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November 17, 2013
This is why the 'right' 'wing' hates Obama so much, huh?
He's so sinister! Another accursed leftie!
This is why the 'right' 'wing' hates Obama so much, huh?
November 17, 2013
It was part of the news stories as people were going to Iraq to hopefully stop war, showing how nice
and modern the people were there. That's when I saw it mentioned. Sort of a 'see, they're just like us' kind of thing. If only the hawks didn't get their way. The country may never recover. They said Saddam didn't understand why his former US allies had turned on him. If those movies and shows were what he thought the USA was really about, the way he behaved wasn't out of sync with it. But that isn't all the USA is about though...
November 17, 2013
A frank discussion in a hearing with Warren. The comments on the youtube page are from all sides.
Elizabeth Warren: Why Isn't Minimum Wage $22?
A frank discussion in a hearing with Warren. The comments on the youtube page are from all sides.
November 16, 2013
K&R for the vital news 'news' will not cover. First amendment wasted by corporate media..
November 16, 2013
Another of our young geniuses, ready to take America to a better place.
I didn't find any offense at what he said, or more importantly did, earlier.
Adlai Stevenson said:
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
And that is exactly what the GOP has been doing for a long time, with their complicit media. It's time for us to take our freedom of mind back.
November 16, 2013
Van Jones: Let's Stop Trying to Please Republicans
Published on Oct 29, 2013
Recorded May, 2012
Directed/Produced by Jonathan Fowler, Elizabeth Rodd, and Dillon Fitton
Van Jones: "I don't understand how this individual mandate is something that we've allowed the Republicans to define as some sort of, quote-unquote, government takeover. In fact, it's their idea. The progressives were saying we want single-payer. Myself, I would say why do you need insurance companies for health care at all. Insurance is what you buy when you don't know if something bad is going to happen. Maybe I'll crash my car. Maybe I won't. I don't know. So I'm going to get car insurance just in case. Everybody's going to get sick and die, so you know every single person's going to need health insurance. That's not something you can provide insurance for, that's called a service.
So my view, single-payer. The Republicans always said, no, that's too much government. So we came back and said, okay, no single-payer. How about a public option? So you'd a public program, everybody could join Medicare or compete with the private companies, too much government. We want individual responsibility. So we said, fine, you win. We'll do it your way, individual mandate. And then, they say that is a socialist government takeover. Well, hold on a second now. You're now a part of the pro-moocher caucus? You're saying it's okay for people to just dive bomb their way into the emergency room? Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't get any insurance. The government will pay for it. Now, you're like the pro-freeloader party?
This Republican Party, from my point of view, has taken the posture that any idea, even their own ideas, if they're championed by this president, they will oppose. And I think that discredits them. It's like chasing a bunny on the old dog track. They have a mechanical bunny. If you've ever been to a dog track, I'm from Tennessee, if you ever go to Memphis, they have a dog track and they have a mechanical bunny. And they open the gates and the dogs just go and try and chase that mechanical bunny. And I think those dogs probably think someday they're going to catch that bunny. They're never going to catch that bunny because the bunny keeps moving.
You're trying to chase the right to try to convince them to agree with you. They will run away from their own ideas if they think a Democrat embraces them. It was a Republican idea to have cap and trade, a market-based, business-friendly solution for carbon and climate problems. That was the Heritage Foundation that came up with cap and trade. We were saying carbon tax. To chase them, we moved to cap and trade and they moved on to don't do anything. Climate change isn't even real.
On health care, it was their idea to have an individual mandate and personal responsibility and don't have a big government single-payer system. We moved from single-payer through public option to individual mandate trying to catch them and now they say that the individual mandate is socialism. You will never catch this bunny. You will never, so what you need to do is stand for what you believe in and bring a majority around your own ideas and govern. And it's the biggest fallacy on the part of liberals is that that little hound dog running around that track is ever going to catch that bunny and that we will ever be able to compromise enough to appease the right wing in this country so they'll actually govern with us in a responsible way. They have to be defeated at the ballot box by a stable governing majority that can implement the changes that we need in this country, whether they want to participate or not."
I believe the ACA will lead to UHC as people's minds are changed about the 'evil government' mantra they've heard for so many years.
