Black Agenda Report
September 03, 2009
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Leaving Obamaland
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
“…it’s not the president’s fault if he appears to moonwalk away from a health care bill to a health insurance bill, from single payer to a public option, to insurance co-ops…”
Somewhere there’s a president who stands up for homeowners facing bankruptcy and eviction. Somewhere there is a transformative leader who fights to deliver hope, universal health care and equal rights for everybody, who will bring the troops home from Iraq and other places and who is a relentless foe of Wall Street’s excesses. This president’s very career is a repudiation of racism, ancient injustice and unearned privilege. Of course, that guy is not the president of the U.S. He’s the president of an imaginary realm we call Obamaland.
In Obamaland, the president never keeps the truth from us except to deprive the nation’s enemies of more bad things to say about us, because he’s so busy looking forward. Crimes maybe, are in the past, hope is in the future, right? In Obamaland the president isn’t to blame if the wars continue and the troops don’t come home, and the government keeps kidnapping and torturing people — he didn’t exactly say all that would stop right away if at all anyhow, did he, really? In Obamaland,all this can be overlooked or forgiven, or at least put off till Democrats somehow obtain a bigger advantage than a mere crushing majority in the House, sixty votes in the Senate, and a new president.
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h/t: Dr. Connie
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Bush’s Third Term? You’re Living It
By David Swanson
It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress but Bush still in the Oval Office, the media would certainly be talking endlessly about a mandate for bipartisanship and the importance of taking into account the concerns of Republicans. Can’t you just picture it?
There’s Dubya now, still rewriting laws via signing statements. Still creating and destroying laws with executive orders. And still violating laws at his whim. Imagine Bush continuing his policy of extraordinary rendition, sending prisoners off to other countries with grim interrogation reputations to be held and tortured. I can even picture him formalizing his policy of preventive detention, sprucing it up with some “due process” even as he permanently removes habeas corpus from our culture.
I picture this demonic president still swearing he doesn’t torture, still insisting that he wants to close Guantanamo, but assuring his subordinates that the commander-in-chief has the power to torture “if needed,” and maintaining a prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan that makes Guantanamo look like summer camp. I can imagine him continuing to keep secret his warrantless spying programs while protecting the corporations and government officials involved.
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see
Why is Universal Health Care “Un-American”? By Rev. Jim Rigby
The Drive for Single Payer by Ralph Nader
Former Jasper County Republican Chairman on Single Payer: Beware health-industrial complex
single payer healthcare HR 676 S 703
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shaine — right on ! impeach him like we should have Bush . this rhetoric of Obama has got too many fooled. impeach him for war crimes.
But do you really believe that a Democratic Congress would even think of impeaching him?
Obama needs to be judged by his actions and not his words. He needs to be impeached becase he was elected via fraud and he is not upholding the constitution.
Not very likely though, considering a Democratic congress didn’t impeach the last president.