I found President Obama’s commitment to the preservation of Social Security and MEDICARE comforting, and consistent with his progressive agenda. I was also very impressed with his decision to include gay marriage, immigration, equal opportunity, gun control and even global warming in his speech.

His speech was outstanding, hopefully Democrats in Congress, and some Republicans, will have the courage to support his agenda and do what is in the best interest of all Americans, instead of defending the interests of a few at the expense of most.

That was the most partisan speech ever given by a President. You can see, things are going to be his way, no compromise. If he doesn’t get his way, he will blame Republicans when something happens. Win, win for him. Lose for America!!

Those who oppose Social Security and Medicare programs need to realize that these programs bring the money back in to the economy and create consumer demand. On the other hand, the money spent by the weapon systems [more than the money spent by all nations of the world combined] ends up in the pockets of a handful of corporate tycoons keeping their largess in foreign banks.

I watched the president’s speech yesterday, it wasn’t a liberal agenda it’s a american agenda. He’s looking out for everybody not just the few.

This is a time of national reconciliation. Not more divisiveness.
We need to come together as a nation and stop trying to resurrect another “civil war” as an attempt to divide this nation.

President Barack Obama took the oath of office, for the second time, as the leader of a nation no longer in the throes of the recession he inherited four years ago. 2012 best housing starts in 5 years as an example along with a stock market that went from 8000 to 13000+

Let’s remember the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King as well….for he stood as a symbol of our nation’s commitment to erase poverty, social injustice and disparity between the poor and middle class and the rich.

Dr. King: “”I am now convinced that the simplest solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income….”

The idea was to guarantee that no one lived in poverty by having the government provide a financial floor, pegged to median — not low — incomes, beneath which no one could fall. King talked about the psychological benefits of a widespread sense of “economic security.”

We are the UNITED States of America.

Not Red or blue states. We are the colors of our flag. White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valour, and Blue, the color of the Chief (the broad band above the stripes) signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice….The star is a symbol of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has aspired from time immemorial; the stripe is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun.

I am pleading with the extreme right wing partisans to lay down their weapons of hate, intolerance and support of the military industrial complex war based system.

We need a system based on peace and international cooperation and global sense of being “one family” caring for the entire planet.

Social security, medicare and medicaid are not entitlements and do need to be left alone. We have worked or and donated to these programs all of our working lives. These programs were self sustainable until the politicians came in a few years ago and raided them for their overspending crap. If anything, the lower end of social security recipients need to be brought up to an amount per month that they do not go hungry. Maybe those who recieve social security and still have income from other sources should be cut from the payroll as in a means test. I know elderly who live on 400. a month and others who make 600 a month and are forced to decide whether to eat or own a car, or take medicines. they keep cutting the cola to us, but raise their own paychecks and cut the number of days and hours they work… how does that work?

Obozomustgo and montanabill with same ole same ole stuff…comic relief now.

Hard for you guys/gals to get over the fact Obama was re-elected. Better get used to it.

Obama’s ideas are strengthening our nation, contrary to your views ever since you folks stared annoying us here… Conason clearly and correctl;y states: “Far from undermining freedom, enterprise, and productivity, as right-wing propaganda insists…”

oh–you guys recall what right wing propaganda is?

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”—-Nazis Joseph Goebbels

So…how about we drop the name calling and get back to a bipartisan approach to solving our problems instead of bumper sticker mentality comments and inane postings?

It was a good speech as usual. He seemed to forget about jobs again. I hope he follows up on some his promises and I hope he understands that not compromising hasn’t worked.

When he promised a balanced appoach and all we got was a tax increase and more spending, how does he expect the Repubs to trust him?

If your dumb enough to believe our problems are one parties problem please don’t respond to me!

