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Health Care Question

There is no question: the Health Care Bill sucks. But, that being the case, the question becomes this:

Is the Health Care Bill really the best we could get, and therefore we should take it as greedily as though it were everything we could want, or

Did Obama resuscitate a broken system--a criminally exploitative system????

Judging by the outrage out there, I would guess the former. But the outrage is also disingenuous to a great extent--politics and bigotry in one stinky mix...

Anyone?

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Karl Rove is your friend

i never felt completely satisfied with the BushCo Rap Sheet we tried to compile on this site, but Karl Rove's paw prints were certainly all over it.

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welcome first steps

Leo and i had a chuckle and cheer listening to Democracy Now today... what a surreal moment: The US pledges to close its secret prisons, and repudiates torture.

hell yes, President Obama.

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President Obama!...?

I am starting this new thread (a part three, I guess, regarding Obama's race into history), though I am, like everybody else, in that node between success and what it means. I hope to leave the thread open enough for anyone to make any comment whatsoever about the direction of this country, where we hope it is going as well as where it seems to be tending. Anyone?

Here are my current thoughts:

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Presidential Race 2008

OK, dtek, let's get on it.

What do you have to say? Palin bump, Maverick Man, Black elitist? Lies, distortions, waffles? Economy, Environment, THE CRIME WE CALL THE IRAQ WAR?

Where are you guys? Jej? DKG? RED? arh1?

I have much to say and will get to it soon, I hope. But in the interim, go at it, my friends.

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2008 President Nominations

All right, dtek, here we are ont the edge of a election year, and yet not a word from us. Let's see if we can get this ball rolling...

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