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Else You Are Mad

(3,040 posts)
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 02:40 AM Apr 2016

WTF are you doing Obama?!?

First you are all in for the TPP and now you are trying to block the Saudi 9/11 bill. Yes, I know this is from Fox, but hold off your attacks, The Democratic Senator Graham, in his own words, told all of us what is in the classified 28 pages of the report if you read between the lines of what he said.


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grasswire

(50,130 posts)
1. Graham said that Obama is lobbying for the Saudis
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 02:44 AM
Apr 2016

Other news reports I saw said that the Saudis snubbed Obama today when he arrived there.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,173 posts)
4. He's not lobbying hard enough!
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 04:27 AM
Apr 2016

Blair got a nice cushy position at the Carlyle Group after he made them a bunch of $ off the Iraq War. Obama with the TPP push and the whitewashing of the Saudis for 9/11 should land him in a nice spot somewhere after he leaves office.

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
5. And a vote for Hillary...
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 04:28 AM
Apr 2016

... will continue this kind of "thinking."

PO going over there yesterday and then not being greeted in a friendly way scares the Bejesus out of me. To me, it's like walking straight into HELL. I guess he's going on to Germany when finished there? I'll be glad when he gets back home. Stop the TPP and eff the Saudi's!

Oh yes: John Podesta (who you will find close to Hillary's right arm) is a Saudi lobbyist.

Free the 28 pages!

Orrex

(63,203 posts)
9. Whew!
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 07:49 AM
Apr 2016

I was afraid I'd have to go a whole thread without someone feeling the need to remind us that they don't like Clinton.


Thanks for sparing us!

ReRe

(10,597 posts)
10. Aw, shucks...
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 07:56 AM
Apr 2016


... you're so welcome. Don't you think it's a good thing to connect the dots in all things political?

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
6. k&r Why is anyone surprised?
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 04:32 AM
Apr 2016

He told the world exactly what his policies were a few years ago.



"The truth of the matter is that my policies are so mainstream that if I had set the same policies that I had back in the 1980s, I would be considered a moderate Republican."- President Barack Obama


And we've all had countless examples, but for some reason these things are "forgotten" or something. One of his so called greatest accomplishments is a law that requires everyone to buy corporate insurance, which was a Heritage Foundation proposal. His point man Max Baucus had single payer doctor and nurse advocates arrested on Capitol Hill, and he promised a public insurance option but failed to deliver even that. Some even say he made a back room deal to quash it.

Remember any of this stuff?

DU'er Woo Me With Science did

Democratic deeds for may 2014

White House colluded with House Republicans *against* Democrats to WEAKEN surveillance bill.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024984920

White House (again) Seeks Legal Immunity For Firms That Hand Over Customer Data
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024906691

Obama Administration To Reveal Justification For Drone Strikes On U.S. Citizens
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024979665

Obama administration quietly approves new loopholes to help insurance companies gouge patients:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4970298

No single payer according to Obama's HHS nominee.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4973013

The murder of net neutrality
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4903646

Obama's Crony Capitalism will Kill Net Neutrality. *New* FCC Staff in bed with ISP's
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024906730

Democratic Opposition Lines Up Against Obama Judicial Nominee
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024945344

Secret trade memos calling for more fracking and offshore drilling
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024975916

Obama's Defense Department Refuses to Tell Senate Which Groups We’re at War With
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024985813

President Obama close to authorizing mission led by the US military to train moderate Syrian rebels
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025005755

Syrian rebels describe U.S.-backed training in Qatar in new documentary
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025004518

Ethics watchdog calls for investigation of EPA assault on renewable fuels.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024987371

This Trade Deal Will Make You Sick, Maybe Give You Mad Cow
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024979506

Why do we bother: Feds Ever-So-Gently File Criminal Charges Against Credit Suisse
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024974240

Too Big to Jail: DOJ Charges Two Banks with Criminal Acts, But Will Not Hold Them Criminally Accountable
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024906501

College presidents upset. Obama's Ed Dept says rating colleges will be like "rating a blender".
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025004676

Opening the US interstate system to tolling
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024894570
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024892605


And after all that hard work, it's no surprise that Our President put on his comfortable walking shoes and headed out for some golf:

White House downplays golf outing with Bain Capital lobbyist
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4977762

Miss Ya Woo!

WatchWhatISay

(3,426 posts)
12. And every time he brags about pushing Republican inspired policies
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:42 AM
Apr 2016

And every time he brags about pushing Republican inspired policies, we give him a pass completely. No one ever asked why a Democratic president isn't pursuing Democratc policies.

Anybody remember George Bush pushing any democratic ideas?

ananda

(28,858 posts)
13. I do not give Obama a pass on anything.
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:47 AM
Apr 2016

The TPP is horrible in every way.

Lobbying for the Saudis is equally bad.

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
17. GWB was a crook...Obama is just doing his job.
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:56 AM
Apr 2016

The country elected him and he swore an oath to IT

not to the Democratic party

Im pissed at him also (Holder was a tool) but O is NOTHING like GWB

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
16. Obama is pretty much how I imagined he'd be
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:53 AM
Apr 2016

So many of my friends and family eagerly jumped aboard the Obama bandwagon in '08, and I wanted to as well. I voted for him, but when I heard before the election how his inner circle had Geithner and Summers in it, I knew the proverbial score.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
8. Tired of the Podesta Group Politicians, friends to those who murder my people.
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 07:21 AM
Apr 2016

Do not think that you can demand I vote for the Saudi Group Candidate.

 

Reter

(2,188 posts)
14. I think you underestimate the shadow government
Thu Apr 21, 2016, 09:51 AM
Apr 2016

The puppetmasters told him to veto it, and he has little choice but to listen.

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