Pres. Obama worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Now he signs NDAA into law.

He should have know better then anyone else what the ramifications of this Law would do and the abuses it would or could cause. To say that he would not abuse it maybe holds some truth to what he said, but he cannot guarantee that others would not abuse it.

Now to support this Law. I believe that every person in the land should be held accountible with this law, including Lawyers Congress, Senators, Fox News CNN, ABC, CBS and a lot of news reportors also. To include past presidents and their staff

But thankfully we have one Judge out of the thousands that listened and has ruled to at lease this one point.

Maybe just maybe if we put a lot of these people in prison forever then maybe someone might think just for one moment the next time they decide to trample on the rights of others and sign or vote into Law a Law that futhers the erosion of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Now they will be voting again on this Law, will be better or ...... I think that it will be the same old ...... as usual

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Capitalism, like Democracy, Socialism, etc. is a philosophy, an experiment that by certain formulas producess certain results. That being said it isn't capitalism that is "evil", more so it is the greedy scondrals who are evil by the way they twist and tweek the formulas to favour their own selfish agenda. Capitalism isn't so evil when it is regulated...When the Robber Barrons have to play by rules that keep them from praying on others...And when they don't play by the rules there needs to be harsh consequences that fit the crime,(Heavy Fines, loss of license, assets seized, prison time). Consider this: The U.S. incarcerates thousands of men and women each year for being in possesion of small amounts (personal use) of marijuana...Yet Wall Street can knowingly rob millions of people of hundreds of billions of dollars (collectively) and not a single CEO, Captain of Industry, Bankster goes to prison or even pays a fine. That is very very messed up. Shame on anyone who defends such coruption by excusing it as good old capitalism.

I think Republicans should not call themselves Capitalists. They should go by the name everyone should use to define them, especially since the Tea Party joined their ranks - Fascists! Their hatred of Liberals/Progressives is a masterpiece! Blame the Liberals for everything is what these Fascists say! They say further, I made the money; it's mine and no one should tax it and use it for the "common good" and then they quote the Constitution. The Republicans think the Constituion was written with them in mind, nevermind that the Constitution says otherwise. Then they try to re-define the Constitution.

I say, let the Fascists, AKA Republicans, rule injustly against the Constitution that we are all pledged to protect, honor and defend! In time the Republicans, who have consistently aligned themselves further and further to the right, will over-reach to the point that non-partisan compromise is impossible, such as has been happening for several years, and the people finally see through their evil ways. It is then that their end-game position will be seen by all.

One thing going for the Republican Fascist Party is that Citizens United will blur the distinction between right and wrong, but not for long.

From this week's Washington State AFL-CIO newsletter THE STAND on the difference between vulture and venture capitalism, which I heard you speaking of today. Thought you and your audience might find it to your taste:

Best wishes,

Ken

Bain-focals’ put profit-driven presidency into sharp focus

By KEN WINKES

Among the millions who will be affected by the 2012 presidential election are dozens of high school students who won’t have to write the essays I would have assigned if I were still teaching.

For this former English teacher, the 2012 presidential election would have been a dream-come-true. Not since 1932, when the Depression gripped the country, has an election been so laden with symbolism, so fraught with meaning.

“I know,” my students used to sigh, “you want to know what it MEANS!” I did and do. Right now I want to know how the challenger views the country and its future, but given as he is to saying anything that will please the audience of the moment, one has to get below the surface to find the bedrock of his intent. I may have found a way. It’s a literary thing: my students would have recognized it as point of view.

Think of the U.S. Postal Service and its current travails. It’s a cautionary tale we should take to heart. The requirement to fund 75 years of potential pensions in only 10 years, which the 2006 lame-duck Congress foisted on our USPS, is strangling it. No other enterprise in the country, public or private, bears such an impossible, $6 billion a year burden. Without legislative relief the USPS will die. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands will lose their jobs and the fine service we’ve been accustomed to for centuries will disappear. Who could possibly want that to happen?

The only way I can make sense out of what we’ve done to the Postal Service is to put on my Bain-focals, lenses that resolve all complex situations into simple dollar signs. Wearing Bain-focals clears things up because through them consideration of the common good no longer exists, public service disappears from view, workers and their concerns become invisible and all that remains is the heady vision of private profit for the few. To anyone looking through Bain-glasses, the Post Office’s problems are no problem at all. They’re glorious opportunity.

What my Bain-focals see in a Post Office demise is billions of beautiful dollars: profitable routes auctioned off to the highest private bidder, a vast infrastructure — vehicles, sorting centers and technology, office buildings sold piece by piece. It’s the Bain way and it works. The stacks of money it has made for Bain’s partners are irrefutable proof of its effectiveness.

Bain Capital has made hundreds of millions scavenging businesses down on their luck. Usually with borrowed money, the Bain partners take control of an ailing business, shed its obligations to its workers through bankruptcy, stick the taxpayers for promised pensions and sell what remains of the carcass for parts. At the prospect of what a Bain presidency could do for a whole country, corporations and private equity managers must be drooling, for in a Romney presidency it’s not just the post office that will get the Bain treatment.

Our public schools have already had a taste of what that Bain treatment would mean. The effort to corporatize public education has been around since Reagan’s presidency and has accelerated in the last decade. In the twin names of improved student performance and financial efficiency, charter schools, both public and private, first galloped to the rescue in the late 1980′s. Though their numbers have grown, studies have shown time and again that charter schools offer no magic bullet. If they can’t select their students, their test scores are seldom better than those of similar public schools and are often worse.