I didn’t hear Obama’s inauguration speech but Sean Hannity has been spewing bile and vitriol about it so it must have been good. They are saying it was contentious in that he spoke about so called “liberal issues” such as same sex marriage. I think we need to stop gratuitously calling those who oppose gay marriage “conservative” and call them what they are, simple “bigots”. Did we call those who fought to perpetuate segregation “conservative”? I don’t fucking think so. I am disappointed with Obama on a variety of issues but I am glad he “took it too these right wing jack asses” instead of making another “high school commencement speech”. The message is we are not going to tolerate that sh*t anymore. Want to live your loony interpretation of the Bible, be my guest, but speaking in “respectable terms” such as “religious or conservative” about your ability to impose your hateful values on others is OVER! Into the dust bin of history you go along with those who thought segregation was a swell idea!

Let me see I live on Social Security and I have a pension that I receive from the Carpenters Union (238.72) Combined I am stilling to survive, besides my rent, I don’t spend much for Gas for my car maybe forty dollars a month, food, since I live alone I have two pets, (a cat and a dog) I like to read the newspaper to keep up with what is going on around me, and then comes the think that takes the bulk of my money, I have Sleep Apnea, Diabetes, Gastric Ulcer, Asbestic poisoning from my years in construction and everyday my breathing gets worse I can’t walk five steps without being out of breath, I take Eigt different types of pills (and at least half are Generic so I pay less for them) and then I might pick up something to help clear my chest of mucus or to control my cough believe me these pills are notcheap thanks to the program Bush instituted so that the Pharmacies would be able to set their own prices and that’s why i worry when they start talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare, they want to reduce our Cola, when we get it we get a sum total of $21.00 increase per month compare tha to when our Representative’s raise of $900 dollars and they want to cut our raise and keep theirs, aint that a bitch. I know there are othrts that earn less than me and I feel sorry for them and wish they would get more, and then are people collecting Social Security that also have a large side income and don’t really don’t need what they are collecting, but they are because they feel that they paid into they want what’ they are suppose to get even though they don’t need, If I was in their shoes I know what I would do but I’m not them, I can’t begrudge them because it’s their money.

Sure – just keep on spending more than we take in. What could go wrong with that philosophy? After all, it worked for Bernie Madoff – at least for a while.

Obama is like the guy who says “My bank says I’m overdrawn. That can’t be right – I still have checks left!”

Why does Obama have so many members of the Communist Party on his staff? The so-called Progressive agenda is the watered down word for communism and the Communist Party calls themselves Progressives. Why does he take the oath of office but then attack the 1st, 2nd, 22nd and 27th amendments? Why would a president become a president while basically hating the Constitution? Why are soldiers held at airports when they, or anyone, wear badges and pins indicating like for freedom? The reason americans are becoming deeply split is because Communists want a country already spoken for. Progressives should move to Cuba, Laos, China or Vietnam because that is their home. Why do Progressives demonize anyone who disagrees with them? When people dont have God, they have man to take direction from. And that man tells them what to do, how much coke to drink, how much water to use and the listeners become dependents. But there are people who are independent and whole yet they are demonized. Sorry, you didnt fool me and i will fight to keep the country as it was intended.

FDR would make people with most money pay more. He didn’t think people with a lot of money needed Social Security of Medicare

Bob Williams, good joke wrong format. The history of the GOP reeks with spending, not for America or the American people, but for the wealthy. Republican/Tea Bags are representatives of the rich, not of you or I or anyone else. But, ironically, their money comes from us, the middle and lower classes, from our labor and the taxes we pay for them to represent us. Judging from their history, they have long ago broken their contract, and we need to fire them. The government has a duty to take care of your sorry ass, did you know that? I’d like to see what would happen if you go to Dick Cheney and ask him to pay your mortgage for this month. He’ll laugh in your stupid face!

It’s sickening to read all the crap posted by right wingers. But, what really pissed me off was Phil Mickelson complaining about his taxes. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!. Greed has no boundaries. I would gladly pay whatever he is paying if I was in his place. I wonder if he votes Republican. Gee, I hope he keeps enough money to feed his family.