AIDS Activists Shut Down Capitol Rotunda Over Obama Reversal

AMERICA blog:

A group of 26 AIDS activists chained themselves to each other in the Capitol Rotunda on Thursday morning, startling visitors, shutting down the landmark area and prompting their arrest by Capitol Police.

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[ChknFngr]

Another beautiful obama reversal.

[RustyGranite]

Reversal..........of Bush' tendancies to just "sign orders" to bypass COngress' power.

"Activists" need to get a grip on reality, these things aren't handled in months.

[Logistics]

Obama duped y'all PERIOD. No apologists can change that because facts speak for themselves. Obama is about rhetoric, but no action. He's the "Present" Junior IL Senator with 120 days of experience that likes to give speeches.

He's not a leader, he doesn't take initiative, he's afraid of confrontation and he doesn't have a backbone.

[dillydawg]

More RNC talking points...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[doug108]

Talking points aren't always wrong.

[PublicusOrator]

Keep whistling as you go by the graveyard.

[Cockacola]

But the RNC hates gays, AIDS victims etc, so they wont use this

[hereinlou]

I'm so glad we all have Lgistics to show us the light....

Sorry, but I wasn't 'duped'. I never expected Obama to be the end all/ be all... I didn't think he was a deity, I didn't worship at his altar, I never thought he was the Messiah... and I didn't drink the kool-aid. I did, however vote for him... and I guarantee that MOST would still pull that lever if asked today.

[BrianMac]

Hear hear!

[Justice Wainwright]

One wonders if they would still vote for him, knowing what they know now, because they still had hope in his ability to lead or because he wasnt John McCain.

I would still vote for him now, because John McCain was and still is, a dangerous man. However, I wouldnt have the thoughts in my mind that i did the first time I voted for him.

His pragmatism is no longer showing as intellectual. He is starting to come off as ineffectual, unemotional and unable to understand the promises and their meaning to the people he gave them too.

He has YET to say anything about that offensive and inflammatory legal brief filed on behalf of his DOJ. These environmental measures are not going to do squat compared to what scientists say we need. His own inability to get his party with the times is showing through on nearly every major issue.

When he allowed Lieberman to get away with what he did, I am worried he showed the world and other party members that they could backstab their constituents as long as Obama needed their vote. It wasnt about doing what was right, but doing what was politically more important. He still has the same number of democrats and he still cant them all to vote with him.

[isi]

Kudos to these brave activists!

Maybe there will be enough activists each day to shut down the rotunda indefinitely!

[Logistics]

WIN

[sarabono]

WIN = Whip Inflation Now

We don't have inflation at the moment, only higher taxes.

[Cockacola]

Brave enough when he is off at the G8 Summit

[wizedollars]

More double-speak, this guy isn't anywhere near the man Kennedy was.....

[Logistics]

LOL Of course he's NOT! There's not comparison! Kennedy was one of a kind, and Obama doesn't even have a backbone. There's nothing that connects the two except the D after their names.

[dillydawg]

And you would know that history.................

[euripedes923]

I agree.
Obama only sleeps with his wife.
Thanks for playing.

[Graywolf48]

Seems to me, more and more that POTUS speaks with forked tongue.

[barackobama4prez]

Well, it sounds like DADT all over again. The President is cool on taking the lead on certain issues that he feels Congress should take the lead on. He can't win either way. People will be pi$$ed if he does, pi$$ed if he doesn't.

[BrianMac]

That's what makes this a great country! I really, really like Obama. But I will not apologize for what I perceive as poor choices. I don't think Obama would either, were he in our shoes.

[sarabono]

What is wrong wit DADT. It has worked well for the Military.

[Justice Wainwright]

Slavery worked for the south.

[FearlessFreep]

If you don't mind the Military's shortage of Arabic interpreters.

[complice]

No, it really hasn't.

Expelling decorated combat veterans and Arabic language experts during a time of war isn't what I would call "working well for the military."

