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Politicians also have to watch out for the long knives---from the bankers who want to scuttle financial reforms; the Arms manufacturers who don t like to see profitable weapons systems like the F22 scuttled; the Health insurers orchestrating the hysteria against all reform; the General Electrics of the world who just paid $50 million to settle an accounting fraud case.
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The media remains tethered to more heat than light even as the crazed commandos of the revanchist right won t let any facts get in the way of their suicide mission. (I would like to see Beck s birth certificate; was he born or cloned?)
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Like millions, I was impressed with Obama and hoped against hope and history that he was THE ONE, that he would be different. While it s too early to totally dismiss him out of hand after just six months in office, there is an all too familiar stench to what we are seeing. COA, not just COG!
The sad truth is, given what he has to deal with, and hard as it is to swallow, perhaps he can t be all that different. His only ˜army seems to be on Facebook and MSNBC.
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The right is of course self destructive in banging that drum of polarization, while what s left of the left refuses to recognize that what we are dealing with, and have to deal with, is a "System thing, not just a case of another tarnished pol who said one thing and is doing another.
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Could he have been elected if he hadn t played the game? Could any of the other Dems won? I doubt it.  Is a half a loaf, make that a quarter of loaf, better than no loaf at all? You tell me.  It s not as if the progressive movement was doing so great back in the Bush daze.
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Nevertheless, continuity doesn t make it for me.  We need change.
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Agree?
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