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Barack Obama ✔ @BarackObama
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"Nobody should have to choose between putting food on their kid's table or taking them to see a doctor." —President Obama #Obamacare
2:50 PM - 3 Dec 2013
Senator Harry Reid ✔ @SenatorReid
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We'll look back at ACA's passage and say: How could a major industrialized nation have had 45 million people with no health insurance?
2:35 PM - 3 Dec 2013
Kathleen Sebelius ✔ @Sebelius
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Good news: 1.46 million people have been found eligible for Medicaid & CHIP in the 1st month of open enrollment. http://go.usa.gov/WFFm
10:28 AM - 3 Dec 2013
Talking Points Memo ✔ @TPM
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At least 1.5 million people enrolled in Medicaid since Obamacare launch: http://bit.ly/1iw58I3
12:02 PM - 3 Dec 2013
jennifer bendery ✔ @jbendery
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GOP ldrs, one at a time, lining up at presser to say how awful Obamacare is. In other news, http://healthcare.gov got 1M visitors on Mon.
10:17 AM - 3 Dec 2013
http://theobamadiary.com/
to Sheshe.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1102&pid=19861
So McCain's bill might save money over a decade for some group or another, with more protection for committing medical malpractice.
Sorry, John, a bird in the hand is worth two in the Bush. We know you miss him, too:
Most of the world doesn't. We'll keep going forward without you and not bomb Iran, either...
A therapist friend told me 'People have very good reasons for the things they do.' No matter what.
Good piece by Blunt & Cranky.
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In short, if you’re still disappointed in Barack Obama, it’s only because you never understood whose job it was to produce change in the first place....~ Tim Wise
Thanks. We'd play the record player on top of the television...
I used to make music with a set of castenets in each hand:
And tamborines, flutes, stuff like that...
I have some old friends for whom going to the mail is a big deal and it makes them feel part of life
again, instead of being house bound.And I support keeping rural mail, not only for the elderly who want to walk there, but as part of a society that values those who aren't cookie cutter into being online.
Some seniors I know are not online at all, they don't have time or the resources. Really, they don't, being elderly is not sitting around eating bonbons, but taking care of a lot of stuff that younger people don't even know exists.
The war on the post office is part of the war to civil society, on unions, those who can't afford being online, or cannot meet schedules or drive.
I count on my mail being delivered to my place when the weather is bad and I can't drive in the ice and snow or be at the Post Office during their hours or standing in line there. I sure as hell can't drive miles away to a UPS or FedEx office.
Chopra was probably speaking about supporting social cohesion. We need more voices, not less, speaking for this.
Do we want to see the gentrification that has afflicted major cities be carried out in rural areas with many kinds of people living there, making their lives harder than it was for us for so many years?
Ah, my dad never sang, but he was a big Nat King Cole and Johnny Mathis fan. And that's beautiful.
Well, he did sing Fernando's Hideaway to me one time as a kid, teaching me to dance with my feet on his as we waltzed around the living room. Like this pic here:
He was very big on Christmas and we knew he was Santa early on. Didn't you say your dad or grandfather used to sing the song, Oh, Tannenbaum to you?
And wow, that is a lovely gif:
'a Christian who doesn’t want to humble himself...'
I saw a lot of Republican Xtians on CSPAN during the Bush era.
Two I never forgot:
One was some of them with a cellphone, pretending that God was on the other end of the line. They said, 'Oh, sir, yes sir, we'll do it! And don't worry, sir, we'lll stop that! And we'll fight those Democrats, oh yes, we will!'
All of them laughing racously at the joke, reminded me of damn gang of klansters talking about lynching someone. And their base may or may not have seen that and approved.
Another one was the infamous James Dobson. He was being very contentious about those who criticized him (none of those were in the audience) but there were a bunch of fawning women waited with bated breath on every piece of dung that fell from his mouth.
He told about spending time in a cabin in Colorado in the mountains. He arose to stand on the porch, and saw a bear in the yard. So he got a gun and shot it.
Then said something to the effect that anyone who didn't like it could fuck off. I don't recall the exact words, but that was close, and it was the sentiment and tenor.
We wonder why women that vote with this group and are Tea Partiers and 'patriots' can be so vicious. This is what they are taking as the word of God, with no compassion or respect involved.
The Pope has seen them, too, and it's about time they got called out on it by the people who think they can count on an ultimate authority figure to be in their corner. Good bye to all these frauds who hate the poor and hurt others.
A person who believes in the only real ideal that set the USA apart from the time it was founded, that all are created equal, and looked to see that ideal taken further with the Constitutional amendments, would never even indulge in the kind of thinking, much less utter the words we have heard from the rightists repeatedly.
I feel sorry for him in that picture. All his money couldn't buy the love PBO was given.
Actually, I felt sorry for most (not all) of the insane clown posse running against Obama.
They were running against a good hearted, moral man who wanted to serve others and they could not compete. They never accomplished anything for others.
I see their lives as failures, their politics a farce. They had to play at high ideals since they never 'got it.' Ruthlessnesss doesn't go down well in history, and wise souls don't fall into that trap.
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