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Yesterday afternoon we got a glimpse of Barack Obama the candidate when he burst into a fiery appeal for health care reform at a rally for New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.

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July 17, 2009 10:40 AM   

Make the deeds match the words, Mr. President.

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July 17, 2009 11:02 AM   

FIRED UP!!

READY TO GO!!

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July 17, 2009 11:47 AM   

Color me skeptical becoz I've seen this whore say plenty of eloquent words and after do nothing but protect the status quo with cosmetic changes.

And what I suspect is the latest rahmbama game (all of which have nothing more to do than to serve their corporate masters who are their largest campaign donors): hold off on effectuating universal healthcare until 2013 and then wield the threat that a republican president would repeal it to get the pope of hope reelected. If my suspicions are correct, and I am surprised that I haven't heard anyone bring this up this possibility, people would have to die so that the rahmbama team could get reelected and continue to do the wonderful job they have done for their corporate constituents.

The fact that this proposal came through the house where rahm has a lot of influence after cracking heads as the head of the dccc adds to my suspicions. I just don't see why it should take so goddamn long to have this go into effect ... four fucking years. And why exactly does it start after obama's term ends? A coincidence?

The pope of hope and his sidekick, the dlc's master of deceit, are such wonderful people that I can't put nothing past the scumbags. And that's exactly what they are ... the pope of hope included although he tries to distance himself from his henchman, emanuel, who does his dirty work while the head pr man for the establishment gives eloquent speeches while effectuating evil.

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July 17, 2009 12:11 PM    in reply to zeabow

Seriously, stop whining.

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July 17, 2009 12:40 PM   

I love my president. I will go through the fire for him

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July 17, 2009 12:43 PM   

I really wish TPM would make it policy to at least link to the full versions of speeches. It's incredibly frustrating to get these little tastes (and thus to know the speeches are out there somewhere), but then not be able to watch the entire thing.

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July 17, 2009 12:51 PM   

For those who are frustrated with the compromises that wil emerge from this round of reform, I would say that we should all remember that it is the first round. It would be wonderful if we could get a comprehensive progressive health care package pushed through Congress. But that is not possible. What we need is that something, anything, is done. And then we can go back for a second, and thirdm and and fourth round. Undoing the misperceptions and the disempowering those whose financial interests are somewhere that desire a perpetuation of the status quo will not happen overnight.

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July 17, 2009 1:42 PM    in reply to acamus

Acamus - Incrementalism is the death of reform. The unfortunate reality is that our collective attention span is not that long. Now is the time to transform health care: we have the Presidency, 60 Dem senators and 70% approval on this. If we can't get it done now, we'll never will.

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July 17, 2009 2:08 PM   

He is crippling this nation. Record breaking spending, unemployment and deficit:
http://www.thebarackobamawatch.com/ECONOMY___TAXES.html

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July 17, 2009 2:13 PM    in reply to carry

You forgot about the birth certificate, seekret mooslim and Bill Ayers.

Also.

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