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Progressives have trashed the president since day one.
oh and Go Cowboys
... except for that last part ... oh, sorry we stole your running back.
I still can't figure out how that happened.
pure and simple
the word "panic" is laughable
Jesus, the coolest operator in the history human politics and all of a sudden he is panicking?
We care about the earth , the waters ,the air , the trees , the animals that inhabit it
I feel no connection at all to this administration
restoring endangered species, keeping ecodiversity alive, having clean air to breath and clean water to drink and clean healthy food to eat? We are messed up bad
Firedog Lake??! Holy Shit... 
From your link (not that I believe a sentence that comes out of that publication):
The friction was laid bare in August when Mr. Emanuel showed up at a weekly strategy session featuring liberal groups and White House aides. Some attendees said they were planning to air ads attacking conservative Democrats who were balking at Mr. Obama’s health-care overhaul.
“F—ing retarded,” Mr. Emanuel scolded the group, according to several participants.
Was he calling them "fucking retarded" or the ads? That is a legitimate distinction which FDL doesn't bother to answer. And even if he did aim the insult at the attendees, it clearly says liberal groups and White House aides were in attendance meaning both would have been the receiver of that insult. FIVE YEARS LATER, how come only one of these groups is still whining about this?
And in fact there is a five year old DU thread that asks that same question and comes to a completely different answer:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x154425
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time ago. And you know it as well as I do. 
It's just a place now to laugh and point at the natives. Screaming about their clout and power... on the Internet. Where EVERYONE is a warrior. 
I'm reminded of how the XL thing worked out: We didn't know what Obama was up to until it was all over.
I want to think this will be similar, Ju Jitsu, push one way to get an opposite result.
Cool stuff when it works.
Brain surgery with three followups including a cranioplasty, all done at Stanford by the worlds best, is not cheap!
Glad to say I survived, only lost my sense of smell and some time.
Love the surgical teams and support staff at Stanford Hospital and Clinics!
I don't remember people saying it was a done deal as in there was a signed agreement with that in it. I don't read every post so someone could have said it, but I read a lot and I never saw that so I would presume it was a minority who said it.
If you're really going to liken NSA spying - which is real and a real problem and an expanded version of what BushCo was doing which everyone complained about - and the TPP - which is real and is being hashed out in secret - to Benghazi - which was a witch hunt - then I don't see the point in attempting to discuss this.
From my view, any time anyone makes criticism of great concern over something Obama is doing it is met with "hair on fire" and no real rebuttal. Usually it is accompanied by "it hasn't happened yet so you shouldn't express any concern". That just isn't how democracy works. In a democracy where the govt is to govern at the consent of the governed it is imperative that people voice their concerns. When they are noted and things are changed it is a great thing and exactly what is supposed to happen. When the people are told to be quiet, that is telling them not to exercise their responsibility and telling them not to participate in democracy. How is that a good thing?
Glad to hear you are against these types of trade agreements. On that we can definitely agree. 
It's one thing disagreeing - and even doing so very vehemently - (as many here feel very strongly about certain issues that they believe impact them in some way) and it's another when you have a peanut gallery of tiresome labeling of people who don't agree (but who may be willing to listen without the drama) or the incessant naming-calling (like a post I saw this morning calling Obama "Bushama"
and other childish nonsense, in some cases with an argument that this is supposedly "satire".
There are a number of critical issues surrounding the idiotic "Patriot Act" that have (thanks to technology) made us into even more of a surveillance state than the past (I now have a damn fisheye camera not 10 ft from my front door). And we have candidates that are bought and paid for by the highest bidder... But there are other issues that were are near and dear to many that have been dealt with or are being dealt with, but are summarily dismissed by many of the DUers who vociferously argue that nothing has been done under this administration over the past 6 years (i.e., same-sex marriage is not their "thing" so it never happened or increased environmental standards for cars and coal, and the wilderness set-asides, is persona non grata). And when called out on it, the hair gets lit once more about the same one or two subjects over and over, the posts of which get hundreds of recs.
We all have our own issues but when you have the type of dirty rotten politics that has always existed, but that is now magnified due to 24/7 "infotainment" masquerading as "news", thousands of commentary blog sites that virally feed into one perspective, and billionaires who control organizations that create legislation for passage by the elected officials they bought, then you can see why the political strategy to bring about change becomes more complex, and cannot simply be resolved by histrionic posts on an internet forum.
All your posts above, well done. I always enjoy hearing what you have to say.
More money than they could ever truly comprehend, yet they get up every morning and devote their time to getting a little bit more each day. 
for some reason they feel the need to deprive those with very little of even less.
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BHO has more info just like Bush had more intel on Iraq. 
BS is BS. That BHO is fighting so hard for this in a way never seen for a public option speaks volumes.
For years, we've been bombarded with so many mindless feel-good pics, I'm having a tough time reconciling these not-so-happy Obama pics.
For good measure: 
"Warren spreads the fear
of an acronym, ISDS,
which is short for "investor-state dispute settlement" , a routine feature 
of nearly all modern
trade deals that allows an international tribunal
to address matters of dispute between investors
from a signatory country
and another signatory country's government."
To quote the DU Cannabis group, "Thats' some goooooood shit!"
Why would she need to lie or mislead? She's popular because she knows finance and was a Harvard Law Professor. What would she possibly gain by misleading people or "lying" as the article by Tommy Christopher has the headline.
And since every program PBO has wanted to pass Congress has had nothing but lock step Republican opposition....then, why now would Republicans be on board to give PBO "Fast Track Authority" for TPP when they hate him and want nothing he does to succeed?
I can't remember anyone giving me their candid opinion about Obama, though. Japanese tend not to be critical of foreign leaders unless they are doing something really egregious. And perhaps they might also be afraid of offending me if they said anything critical of Obama.
As for the newspapers, I have to admit that I haven't been paying much attention to the Shasetsu (Op-Ed) pages of newspapers, although it's pretty easy to find articles that report on such things as American opposition to TPP, even within Obama's own party (like the one linked to below).
http://www.asahi.com/international/reuters/CRWKBN0NF04C.html
Maybe he figures that he doesn't have anything to lose at this point, so fuck it.