Where has Olberman been for the past two years?

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Good morning Keith Olberman, welcome on board.

Whoa! That was good. Really good.

Can anyone help me with a difficult question? I apparently can’t attach a photo here, but the lettering across the back of my car asks this question in large type: “WIMP or LIAR?” I’m having trouble deciding where Obama falls. There are certainly strong arguments for each, and some say both apply. Tough choice.

By the way, after 43 years of voting in every election for liberal Dems, I’m now done with this limp and corrupt party. Unfortunately, that means I have another difficult decision to make: 1) support the Greens or some other 3rd party; 2) opt out of political involvement and voting entirely; or 3) work and vote for the Repugs under the assumption that the sooner this country is brought to its knees, the sooner it can be rebuilt with some integrity and compassion. Tough choice.

Obama angers his base at his own peril. He's risking completely losing any political support and further weakening himself as if he's not already operating from a position of weakness now, which he most certainly is. We can all sit here and kvetch and complain, but a National Day of Action is hereby called for. Flood the White House comment line (202-456-1111) with angry comments. Write to the White House on their web site ("Contact Us") and do so in such heavy numbers that it overwhelms their server.

Our voices need to be heard. WE, after all, run this country, and Washington is supposed to work for US, not the corporate masters. Let's let them remember who put them there in the first place. That's you, me and everyone else who voted for them. SPEAK UP! I'm hereby calling for a National Day of Action to protest this, and if enough of us take action, they MUST listen to us. Action, folks, speaks louder than words!

Breathtaking! His words and emotions are the same as mine. This may be theater, but I love it. If only Mr. Obama were somehow forced to listen and to be convinced that THIS was the voice of the PEOPLE!

Barack Obama should resign the Presidency on 31 December and, in the new year, represent some Illinois district as a back bench Republican Congressman.

Obama should be replaced by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Trylon

Obama no longer has a base.

Obama no longer has a base.

This video is awesome. Let's start cheering for what is good. Criticism of a slow-learning curve isn't helpful.

Obama angering his base is all by design. It has been planned all along so Democratic voters, as dumb as they are, "angry", will stay home allowing a Republican takeover in 2012.

Obama is a war criminal, an accomplice and a con-artist. The ruling elite would never allow a real community organizer to take power from the Bush Crime Family if he weren't one of them, what's wrong with you people? Some of us saw through it when the uncle tom made his speech at the convention that chose Senator John Coward, I mean, Kerry way back in 2004. Blind fools.

As for Olberman, he's an entertainer. He offers nothing but cheap theater. He'll never EVER state the truth, that Democrats and Republicans have always been the same and American voters have always been fooled by both. He works for GE, that should be enough for someone with 10 brain cells that nothing coming out of his mouth is anywhere close to the truth.

Speaking truth to power on MSM. Outstanding!

Obama will respond to the left only if he reckons it is powerful enough to threaten his presidency. If he sees the left as a a small, mostly rhetorical bunch of complainers he will dismiss them. Daschle has already told us this is why he dismissed Single Payer and Public Option. No more appeals for Obama to change. Either we mount a credible challenge within the party via primary or leave the party and make his followers suffer a defeat in the general by running a third party candidate whether a Republican wins or not. That's it. Those are our options if we are strong enough to exercise them. If we are not strong enough we will be swept along by events not of our liking. In protest we can stand with the 99ers outside the capitol and see if they will shoot at or gas us, I have no doubt they will. This is not our country anymore.

Obama doesn't need us,

We don't need him!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/
606/petition-to-initiate-a-progressive-coalition-representing-the-marginalized-left-and-restoring-the/

This is just a small step to tell prominent progressives that
*we are here*

*we are ready to organize*

*its time to come together around valid goals*

Let people know there is a movement forming!

There ought to be a neo-noose law against bribing (buying) a politician.

