"...In the year since the last election the president has made concession after concession to drug and insurance companies, to private health care providers and their lobbyists. The White House, establishment Democrats and their echo chambers in the corporate media and even on the internet have worked hard to suppress voices advocating the simple, practical and elegant solution of single payer Medicare For All, which is still favored in polls by a substantial majority of Americans..." -- Bruce A. Dixon at Black Agenda Report, 11/4/09

...So Mr Obama has sorta-kinda fulfilled one campaign promise: the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp is to be closed. Within... a year. How we would laugh at some foreigner seeking our approval with this kind of initiative. Ahmadinejad: Okay, I'll stop hanging gay guys.... Next year. But this year -- hoo-ha! Line 'em up and keep 'em coming!

Why it should take a year is a question of some interest. I am not the greatest administrator in the world, but I do believe I could do it in a week, or a weekend, given the resources available to a president of the US...
-- Michael J. Smith 1/22/09

Zionists would do well to consider that the loudest American exponents of zionophilia can and do switch over to judeophobic demonization without missing a beat. They'll do it en masse the minute their leaders no longer consider Israel useful. Those leaders care for nothing but power in their own bailiwicks. History is very clear on that and on the utility of one elite to another; in particular those elite who make support for them a galling, expensive proposition.
-- "Harold M., 1/17/09, from the comments.

Eyes to see, eyes to see
But I had to look away
Didn't want my eyes to see
Coming of Judgment Day
Judgment Day, Judgment Day
Time has come at last
Saying last shall be first
And first shall be last

First is last...
( First is last... )

-- Kate Schutt, 2001

"...The Warren invitation is vintage Obama. Like Bush, Obama believes that he is the decider and that opinions differing from his own are to be ignored. Unlike Bush, he is savvy enough to pretend otherwise, and his smooth talking feel goodism fools many into maintaining a vow of silence about anything he does. The Warren invitation is yet another instance of the patronizing Obama telling the left that they shouldn't worry their pretty little heads about anything that he decides is inconsequential..."

-- Margaret Kimberley Black Agenda Report, 12/31/08

"...Must be a cry in defense for all humanity.

If it is used to justify brutality against others, it makes us no better than our past oppressors."

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"...You cannot do what he did for so many years, without burning out, or becoming discouraged, becoming alienated, unless you have an adaptable character and personality, suited for confronting abuses of power-- one might call it 'the civic personality...'" -- Ralph Nader, 11/21/08.

"...We are supposed to believe that if Senator McCain wins this election, we will be subject to another four years of Bush policies. I deeply believe that if we continue to support these two political parties that have worked together to eviscerate the 1st Amendment by setting up 'Free Speech Zones' for demonstrators and tasering people that ask questions of our politicians and gutting the 4th Amendment by passing the FISA law, things will indeed get worse. These are developments that happened recently, I could write pages on how our rights under the Constitution have been violated in the past decade. If we continue to support the duopoly, after all that has happened, what incentive will they have for listening to the people? They will see it as a green-light to continue their anti-democratic behavior."

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