It's become more extreme because they are desperate and losing against common sense. People are going to wake up, which is why the Koch brothers/GOP has pulled out all the stops.
It's why the billions they invested to elect their robosigner Romney failed.
Regarding Van Jones:
He was appointed by Obama as White House Special Advisor for Green Jobs but was set upon by rightwing media:
http://www.mnn.com/money/green-workplace/blogs/van-jones-discusses-his-white-house-position
You'll note that he says he knew the agenda would go forward in his absence. He was blackballed by MSM for talking about important things, which they are paid to not cover.
Take a look at his resume, hardly anyone but PBO has one so impressive. Obama chose well and I'm glad to see more coverage of him:
Van Jones
Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American environmental advocate, civil rights activist, and attorney. He is a co-founder of four non-profit organizations including Rebuild the Dream, of which he is president. In 1996, he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a California non-governmental organization (NGO) working for alternatives to violence. In 2005, he co-founded Color of Change, an advocacy group for African Americans.[1] In 2007, he founded Green for All, a national NGO dedicated to "building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty."[2] In 2011, he founded Rebuild the Dream, a national advocacy organization working towards a fairer economy.[3] His first book, The Green Collar Economy, was released on October 7, 2008. It won the Nautilus Book Award and reached number 12 on the New York Times Best Seller list.[4] In 2008, Time magazine named Jones one of its "Heroes of the Environment".[5] Fast Company called him one of the "12 Most Creative Minds of 2008".[6]
In March 2009 Jones was appointed by President Barack Obama to the newly created position of Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he worked with various "agencies and departments to advance the administration's climate and energy initiatives, with a special focus on improving vulnerable communities."[7][8] In July 2009 he became "embroiled in a controversy"[9] over his past political activities, including a public comment disparaging congressional Republicans, his name appearing on a petition for 911Truth.org, and allegations of association with a Marxist group during the 1990s.[10][11] For these issues, Van Jones was heavily criticized by conservatives.[12] Jones resigned from the position in early September 2009.[9] "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation statement. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."[10]
Jones is currently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior policy advisor at Green for All. Jones also holds a joint appointment at Princeton University, as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones
I would vote for him in 2016 if he ran for POTUS. It appears the Democrats have an 'embarrassment of riches' to choose from for candidates for office now...
Former Obama Appointee Van Jones, Continues to Lead, Speaking on Healthcare:
Van Jones: Let's Stop Trying to Please Republicans
Published on Oct 29, 2013
Recorded May, 2012
Directed/Produced by Jonathan Fowler, Elizabeth Rodd, and Dillon Fitton
Van Jones: "I don't understand how this individual mandate is something that we've allowed the Republicans to define as some sort of, quote-unquote, government takeover. In fact, it's their idea. The progressives were saying we want single-payer. Myself, I would say why do you need insurance companies for health care at all. Insurance is what you buy when you don't know if something bad is going to happen. Maybe I'll crash my car. Maybe I won't. I don't know. So I'm going to get car insurance just in case. Everybody's going to get sick and die, so you know every single person's going to need health insurance. That's not something you can provide insurance for, that's called a service.
So my view, single-payer. The Republicans always said, no, that's too much government. So we came back and said, okay, no single-payer. How about a public option? So you'd a public program, everybody could join Medicare or compete with the private companies, too much government. We want individual responsibility. So we said, fine, you win. We'll do it your way, individual mandate. And then, they say that is a socialist government takeover. Well, hold on a second now. You're now a part of the pro-moocher caucus? You're saying it's okay for people to just dive bomb their way into the emergency room? Yeah, don't worry about it. Don't get any insurance. The government will pay for it. Now, you're like the pro-freeloader party?
This Republican Party, from my point of view, has taken the posture that any idea, even their own ideas, if they're championed by this president, they will oppose. And I think that discredits them. It's like chasing a bunny on the old dog track. They have a mechanical bunny. If you've ever been to a dog track, I'm from Tennessee, if you ever go to Memphis, they have a dog track and they have a mechanical bunny. And they open the gates and the dogs just go and try and chase that mechanical bunny. And I think those dogs probably think someday they're going to catch that bunny. They're never going to catch that bunny because the bunny keeps moving.