From Obama's 'Blast the Left' speech on PBS News Hour, aired yesterday December 7, 2010 (with my critique in parentheses):

(reporter) JEFFREY BROWN:

But the president firmly rejected criticism from those on the left that he betrayed his core principles. It's a critique, he said, he's faced before.

BARACK OBAMA:

This is the public option debate all over again.

{Obama begins his attempt to change the subject and simultaneously falsify the "health care" bill as a grand historical success--a view little shared outside Team Obama--metal}

So, I pass a signature piece of legislation, where we finally get health care for all Americans, something that Democrats had been fighting for, for a hundred years, but, because there was a provision in there that they didn't get that would have affected maybe a couple of million people, even though we got health insurance for 30 million people and the potential for lower premiums for 100 million people, that, somehow, that was a sign of weakness and compromise.

{The devil certainly is in the details on this remark--most of which have yet to be played out in the "free market," but notice he says the POTENTIAL for lower premiums for 100 million people--not actual lower premiums themselves, since there is no public option to compete with private insurance to drive down prices--metal}

Now, if that's the standard by which we are measuring success or core principles, then let's face it: We will never get anything done.

{Sheer sophistry he's using as a crutch to self-excuse his friable policy non-solutions that are characteristically front-loaded with damaging concessions to corporations. Even a cursory glimpse at historical Democratic presidential policy successes from 1933 to 1968 disproves this--metal}

People will have the satisfaction of having a purist position and no victories for the American people. And we will be able to feel good about ourselves and sanctimonious about how pure our intentions are and how tough we are, and in the meantime, the American people are still seeing themselves not able to get health insurance because of preexisting condition, or not being able to pay their bills because their unemployment insurance ran out.

{Let's examine this by inverting it to more accurately reflect his position, shall we?
I will have the satisfaction of having a corrupt position and corrupt victories for American corporations. And I will be able to feel good about myself and sanctimonious about how corrupt my intentions are and how weak I am perceived to be by the public (when that's a very useful, deliberate affectation), and in the meantime, the American health insurance companies are still seeing themselves resisting the extension of health insurance pay-outs using any ploy or price gouge they can get away with, and beefing up their already bloated bottom line with the 30 million citizens my DLC Congress-abetted bill drove into their clutches--metal}

And I don't think there's a single Democrat out there who, if they looked at where we started when I came into office and look at where we are now, would say that somehow we have not moved in the direction that I promised. Take a tally. Look at what I promised during the campaign. There's not a single thing that I have said that I would do that I have not either done or tried to do. And if I haven't gotten it done yet, I'm still trying to do it.

{Here Obama is issuing a mock challenge to the equally corrupt corporatist, militarist "news" media to examine and expose his dismally corporatist, militarist record, which he knows they will never do because he's buttered too many of their key sponsors' bread. His flip-flops on his campaign promises & assertions are so numerous I can't even recollect them all: Re-negotiating the "free trade" treaties to include labor and environmental protections and initially saying he was against warrantless surveillance were just two of them that come to mind--metal}

And -- and so the -- to my Democratic friends, what I would suggest is, let's make sure that we understand this is a long game. This is not a short game.

{It's a long game to gut Social Security and condition the public to 18% real unemployment or worse as the new norm--plus future "austerity measures" to come--inflicted on the poorest and most vulnerable Americans while the bipartisan fascist machine moves heaven and earth to promote war simultaneous with historically unprecedented wartime tax cuts for the super-rich and to protect Wall Street criminals and other crony corporations--metal}

And to my Republican friends, I would suggest, I think this is a good agreement, because I know that they're swallowing some things that they don't like as well. And I'm looking forward to seeing them on the field of competition over the next two years.

{What things are the Republicans swallowing that they don't like? Thirteen months of unemployment benefit extensions while the super-rich get two YEARS of wartime tax cut extensions? Piss poor trade-off under any evaluation--metal}

[Source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec10/taxcuts_12-07.html]

You hit a home run with this one, Keith.

Joe