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In reply to the discussion: Before you jump on Obama over the Monsanto amendment, take a minute and read this [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)time to ask you to provide some comments of mine which are 'crapping on Obama' but I'm asking anyhow.
I know you support Monsanto's rider and I also know that this is a difficult position to find yourself in as a Democrat. But it would be more admirable if you were to explain why you support it, rather than these feeble attempts to distract from the actual issue.
This, fyi, is not about Obama. Not everything is about Obama, although maybe for you it is. Try not to project your own feelings onto others. We are not all so wrapped up in one politician that we become blinded to what is important.
This is about a dangerous Corporation that already has been allowed to write legislation for this Congress. I always thought that Congress was the legislative body that wrote the laws. I don't know when Giant, Global, abusive Corporations were granted the right to write our laws. Do you?
If Obama is your main concern, which apparently he is as every one of your comments so far have shown far more concern about Obama than about those who will be adversely affected by this rider, and you admire anyone who stands up for farmers, then you must be very disappointed that he has done the exact opposite.
But, and I'm trying hard to understand this, you won't say you are disappointed in any of the Democrats who did not stand up for farmers. And anyone who, iyo, expresses their opinion on the lack of support for farmers by supporting Monsanto's legislation (yes, they wrote it) is 'crapping on Obama'.
What kind of logic is this? What do YOU suggest we do in order to do what you say you admire, stand up for farmers? Should we applaud Monsanto and its supporters in Congress and the WH? I just can't do that, sorry.
Help me here, I'm trying to not get you upset over someone you obviously are emotionally connected to. But it's hard to give those who did not stand up for farmers credit for something they failed to do.