YES! They're simply continuing the Bush Administration's policies.
30%
YES! No true Democrat supports spying, drones or chained CPI.
70%

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washnwmn 13 years 9 weeks ago

This is the 1st time in my voting life I have thought, I'll be really glad when this president's term is up, and really hoping the progressives and Democrats can make some in-roads in the 2014 election, hopefully take the house. It would be in the best interest of all if we had a big grass-roots movement going now to "kick the bums out" and move this country to a better place.

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JessieV 13 years 9 weeks ago

I am appalled at all this spying via cell phones, secret drone attacks, suspension of writ of habeas corpus, the assassination of American citizens without due process of law, AND the cavalier way Obama shrugs this off as "we need it to root out espionage." Even in WWII our govt was not this banal. Attorney General Eric Holder should have been fired after his first year in office....he's absolutely worthless. Where's a Robert Kennedy? Obama may be setting us up to lose the 2016 election. He campaigns for jobs but not once did he voice support for the postal workers. Yeah, let 120,000 postal workers lose their jobs....where's Obama's head? He can't push his senators to repeal the postal act that created this postal mess? And now we have the very secretive Pacific-Asia Trade Act that's going to sink this nation even further??

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Rboisvert7 13 years 9 weeks ago

Thom,

You told everybody to vote for Obama instead of voting for a third party candidate. Now you must suffer with the rest of us with Obama's failed Bush policies.

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David J. Cyr 13 years 9 weeks ago

The political base of the corporate party's (R) and (D) team is corporate persons, and there's no reason for them to ever be displeased...

Patriot Act:

"temporary" police-state surveillance practices that were a little intrusive when loudly begun by rude Rovian Republicans, but grew increasingly invasive when quietly extended by nice MoveOn Democrats

cell phones:

an economical means for the surveillance-state to monitor the movements, conversations, and associations of all the people paying for it

Project for a New American Century:

an expansion of the market-state's full-spectrum global domination and exploitation that "neocons" ineptly started, but neoliberals are competently completing

TPP:

Treacherous Profit Protections

progressive:

a liberal advocated policy that would provide either none or the least possible progress

progressives:

liberals who keep voting for the corporate party's Democrats so they can keep "protesting" against what they keep voting for

PDA:

Purposefully Destroying Alternatives

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