http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:47:00 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:47:00 The answer is no. After all, Halliburton is, at a minimum, at least a hundred times more corrupt than ACORN ever could be yet the Reich never complains about Halliburton. Halliburton has misused tens of hundreds of millions of taxpayer's money, in fact, more taxpayer money than ACORN has ever rece... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/94 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:36:21 http://i31.tinypic.com/2h30vv4.jpg... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/93 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:28:08 Dressed casually in a vibrant blue cardigan and jeans and armed with a paintbrush, a passerby may assume the smiling volunteer was just another Habitat for Humanity worker. A double-take reveals, however, that standing alongside George Washington University students is none other than the First Lady... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/92 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:48:46 Is there anything more "socialist" than a fire truck?

After all, having a fire truck means these things:

(1) The government has decided that it, not the private sector, will be in charge of putting out fires.

(2) The government will tax the citizens for the fire truck regardless of their... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/91 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:21:23 They didn't even bother to mention this part of the brief filed by the DOJ:

[div class="excerpt"]"The government does not contend that there are legitimate government interests in "creating a legal structure that promotes the raising of children by both of their biological parents" or that the go... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/90 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:12:24 In a brief filed Monday morning in a lawsuit challenging the validity of DOMA, the Justice Department put on the record that the administration favors repeal of the statute — a position that was omitted from a controversial legal filing the department made in June. DOJ also explicitly rejected argum... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/89 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:13:01 Have you ever wondered what the world would be like without scientists? Ask the Republican Party. It lives in such a world. Republicans have been so successful in driving out of their party anyone who endeavors in scientific inquiry that pretty soon there won't be anyone left who can distinguish a p... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/88 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:34:39 Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), the straight Iraq war veteran helming the House bill to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” has told the Huffington Post he expects the legislation will be on President Obama’s desk “in a short matter of time”:

Murphy has 168 co-sponsors for legislation that would repeal ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/87 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:49:38 Today, President Obama awarded the late Harvey Milk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. He said Milk's "message of hope, hope unashamed, hope unafraid, could not ever be silenced."

[b]VIDEO:[/b] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKOv8HA76o

Here are his full r... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/86 Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:15:47 As Josh Marshall says, we've reached a point in the health-care reform discussion where logic has fallen apart. Consider, for instance, Danielle Allen's op-ed this morning. Discussing the insistence of some that health-care reform will result in rationing and death panels, Allen chides those who res... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/85 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:10:13 The Department of Labor launches Disability.gov, which aims to connect the disability community to information and opportunities.

http://www.disability.gov/... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/84 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:52:12 A bill that would give the domestic partners of federal employees the same benefits as the spouses of federal employees has been passed in a key House sub-committee.

The Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act, introduced by Reps. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), mandat... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/82 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:06:21 The Victory Fund has learned President Barack Obama plans to award America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to Harvey Milk, one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials. The award will be accepted at a White House ceremony August 12 by Stuart Milk, the nephew o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/83 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:57:05 [li] Signed executive orders to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, within a year, ban torture and end the CIA’s secret overseas prisons and define treatment of Detainees.
[li] Reversed restrictions on stem cell research.
[li] Signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. Reducing d... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/79 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:36:22 WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will announce Monday that his department is temporarily barring the filing of new uranium mining claims on about 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, an Obama administration official said.

The land is being "segregated" for two years so that the depar... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/78 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:55:49 There’s always one like him in every crowd, you know? Now he’s saying that the reason he voted against yesterday’s House resolution to put a plaque in the House Visitors Center recognizing and honoring the slaves who helped build the U.S. Capitol is because it’s not “a balanced depiction of history”... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/77 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:27:52 As we noted yesterday, the Washington Post has published the documents turned over by the Corporation for National and Community Service to a Senate committee reviewing the White House's firing of AmeriCorps IG. Conservatives had charged that the IG, Gerald Walpin, was canned for going too hard afte... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/76 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:24:09 THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Hello, hello, hello. (Applause.) Hey! Good to see you. (Applause.) I'm waiting for FLOTUS here. FLOTUS always politics more than POTUS.

MRS. OBAMA: No, you move too slow. (Laughter.)

THE PRESIDENT: It is great to see everybody here today a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/74 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:28:14 President Barack Obama spoke to a packed White House East Room this afternoon, telling LGBT leaders and activists from across the country to judge him and his administration by the promises he keeps. ”By the time this administration is over, you guys will feel good about the Obama administration,” ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/73 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:55:14 John McCain - Left his first wife after she had been severely injured in an automobile accident for a rich former rodeo beauty queen 18 years his junior. Investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee for attempting to influence federal regulators inquiring into the Lincoln Savings and Loan, owned by ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/72 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:05:33 WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday.

The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and pos... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/71 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:17:12 Life grows more interesting by the day for officials of the West Bend (Wis.) Community Memorial Library. After four months of grappling with an evolving challenge to young-adult materials deemed sexually explicit by area residents Ginny and Jim Maziarka, library trustees voted 9–0 June 2 to maintain... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/70 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:36:18 I make this post with some hesitation, as unfortunately, it's probably going to be mostly ignored. I hope I am wrong, but it appears most people have already got their minds made up.....the majority of posts on this subject have made that clear:

"Obama defends DOMA in federal court. Says banning... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/69 Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:33:03 [b]Health Reform for Beginners: The Difference Between Socialized Medicine, Single-Payer Health Care, and What We'll Be Getting[/b]
Ezra Klein

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/socializedmedicinepoll.jpg

I've been meaning to write this post for some time. The words "socialized medi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/68 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:39:22 Whether you agree with the war or not, no one can deny that the men and women over there deserve the chance to just sit back and laugh, the opportunity to forget the hell they have been placed in, through no fault of their own, if even just for a half hour, and Colbert was, IMO, brilliant! Nice cam... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/ObamaVision/67 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:12:44