[Cockacola]

anyone discussing their sex life at the work place is ill mannered

[CypressTree]

The Obama drones claim that Obama has this profound respect for the Constitution and the Rule of Law which is why he is putting authority in Congress, etc. Um, so is it respecting the Constitution and the Rule of Law to preventively detain? Is it respecting the Constitution and the Rule of Law to allow war criminals to be free? These are just a few of his more egregious violations that some of you might want to notice before you defend your messiah.

[dillydawg]

Off topic!

[BrianMac]

Woof! You tell 'em!

[CypressTree]

See your discussion below with Birchtree. Actually it's not really a discussion because you have no points-rather just little barbs of rhetoric or insult.

[Logistics]

Stop yapping, b!tch!

[Philip Combs]

Get back to biting your fleas, dog!

[PoliticalRockChick]

This is so sad and upsetting. I understand both sides, where needle exchange might be like enabling the addicts to continue what they do, but at the same time, this disease is a preventable disease. If needle exchange prevents AIDS from one person to another, I'm for it.

[hulagirrrl]

Me too, wonder if it was a financial reason that he pulled back, but I assume they would have said that. Sad in many ways, because not only AIDS but Hepatitis C is being spread by sharing the needles.

[PoliticalRockChick]

So true.

[JakeMontero]

I'm hoping Hill C runs in 3.5 years. enough of this nonsense.

[Logistics]

Cosign!!

[doug108]

I don't see how she'd be any better.

[sarabono]

She has at least some Government experience and a since of what made America Great.

[SDunn]

What a load of bull.

[BrianMac]

I'm disappointed in this approach. The President is there to LEAD, not to BE LEAD by polls and crap, at least, not this early in his term; save that s**t for later. Congress is there as representatives, not the president. He needs to stop worrying about upsetting irrational people and do the right thing.

[Logistics]

What else is new!! Obama fails at something new everyday, from civil rights to the economy to global warming. He was nothing but rhetoric and poetry, and half of the Dem voters fell for it out of racial guilt. LAME

[Philip Combs]

Indeed!

[BrianMac]

That's not my point. I'm just saying that he should be bolder. The man has only been in office for a little over five months! Give him a little time. Pressure him but give him time.

[CitizenFarmer]

For most of those with AIDS, the situation was preventable.

[teron678]

you're heartless .......

[sarabono]

No, he is factual. We need to teach Personal Responsibility starting in Elementary School.

[barackobama4prez]

It's all black and white until it hits home...then come the shades of gray.

[complice]

The same could also be said for a number of different diseases, including various forms of cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, but that doesn't mean we abandon all prevention efforts.

[sarabono]

Teaching Personal Responsibility, starting in Elementary School, could also be considered a Prevention Effort.

[doug108]

Maybe, but what difference would that make in helping them?

[gene poole]

If that's the reasoning, will he next stop any funding of abortion?

[rainbowblue]

And so is every other case of an infectious disease, does that mean we don't do anything for the flu, hepatitis, etc.? Or is it we just don't do anything if we don't like the people who are most infected with the disease. Go back to the 80's and worship Regan's c%%k.

[Tyler-Durden]

Obama should address this issue now. I don't like stall tactics unless i'm in on the plan. What's the plan, Mr. Pres?

[wef100]

This presient is passionless. He is mostly good at a presenting the problem, presenting it, buidling up hopes for a resolution, then backing off from his leadership role. He is a thinker, not a doer. Yes we can, but no we won't.

[dillydawg]

Childish.

[sturzl]

Do you offer anything other than insults?

[BannedNBoston]

Bovine Colustrum can cure aids for $30 a patient.

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[pfc1369]

Slice it as you will, these signs are not good.

Millions of his supporters are rapidly becoming disenchanted.

[hereinlou]

Yeah... not really... but nice try.

[Logistics]

True. Have you seen the latest Ohio voter reactions? How about the independent voter polls? Trouble's coming, and rightly so.