a constantly growing list of bailouts and exceptions for insurance
companies that the White House is deliberately
withholding information on it from Obama' own
supporters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIc6n84tUG8&NR=1&feature=fvwp
http://letters.mobile.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/14/poll_timeline/view/index2.html
http://www.thevoicemagazine.com/headline-news/headline-news/new-video-thousands-are-watching-qpresident-betrays-supportersq.html
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SHAME ON HIM!
No matter what policy area you look at, Obama shows he is not an agent of
change, as he told everyone in his campaign for the Presidency. He is a pawn of
Wall Street and the military and medical industrial complexes. Morally spinelesss,
he
covers up for torturers and banker-crooks alike. With a straight face, he tells us
no one
on Wall Street committed an economic crime in laying low the world economy. There is
no call for investigation. Only a massive cover-up. With a straight face, he
says Bush and
Cheney shall not be investigated or prosecuted, despite their war crimes, lies and massive
corruption.
With a straight face, he says nationalization of monster zombie banks is "OFF THE
TABLE",
just as a single-payer health care system, like Medicare for all, is. Each day
brings a new
and bitter disappointment for those who voted for him, thinking he was finally someone
who would finally represent their interests, instead of special corporate interests.
Why are
"poor" and "poverty" words that he never uses? How does
giving trillions to banksters
help Main Street? For someone supposedly so bright and articulate, Obama now seems
as dumb and inarticulate when it comes to real bread and butter issues, as he is
predictably
protective of those with the most power and privileges.
1. OBAMA PLEDGES OBEDIENCE TO MILITARY
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX.
HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS MORE TO BE WASTED IN AFGHANISTAN.
Obama appears to have learned nothing from Viet Nam or Iraq.
Obama continues nearly all Bush's worst policies. Even worse, Obama is
expanding
the expensive, futile and counter-productive war in Iraq to Afghanistan
and Pakistan.
With an idiocy only the military industrial complex applauds, he allows NATO to poke the
Russian bear in the eye by having NATO conduct war exercises in Georgia, a thousand
miles
from Moscow.
As a candidate, he pledged to end Bush-Cheney Iraq War. Now he
does all
he can to delay a pullout by American troops from Iraq. What's worse? He is
expanding
America's military involvement into the mountains and deserts of far-away Afghanistan, a
half a
world away! For what purpose? To defeat the Taliban. How many innocent
citizens and
American soldiers must die for THIS madness? Will Obama's WAR win the hearts and
minds of the
Afghanistan people any better than the American war on Viet Nam or Iraq did? He is
now
setting out to spend at least $100 billion in the next year in Iraq. Afghanistan was
not controlled
by the British in the 19th century. It could not be controlled by the Russians. What
makes
Obama think he will have any better luck? Typically, Obama offers lots of rhetoric, but no
clear
benchmarks of political success and no exit strategy. See http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/42641/
"ALIABAD, Afghanistan – The bearded Afghan army
officer dropped off bundles
of pens and notebooks at the school and asked one boy which he preferred:
The Americans or the Taliban?
"I don't know," the boy replied. But after a short silence
other children in the classroom answered for him: "The Taliban."
( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090516/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_eastern_battle
)
2. DOUBLE-STANDARD OBAMA BOWS LOW TO WALL
STREET PLUTOCRATS
CAUSING AMERICAN TAX PAYERS AND WORKERS TO LOSE TRILLIONS
Where Bush's Pauslon gave $300 billion to unrepentant banker-crooks, whose
greed and fraud caused the financial world-wide collapse, Obama's Treasury
Secretary.
Tim-the-Dim Geithner says none of the big banks will be allowed to fail, go into
receivership or
even be temporarily nationalized, like AIG, General Motors or Chrysler. The taxpayer
handouts
and subsidies for these rich and criminal bankers could easily cost the taxpayer several
more trillion
dollars, if Geithner's plans are not stopped. These
are the fears of the conservative
International
Monetary Fund See IMF: Bank Losses
To Hit $4.1 Trillion and especially
The Quiet Coup - The Atlantic (May
2009) Meanwhile, Obama turns his back on American
workers. Obama seems quite ready to let GM go bankrupt, rather than nationalizing
it, saving
jobs and transforming it into a progressive model business that builds fuel efficient cars
for all.
GM has today announced it will eliminate 1,100 US dealers. (One in five. Another 40,000
unemployed!)
Crook Obama
helped screw thousands of Maytag workers out of work ...
REACTIONS TO OBAMA'S DOUBLE STANDARD:
TRILLIONS FOR TOO-BIG TO FAIL BANKS,
UNEMPLOYMENT FOR MAIN STREET
Yahoo Message Board Quotes:
"Mr. Obama had better be careful. I agree that GM and Chrysler both have
a lot of things to fix, but what has he demanded of Wall Street. If he is too harsh,
I can see labor fleeing him and the democrats in 2010 and 2012 which is what
the GOP wants. Source.
