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ProfessionalLeftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-10 08:33 AM
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4. Professional Leftists will be a lot more discerning with their
Edited on Wed Aug-11-10 08:41 AM by ProfessionalLeftist
money, their volunteer energies, and their votes after Gibb's diarrhea of the face....this ProfessionalLeftist included.

The thing is, Obama can say all sorts of things (and we know Gibbs can - LOL!) - but it's what he DOES (or doesn't do) that really tells the story. That's what I'm looking at. What he DOES. And whether Gibbs wants to whine about it or not - or negatively define a significant sector of the Dem voting block - it's what Obama DOES (or didn't do) that has garnered him some criticism. You can't say A and do B in an about-face like that and expect people not to notice the pretentiousness of it - and to lose their faith and their trust. To expect that not to happen given what we've seen in the last 18 months, is unrealistic. We got "health reform" (which was health INSURANCE reform, if even that) instead of health CARE reform - and it's basically the same unsustainable system, based on for-profit insurance companies who insert themselves between doctors and patients, driving up costs. That's 'change'? Uh. Not really. We got 'finance reform' - written by the wall street crime syndicate that won't even kick in soon enough to prevent anything and even if it did, it's so watered down Wall St. was happy with it, we know it's useless.

DADT is still in effect. Jobs are still pouring out of this country at an even faster pace (or being insourced for the cheapest labor possible) all with government help and blessing and OUR taxpayer money to help - even while unemployment stubbornly hovers at around 10% (25% real). And we're still spending trillions on unnecessary wars - the same ones.

Change....I agree with Cenk - it's pocket change and little of that.

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