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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Booker Exposed: The REAL Cory by DSWright.
It’s truly pathetic that we don’t have any large-scale media in this country willing to tell the truth about people like Booker. (Or Obama.) You’d think someone so thoroughly bought by the right-wing calling himself a Democrat would be news, right? Instead most people (including myself until today) only know that Booker is black, supposedly [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Why vote for Obama? Let me count the whys – 3 by David Seaton.
Is this a prank, or actual insanity? “We want Obama re-elected because he’ll fight to win the mid-terms”? Really, THAT’s your argument? I feel dirty even lowering myself to refute such transparent bullspit, but those of us with functioning brain cells might recall that Obama would be a lame-duck president, and not particularly concerned with [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post DNC Shamed Into Helping Wisconsin Recall, Still Not Committing Funds
He’s about as in the closet as Queen Latifah or Kevin Spacey; anyone with the brains to ask the question already knows the answer.
And all the recall people are asking for is $500K? One-EIGHTY-EIGHTH of the money the DNC raised in April? Geez, those initials really do stand for “Do Not Care”, huh?
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post When Deficit Reduction and Tax Fairness must be avoided, call it a Fiscal Cliff needing a GRAND BARGAIN by papau.
Yeah, it’s very bizarre to realize that practically my entire conscious life (b.1963; first political awareness was watching James Buckley’s celebration of his U.S. Senate victory over Elizabeth Holtzman and Charlie Goodell in ’70, first real policy understanding was the “October surprise” Vietnam “peace” announcement of ’72) has been spent watching the country go down [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post US Senate candidate David Levitt on CA ballots! by davidl.
I hate the anti-democratic (small “d”) “Top Two” garbage, but I love that David is trying to exploit it. He’d get crushed by DiFi’s $$$ in the general, anyway, but forcing her to debate an actual Democrat/leftist would have some benefits, I can’t but hope.
You’ve got my vote, David. Best wishes.
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Is Justice Possible? by Robert Meeropol.
Couldn’t we just water-torture Obama 183 times and call it even?
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post Executive Opinions are Nice, and Executive Orders are Nicer
Strange, I could have sworn that AitchD’s original post was sarcastic, as Clinton *didn’t* order the military to allow homosexuality, to my knowledge (hence the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” garbage) and there was no mutiny. And Ike took his sweet time sending the troops to Little Rock, too.
But the followups make him sound sincere. Huh.
On the actual topic, GWBush claimed to be “The Decider”. I guess BHO wants to be known as “The Opiner”. He won’t actually DO anything for gay rights (or jobs, or the environment) but he wants you to know that he’s carefully considered the issues and the gays are all right with him.
Why gay people (or anyone) should seek this douchbag’s approval is an entirely different question…
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff on the essential question of our time: “Where is the Left?” by tongorad.
It’s been estimated that a third party could become a major force in less than a decade, given proper organization. The Republicans took the White House a grand total of *six* years after being formed. (Granted, they got lucky with the fracture between Douglas and the Southern Democrats, but still.) To say that it’s not [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Which Political Commercial is More Nauseating? by Ohio Barbarian.
“Our troops home from Iraq”…and promptly re-deployed to Afghanistan. Not that Obama wanted to leave Iraq to begin with. “We’re not done yet (wrt jobs)”. Well, yeah, considering that the Obanka presidency has a net LOSS of jobs to date. “Our greatest enemy brought down by our greatest heroes.” And most of the Navy SEALS [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Breaking Down “Julia” by nolesfan2011.
“President Obama sees Medicare, Social Security Reform as Key to his Legacy” is one of those headlines I live in terror of seeing.
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Stop the Obamapologists Before They Kill the Data by Dean Baker.
As the saying goes: “There are three types of lies. Lies, damned lies, and the Obama Administration pretending to be Democrats.”
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Krugman: 1% Have “Warped Our Political System” and What It Means by DSWright.
I just have too much faith in my fellow Americans to think otherwise.
Why? Okay, that’s reflexive snark, but seriously. What in the last 40 years leads you to believe that humans as a whole (much less Americans) would be likely to resist whatever the corporate vermin impose on them?
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Krugman: 1% Have “Warped Our Political System” and What It Means by DSWright.
Mass executions and confiscation of assets. Fairly self-evident, I’d say.
(Too soon? Probably, but getting closer every day…)
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Breaking Down “Julia” by nolesfan2011.
Barry’s own advertising actually calls it “Obamacare”??? (See “Age 27″)
He’s not just a dirtbag, he’s a douchebag, too. Policy questions aside, seeing this asshole go down hard would be such a thrill.
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post Austerity goes to the polls
Krugman:
Specifically, money buys power, and the increasing wealth of a tiny minority has effectively bought the allegiance of one of our two major political parties, in the process destroying any prospect for cooperation.
Two out of two “major” parties, Paul. Two out of two. For an economist, your inability to do simple math is worrying.
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Mitt Romney owes Jimmy Carter a major apology! by wigwam.
I can’t complain too much about Iran coming back to bite Carter in the ass, considering that he inflamed the “hostage crisis” for political advantage to squelch Ted Kennedy’s primary challenge. Oh, I can’t be bothered to campaign (and certainly can’t debate Senator Kennedy), I’m helping to save those poor hostages, I’m just so busy! [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post The Libyan Model and the Oxymoron by David Swanson.
Let’s also not forget that (shock!) there were agents provocateur among the “protesters” in February, 2011 (this was acknowledged by April of last year) and the initial violence came from them, not the government forces. And the racial butchery should not be omitted; the right-wing Arabs (aligned with al-Qaeda, allegedly) opposed Gaddafi for his pan-Africanism [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post “We Did Not Choose This War” and Other Hypocrisies by David Swanson.
Goebbels, is that you?
Yeah, pretty much. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear… “All this could have been different, if this other world had, even for an hour, showed understanding for the German claims, for the necessities of life of the German people. So often it is said: we should have negotiated [...]
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Vote Socialist commented on the blog post Obama and Romney Effectively Tied
Vote your conscience. Jill Stein will not win. Rocky Anderson will not win. Stewart Alexander will not win. But if the three of them get enough votes, it might come to the attention of people in general that there is something better than The Two Romneys out there, and trying to guess which Romney would be “worse” is an exercise in insanity. America is dying, and both those assholes want to kill it. Obanka deserves no validation as the “lesser” evil.
Indeed, if someone put a gun to my head and made me vote for one of the two, I’d probably vote for Romney, on the theory it *might* actually spur the Dems to do something Dem-like, and that Obanka deserves the humiliation of being booted off the stage, ASAP.
But, absent the gun, I’m doing exactly what my username urges.
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Vote Socialist commented on the diary post Our Sniveling President by wigwam.
No, I read it, recc’d it, and commented it. (Admittedly after my comment here, but still.) I just feel the need to push back against the automatic equating of “third party” with “Rocky Anderson”. There are multiple minor parties out there, and I would think we should be building a movement around a party, not one [...]
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