Obama reverses another campaign promise; supports needless death and disease.

[Metta]

Withdraws funding for needle exchange. Wants to work it out with Congress. ... seems to be his usual line of buck passing. Happy karma, O, inheriting suffering when you could be inheriting benefit.

http://www.americablog.com/2009/07/aids-activists-protest-obama-aids.html

[scheming daemons]

1. yawn

[dionysus]

2. nice flamebait.

no really...

[tridim]

3. Senator Webb's prison-overpopulation bill will address this.

You do know that the Executive Branch doesn't make law, right?

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. Many DUers think it would be easier if Obama was a dictator

:rofl:

[polichick]

4. Political courage is not his strong suit - the new motto seems to be...

"Protect Barack's Butt" ~ he wants to be known as a fierce supporter of progressive initiatives without risking anything.

[Cha]

9. Now you're just being disingenuous..."Political

Courage" not his strong suit."?

You really don't know what's going on do you? It would appear not with a blanket statement like that.

[polichick]

14. Actually I do know what's going on and I haven't seen courage - he talks a good game but...

...leaves the tough decisions for others to make ~ Congress, activists, anyone but him.

[jefferson_dem]

13. Ya. That Barack.

A timid wimp. :eyes:

[polichick]

16. Not a wimp, just someone who covers his ass and lets others take the heat...

Presumably it's to preserve political capital ~ imo it's backfiring.

[alcibiades_mystery]

30. Wow, polichick has a negative opinion of Barack Obama

There's a big fucking surprise.

:rofl:

[polichick]

31. Not at all - I'm glad he's in the WH. Just don't see him as politically courageous. nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

32. Uh huh

:rofl:

[polichick]

33. Like it or not, he's compromised us right out of the best opportunities we've had...

...in decades ~ in fact the mistakes he's made were because of his unwillingness to risk political capital.

It's possible for thinking people to support the president and still see this tendency in him.

[Name removed]

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[mopinko]

42. cuz gawd knows he has no one after his ass.

get real. he ain't gonna be another dictator like bush, or be smeared and jeered like clinton. he will make his own mistakes, to be sure. but he learned the lessons of his immediate predecessors well.

[polichick]

46. The latest excuse is the "he's not a dictator" line. A president can make...

...lots of decisions without being a dictator ~ unfortunately, this prez leaves the politically icky ones to others.

[mopinko]

58. this pres is trying to restore the office

to what it is supposed to be. it's a big job after nixon, raygun, bush and bush. i'd like my constitution back, thank you. more important to me than how fast anything gets done. anything.

[jefferson_dem]

5. Aravosis has become clownish in his persistent whining about everything Obama.

Shame too. He used to be one of the more reasonable lefty bloggers.

[Enrique]

7. who commented on this story better than Aravosis?

what blog post on this story is less clownish, as you see it? Or shouldn't lefty bloggers comment on this at all?

[jefferson_dem]

10. I'm not referring to this particular blog post, which is easily debunked as hysterically irrational.

I was referring to how Americablog has morphed into the "Bash Obama 'Round the Clock" blog.

If that's you're style, have at it. I, on the other hand, prefer to keep my eyes fixed on the real political enemy.

[Enrique]

19. totally unfair to Aravosis

you called him clownish earlier and hysterical now. Neither of which you explain.

There is nothing hysterical or irrational in that post at all. It's mostly reporting and some commenting on an important issue. Are the AIDS activists he's writing about clownish and hysterical?

What about the issue? What about the funding? Does that matter at all to you, or does defending Obama come first always?

[jefferson_dem]

34. Not unfair.

From the blog entry:

Candidate Obama said he would help overturn the ban on needle exchange. President Obama reversed himself and banned federal funding for needle exchanges in his budget this year.

Aravosis has concluded (some may say irrationally) that since he sees no funding for needle exchange program in this year's budget, the President has broken a campaign promise. Never mind whatever else is in the works, as explained by the WH spokesperson and others who are actually involved in the process. It's all about the narrow view of a blogger that matters.

This has become a pattern with Americablog. Aravosis and Chris have an obvious axe to grind with Obama and they are doing it in a very crude way, in my opinion.

EDIT: Of course, this issue is important to me as well. I expect to see it addressed in the appropriate way by Obama, working in concert with the Congress and relevant executive departments/officials.

[Beetwasher]

6. Sweet! Get To Use The Unrec Feature!!

:woohoo:

[jefferson_dem]

8. Nice.

I hadn't seen that tool yet. This thread serves as a more than suitable case for my first "Unrecking."

[Beetwasher]

26. Looooove It!!

:evilgrin:

[scheming daemons]

11. Yup... a new phrase... "kicked, but unrec'd"

[vaberella]

24. +1. I wonder what sort of smilie would work for that. n/t

[Beetwasher]

25. K&U!

n/t

[tridim]

12. It's working perfectly IMO.

Die flamebait!

