SHRED
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Wed Sep-16-09 06:29 AM
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The President is on the side of Progressives/Liberals?? |
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A Progressive/Liberal President would not have brought Larry Summers and Tim Geithner aboard. A Progressive/Liberal President would have began with Single-Payer Insurance as the starting point in health care reform. A Progressive/Liberal President would have been far less inclined to continue bailing out multi-billionaires (TARP) and would have proposed are far more robust Revenue and Recovery Act (Stimulus Package). A Progressive/Liberal President would not utter these words, "They should be free to make a profit...." when referring to the private health insurance sector because he would realize that health care and profits don't mix very well for the patients.
But you all know this already...correct?
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Wed Sep-16-09 06:34 AM
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Wed Sep-16-09 06:41 AM
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2. you haven't a clue as to what a purportedly progressive president would do |
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in any case, a Dennis Kucinich will never be nominated, let alone elected. you want to live in fantasy land, in the glow of your made up progressive president, feel free, honey. Some of us don't waste our time indulging in fantasies, but prefer to deal with cold, hard reality.
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Wed Sep-16-09 08:12 AM
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6. Nothing you said actually speaks anything to the content of the OP. |
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But you knew that, didn't you, honey?
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Wed Sep-16-09 06:42 AM
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3. Why isn't someone you consider a real progressive president? |
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Edited on Wed Sep-16-09 06:43 AM by stray cat
You have to get your real progressive into national office but you can't even get a majority of your progressives elected to the senate. So far the US doesn't elect your progressive to national office.
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Ian David
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Wed Sep-16-09 06:45 AM
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4. The President is on the side of his 2012 campaign. n/t |
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Wed Sep-16-09 08:08 AM
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5. Those who attack you for your quite true statements are missing the point. Whether it is |
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possible for a liberal to be elected to the White House in these times (the obvious answer is NO) is not what you are talking about. What you are saying IS that Obama is nowhere close to being the wild-eyed, radical liberal he was portrayed by the media. In fact, he has done very little that could be considered even moderately progressive. At best, he mouths liberal platitudes at times while he is governing from way right of (what should be) the middle. Those who support him unconditionally are settling for less-reich-then-Bush and are so happy about that that they refuse to acknowledge the facts. We simply are not speeding reichward as fast as we were for the last eight (or more) years. Your points are what someone who pretends to be "liberal" would not do what Obama has done on those issues, and many others. They are correct in saying that you do not know what a progressive Prez would do because there has never been anything close to one in office. Maybe using the term "should" instead of "would" would enable them to understand. Pity that we will never know what a true Lib would do.
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Wed Sep-16-09 09:21 AM
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7. The imaginary President you talk about would get absolutely nothing done. |
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Much like the man depicted in your avatar.
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