lets not exaggerate with ultra negative–the sky is falling–type comments. Give me a break, Obama has mismanaged the economy, his economic team is failing.
They have given away trillions of dollars and the banks still call the shots! ellenb, wake up and open your eyes this guy is selling us out and we don’t even see it.

You can start here; http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/04/20/obamas-guidelines-for-stem-cell-research-dodge-controversial-bullets/

It’s there, the Obama administration has made it harder to do this kind of research by setting into motion extremely imposable guidelines for doing research.

Obama has completly done a reversal on Afghanistan.
Mark my words, Afghanistan will become his Viet Nam, Obama is morfing into LBJ…

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106521628

also on the bbc as well

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8146466.stm

just imagine what other laws cheney broke that we’ll probably never know about it.

please give concrete example of your statement re obama made it harder to do stem cell research, not easier if you read fine print. Thanks.

Also obama not living up to expectations– lets not exaggerate with ultra negative–the sky is falling–type comments. Let’s make a few distinctions between lousy and not good but mediocre results. We can’t turn our sick political culture around completely with 1 election. It will tak several, and plenty of citizen demonstrations.

In short Bush made the presidency more powerful, Obama is not willing to give this up.

Bottom line, he used people like me to get elected, which is to be expected and I’m not that naive to think that politicians are altruistic. But he really used people, millions of them to get into the White House, he has made a huge mistake thinking that independents like me will just automatically vote for him again. Fool me once…

He’s sold us out. With Bush I knew what to expect.
Obama and the wall street dems are worse because they pretend to be “for the people” they are not.

The rest of the stuff your talking about, such as stem cell research, well read the fine print, the Obama administration has made it harder to do not easier.

Bottom line is, and what I am saying is our government is for the corporations and of the corporations, that’s it.

We do not count.

i disagree, though i disagree with some of the things obama has done or has not done. There has been things, like talks on global warming, lifting the ban or partly more on stem cells, attitude towards europe and the middle-east, pushing for troops to come home i agree with,and a renew focus on science, and even still trying to work with the no nothing republicans who i wish sometimes he flip them the bird. But Obama did far better at explaining whats going on, or what he is trying to do than anything bush did, tried, or would do. He has given use far more information than bush would ever have (good or bad).

Obama has alot on his plate and it is though annoying sometimes unreasonable to think he can fix everything in a short period time.

To be honest and logical the republican side for 2012 will produce someone far worst than obama. Since

1. the base has moved far right so a moderate would not be able to win.

2. if a moderate managed to win the republican ticket than his VP would have come suck up to the far right

3. The far right foreign policies are danagerous and conflitatinl and will further promote tension with the europe and the middle east, along with russia.

4. The far does not believe in a public option at all or social programs so u could kiss the pubic health care good bye along with even deeper cuts

5. The far right will further take away Transparency and accountability to americans, the senate and house.

6. the far right will do almost anything to get, stay, keep power

7. the far right somehow believes that not paying for a war is fine but paying to help unemployed workers is hierarchy

8. dont believe me look at john mccain someone how i and many others thought about voting for in the beginning until he sucked up to the far right than he said in 2k were radicals(haggie) and what this election did to his standing. Or some of the paris H. ads,, and picking palin. and now the republican party is smaller with more extreme elements in it. So getting a moderate in there ranks not beholding to the right is highly unlikcly

9. the far right still demonizing all muslims as terrorist(who before 2004 often voted republican) racist towards Mexicans,Blacks, still against GBLT,

10 Because of this if a republican running for office would first have to appeal to the above far right republicans and often more radical base to receive the ticket once elected as President will be beholden not just to wall street like some democratics but they religious base(palin type), think there going to even try to fight climate change or corporate america think again and only will dig deeper holes for the poor and middle class in guise of the boot strap mentality.

Best bet would be to make obama fight for your vote and keep pressure on some of the cowardly dems, and republicans to get the job done along with obama of course.

A third party would be great causing all side to come up with better ideas but i doubt it.

remember this is what the base has been becoming for the republicans with moderates pushed off.

clip from the glen beck show with can u believe this a former CIA official

http://www.youtube.com/v/Irs9nbIv9vU&hl=en&fs=1

sorry typo…

I never thought I would ever find myself saying this. But this man used millions of Americans goodwill to get elected and now hes just doing the bidding of corporate America. At least with Bush I expected this kind of crap. Obama campaigned on change, on changing how things work in Washington. He has either just given up, or he’s on of the most cynical manipulating politicians to come down the pike.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/profile.html

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2009/07/assessing_a_public_option_for.html

On Russia, she fails to see what the Russian people see – NATO expanded to their borders & a pledge broken when WJC/GWB allowed that. How would we feel if Mexico & Canada decided to join the CIS Russian confederation? And if Cuba joined? Then Bermuda, the Bahamas? We’d feel surrounded just as the Russians do now. And this comes after the disaster of economic shock therapy & the oligarchs of The Chicago School of Greenspan, etc.

As to the ABM system, the fact that she assumes we actually can knock down a hostile missile shows a Beltway illusion that accepts the “report” that the DOD releases after each of these “tests.” The Union of Concerned Scientists & news reports have always had to include caveats mostly amounting to “the incoming target was destroyed, so we must have destroyed it, despite the fact that the target was not touched by our interceptor or its debris.” The Patriots couldn’t knock out the SCUDS. The techies have improved their prototypes, but the offensive options from decoys to simple MIRVs, etc. make the GWB boast that we have an effective ABM system as empty as his promise to rebuild NOLA after Katrina.

This doesn’t include the physics problems associated with trying to hit a long distance target with targeting radar at any distance over about 300 miles. Until we learns how to make electrical/radio signals break the speed of light ABM effectiveness is the Baghdad Bob of defensive systems.

No vetting, not ready, does not have any ideas…
Could not get along with McCain people, was not a team player, major problems…

Who was touring the convention center along with his buddy McCain? Remember those days….
Who was “closest” politician to McCain around the time of the convention?
Who was the #1 choice for the VP, before somebody chartered an airplane for the Palin Familia?

Sarah Palin was a window dressing. After the elections, they were going to ask her to resign and replace her with somebody else within weeks.

Then you were going to see (according to the GOP Script): drum rolls….
President Mr. McCain and VP. Mr. Lieberman

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106470896

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106470889

the doctor had some great points

would love to see what ceo if any will be traveling with him.

sad that lobbist will screw the majority of americans for a small elite few.

if jack was correct about 1.25million a day from the health insurance lobbist than over 456 million dollars are spent to deny us health care a year.

if u took the senate of 100 than it would be around 456,000 to buy each vote a year, and 2,736,000 a term. In theory if u wished for your senator to vote for the public plan and health care than u would have to beat the average bid per senator of 456,000 per year.

as for Lilya,

why would the bush admin state they went to iraq for oil?wouldnt help there arguement for freedom and democracy and further incrimate themselves nor would obama wish to push that on iraqi atleast in the public news reporting would look bad. Like lobbying in the u.s. and the world. backroom deals are made and tranparancy is second unless forced or politically good.

T.BOONE PICKENS is going back on his call for alt resources least for another few years. as BP is cutting theres alt engery sites and research as well to focus on producing and making more of oil after the force earlier retirement of the previous ceo for more profits to the shareholders and CEO.