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From Wired
“No More Blood For Oil.”
Bumper stickers with that phrase were synonymous with opposition to the Iraq War, during the George W. Bush administration.
Simply hosting that message on one’s bumper was cause enough to remove two attendees at Bush’s 2005 speech at the Wings Over the Rockies Museum in Colorado. The White House had a [...]

Doesn’t it bother you that you have so abandoned your base that you would allow two doctors who are advocating for single payer health care not deliver a message to you but instead have then arrested for the simple crime of being on the same hotel property as your august personage while holding a protest [...]

Once again rx at ThePartyParty has scored a good one

But this one is still one of my faves

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Everyone on the left, myself certainly included, saw far more in Barack Obama than was really there. There was the aura, then there was the man. Micah Sifry absolutely, completely, nails this disconnect in an essay not to be missed.
the image of Barack Obama as the candidate of “change”, community organizer, and “hope-monger” (his word), [...]

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From Code Pink
Women Say NO to the Escalation—
This is NOT the Hope you voted for!
*UPDATE* The White House called to let us know that
they had been receiving too many emails from us! So keep them coming!
Whether or not you voted for Barack Obama, this escalation of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan is not the HOPE he [...]

from the CBC
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will not be among the world leaders briefed personally by U.S. President Barack Obama about his plans for a new strategy in Afghanistan.
Obama will contact a number of leaders, including those of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, China and Russia. But despite Canada’s lengthy military commitment to the troubled region, [...]

Well said Michael, very well said.. Graveyard of Empires is so true.
An Open Letter to President Obama from Michael Moore
Monday, November 30th, 2009
Dear President Obama,
Do you really want to be the new “war president”? If you go to West Point tomorrow night (Tuesday, 8pm) and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops [...]

It’s getting to be pathetic to watch how many ways he has gone back on his campaign pledges, implicit and explicit, as well as what one could reasonably expect him to do from his pre-Washington writings and speeches.
IPS
U.S.: Groups Denounce Obama Rejection of Landmine Treaty
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (IPS) – Human [...]