More recently, for thousands of students across the country private on-line charter schools have replaced classrooms and public school teachers. These remote, pre-packaged programs, overseen by a teacher equally remote, have an even worse record. Except in one area. Their test scores are low and their dropout rate is high, but their profit is stupendous. They are immensely successful at siphoning public money into private hands. Seen through Bain-focals, private on-line schools work just fine.

And because workers’ organizations get in the way of profit, unions aren’t in this picture either. The right to bargain, already contested in multiple states, even here in Washington, becomes moot if the workers themselves are eliminated and the enterprise they supported starved to nothing and sold for scrap. For postal workers and teachers, that’s what a Bain future would bring.

First the post office. Then the schools. In a whole country there’s so much low-hanging fruit to harvest. Our public lands? Our roads and parks? It’s hard to say for sure. Perhaps peering through Bain-focals for so long has strained my eyes and my spirit and it’s time to give them both a rest.

So I’ll close my eyes for a while and think with some regret of all those essays I cannot assign and that will not be written. It’s too bad, for this year’s election presents a perfect prompt for thinking and writing about what things really mean, truly a teacher’s dream-come-true.

What I could regret even more, though, is our future should the wrong candidate win. Seen through anything but Bain-focals, that dream would be a nightmare.

I have a new analogy about voter fraud.

Commiting voter fraud is like counterfiting a $1 bill. Yes it is illigal, yes if you are cought you can pay fines and go to jail, but in both cases, it is not really worth it. It takes a lot of effort to cast a few extra votes, which in the long run will not change the results.

Voter supression is the real crime. If you can't get more people to vote for your person, getting less people to vote for the other person works as well.

-Tim

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And then the bells rang loud and deep,
"God is not dead nor doth he sleep-
the Wrong shall fail and Right prevail,
with Peace on Earth, Good Will Towards Men. -Tennyson

It is time for some to remember the Golden Rule, Good Will Towards Men, and things of that nature....

Lord, I wouldn't want to be credited with reducing anyone's so called "benefits." The brewers and bottlers ought to consider their losses once the addicted poor have dropped out of the market, unable to trade food stamps for cigarettes, drugs, and whiskey.

Who will buy all the leftover methadone? What about all those medicaid supported medical supply companies and their pie in the sky government contracts? They are owned by the health insurance companies.

There is no way for Washington to turn now without cutting off its own nose.

The pharmaceutical industry will likely cease making anything except what the more fortunate can afford.

Well, the rethuglicans should forsee that pissing-off and rendering destitute a vast number of the voting electorate and by association, the already struggling children/family who will have to support, feed, and provide medical care for those without income, that they will NEVER win elections no matter how much money they pour into them. But I don't find that such people are very forward-looking anyway.

Maybe they think that money will buy the elections (and the Court--oh yes they already did that) anyway--it's how Bush stole 2 elections--and the electorial college could be/have been bought, I suppose.

The money-controllers already have our 401K monies. We get the underperforming stocks and they either get our money or jump in before us on a miraculous performing stock, make money, and leave us with the bottom price. Ever wonder why your 401K is struggling, even in an up market? Isn't that scam profitable enough for them???

George Reiter is correct about the stupidity of the wealthy canabalizing/destroying the middle class; their wealth is a direct result of our labor and our consumerism and our tax dollars, because WE pay more in taxes than they do and THEY enjoy the benefits of those taxes more than we do. How do they expect to continue with their lifestyle when they have rendered the greater population and the most productive workforce in the world penniless by stagnet wages and higher and higher prices and poorer and poorer benefits and little chance/hope of a well-deserved retirement--EARNED from years of service to the country and the economy,

I have said it many times: they are just asking for violent revolution. Do we want to become the next Africa? My granny ass-kicking boots are at the ready.

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Thank you for clarifying your support for Barack Obama in perticular and Democrats in general. The importance of the next Supreme court appointments is compelling. You also infer that Barack's hands are tied by a republican conspiracy to undermine his agenda. While I do believe this is true, we cannot excuse Democrats lack of conviction to their stated principals.Democracy depends on them doing the right thing regardless of the political or personal consequences. While I dispise their politics, at least the republicans are commited to their dispicable agenda.

This is not a Democratic society and Capitalism as it is practiced in America has become the cancer that is killing us. Greed and personal gain is the only model post ww2 america has ever known. I hope your guest Gar Asperovitz is correct when he suggests a new model is emerging in america and around the world. There are over 6 billion people in the world. Peace, Cooperation, equitable reward, mutual investments and mutual ownership of our work, government and communities along with open minded tolerance and sincere compassion towards others is the only way we can have a world in which we all have an opportunity to enjoy our existance. Politicians of both parties have proven conclusively that they will do whatever is most beneficial to them. The Occupy movement embodies the courage that will be necessary to evolve beyond our blind faith in Democracy & Capitalism as we know it. I got news for you America, Personal Austerity will be required! Sacrifices both personal and financial will be necessary. Get Your House in Order ( if you are fortunate enough to still have one ). It's either that or you can be a part of the 1%'s plan to governmentally , militarily & economically conquer, control , imprison or kill anyone who does not benefit them. That unambiguous level of commitment must be met with similarily commited opposition. We are about to see just how selfishly commited those who benefit from the status quo are to upholding it. So far it looks like they have no problem in disenfrancising, persecuting, beating, condeming and even killing those who threaten their comfort. Let's hope we can convince them not to fear change and embrace thier humanity.