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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are so damn lucky to have Barack Obama as President
This is a speech for the ages.
Please media why did you cut from the speech? CSPAN has it now
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Fortunately it is on C-Span.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)It's actually the 2nd time today I saw them break away from an important speech. Who wants to hear a bunch of talking heads when there's a speech going on? They could easily wait until the speech is over for that.
Botany
(70,516 posts)"They*" are bought and paid for by the rich and powerful.
* the main stream medai
Botany
(70,516 posts)..... perfection and sweetness.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Too bad, MSNBC and CNN. You missed it.
Botany
(70,516 posts)He listened, answered their ?s, and made sure that they were not
removed from the audience.
Cha
(297,307 posts)http://theobamadiary.com/2014/11/25/president-obama-speaks-on-immigration-reform/
I haven't seen it yet.. thank you.
The President did the job.
Cha
(297,307 posts)thread that said he sounded "hollow". I wanted to get on and say "not this shyte again" but, let it go.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)PBO: Governor Nixon, it's Barack.
Nixon: Wow, what an hon--
PBO: Shut it. You're screwing up. Get your police force to stop acting like storm troopers and appoint a special prosecutor for this trial. This one goes by the book.
Nixon: But, but--
PBO: But?
Nixon: But our DA is a Democrat too.
PBO: Yes, and I'm the head of the Democratic Party, so you do it or not a dime for any campaign again ever. Savvy?
Nixon: Yes, sir.
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rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)just asking?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Politicians love to give speeches and some are excellent and make some people very happy. It's sad that people settle for speeches. I guess they've resigned themselves to that that's all they deserve.
I only ask that you set your standards a little higher. Fight for results and don't settle for promises.
Botany
(70,516 posts)P.B.O. has done an awesome job as POTUS and the list of his
accomplishments is huge despite non stop obstructionism.
And his speech tongiht was what was needed to be said and
and at the right time too.
Never let the perfect get in the way of the good.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)I want the President to stop stonewalling the torture report. If that's asking for perfect, then I am guilty. The President has done some good things but he also is on the wrong side of some important issues. That is not only has he failed to help the people he is working against us.
This was a speech. If it turns into action, then let me know.
And by the way while we have a high infant mortality rate, high unemployment, huge student loans, and children that go to bed hungry, I WILL NOT SETTLE FOR GOOD.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Exactly what we have come to expect from our corporate government when it comes to outrages like this.
We get cynical, pretty speeches and cheering propaganda voices, and nothing more.
Nothing gets better anymore. No one is ever serious about actual change for the better.
In fact, the corporate politicians making pretty speeches are relentlessly making things worse:
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025390424
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.html
It's almost certain that if the police agencies cooperate, the ACLU will find that the militarization trend has accelerated since Kraska's studies more than a decade ago. All of the policies, incentives and funding mechanisms that were driving the trend then are still in effect now. And most of them have grown in size and scope.
The George W. Bush administration actually began scaling down the Byrne and COPS programs in the early 2000s, part of a general strategy of leaving law enforcement to states and localities. But the Obama administration has since resurrected both programs. The Byrne program got a $2 billion surge in funding as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, by far the largest budget in the program's 25-year history. Obama also gave the COPS program $1.55 billion that same year, a 250 percent increase over its 2008 budget, and again the largest budget in the program's history. Vice President Joe Biden had championed both programs during his time in the Senate.
The Pentagon's 1033 program has also exploded under Obama. In the program's monthly newsletter (Motto: "From Warfighter to Crimefighter" , its director announced in October 2011 that his office had given away a record $500 million in military gear in fiscal year 2011, which he noted, "passes the previous mark by several hundred million dollars." He added, "I believe we can exceed that in FY 12.
Then there are the Department of Homeland Security's anti-terrorism grants. The Center for Investigative Reporting found in a 2011 investigation that since 2001, DHS has given out more than $34 billion in grants to police departments across the country, many of which have been used to purchase military-grade guns, tanks, armor, and armored personnel carriers. The grants have gone to such unlikely terrorism targets as Fargo, N.D.; Canyon County, Idaho; and Tuscaloosa, Ala.
It's united oligarchy, not divided democracy. And it's united oligarchy with a relentless propaganda machine to try to obscure the truth.
Botany
(70,516 posts)just asking?
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