[Beetwasher]

20. Yup, No More Of This Crap Zooming Up The Greatest Page

n/t

[Enrique]

37. this "crap" is the only blog post highlighting this issue

the only blog post calling attention to the AIDS activists shutting down the Capitol Rotunda, and commenting on why they did it.

Nice job unrecommending it! With luck, no one will see it or learn about the issue.

[Beetwasher]

40. If You Want To Draw Attention To Something, Then Post Facts

Not hyperbolic Obama bashing, flame bait bullshit.

[alcibiades_mystery]

53. THE PRESIDENT SUPPORTS NEEDLESS DEATH AND DISEASE!!!!

Hadn't you heard?

:sarcasm:

[These Eyes]

18. I was thinking the same thing!!!!

:rofl:

[Beetwasher]

22. Flexing Those UR Muscles!

:evilgrin:

[JayMusgrove]

23. Thanks for pointing that out! I never used it before.

But this seems to be appropriate.

Obama likes to do things HIS way, and for that, some people start flamebait threads like this. I wonder what they were doing when Bush was pushing the WMD bullshit.

[Peacetrain]

15. Good Grief.. here we go again

[Dawgs]

17. "work it out with Congress. ... seems to be his usual line of buck passing"

Your snarky comment is how our government works. You're wrong, unless you would rather have a dictator.

[scheming daemons]

27. ...or.... it could be his FREAKING JOB DESCRIPTION

unreal

[vaberella]

21. Oooh the nice recommend/unrecommend button is there. You get a big Un. n/t

[Bluenorthwest]

36. In 2007, in the USA

There were over 6,000 new cases of HIV transmission from IV drug use. About 500 a month, or 16 people a day.

[vaberella]

50. Your point? Did you see the OP's title and the article statement?!

President Obama did not say he wouldn't lift the ban. However, that is done with Congress who writes a bill and he gets to repeal any laws that affect this situation. He can't do that alone. Yet the OP is pushing another meme all together. That's misleading, disingenuous, and basically lying to get a probably reaction from knee-jerk responders.

[alcibiades_mystery]

52. No, Obama should be on TV everyday

Urging the repeal of the law! He should call a special press conference about it, right fucking NOW!

Barring that, he should simply order the federal government to ignore the explicitly stated law. Just ignore it, cuz it sucks anyway.

Besides, we don't have more far-reaching problems to deal with (priorities-wise), so his non-pressconferencing on needles obviously means that he SUPPORTS NEEDLESS DEATH AND disease. He fucking SUPPORTS DISEASE!!!! And NEEDLESS DEATH at that! Is that the change you were hoping for, a President who SUPPORTS NEEDLESS Death??????

:rofl:

[polichick]

29. Oh-oh, too much truthiness - obviously, that's not popular. nt

[Cha]

43. It's fucking bullshit and you're hopping right

on the bullshit wagon..shame on you.

[polichick]

44. Just calling it like I see it. Glad I wasn't there the day those blinders were passed out. nt

[Occam Bandage]

35. Wants to work with Congress? What kind of President works with Congress? nt

[zulchzulu]

39. I know what you mean! Since when do Presidents have to work with Congress?

I mean... you'd think the White House should just ignore Congress and pass its own legislation...

[zulchzulu]

38. I missed the memo where the President now has authoritarian, monarchistic powers...

Oh my God! He wants to work with Congress to lift the ban? Congress? Those guys? That's in another building, ferchrissakes!

:eyes:

[HamdenRice]

41. Kicked and Unrecommended! nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

45. So, they are protesting the President's actions by demonstrating the the Capitol building?

Someone should tell that that the President works in a different building.

[mkultra]

47. k&U

[stray cat]

48. I thought we didn't want an imperial presidency?

[stray cat]

49. Oh no! I would have voted for McCain Palin. I only voted Obama to get free needles!

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

54. Here's the Huffington Post coverage of the same story

The story is actually from May.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/07/obama-budget-bans-federal_n_199436.html

[and-justice-for-all]

57. The funding should be a state by state issue...not federal...nt

[and-justice-for-all]

55. Was this in the Enquierer??

sounds like it came right off one of their pages..

[BlooInBloo]

56. Nope. A blogger who used to be very, very good, but simply went insane.

[billyoc]

59. Yawn.

[Kitsune]

60. Yet another broken promise.

Color me surprised.

Everyone else may be unreccing you for daring to post criticism of Obama, but I for one am doing my part to counter that. :/

[Cha]

62. Whatever..it's all a bunch of lies so you

go right ahead and fall into the vat of bullshit.

Posts like your's prove the Obama hate is for no fucking reason except you're too goddamn lazy to get the facts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8521638

[Colobo]

61. LOL!

Another failed attempt to paint Obama negatively.