Obama in Press confernce SHOULD HAVE REASSURED VOTERS that Roberts money will NOT kill our democracy

[JohnWxy]

President Obama, in your Post election Press conference YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD VOTERS:

"There's one thing I want to make clear to disconsolate voters out there. Yesterday's election results does NOT mean that the Wallstreet Banksters, Insurance companies, Pharmaceutical companies and the corporate world in general are not going to succeed in killing our Democracy. Yes, they and .... their confederates have done a pretty good job confusing, bamboozling and conning many people with disinformation and various Big Lies to vote against their own self interests. Working people are a little closer to being shafted even more than they already have been, true, but we will fight on. People who would like to obtain health care so they can have health care as good and live as long as those who can afford over-priced health insurance should not give up hope. Those who are afraid they may have to face insurance companies alone and face geometrically rising insurance costs, do not need to fear. I will not give up fighting for their welfare. Health care will not become again, a luxury only the well off can afford.

This doesn't mean that businesses will be free once again, to have their way with borrowers, consumers and workers. We will not be returning the the Free Market Free-for-all. As long as I am here, we will not see another disaster of greed and stupidity in the banking industry. Democracy has not been entirely sold to the highest bidders. We are not entering a Dark Age of Corporate Feudalism. Democracy will survive this debacle, this shell game, this political equivalent of a Madoff 'deal'.

We who believe in Democracy, who count on it (because we are not wealthy, or well connected) will survive and come back to fight another day. This was just one battle,....it's not the war. You and me, we will WIN future battles, ....future wars. I promise you that.

Good Day everyone. God Bless the United States of America. (may it never become the United Corporations of America)"



Conservative Groups outspent Liberals 2 to 1 in midterm elections - USA Today

WASHINGTON — Tuesday's midterm elections — and the record-shattering amounts outside groups spent to oust Democratic incumbents — are just a warm-up to the 2012 presidential race, analysts and experts say.
Conservative groups outspent liberal groups by a more than 2-to-1 ratio heading into an Election Day that brought the biggest Republican sweep in the House of Representatives in decades and sliced into the Democratic majority in the Senate.

"The Democrats brought a bat, and the Republicans brought a grenade," said Dave Levinthal of the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign money. "If you think spending is out of control by outside groups, it likely will blow your mind in the presidential election."

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[madrchsod]

1. you expect him to be a harry truman?

he`s beginning to remind me of carter...

[JohnWxy]

2. he said it would be alright with him if he was a one term president, if he knew he did the right

things, for the country.

Well, if he's not bullshitting us about that he should be willing to throw (his) caution to the winds, say 'fuck-it, I may as well fight these guys.".... and if he did THAT... then he would greatly increaae teh likelihood of a second term. Why? because people will follow a sincere, brave fighter. In other words a hero! (is anybody, i the WH, listening?).

(Mr. President you're not going to get ANYWHERE trying to work WITH these guys. You might as well fight them.)