"While the President chides the auto industry for its business performance
and forced GM CEO Rick Wagoner to resign, one can't help but feel the
palpable outrage of Michigan residents who resent the fact that big government
recipients like AIG and the architect of the plan, Timothy Geithner, have not
been forced to answer for this disaster." Source.
"Obama used a double standard when it came to the banks. Because he blew so
much with them and dropped the ball with AIG, there isn't any public patience
left for another bailout...Union people voted for that BS ...Obama did let them down.
"Honest, hard-working middle-class taxpayers are the bag-holders to be screwed.
(The Ultra rich and ultra lazy are safe. " Source
Workers say Obama
treated autos worse than Wall St - Yahoo! Finance
Obama Chooses Wall
Street Over Main Street
Trillions for Banksters
"The US
Treasury’s effort to stabilise the banking system through the
TARP programme is a hopelessly ill-conceived policy that enriches speculators at public
expense, according to the buy-out firm supposed to be pioneering the joint public-private
bank rescues. The taxpayers ought to know that we are in effect receiving a
subsidy.
They put in 40pc of the money but get little of the equity upside,”
said Mark Patterson,
chairman of MatlinPatterson Advisers, Chairman of $7 billion distressed Private Equity
firm
and TARP beneficiary
( Source: http://zerohedge.blogspot.com/2009/05/mark-patterson-its-sham-banks-are.html
)
See Obama Really
Work For Wall Street? « Pumas Unleashed
Will Obama forfeit a
second term because of Wall Street?
Obama's double
standard on bailouts? - Los Angeles Times
Larry Summers falls asleep for 30 minutes during discussion of
bank over-charges of consumers. Protecting consumers is so
boring and of so little interest to Obama's Chief Economic Advisor,
that he falls asleep. Source.
See also: April 6, 2009 Wall Street's $7
Million
Dollar Bribe of
Obama's Chief Economic Advisor, Larry Summers
See TigerSoft Blogs, starting with (9/28/2008) Obama Has The
Spine of A Jellyfish.
5/5/2009: Is There No Limit to
How Much Taxpayer Money That Obama Will Give Banks?
4/ 10/ 2009 Bill Moyers' Interview:
The Financial Collapse:
Why Is The Real Story Is
Being Covered Up by Obama and Geithner..
3/23/2009 Monopoly Finance
Obama
3/19/2009
Obama Protects and
Defends Wall Street Crooks
3/18/2009 Caught in A Big Fat
Lie, Obama Feigns Anger.
But Look at All The
Money He Got in Campaign Contributions from Wall Street.
1/27/2009 A Guide To Obama's
Orwellian "Double Speak" about "Good Banks" and "Bad Banks".
3. OBAMA VOWS TO PROTECT BUSH, CHENEY AND CIA
TORTURERS.
Torture may be ended for now and Guantanamo may be closed under Obama. But there
will be
no investigation into who ordered the torture from on high and there will be no
prosecution.
Such justice is "inconvenient" for the backboneless Obama. Like Bush, Obama has
put torturers
and war criminals above the law. This is a terrible precedent. No wonder, Al
Quida is
still finding recruits in Pakistan, which is being regularly bombed by American drones.
America under Obama subordinates human rights to Presidential convenience. How can a
country
that wants to stand loftier than others take a path that will inevitably destroys
thousands and thousand
more innocent lives? What does America stand for? Why should Al Quida
change? How does
that protect America from another attack?
In Congressional testimony this week, Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder
would not reveal any definite plans that Obama's Administration had to investigate
torture under Bush. He would not acknowledge that there was anything a government
official could do, to bring his prosecution. Asked if President Obama has the power
legally to detain a US citizen or another person indefinitely without bringing charges,
Holder answered:it might, indeed, be legal if it's "tied to" a
"statute", "international
agreement" or "custom". Presumably, Holder was referring to the
new custom started
by Bush. (Source: David Swanson: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/42640
See also Obama Disappoints on
Torture and Warrantless Wiretapping
POLITICAL TORTURE
Today we learned from Colin Powell's former chief of staff that the principal reason
behind much of the CIA torture was NOT to prevent another terrorist attack on America,
but was because VP Cheney demanded the CIA use torture techniques to try to get proof
that Sadam Hussein was tied to Al Quida. See Col.
