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This is a blog post from DailyKos.com which is a VERY leftist blog. They call themselves Kossacks and if you review their logo it appears to mimic the old Soviet Union communist propaganda art. Remember communism seeks to create an egalitarian society by taking wealth from others to give it to people who didn’t work or earn it and basically turning the entire country into slave labor with no opportunity.

Please follow the thread to see the “rock and the hard place” that President Obama is experiencing with several different factions in the democratic party, labor and left wing organizations that are for and against health care reform. President Obama has pandered to the left, unions and has helped to pay them back in the stimulus bill and even bailing out their pension plans in HR3200.

AFL-CIO: No Public Option, No Support

By BarbinMD

Tue Sep 01, 2009 at 03:00:04 PM PDT

This is what it sounds like when someone representing the Democratic wing of the Party speaks:

Democratic lawmakers will not be able to count on the AFL-CIO’s support if they drop the public insurance option from the health care reform legislation, union officials said Tuesday.

The AFL-CIO’s incoming president, Richard Trumka, outlined “three absolute musts” in any overhaul package: a public option, an employer mandate and no tax on employer-provided health benefits.

Asked if the union would work against any bill that did not hit those targets, Trumka told reporters during a *briefing: “That means we won’t support the bill if it doesn’t have the public option.”

Please note I cannot find independent verification of *a briefing: Ric

And as Trumka declared last month during a speech to the Sheet Metal Workers International Association:

We need to send them a special message: it’s that you may have forgotten what the labor movement did to get you elected; but, by God, we never will! And if you stab us in the back on health care this year don’t you dare ask us for our support next year!

And the Max Baucus/Blue Dog wing of the Party needs to remember that — and that 2010 is just around the corner.

Overview of what the “left” believes is the next move for Obama.

Report: President to reveal health care deal-breakers

By Jed Lewison

Tue Sep 01, 2009 at 04:30:04 PM PDT

Marc Ambinder delivers a report that has the feel of a trial balloon:

This time, the President is going to be specific. Next week, President Obama is going to give Democrats a health care plan they can begin to sell.

He plans to list specific goals that any health insurance reform plan that arrives at his desk must achieve, according to Democratic strategists familiar with the plan.

Strikingly, despite the tough “deal-breaker” language, there still seems to be a ton of wiggle room on the public option:

He will insist upon a mechanism to cut costs and increase competition among insurance companies — and perhaps will even specify a percentage rate — and he will say that his preferred mechanism remains a government-subsidized public health insurance option, but he will remain agnostic about whether the plan must include a robust public option. Officials won’t say whether the president intends to endorse a specific “trigger” mechanism if the competition mechanism fails, but they say he will make it clear that the final bill must contain language that increases competition.

Purely in political terms, if the White House’s goal is to generate enthusiasm in the Democratic base, that sort of approach won’t cut it. If they want to excite the base — and as Kos showed earlier, they need to — then they will need to come out more strongly for a public option, because it is the only mechanism that anybody has proposed that will meet his stated objectives.

Update (4:50, by Jed) — Remember that this sounds like a trial balloon, and it’s not coming from named sources. Nothing is written in stone. President Obama hasn’t said anything yet. If you don’t like what you’re hearing, the best thing to do is to let your voice be heard, whether at public events, phone calls to your senators and representatives, or whatever works best for you. Without your active involvement, AHIP could still win this thing.

Make a difference on Friday 9-11 and make the call. Your Representatives need to hear from you. They will be hearing from those who wish to take our freedom of choice, jobs and livelihood.

By Ric Joyner

Obama smoked her! 17-point lead is huge. She also is floundering in her message. Both Obama and Hillary have appeared on debates to unify the party, and assuage fears of the faithful. The result…they have similar messages. This is a problem. In addition, if the candidates have the same message, and one has baggage, and the other is popular…oops. This strategy is drowning out the voice of Hillary because Obama does not have the history she has, and he is an eloquent speaker.  I believe the two debates that attempted to show unity, lost the election for Hillary.

The fact that he has no experience, a hollow message, but great speeches, is the definition of the “cult of personality”…the proof of his cult status is that young people are flocking…anyone want MTV? Thus, Hillary is less popular than Obama. Should this be what the election is about…personality?

The issue of the loss for Hillary in WI, represented the type of state demographics she does well in attracting, and Obama stole those demographics. The states coming up, which are MUST wins for Hillary, are Texas and Ohio. These states hold the same type of demographics as WI. In addition, the WI loss is a bad omen. Obviously, she has a lot at stake. She will need to define the race on issues versus personality, but it may be too late for her, because in the previous debates they wanted to show unity, and a common message…but this was when Hillary still had a commanding overall nationwide lead which has evaporated, a few polls put Obama ahead.

Obama’s fund raising is outstripping Hillary’s. Money wins. In his case, money and personality wins. To be fair to Obama, he has excitement behind him as well as people fainting around him…and a great organization on the ground, which are winning combinations.

BTW, did you know the candidates spend roughly $10,000,000 per week to be elected? Somehow that is ironic to the message they both have of helping the poor, giving everyone health care at taxpayer expense, and increasing taxes… I do not get liberal politics <shrug>.

The truth is they have vast differences in approach and policy. Obama is left wing liberal, his programs are going to cost the American people billions, and Hillary is more conservative…as liberals can be. I still cannot picture Hillary and Mr. Hillary in the Whitehouse. My prediction is she will lose Texas, but scratch a win in Ohio.

This race may still come down to the Super Delegates (party leaders that have pledged allegiance , and owe favors to the Clintons) which could devastate the Democratic Party at the convention. The cause of the riots in 1968 was hauntingly similar because Humphrey won the nomination, but had not won any delegates! Backroom politics gave him the win, and this was against the will of the party faithful. Violence in Denver? Will this happen again? Is the nomination stacked against Obama with inside politics and favors owed? http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/conventions/chicago/facts/chicago68/index.shtml

Watch the debate tomorrow night between these two, and Hillary will go on the attack to define her differences with Obama. Should be deliciously fun for a conservative like me.