02/08/2012 06:39:07 AM EST

When will our bought-and-paid-for president step in?

posted by David F

Last year, we had thousands of bird died from fireworks and 100,000 fish bobbing down a river, and now we have mass hysteria in a high school. The people employed to protect us are working for the multinationals. You don't have to be a treehugger to see what's going on. Wake up America.
 
N.Y. town still baffled by teens' mysterious tics
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Another area of concern for environmental groups in LeRoy are natural gas wells on school property. The natural gas from the wells is used to heat school system buildings. The wells use a controversial technique called fracking, which shoots a chemical mixture into the earth to force out the gas. In July 2011, some of the tanks at the well sites leaked fluid on to athletic fields. Some trees died. The school was told to dig up the affected soil, according to documents obtained by CNN.
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When will our bought-and-paid-for president step in? | 9 comments (9 topical, 0 hidden)
stands to reason... (none / 0)
that if he's bought and paid for, then he won't. 

by Quo Vadimus on 02/08/2012 07:42:23 AM EST

Yeah, that was a Dylan Ratigan question... (none / 0)
...where you inform your audience with an answer-packed question. I wonder if there's a literary term for this type of question.

by David F on 02/08/2012 05:19:11 PM EST

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That would be ... (none / 0)
A rhetorical question I believe.   ;-)

by Gordon Shumway on 02/09/2012 10:54:58 AM EST

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Obama bought and paid for (none / 0)

Obama has sold out on every issue.  He takes his orders from the Republicans and from corporate America.  He has achieved more of Bush's goals than Bush could have ever dreamed of.  Next on the horizon is letting Shell drill the ANWAR.  Yeah for big oil and yeah for Obama aka Bush III!

Yet, Obama will make marvelous speeches about his "concern" for the middle class and us 99 per centers.  Same BS, different day.

Read Barney Sanders book "Speech" -- get enlightened.  

by dancindead on 02/08/2012 04:27:56 PM EST

Ralph Nader was right (none / 0)

I'm afraid Ralph Nader was right in November of 2008 when he posed this question to Obama on a radio interview: Will Obama be an Uncle Sam or an Uncle Tom (To the corporations).

Shep Smith had him on to talk about his comment and he stood by it, and I'm glad he did. He's damn right.


A bit relevant, but people always say "what if al gore won in 2000"... what if Ralph Nader won in 2000? Imagine how different the country would be today. God knows if we'd have single payer, a small military budget and and 8800 more Americans today.

by fox09 on 02/08/2012 04:45:53 PM EST

yep (none / 0)
He came on Hartmann's show during the primary and pretty much nailed it. At the time I thought he was being a little over the top. In hind sight, he was too soft on him.

by sisco66 on 02/08/2012 08:57:31 PM EST

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state of the union (none / 0)
He bought into fracking and natural gas as our next big job creator. So don't hold your breath on him changing his mind on this.

The sad part is that it's his own failed policies that have opened the door for this pandora's box. Maybe the oversupply from the mid west and western PA will kill the need to drill toward the east. If we can expand the cancer belt to the rest of the red states, maybe they will figure out their right wing votes kill more people and babies than short sighted would be mothers.

by sisco66 on 02/08/2012 09:03:19 PM EST

throw a dart at any of these descriptive words.. (none / 0)
liar, speaker with forked-tongue, shape-shifter, chicago school milton friedmanite, corporatist, fascist puppet, duplicitous, herbert hoover disciple, reaganite, drill-hugger, carbon-pusher, omnipotent polluter, air-water-soil befouler, planet-destroyer, christo-zombie, myopic toadie, robber-banker's buttboy, warmonger, wanton killer, torturer-in-chief, assassin of american citizens, hope-crusher, the place where dreams go to die, snake-in-the-grass, despoiler of the US Constitution, protector of rednecks and other abusive americans, and the towel-boy for those who would subjugate women and children.

(apolgies for any repetition)

~majority.fm

by mauirising on 02/10/2012 01:38:12 PM EST

ofcourse what would be worse, is a repub president (none / 0)

~majority.fm

by mauirising on 02/10/2012 03:49:56 PM EST

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