Lawrence Wilkerson dropped a bombshell
Showing that the CIA is far too powerful to trust, Obama, the backboneless, did a 180 and
reversed himself today. Bowing to CIA pressure again, he annouced the US will not
release
100s of pictures showing American torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. .
http://blog.seattlepi.com/northwestlaw/archives/168726.asp?from=blog_last3
Soldiers of the 35th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiment either administering the “water
cure”
during the Fil-American War (Philippine Insurrection) of 1899-1902.
( http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may142009/torture_sadism_5-13-09.php
)
Today's Disappointment - Friday, May 15, 2009 - Obama on Friday restarted a Bush-era
military trial system for a small number of Guantanamo detainees, "reviving a
method of prosecution
he once
assailed as flawed." "It's disappointing that Obama is seeking
to revive rather than end
this failed experiment," said Jonathan Hafetz, a national security attorney at the American Civil Liberties
Union. "There's no detainee at Guantanamo
who cannot be tried and shouldn't be tried in the regular
federal courts system."
4. OBAMA TURNS HIS BACK ON GAY SUPPORTERS
Millions of gays voted for Obama. Obama still does not protect their equal
rights the military. If they
speak out, they are immediately thrown out. Daniel Choi,
was a West Point graduate, Iraq veteran, and
Arabic translator. He
came out on Rachel Maddow's national television show, thereby violating
the "don't tell" rule. Choi was immediately informed that he would have to
resign from his National
Guard unit. Obama-the-backboneless is afraid of angering the top brass in the
military.
KCBS - Obama Disappoints
Gay Rights Advocates
5. OBAMA CONDEMNS MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TO AN EARLIER DEATH
Life Expectancy in U.S.
Drops to 42nd in World
US Infant Mortality Rate Places US Near
Bottom in Modern Nations.
Health
care? Obama has arbitrarily and dictatorially said a
single-payer option is
"OFF THE TABLE." Why? Obama is too
intimidated by the defenders of the status quo.
What a leader we have as President!
A majority of
Americans want the option of such a system. Not Obama. He refuses
to seek real reform of health care. The
health care lobbies are too strong. Millions of Americans
cannot afford even to get basic preventative
health care. 60% of
Americans believe that should
be the right
of every American. Not Obama. First, he says we must make happy the for-profit
medical insurance
companies, pharmaceutical companies and HMO's that pay their top executives
obscenely high
salaries. His point man in the US Senate. Max Baucus, even had protestors,
including five doctors and nurses, arrested when
they sought just one, just one, witness to testify
on behalf of a single-payer system. (Last year,
Baucus got $183,000 from health insurance companies
and $229,000 from drug companies, according to
CNBC's Ed Schulz.) In the House, they will get
a hearing, thanks to Rep. Kucinich. http://pdamerica.org
More will come out on this.
google.com
Look for it here.
Obama disappoints
needle-exchange advocates
Obama 'Disappoints'
Advocates With Removal Of Support for Family Planning
Ever Wonder Why US Health Insurance Is So Expensive?
"Health" Industry Executives Ruin Shareholders and Hurt Consumers
Absurdly high health company
executive pay is a big part of the problem.
There are about 23 big health companies. Using United Healthcare as
an
example, their CEO was paid about $324 million over a five year
period. For the 23 health
insurance companies, that's about $7 billion just for just 23
CEOs. If you add in all the
Vice Presidents and the "fat cats" on these companies' Boards of Directors, the
5-year cost is probably about $30 Billion just for these companies. If their
pay was
reduced by 80% in a public national health insurance scheme, that would go a long
way toward providing more affordable health care. Let's say a government run health
insurance program costs $10,000 for each family. This alone would pay the health
insurance for more than 500,000 American families a year. The same argument
can be made for the high costs of many others goods and services.
See http://blogs.webmd.com/mad-about-medicine/2007/08/ceo-compensation-who-said-healthcare-is.html
http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/02/14/united-health-ceo-earned-1248-million-in-2005/
(Source: http://www.tigersoftware.com/TigerBlogs/MayDay2008/index.html
)
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OBAMA'S LACK OF BACKBONE WAS CLEAR
in 2008
9/28/2008
TigerSoft Blog Obama Has The
Spine of A Jellyfish.
EACH DAY A NEW OBAMA ABOMINATION - 5/16/2009
Saturday - 5/16/2009 - Utah GOP
governor is Obama's pick as China envoy
Why a slap in the face to the Demicrats who voted for Obama?
Maybe, I'm wrong. He speaks Mandarin from being a Mormon missionary in
Taiwan. But more to the point, Hunstman (A good name for a Republican) was
the co-Chairman of the the McCain Presidential campaign. Why would a Democratic
President deny a Democrat a chance to represent America. Apparently, Democrats
don't represent Obama's vision of America or its future. Maybe, Obama is thinking
as running as a Republican and will need a campaign chairman.
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