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Old January 5th 10, 04:50 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.bicycles.soc,alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent
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On Jan 5, 3:33*am, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"Tom Sherman °_°" wrote in ...





Edward Dolan wrote:
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Edward Dolan wrote:
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What a laugh the above is! The mass media is liberal to the core. They
beat up on Bush for 8 years and now they are having a slobbering love
affair with Obama no matter how inept he proves to be.


What Ed conveniently ignores is that Obama's policies have been a
mixture of neo-con and neo-feudal. Very little liberal, and nothing
progressive about them. President Obama's actions are so far from what
was promised by candidate Obama, the only honorable course left for him
would be to resign.


Obama is not a communist like you, but he is still plenty liberal. If he
had any guts, he would insist on a public option for health care reform.


But that would be against the corporate elite that rule the country.


Some corporate elites are against a public option, others are in favor of
it. The so-called Blue Dog Democrats do not exist. A Democrat is a Democrat
is a Democrat. Obama is a weak-kneed pussy if truth be told.

However, he did the right thing about Afghanistan. Democrats are
notoriously lax with regard to national security issues, so he had better
watch himself as we conservatives are ready to pounce on him if he plays
loose with American security.


Oh Ed, now you are just being silly. Afghanistan has always been about
Central Asian natural gas reserves, not terrorism. Besides, things are
going so well:
http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/serial-catastrophes-in-afghanistan.html.
And the whole "War on Terror" was obviously always about manipulating
public opinion, not fighting terrorism.


Afghanistan belongs more to the subcontinent than Central Asia. What natural
gas would that be? The best thing that could happen that would convince you
that the war on terrorism is real is if some of them would show up in your
neighborhood and blow your dumb ass sky high!

Obama will now have to concentrate on getting the job numbers up or he
will be just a one term president.
Americans will not stand for high unemployment.


The USians that count want high unemployment. Low unemployment gives the
proletariat too much power - workers scared of unemployment are more
compliant. In addition, high unemployment aids military recruitment to
fight wars of imperial conquest. And there are always prisons for those
who complain too much.
http://www.openleft.com/diary/16774/why-democrats-are-trying-to-commi....


As always, you are so intent on looking behind the scenes that you miss the
main scene, which is that of politicians wanting to get reelected to office.
That depends on voters, not corporations. Prepare for a big turnover this
midterm election if the economy does not pick up.

"To the elites, ordinary Americans are pretty much parasites.
It's not the bankers, with their multi-trillion dollar bailouts
who are the problem, it's old people with their Social Security
and Medicare. *The elites made it. *They are rich and powerful.
They believe that their success is due entirely to themselves
(even if they inherited the money or position). *If you didn't,
then that means you don't deserve it." - Ian Welsh


The trouble with the above is that the elites only number in a few hundreds
of thousands, whereas everyone else numbers in the hundreds of millions.
Numbers count more in the end than the wealth of the few.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
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The only need a fraction of the population to control the rest. And
the people who work for the government are part of the first group.
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