Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-15 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Tough to say. Obama raised a very large percentage of his money for the 2008 campaign in small dollar donations, far more than any one before had. " While Obama may have had more small donors than anyone before him, contributions from big business to the Democrats in 2010 were large and telling.

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread Sam
Nuclear power! http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/crony_capitalism_and_obamas_anti-coal_crusade.html Is Exelon the new Haliburton in terms of evil corporations? . On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:29 PM, G Money wrote: > > And finally...where does Obama fit into all of this? > >

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread G Money
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > No, it isn't true. Quite the opposite, in fact, if you are talking > about large multinational corporations. As corporate income has risen > sharply amongst large corporations, individual income and government > revenues have fallen and our

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread Judah McAuley
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM, G Money wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > >> >> RIAA == stupid and evil >> Obama == a lot of corporatist water carrying >> >> Said so in 2008, still true in 2011. Sad. >> > > Is it possible to elect a president who is not corpora

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread G Money
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Judah McAuley wrote: > > RIAA == stupid and evil > Obama == a lot of corporatist water carrying > > Said so in 2008, still true in 2011. Sad. > Is it possible to elect a president who is not corporation-friendly? I mean, if you don't have at least some big corpo

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread Judah McAuley
RIAA == stupid and evil Obama == a lot of corporatist water carrying Said so in 2008, still true in 2011. Sad. Judah On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > > " I think we all agree here." > > Maybe.  I could see at least one regular poster disagreeing. > > J > > - > > Ninety pe

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-14 Thread Jerry Barnes
" I think we all agree here." Maybe. I could see at least one regular poster disagreeing. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-13 Thread Gruss Gott
Jerry Barnes wrote: > > I don't like Obama, but this doesn't really make him different from 95% of > other elected officials.  It's just that his policies are so far opposite of > his rhetoric that it is easier to see. > Wow. I think we all agree here. :: yawn : ~~

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-13 Thread Jerry Barnes
"It's just the Corporatist Party at this point, . . ." Or in other words, fascism. "Wasn't Obama elected on a platform of 'for the people' and 'positive change'? " Of course. "The more I hear about what he's doing, the less I see him being anything near what he was elected for, at least wh

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-12 Thread Robert Munn
It's just the Corporatist Party at this point, Democrats and Republicans are history. On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Michael Dinowitz < mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote: > > Wasn't Obama elected on a platform of 'for the people' and 'positive > change'? The more I hear about what he's doing,

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-11 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Wasn't Obama elected on a platform of 'for the people' and 'positive change'? The more I hear about what he's doing, the less I see him being anything near what he was elected for, at least what the rhetoric said he was elected for. Are we sure he's a democrat? On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:11 AM, V

Re: Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-11 Thread Jerry Barnes
Are you surprised? J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Vivec wrote: > > h

Another awful corporatist choice for the Obama government...RIAA lawyer

2011-06-11 Thread Vivec
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/08/copyright-extremist.html ""The Senate late Monday confirmed former Recording Industry Association of America lawyer Donald Verrilli Jr.to serve as the nation's solicitor general. Verrilli, one of at least five former RIAA attorneys appointed to the administrat