The government is compelled to continuously repeal our freedoms (our inalienable rights) under the guise that they are simply borrowing them in order to provide us with security. If we throw a tantrum over this and get our freedoms back, that would only provide them with another opportunity to stage a false flag attack that would immediately revoke our freedoms again! We never get them back. It's a travesty. Our freedoms are stuck in a metaphorical quicksand! Can someone please throw us a stick? Something. Anything.

Originally posted by Avenginggecko
He came in believing he could make American a better place. He found out that in Washington the only America that matters is the corporate one.

I have to disagree. If his goal was truly to make America a better place for it's people, he would never have come in to begin with. Our corporate rulers won't let anybody near the whitehouse who may be a threat to them. Not anymore.

Surprised? I don't know how. Look at whom he sorounded himself with. This has been the plan from the start.
There has been a few that have scream this from the beggining, and are the same one's that fought Bush.
Nobody listens until it's too late.

Of course we all know this just comes from people that are Racist, Extreme Anti-Government Terrorists.

Sometimes it's easier to see the field when you don't have a horse in the race. I am 45 and have not had a President that I cared for yet.

I'm continually aghast at the surprise shown by anyone who thinks this time it would be different. We have seen time and time again how there is no real right or left. We've seen how politics has been manipulating us with the illusion of choice and difference. Yet still people say " i just don't get it, he said he'd do this or that ".

Originally posted by Kaploink
This really isn't a surprise to a lot of us that support him. Obama was never a liberal. He was always more right of central. Which is why he appealed to a lot of Americans who were disgusted by the Republicans beeline to the extreme right over the last decade.

It actually amuses me that the Republicans still have this fantasy of the Obama supporters actually thinking he was a liberal. The voters would have gone for the green party candidate if they actually wanted a liberal president.

Clearly you aren't talking about Obama, the man named "most liberal person in the senate", whose views were far more left than anyone else that ran for president last time. The guy is far from a centrist.

Originally posted by Avenginggecko
Exactly. He came in believing he could make American a better place. He found out that in Washington the only America that matters is the corporate one.

I'll have to disagree with you on this one. If Obama really wanted change, it would have been possible.

The problem in Washington is that you can't get anything accomplished unless you're paying somebody, agreeing to their ridiculous terms -- basically giving into whatever / whomever has the biggest paycheck donatable to your current "fund".

I, personally, would have rather had a President address the nation and say: "I'm sorry that I've yet to be able to pass the legislation I want to -- that I promised the American people I would -- but i refuse to make concessions to companies/corporations/politicians that do not have the American People's best interest in mind, but rather are focusing solely on their bottom line and lining their pockets."

That is something I could get behind.
I would rather a President accomplish nothing, and maintain his campaign promises [the reason he got into office in the first place], than completely forget they were ever made and leave the people that put him into office fearing what his pen will take away from us next.

Enough, my friends, is enough.

This doesn't surprise me.
But then again, I am not surprised by anything the Government does anymore. You could tell me that the Government just killed half the population of D.C. in cold blood and I would just wonder when people are going to wake the hell up and realize that they are a completely rouge organization that basically epitomizes the concept of evil.

Also, Obama is not a centrist. He is a raging liberal.
I guess some don't understand that Big Government (Universal Health Care) is the very definition of liberal Governance.

Obama lied on everything so far. It makes me wonder why people even trust politicians. They are all liars, cheaters, and they all crave for POWER.

The ongoing wars, the ongoing deception... US citizens are getting fed up big time. What will it take to change public opinion? People forget so fast, it's not even funny. But some don't forget, see pics below...



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[edit on 25-11-2009 by lagenese]

i wish they would report this IMPORTANT STUFF in the news

hi guys, im from the uk and i feel sorry for all of you. IMO you only got obama as president so when inevitably one of you guys try to shoot him the main stream media can deflect from the real issue's and blame the racists for it. we are gearing up for an election here in th UK in the next 6 months and we will have a switch of government. will it make a shred of difference ? not a chance. incidently how many americans know that our PM in waiting David Cameron is the Queens cousin ? i wish people would either abstain from voting or vote independant and throw the whole obsolete system into chaos

The real screwed up thing is that this charlatan is kissing the rear ends of corporations which do not create American jobs. These clowns have outsourced all the jobs and have left Americans high and dry. If the electorate continues to support these corrupt and disreputable political parties, they'll just be dragged further down into the sewer.

Along with the manufactured wars and the torturing, the Patriot Act has succeeded in turning the USA into a long running hypocritical joke. What good is all your military might if you do not respect human rights? It's like the bully in the schoolyard - all brawn and no brains.

Well, I'd say I'm surprised

but I'd be lying.

[edit on 25-11-2009 by inthesticks]

Originally posted by marg6043
because I was impressed by his intelligence and his willingness to fight for us the littler people

Every politician in history has sold this line in some way. His intelligence cannot be ascertained by reading other people's words. I said this last year, and I was called a racist amongst other things.

Why doesn't Obama enforce anti-trust laws?
Why doesn't Obama end the war?
Why DOES Obama give banks trillions?
Why DOES Obama cater to corporations?
Why DOES Obama play more golf than even BUSH while soldiers DIE on his watch?

Stop sticking up for this man and start demanding he do the things he was supposedly voted in for! I can respect disagreements with people...and often it can challenge my own thinking.

But to see so many ignore Obama's glaring faults and lies...when he could easily come out on television right now and tell the truth...lay it all on the line and gain the respect of millions...he won't.

Why?