A pattern with Obama. He consistently compromises human health for corporate interests. He originally called for universal single payer health care but has dramatically changed his position to a voluntary corporate insurance plan in response to health industry lobbyists.
This story from MSNBC highlights how he compromised his position on requiring nuclear power plants to report the release of human health hazards. He went from “nuclear plants shall immediately notify” the public to “the nuclear regulatory commission shall consider requiring plants to provide timely notice” of the release of radioactive substances. He responded to the demands of Exelon corporation, one of his top campaign donors.
Hillary Clinton launched an all out negative ad in Wisconsin against Obama–a declaration of war to take back the lead (she only plays nice when she’s winning):
Obama responded, “I understand Senator Clinton periodically [pauses] when she is feeling down [pauses] launches attacks as a way of trying to boost her appeal. But I think this kind of gamesmanship is not what the American people are looking for.”
Did Obama really just go there? Is Obama claiming that Clinton is PMSing? Oh no, he didn’t. Strategic word play, and Obama is an amazing orator. I have no doubt that it is intentional.
Yesterday Palestinian farmers burned flowers in protest of the Israeli blockade on Gaza. The blockade has severely limited the flow of goods to and from the Strip, and it has prevented the farmers from exporting their product to Europe for Valentines Day. Since they couldn’t sell them, the growers dumped two truckloads of flowers at a border crossing; they fed some of the flowers to sheep and the rest they burned in protest of Israel’s oppressive restrictions.
“It is a black Valentine’s Day,” said farmer Majed Hadayed, estimating his seasonal losses at $2.5 million.
Jane Fonda’s use of the word cunt on NBC’s “Today Show” prompted an immediate apology by the network. And now it’s getting lots of attention in the news–the most viewed article on Reuters.
But what’s so news worthy about it? Nothing. Nothing at all.
Fonda was talking about the vagina monologues:
I was asked to do a monologue called ‘Cunt,’ and I said, ‘I don’t think so. I’ve got enough problems.’ Then I came to New York to see Eve and it changed my life.
She just let it slip and now kids everywhere (on the eastern coast where it aired live) are damaged for life, irreparably. Oh the pain, that is cunt.
