WASHINGTON - JANUARY 25: U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement following a meeting of the Middle Class Task Force at the White House January 25, 2010 in Washington, DC. Obama and Vice President Joe Biden announced their support for an expansion of the child- and dependent-care tax credit for families that make less than $85,000 a year as well as other initiatives designed to help the middle class. Obama's State of the Union address will be on January 27. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
From Denny: People like me are walking away from the Democratic Party to join the fast growing third alternative, finding a place in the Independent/Unaffiliated column.
Democrats - and Republicans - are so fed up with Bought Government ruining our lives we are leaving the dominant national political parties in droves. This 2012 election will prove to be a stampede of voters away from the mainstream - and now highly corporate money corrupted - politics. In fact, 52 percent of America wants a third party because the two national parties do such a poor job.
This presidential election, predicted by all the official prognosticators, will be won by a razor thin margin. The pollsters are beginning to bring home the obvious all the rest of us already know: the voters no longer want to vote this president into a second term.
President Obama's support has dropped steadily since his fast track 2008 election. Perhaps too much was expected of him. Perhaps the country is so irrevocably screwed up by Wall Street and corporate puppet politicians that no one can fix it now. One thing is for sure, President Obama had many forks in the road where he could have defended the Middle Class against the rapacious Republicans and Big Business, choosing to do little or nothing.
Photo: Golden Meadow, Louisiana, 13 April 2011, photo by Dave Martin
From Denny: Thousands of marine animals have died, about 7,000. There are probably three times that but because of BP preventing any news crews out in the disaster area in the early weeks of the oil spill. It could not be properly documented.
Photo: Dead dolphin found at Fourchon Beach, Port Fourchon, Louisiana, 13 April 2011
What is most worrisome are all the millions of gallons of cancer-causing dispersant used in the Gulf against the will of the Louisiana and Gulf residents. That's what is killing the baby dolphins and other marine animals now one year later.
The oyster beds will take over 10 years to reestablish, if they are lucky. Louisiana oysters used to be the finest in the nation until now, thanks to the incompetence and depraved indifference of British Petroleum. The British came and the British left us in tatters, stepping on our faces as they walked away from the problem.
Photo: Tar balls on beach at Port Fourchon, Louisiana - 13 April 2011
They dared to use cancer-causing dispersant on America's oceans. That same dispersant had been banned in their own UK - for 10 years. Guess they had a stockpile of it and wanted to dump it somewhere. America became their target.
Currently, BP pays the fawning scumbag attorney, Ken Feinberg, an astounding $1 million a month to administer the so-called BP Claims Fund. Feinberg is out doing the usual political damage control by going on all the media outlets for lying interviews. He justifies his pay from BP by claiming a Bush official signed off on it as a fair price.
Photo: Oil covered bird rescued at Barataria Bay, Louisiana - 26 June 2010
Just how much are we going to allow this guy to insult our intelligence? Why does Obama keep him? He should be fired and fast, especially in this election year. Obama has a golden opportunity to fix the aftermath of the BP disaster and come out looking like a hero. Why doesn't he do it?
What a sick joke the BP Claims Fund is. They demand you sign your life away and your rights to sue them in exchange for a mere $5,000 final settlement payment. No business can run on $5,000 a month. These token payments have sent thousands of businesses into bankruptcy and as many homes into foreclosure. In this instance, those added tragedies could have been avoided if BP had chosen the honorable path.
How long will it take for the Gulf to recover? When will people finally get compensated and made whole as promised? As of now businesses have been compensated only up to 30 percent of their losses. The misery drags on in this region with billions lost in tourism business. Come on; who among us wants to pay good money to visit an oil slicked beach and swim in polluted water?
If you missed these great stories from NBC News Anchor Brian Williams, take a look. A big THANK YOU to NBC and Brian Williams for keeping this BP Oil Spill Disaster story front and center in the mind of the American people until it gets resolved properly. If we allow Big Business to do this on the Gulf Coast, how long will it be before it comes to your community?
Where is the oil in the Gulf? What is the impact one year later? It can still be found - easily. Just dig a few inches into the muck, look at the estuaries where there are rings of dead zones. Go out into the Gulf and stick your hand into the water and it comes up oil covered.
This is what our water birds are supposed to look like:
Photo: Louisiana state bird, Brown Pelicans, 13 April 2011
Not like this brown pelican just days after the BP Oil Spill Disaster. Fight the greed of Big Business and demand President Obama refuse to allow BP any oil leases on American soil or in our oceans:
All Photos by Dave Martin, except the oil covered brown pelcan.
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The mood of the American people does not bode well for President Obama if he wants to seek a second term.
From Denny: Less than 46 percent of Americans expect President Obama to make it into a second term. About 51 percent of Americans believe President Obama will lose in his 2012 re-election bid. The new poll from CNN Opinion Research Corporation does not bode well for the president. He must change course now so he can prove his deeds match his soaring rhetoric.
At this point only 26 percent of registered voters plan to vote for him. There are another 23 percent who say they mayvote for him in 2012. Another 35 percent refuse to vote for him while another 16 percent say they probably will not vote for him.
Those are some shaky numbers at best. Of course, the strategists keep trying to spin the numbers, giving supposedly historical context. Yeah? Well, America is in an economic Depression with unemployment rates far higher than the massaged numbers reflect or politicians care to admit.
Strategists try to claim that Bill Clinton won his second term back in 1995 when 65 percent of Americans expected him to lose his re-election bid and only 24 percent thought he would win. Well, I was one of those 24 percent. Bill Clinton had a far more healthy economy and a lot less unemployment issues than this president.
*** More bizarre reports from the BP and government corners trying to end the politics about the Gulf oil spill, when all they did was stir up a hornet's nest of criticism and anger.
White House tone deaf to the Gulf residents and Dems political survival
From Denny: Apparently, I'm not the only one who sees politics as the driving force behind the Gulf oil spill pie charts. The political guys at the White House - yet again - have made a really bad call, both on timing and substance. When tone deaf news reports like this barf out of the White House it always has Axelrod's fingerprints on it. What does the President see in this guy?
Oil spill report is bad science and just political posturing
On to the oil spill report trumpeting how there is hardly any oil left in the Gulf. This report is based on speculation "modeling and extrapolation and very generous assumptions" and that cannot be tested. People that ain't science; it's politics. How insensitive can this White House be to the Gulf residents?
*** Stewart thinks America is now listening about getting off oil dependence - or not.
From Denny: Stewart pointed out that President Obama is actually not the first president trying to wean America off our oil dependence. So, Stewart went off on a little history lesson tour starting with Tricky Dick Nixon. To date there have been eight presidents, count them, eight presidents trying to get across to us we have to get serious about moving America toward a non-petroleum based future. We must become independent of fossil fuels. Hmmm... how about telling that to the oil and gas industry that buys up new alternative energy patents so the public never sees them - and so we are forced to continue buying fossil fuels. Anyone see the obvious connection here?
*** Colbert has fun with the BP numbers like $82 billion in loss to their stock value since the oil spill disaster.
From Denny: According to Colbert (and all of America) BP is a soulless corporate giant hell bent on killing all life on the East Coast. After all, the Big Business multinational company reasons, who cares about things that swim in the ocean? We can scoop up the oil and sell it for salad dressing to the food companies. Who's going to know the difference? The real question dogging BP is why is our stock still nose-diving down and off the cliff? We wonder why our shareholders have no confidence in us any more. Well, Colbert will be glad to explain it all to you, Tony, in simplest terms, of course.
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