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Robert Scheer: Dear Barack, Spare Me Your Emails…
2 hours ago ago from Tainted Saints
Barack Obama’s faux populism is beginning to grate, and when yet another one of those “we the people” e-mails from the president landed on my screen as I was fishing around for a column subject, I came unglued. It is one thing to rob us blind by rewarding the power elite that created our problems but quite another to sugarcoat it in the rhetoric of a David taking on those Goliaths. In each of the three most important areas of policy ...
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19 hours ago ago from Palestinian Pundit
By Robert Scheer Truthdig "Barack Obama’s faux populism is beginning to grate, and when yet another one of those “we the people” e-mails from the president landed on my screen as I was fishing around for a column subject, I came unglued. It is one thing to rob us blind by rewarding the power elite that created our problems but quite another to sugarcoat it in the rhetoric of a David taking on those Goliaths. In each of the three most ...
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15 hours ago ago from Sierra Voices
Here's a good column by Robert Scheer , who voted for Obama with hope in his heart, but came unglued recently when he received yet another of those we the people' e-mails from the president. Barack Obama’s faux populism is beginning to grate, and when yet another one of those we the people' e-mails from the president landed on my screen as I was fishing around for a column subject, I came unglued. It is one thing to rob us blind by ...
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By Jonathan Weisman When President Barack Obama summoned the bipartisan leadership of Congress to talk jobs, this probably wasn't what he had in mind. In an apparently tense exchange, Republican leaders lectured Obama on his policies, saying uncertainty over energy, health care and financial legislation was freezing business hiring. Obama fired back, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi : Stop trying to frighten the American people. ...
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15 hours ago ago from Good News Now
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