Obama's Bank Predicament

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Tuesday July 05, 2011 · 6:52 PM PDT

2011/07/05 · 18:52

No one is more disappointed than I that Obama hasn't done more to redress the hundreds of thousands, if not more, people who've been taken for a ride by the banksters in the real estate heist.

But the more I look at it, the options he himself can take are rather limited. The best method for redress was through Congress. Pushing for banking reform, pushing for judges to be able to reset mortgages, pushing for a full accounting of how this happened.

Unfortunately, there aren't enough good Democrats to do so, and in any event the Republican senators would most certainly have filibustered anything stronger than what was done and would probably have been joined by a few of our worst Dems.

Let me explain.

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Monday February 08, 2010 · 7:41 PM PST

2010/02/08 · 19:41

I just had my first chance to listen to Palin's interview with Chris Wallace, where she says
"say he played the war card"

Did I hear correctly? Is war now a card, to be played for politics? If Obama starts a war with Iran (do I need to say how little we need a third war?) he might win re-election, according to Palin. And mind you, she would like for him to do so, because, you see, this shows his support for Israel.

Forget the two wars we already have, forget the busted budget, forget it all, declare another war because it would show his support for Israel, and it's a political tool.

Does this woman realize how much she cheapens our military, our soldiers and their families, and our principles when she talks about war as a political card to be played?

Something is very very wrong in our country, when someone goes on national television and talks about war being a political tool, and no one tears them a new one. I keep thinking these people can't outrage me any further, and then I find out, yes they can.

Missy, you are seriously fucked up.

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Tuesday December 15, 2009 · 5:49 PM PST

2009/12/15 · 17:49

So I got a call this evening from Organizing For America, Obama's tool for getting the grassroots involved.

The guy wanted me to make some phone calls, to push for support of the bill, because, as he said, it's still better than nothing. Since I spent almost an entire year working to get Obama elected, at great personal financial cost as I worked full time on it, unpaid, I should have been ripe for picking for one more dirty job.

Boy, did he get an earful. I said I absolutely would not make one single phone call in support of that piece of shit coming out of the senate, and that in fact I would make some phone calls to my two Democrat senators to kill the bill as it now stands.

When he asked why, I told him that this bill, as is, should be called the 2009 Great Giveaway to Insurance companies. A mandate to buy insurance, without anything to control costs, isn't going to reform a single thing. And to top it off, anything that might make the insurance companies behave in a sane manner was stripped from the bill.

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Tuesday October 06, 2009 · 5:42 AM PDT

2009/10/06 · 05:42

You don't know me, even though I worked on your campaign for almost the entire year of 2008. Your telephone staff certainly knows me, I've called numerous times, begging, cajoling, threatening even. There must be a strong public option from day one. Sounds simple, doesn't it? That's what you ran on, and it's one of the major reasons I worked so hard for you.

I've sat and watched as so-called moderate Democrats (I call them what they are - Corporatist Democrats) and the media try to frame me as the fringe left, because, well because I want a health care system that actually works to contain costs. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm a former Republican who's pretty much in the center of the political spectrum.

The reason I'm writing to you is that I'm not happy with the message (or lack thereof) that I'm getting from you. I'm so unhappy, that I feel it necessary to make sure others know why I'm unhappy. Because, as a typical representative of the political center, you need to know how close you're coming to blowing all the hard work I and many others gave to put you where you are. Mr President, you're losing the center.

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Sunday January 18, 2009 · 8:19 PM PST

2009/01/18 · 20:19

Our work is over, in a very short time all our labor will bear fruit with the swearing in of Barack Hussein Obama.

It seems so long ago, that July in 2007 when I decided that Obama was the best of the candidates, and rather than sit on my duff like I'd always done, except for tossing some money to a campaign, it was time to get down in the dirt and work.

I sure sweated those first months, second guessing everything he did and said. But after Iowa, I figured he knew better than I how to win, so I stopped sweating and just went to work.

It's funny, the things you remember best, and I thought I'd share what sticks in my mind. Please add your own most memorable moments.

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 9:24 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 21:24

Seven years ago, I thought I was going to die. I was in the basement of a building on Broadway, a section now renamed Canyon of Heroes, where I’d run, knowing one of the World Trade Center buildings was coming down. At the first sound of the rumble, I didn’t even turn my head to look, I knew exactly what it was, and ran into a lobby, all the way to the back where there was an alcove, where I hid. After the security people shut the metal doors, they quickly ushered us all to the basement. I remember seeing a few people totally covered in something gray, the last who’d entered the building. One woman was screaming for her brother, who was in the WTC. She was a black woman, but you’d hardly know it for all the gray that covered her. There was a cameraman, obviously for a tv station. No reporter ith him, though. One man was sitting on the floor, with a badly cut leg, which a couple of people were tending to. All told, there were maybe 20 of us.