You're trying to chase the right to try to convince them to agree with you. They will run away from their own ideas if they think a Democrat embraces them. It was a Republican idea to have cap and trade, a market-based, business-friendly solution for carbon and climate problems. That was the Heritage Foundation that came up with cap and trade. We were saying carbon tax. To chase them, we moved to cap and trade and they moved on to don't do anything. Climate change isn't even real.
On health care, it was their idea to have an individual mandate and personal responsibility and don't have a big government single-payer system. We moved from single-payer through public option to individual mandate trying to catch them and now they say that the individual mandate is socialism. You will never catch this bunny. You will never, so what you need to do is stand for what you believe in and bring a majority around your own ideas and govern. And it's the biggest fallacy on the part of liberals is that that little hound dog running around that track is ever going to catch that bunny and that we will ever be able to compromise enough to appease the right wing in this country so they'll actually govern with us in a responsible way. They have to be defeated at the ballot box by a stable governing majority that can implement the changes that we need in this country, whether they want to participate or not."
I believe the ACA will lead to UHC as people's minds are changed about the 'evil government' mantra they've heard for so many years.
It's become more extreme because they are desperate and losing against common sense. People are going to wake up, which is why the Koch brothers/GOP has pulled out all the stops.
It's why the billions they invested to elect their robosigner Romney failed.
Regarding Van Jones:
He was appointed by Obama as White House Special Advisor for Green Jobs but was set upon by rightwing media:
http://www.mnn.com/money/green-workplace/blogs/van-jones-discusses-his-white-house-position
You'll note that he says he knew the agenda would go forward in his absence. He was blackballed by MSM for talking about important things, which they are paid to not cover.
Take a look at his resume, hardly anyone but PBO has one so impressive. Obama chose well and I'm glad to see more coverage of him:
Van Jones
Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American environmental advocate, civil rights activist, and attorney. He is a co-founder of four non-profit organizations including Rebuild the Dream, of which he is president. In 1996, he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a California non-governmental organization (NGO) working for alternatives to violence. In 2005, he co-founded Color of Change, an advocacy group for African Americans.[1] In 2007, he founded Green for All, a national NGO dedicated to "building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty."[2] In 2011, he founded Rebuild the Dream, a national advocacy organization working towards a fairer economy.[3] His first book, The Green Collar Economy, was released on October 7, 2008. It won the Nautilus Book Award and reached number 12 on the New York Times Best Seller list.[4] In 2008, Time magazine named Jones one of its "Heroes of the Environment".[5] Fast Company called him one of the "12 Most Creative Minds of 2008".[6]
In March 2009 Jones was appointed by President Barack Obama to the newly created position of Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he worked with various "agencies and departments to advance the administration's climate and energy initiatives, with a special focus on improving vulnerable communities."[7][8] In July 2009 he became "embroiled in a controversy"[9] over his past political activities, including a public comment disparaging congressional Republicans, his name appearing on a petition for 911Truth.org, and allegations of association with a Marxist group during the 1990s.[10][11] For these issues, Van Jones was heavily criticized by conservatives.[12] Jones resigned from the position in early September 2009.[9] "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation statement. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."[10]
Jones is currently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior policy advisor at Green for All. Jones also holds a joint appointment at Princeton University, as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones
I would vote for him in 2016 if he ran for POTUS. It appears the Democrats have an 'embarrassment of riches' to choose from for candidates for office now...
November 16, 2013
Elizabeth Warren's Full DNC Speech
Published on Sep 5, 2012
Elizabeth Warren, candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, addresses the Democratic National Convention.
Warren! Warren! Warren! The sound of those strong voices give me the chills!
Thanks Obama, for talking Warren into politics. What a treasure they both are!
Listen to the cheers for Warren at the DNC!
Elizabeth Warren's Full DNC Speech
Published on Sep 5, 2012
Elizabeth Warren, candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, addresses the Democratic National Convention.
Warren! Warren! Warren! The sound of those strong voices give me the chills!
Thanks Obama, for talking Warren into politics. What a treasure they both are!
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