Reply #52: Yeah man, fall guy....he's got this, right? Ok, listen

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Other presidents have paraphrased Truman, right? Ok, maybe often blatantly obvious choreagraphed window dressed speechifying used by the seriously insincere to fit the sound bites and the subheadings but that does'nt mean He is insincerely using it, right?

JFK: 6 times
LBJ: 2 times
Nixon: 3 times
Ford: 3 times
Carter: 3 times
Reagan: 7 times
Bush41: 1 time
Clinton: 6 times
Bush43: 4 times


I mean just look at all this sincerity:
Obama is sincere about preserving our environment, our legacy to our children: ""We are not acting as good stewards of God's Earth when our bottom line puts the size of our profits before the future of our planet."
-- Oct. 14, 2007, in a speech at an interfaith forum on climate change

Obama Nominates Superfund Polluter Lawyer To Run DOJ Environment Division
President Barack Obama has nominated a lawyer for the nation’s largest toxic polluters to run the enforcement of the nation’s environmental laws. On Tuesday, Obama “announced his intent to nominate” Ignacia S. Moreno to be Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division in the Department of Justice. Moreno, general counsel for that department during the Clinton administration, is now the corporate environmental counsel for General Electric, “America’s #1 Superfund Polluter“:

Brad Johnson
Think Progress, May 15th, 2009

On March 31st, standing in front of an F-18 "Green Hornet" fighter jet and a large American flag at Andrews Air Force Base, President Obama announced a new energy proposal, which would open up vast expanses of America's coastlines, including the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, to oil and gas development. Then, on May 13th, the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed a victory to Shell Oil. It rejected the claims of a group of environmental organizations and Native Inupiat communities that had sued Shell and the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) to stop exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic seas.

Fortunately, Shell still needs air quality permits from the Environmental Protection Agency as well as final authorization from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar before the company can send its 514-foot drilling ship, Frontier Discoverer, north this summer to drill three exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea and two in the Beaufort Sea. Given what should by now be obvious to all about the dangers of such deep-water drilling, even in far less extreme climates, let's hope they don't get either the permits or the authorization

Published on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 by TomDispatch.com
Oil Follies in the Arctic
by Subhankar Banerjee
( great read, real drama, check it out, unless of course you don't like tragedy)

but it's all good..........


"I will restore the federal government's commitment to low-income housing," "Our nation's low-income families are facing an affordable housing crisis, and it is our responsibility to ensure this crisis does not get worse by ineffective replacement of existing public-housing units."
Obama 2008

The Obama Administration’s move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticipated, even under Bush. HUD, under Obama, submitted legislation called PETRA to Congress that would result in the privatization of all public housing in America.

Below the Radar: HUD is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America's Public Housing
George Lakoff
May 24, 2010
Published by Buzzflash.

but it's all good.........

As a state senator, Obama sponsored and lobbied for legislation that gave all inmates a post-conviction right to DNA evidence

The Obama DOJ aggressively argued before the Court that convicted criminals have no constitutional right to access evidence for DNA analysis. Indeed, its decision to embrace this extreme Bush position caused much controversy and anger back in February.

Obama, the Right and defendants' rights
BY GLENN GREENWALD



"What would the Ownership Society do with the losers (if Social Security were privatized)? Unless we're willing to see seniors starve on the streets, we're going to have to cover their retirement expenses one way or another--and since we don't know in advance which of us will be losers, it makes sense for all of us to chip into a pool that gives us at least some guaranteed income in our golden years. That doesn't mean we shouldn't encourage individuals to pursue higher-risk, higher-return investment strategies. They should. It just means that they should do so with savings other than those put into Social Security."
Candidate Obama
http://www.ontheissues.org/economic/barack_obama_social_security.htm

In setting up his National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Barack Obama is again playing coy in public, but his intentions are widely understood among Washington insiders. The president intends to offer Social Security as a sacrificial lamb to entice conservative deficit hawks into a grand bipartisan compromise in which Democrats agree to cut Social Security benefits for future retirees while Republicans accede to significant tax increases to reduce government red ink.

Whacking the Old Folks
William Greider
May 24, 2010
See related: Former Obama Advisors Call Out His Hedge Fund-Staffed Deficit Commission
Published by The Nation.

hey, it's all good.......oh, wait.....shoot