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*Trillions in subsidies and guarantees funnelled towards the investing class and wall street.
*Promoted and signed highly regressive Bush tax cuts (almost exclusively favor the rich).
*Obama's stimulus was largely based on conservative supply-side economics (directed money to corporations and those with the least propensity to spend).
*Selected Geithner, Summers, Orszag, and Emanuel to steer economic policy. (Summers, Orzag, and Emanuel are former or current investment bankers).
*Selected an extreme conservative (Simpson) and a wall street banker (Erskine-Bowles) to run the cat food commission.
*Marginalized progressive in his administration (Roemer) and openly mocked progressives via advisors and spokes people.
*Increased military spending.
*Refused to close guantanamo.
*Massively escalated a pointless un-winnable war in Afghanistan.
*Carried out assassinations of american citizens and foreign nationals without due process.
*Presided over a massive rendition-torture campaign in CIA prisons in Romania, Thailand, Poland, and Iraq,
*Increased classification of government documents and reneged on promise to promote government openness.
*More prosecution of whistleblowers under the espionage act than all previous previous presidents combined.
*Prosecution of the free press using the espionage act (Julian Assange).

44th President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama.

So let me get this straight - I don't like his ideology, but I should support him because he's working really hard to do stuff I don't want him to do?

And one more article on Ann's speech.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-wom ... tions-2012

Those will be fun.

i don't hold HuffPo in particularly high esteem, but damn, that's a really good article.

Yeah HuffPo is in the "they will print anything that will sell adspace" category, but every once in a while they get a good one. It's a rare day that I go to any specific news site and just start skimming for stories, most of the time I only end up on a specific news site because it showed up on my google feed. I'm sure that's not exactly the most unbiased way of perusing the news but it does definitely take me to both sides of the spectrum's media outlets on most days.

I'm most sleazed out by the lying about his marathon time. You don't misremember an hour. And races are public record--did he think no one would look? You're running for VP, dude, people fact check.

The Republicans apparently played "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy at their convention. The mother of Phil Lynott, the band's late singer, is NOT best pleased:



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 13953.html

(it's the fourth item)

You'd really think that the Republicans would have given up on playing anything beisides Ted Nugent, and public domain. Maybe Ted Nugent playing Camptown Races? I mean, every damn time they play something they get caught, and someone bites back. I'm sure its happened to the Dems, but probably not as often.

This is gold.

Why I ppk.