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Monday August 11, 2008 · 7:19 AM PDT

2008/08/11 · 07:19

John McCain and the Republicans want to expand drilling in the US, while at the same time the oil companies are exporting more gasoline and diesel fuel overseas.

Per Reuters:

A record 1.6 million barrels a day in U.S. refined petroleum products were exported during the first four months of this year, up 33 percent from 1.2 million barrels a day over the same period in 2007. Shipments this February topped 1.8 million barrels a day for the first time during any month, according to final numbers from the Energy Department.

The oil companies don't care that we're suffering with high gas prices, they're making more money shipping fuel overseas. So why give them tax incentives and leasing rights just so they can reap more profits?

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Monday June 09, 2008 · 1:26 PM PDT

2008/06/09 · 13:26

Before I start, I feel it necessary to say I am a woman in my 50's, a feminist, and an Obama supporter for a long while.

Now that that's out of the way, I'd also like to say that there has been sexism shown during this campaign. In fact, I was one of the many thousands of people who wrote to MSNBC and Chris Matthews for this comment made by Matthews.

"The reason she’s a U.S. Senator, the reason she’s a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around."

I'm happy to say that as a result of that outpouring, Chris Matthews abjectly apologized on January 17th.

Was that the only occasion of sexism? No, but probably the most blatant. I think the larger point made by some of Hillary's supporters is sexism is pervasive and that is the point I'd like to heartily refute. If it was pervasive, we'd have been shown more than an occasional example.

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Sunday May 25, 2008 · 5:02 AM PDT

2008/05/25 · 05:02

I think everyone knows that Hillary Clinton's campaign is in its last stages.

Whatever we may think personally of Hillary, she and her supporters are Democrats, and they're good Democrats who have fought long and hard for the nomination. I think we would have done the same for Barack Obama.

There have been strong and sometimes virulent hostilities on both sides. I've seen as many comments from Obama supporters as Clinton supporters that have literally made me cringe.

Please, it's time to remember that we are, first and foremost, Democrats, with the goal of electing a Democrat to the White House, and to do that we need unity in the party.

It's very hard to assimilate that your candidate has lost, and all too easy to gloat because yours has won.

I really ask that all of us be as kind and generous to our fellow Democrats as we can. They've fought for their candidate, and Hillary was and is very lucky to have them.

We will be just as lucky to have them join us in the fight for the White House.

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Thursday March 13, 2008 · 7:18 AM PDT

2008/03/13 · 07:18

It pains me to write this diary. It pains me that I feel this diary is necessary. But with the way this primary election is going, with charges of racism and race baiting, I feel we all need to understand what's got people riled up, and why.

We need especially to talk about it before it tears the party apart even before we go to the general election.

The latest furor is over Geraldine Ferraro's comments on Barack Obama being lucky, and priveleged in this race. The divide between the Clintons and the African-American community started before this comment, and this is only exacerbating that divide.

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Wednesday September 05, 2007 · 5:43 PM PDT

2007/09/05 · 17:43

I just cannot stop giggling. The GOP, terrified at another scandal involving sex, gay sex, unceremoniously cut Larry Craig off at the knees when he announced he'd plead guilty to a misdemeanor involving an airport bathroom, a wide stance, toe tapping and finger wiggling.

Till now, I'd thought the most disgusting part of the entire story, and what proved his guilt to me, was knowing he'd supposedly been taking a crap, and didn't flush the toilet!

The GOP cut him off because as things stand now, the wingnut base of the party is already unhappy with them, what with a president with abysmal numbers, a failing war effort, no good wingnut candidates, and scandal after scandal involving Congressmen. So there they were, patting themselves on the back for getting Craig to resign (they must have missed the word intent), but Craig just upped the ante.

He lawyered up to fight his guilty plea and the ethics investigation, he got Arlen Specter to speak up for him, and now all hell is breaking loose in the GOP.

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What should happen to Larry Craig?

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What should happen to Larry Craig?

Senator who?

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Fight, Larry, fight!!!

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GOP should support him

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He should run for president

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My vote for Barack Obama

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Saturday August 11, 2007 · 4:59 AM PDT

2007/08/11 · 04:59

First off, I'd like to say that I think the Democrats have a fine, depth-filled list of candidates, any of whom I'd be glad to support in the general election.

I'm not one to quickly jump on any bandwagon, and so far I've managed to steer clear of any and all diaries that were to 'sell' a candiate. Or, alternatively, to knock a candidate.

In the end, what we want is the candidate who is not only the best candidate to win the general election, but also the candidate who best carries the ideals of our community.

My vote goes to Barack Obama, and I'll tell you why.

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