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		<title>I Can No Longer Support Obama</title>
		<link>http://bluestein.com/2010/12/i-can-no-longer-support-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@BarackObama I met you twice and supported you big time. However, now that you support making the rich even richer in your &#8220;compromise,&#8221; I can no longer suport you. By compromsing such a core value, what exactly do you have left after the compromise&#8230; another party that is the puppet of corporations and billionaires? No [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@BarackObama  I met you twice and supported you big time.  However, now that you support making the rich even richer in your &#8220;compromise,&#8221; I can no longer suport you. By compromsing such a core value, what exactly do you have left after the compromise&#8230; another party that is the puppet of corporations and billionaires? No thanks.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;m done. </p>
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		<title>There is Not Equality in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Democrats as a Whole</title>
		<link>http://bluestein.com/2007/09/the-democrats-as-a-whole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been blogging much. There&#8217;s not much to say about the world except that the Democrats are not standing up to Bush. No excuses. We see through your grandstanding and your bullshit. The Democrats, as a whole, are not standing up to Bush. The hole is all that matters in this. That&#8217;s all.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t been blogging much. There&#8217;s not much to say about  the world except that the Democrats are not standing up to Bush. No excuses. We see through your grandstanding and your bullshit. The Democrats, as a whole, are not standing up to Bush. The hole is all that matters in this. That&#8217;s all.</p>
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		<title>Clinton/Obama: Bad Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A clinton/obama ticket would alienate the enormous percentage of americans who are anti-war. I would be a sure fire way to loose the election. Of course, they will blame it on the green party. When are democrats going to learn to court the far left in the same way the republicans court the far right?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A clinton/obama ticket would alienate the enormous percentage of americans who are anti-war. I would be a sure fire way to loose the election. Of course, they will blame it on the green party. When are democrats going to learn to court the far left in the same way the republicans court the far right?</p>
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		<title>Stealing the Midterms and the Power of Myth</title>
		<link>http://bluestein.com/2006/10/stealing-the-midterms-and-the-power-of-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stealing the Midterms and the Power of Myth â€œThe masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victimâ€?. Gustave Le Bon;â€?The Crowdâ€? Karl Rove is not Harry Houdini. He canâ€™t change the fact that the Democrats could take [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15398.htm">Stealing the Midterms and the Power of Myth        </a><br />
â€œThe masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victimâ€?. Gustave Le Bon;â€?The Crowdâ€?</p>
<p>Karl Rove is not Harry Houdini. He canâ€™t change the fact that the Democrats could take up to 40 seats in the House and that the Republicans may lose the Senate as well. He canâ€™t change the national polling-data which favors the Democrats by a considerable margin, or the exit polling which is predicted to show substantial Democratic gains too. And, thereâ€™s nothing Rove can do to stop the perception that the elections are now expected to be a Democratic landslide extending from sea to shining sea. The only thing that Rove can do to win the midterms is to purge the voting roles in key states and crank up the voting machines to â€œfull-tiltâ€?.</p>
<p>But even that wonâ€™t be enough this time.</p>
<p>The problem with that strategy is that it will only increase the suspicion that the elections have been rigged. Given the current projections, any massive voter tampering is likely to trigger a public outcry that will inevitably result in an investigation. Thatâ€™s not what Rove or any of the Bush team wants.</p>
<p>So what is Rove supposed to do?</p>
<p>One thing is certain; he wonâ€™t play by the rules. Heâ€™ll have to fabricate story which will explain why, at the very last minute, the majority of Americans switched their vote to Republican and changed the outcome election.</p>
<p>What else can he do?</p>
<p>That proved to be quite easy in 2004 because Rove had the entire corporate media standing behind his cockamamie story that 3 or 4 million fundamentalists, who had never voted before in a general election, suddenly poured down from the mountains to cast their ballot for their champion, George Bush. This absurd narrative was spouted from every media-soapbox in the nation until it was generally accepted as fact. The media then proceeded to quash any investigation of the massive voter fraud which took place across the country (particularly in Ohio) while discrediting critics as conspiracy theorists.</p>
<p>It worked like a charm.</p>
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		<title>Democrats Won&#8217;t Try To Impeach President</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 22:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, looking at the quote, it&#8217;s not as dramatic as Cindy presents it in her letter today. It sounds like Pelosi is definitely not ruling it out- but doesn&#8217;t want to make a big deal out of it that coudl cost teh democrats lots of votes. I don&#8217;t know. Democrats Won&#8217;t Try To Impeach President [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, looking at the quote, it&#8217;s not as dramatic as Cindy presents it in her letter today. It sounds like Pelosi is definitely not ruling it out- but doesn&#8217;t want to make a big deal out of it that coudl cost teh democrats lots of votes. I don&#8217;t know.<br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051101950.html">Democrats Won&#8217;t Try To Impeach President</a><br />
. In an interview with The Washington Post last week, Pelosi said a Democratic-controlled House would launch investigations of the administration on energy policy and other matters. She said impeachment would not be a goal of the investigations, but she added: &#8220;You never know where it leads to.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came across this guys blog and I find it interesting. He appears to be intellegent, well informed and an independant thinker. Please read the whole article linked below. Tikun Olam-×ª×§×•×Ÿ ×¢×•×œ×?: Make the World a Better Place Â» U.S. Naval Task Force to Iranian Waters in Preparation for War ? Remember that idiot [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I just came across this guys blog and I find it interesting. He appears to be intellegent, well informed and an independant thinker. Please read the whole article linked below.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/10/14/us-naval-task-force-to-iranian-waters-in-preparation-for-war/">Tikun Olam-×ª×§×•×Ÿ ×¢×•×œ×?: Make the World a Better Place Â» U.S. Naval Task Force to Iranian Waters in Preparation for War<br />
?</a><br />
Remember that idiot Ralph Nader who said during a recent presidential campaign there wasn&#8217;t a lick of difference between the Republicans and Democrats? This apparently resonated for just enough Democrats that they helped send George Bush to the White House and Al Gore into moviemaking. I knew at the time that Nader was a self-deluded egomaniac.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Democrat Hipocrites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel that those who in the 90&#8242;s defended Clinton for getting persecuted for lying about a blow job and now are out to get Foley are hippocrites. And no I can&#8217;t spell. I happen to have been one of those who defended Clinton BUT I also feel the same way about Foley. We mustn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel that those who in the 90&#8242;s defended Clinton for getting persecuted for lying about a blow job and now are out to get Foley are hippocrites. And no I can&#8217;t spell.</p>
<p>I happen to have been one of those who defended Clinton BUT I also feel the same way about Foley. We mustn&#8217;t have double standards. It disgusts me to see so many left wing politicians and bloggers stoop to the level of the likes of Ken Starr and Linda &#8220;Mac Truck Face&#8221; Tripp.<br />
Why go after Republicans in this manor when you can go attack their policies? Oh no that would be too honest; too direct. You would have to actually have principles you&#8217;d have to own and stand by. That would require soome humanity.</p>
<p>Get fucked. I&#8217;m tired of it.</p>
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