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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on March 10, 2011, 06:23:33 AM
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nashville_brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-09-11 11:17 PM
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White House "angrily" quashes DNC support of labor protests: says events beyond DC a "distraction" Updated at 11:18 PM
In case you missed it, this March 3 NYTs story about Obama's new "no drama" staff reveals a lot about why we don't see the president donning his "comfortable shoes" and "walking the picket line" with American workers fighting the corporate coups in Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida. Turns out, the DNC was out in front of the struggles with staff in place to mobilize a national network for protest, BUT THEY WERE RECALLED at the behest of Obama's new "no drama" staffers. Seems that the fight of our lives is "too much drama" for this administration -- they're busy "winning the future," so don't expect any last minute support our party at any level because the leaders of the party don't have time for "distractions."
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2011/03/04/us/04staffspan/04staffspan-articleLarge.jpg)
From left, William M. Daley, the White House chief of staff; David Plouffe, the communications chief; Dan Pfeiffer, the communications director; a secret service agent and Jay Carney, the press secretary, watched during a presidential news conference at the White House.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/us/politics/04staff.h...
Similarly, the White House mostly has sought to stay out of the fray in Madison, Wis., and other state capitals where Republican governors are battling public employee unions and Democratic lawmakers over collective bargaining rights. When West Wing officials discovered that the Democratic National Committee had mobilized Mr. Obama’s national network to support the protests, they angrily reined in the staff at the party headquarters.
Administration officials said they saw the events beyond Washington as distractions from the optimistic “win the future†message that Mr. Obama introduced in his State of the Union address, in which he exhorted the country to increase spending for some programs even as it cuts others so that America can “out-innovate and out-educate†its global rivals.
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Golly, there's a lot of white males in that pic.
Needless to say there isn't one happy post in that thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x600018
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It appears they're standing in a Mens Room cubicle. :-)
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-10-11 02:45 AM
Response to Reply #15
139. I just noticed something about Obama's statement. He misses
a really essential point when he says, "And I think it's very important for us to understand that public employees, they're our neighbors, they're our friends. These are folks who are teachers and they're firefighters and they're social workers and they're police officers."
The point he misses? Public employees are not just his neighbors and friends. He is one of them.
If Obama were smart, he would point out that he himself is a public employee. He would point out that the governor of Minnesota, the governor of Michigan, and all of the members of Congress are all public employees.
Congress gets to vote on the salaries, working conditions and budget for members of Congress. Why shouldn't other government employees have at least a voice, a chance to discuss their salaries, working conditions and budget?
Obama really misses the point when it comes to what is at stake here. He just doesn't get it. Just like he doesn't get what happened on Wall Street, the gambling that Wall Street did and is still doing with the future of our country, of generations to come, the environment and everything else that Obama's irresponsible friends on Wall Street are gambling away in the markets -- while blaming America's teachers and other public servants for budget deficits. How can he miss the obvious?
:thatsright:
Would that Obama go on strike or flee the country.
Best Freudian typo ever:
flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-09-11 11:56 PM
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57. FOR ONE MOMENT du was untied, now the attack Obama crowd is back in vogue nt
defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-10-11 12:34 AM
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93. WAIT -- We haven't realized that corporate power over Dem Party has silenced them?
This is a SURPRISE to us --- ?
We haven't realized that the Dem Party has been largely mute in response
to the GOP on every issue?
We all understand that corporate money has put elected officials in office who
aren't working for us --
And that includes buying their silence --
The Right Wing Koch Bros Funded the DLC --
http://www.democrats.com/node/7789
http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard...
secondwind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-10-11 06:35 AM
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183. Obama needs to stay above the fray..... because if he gets involved, it will become all about HIM.
cantbeserious (81 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-10-11 06:36 AM
Response to Reply #183
185. That Line Of Defense Is Sure Getting Very Old - Wonder What FDR Would Think
FDR was against public employee unions so...
crim son Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-10-11 07:07 AM
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196. GoBama!
:sarcasm:
jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-10-11 07:09 AM
Response to Reply #196
198. Just like Boooooooosh!2!1
He's a KKKOrpatist, I tell ya!
eom
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[emphasis in DU OP]
Golly, there's a lot of white males in that pic.
Yes there is...and the racist jokes I could make about that... :lmao:
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[emphasis in DU OP]
Golly, there's a lot of white males in that pic.
Needless to say there isn't one happy post in that thread.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x600018
And judging by body language, of which I am in no way qualified to 'judge' other than life experience, there doesn't seem to be a single happy looking white guy in those pictures. :???:
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My Spidey Sense tells me there is going to be another hugh purge over on the island.
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MSB, are you series??!!??
:rotf:
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That whole thread is hysterical. It reads like a massive suicide note.
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That whole thread is hysterical. It reads like a massive suicide note.
From your lips to God's long, rabbitine ears.
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AlbertCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Mar-10-11 12:49 PM
Response to Reply #239
423. He's not the same as Bush - in many ways he is WORSE.
Edited on Thu Mar-10-11 12:49 PM by AlbertCat
That's for sure. Obama can actually make a sentence with a subject and a predicate. Obama is not a dumb bunny drunk like Bush and should know better.
Obama, however, is just an Uncle Tom. Being all nicey-nice and making great but empty speeches.......
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Reference to a certain very popular and delicious sandwich cookie in 3...2...1....
:popcorn:
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Primitives, you will vote for Obama in '12 - else you shall all be racists.
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Mar-09-11 11:56 PM
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57. FOR ONE MOMENT du was untied, now the attack Obama crowd is back in vogue nt
ha ha. What a moran...
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Primitives, Obama is just doing what we told you he would - he is 'voting present'
=As for 'walking shoes' -- President Bush had a pair of those..
http://www.september11news.com/Sept14BushFiremanBobBeckwith.jpg
Try to picture 'The One' lowering himself to walk among the 'common people' in a dirty environment... Ain't gonna happen.