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Who Are These Democrats?

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These current entanglements are Neocon fantasies for unipolar domination, Iraq to control the oil market and Afghanistan to limit Russia's ability to sell her oil. So when I see Barack Obama buying into this, I am less than pleased. Obama ran for office as a progressive but so far has governed as a conservative. He has sought bipartisan support for health care reform when history and logic would tell you that it is not there.

"I don't like bipartisans. Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know that he's going to vote against me." (Harry Truman)

It is as if Obama began the health care debate with a first down on the fifty yard line and has been angling for field position to kick a field goal ever since.

"About the meanest thing you can say about a man is that he means well. (Harry Truman)

"We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad. (John F Kennedy)

"It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. (Franklin Roosevelt)

So when I see Hillary Clinton advocating military bases in Colombia or when Barack Obama says, "By moving forward in Iraq, we're able to refocus on the war against al Qaeda and its extremist allies in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That's why I announced a new, comprehensive strategy in March -- a strategy that recognizes that al Qaeda and its allies had moved their base from the remote, tribal areas -- to the remote, tribal areas of Pakistan, I have to ask myself, who are these people calling themselves Democrats? I guess they mean well but they don't sound like the Democrats I remember.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else. (Franklin Roosevelt)

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