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Obama wins the right to detain people with no habeas review (.@ggreenwald ) http://bit.ly/covglq

Debt deal: Obama White House details By Lynn Sweet on July 31, 2011 10:58 PM | No Comments THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 31, 2011 BIPARTISAN DEBT DEAL: A WIN FOR THE ECONOMY AND BUDGET DISCIPLINE

Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com

Obama met his agenda. First and foremost, it's to get re-elected. What's that worth to progressives? Hmmmmmm....

| Glenn Greenwald | Salon.com

Maybe some of you can tell me why so many very smart people have, since the day Obama was inaugurated, deluded themselves into thinking that this admittedly very smart man, albeit one with limited political experience at the national level, was somehow going to step into office and proceed to rewrite the political laws that have governed presidential politics for the last two centuries? I'm listening.

RT @avivajazz: Koch Bros wage war on Obama - billionaire libertarians .…with NO limits ? * http://t.co/FQUWPGi

"President Obama has stated confidence in Treasury Secretary after 80 conversations with bank executives emerged"

"Pollin, Robert 18 Million Jobs by 2012: How Obama Can Save His Presidency Publication Date: 3/1/2010"

"Pollin, Robert Infrastructure Investments and the Obama Recovery Plan Publication Date: 5/1/2009"

Epstein, Gerald Taming High Finance: Why the Obama-Geithner Plan Won't Work Publication Date: 10/1/2009

Obama, letting policy wonks sell his healthcare reform, fails. Why? Policymakers share a list, not a unifying idea.

The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search (and copy) -- without suspicion of wrongdoing -- the contents of a traveler's laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversight of such inspections.\n\nThe policy, disclosed Thursday in a pair of Department of Homeland Security directives, describes more fully than did the Bush administration the procedures by which travelers' laptops, iPods, cameras and other digital devices can be searched and seized when they cross a U.S. border. And it sets time limits for completing searches.\n\nBut representatives of civil liberties and travelers groups say they see little substantive difference between the Bush-era policy, which prompted controversy, and this one.\n\n"It's a disappointing ratification of the suspicionless search policy put in place by the Bush administration," said Catherine Crump, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union. "It provides a lot of procedural safeguards, but it doesn't deal with the fundamental problem, which is that under the policy, government officials are free to search people's laptops and cellphones for any reason whatsoever."

My Gift to the Obama Presidency

Interview with Mitch Stewart, exec direc of OFA, on losing Massachussetts; and on Obama's first year. (Rolling Stone Magazine, Feb 12, 2010)

No We Can't / Yes We Can / No We Can't. Obama had millions of followers eager to fight for his agenda. But the president muzzled them~and he's paying the price. Feb 02, 2010 9:27 AM