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Obama Taps a 5th Lawyer From the RIAA
risingfish writes "Looks like Obama did what many organizations have asked him not to do. In a disappointing move, he has tapped a fifth RIAA lawyer to a top spot in the Justice Department."
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I believe people heard Obama's campaign slogan correctly.... and it wasn't even a lie. People just interpreted it incorrectly.
They were thinking, 'change we can believe in' - because it's hopeful, optimistic change. It's the kind of change we want, let's go ahead and believe in it.
What he really meant was, this is the kind of change you can believe in your incumbent government parties implementing. That is to say, very little change, which consists of generally making lawyers and rich companies richer and more powerful.
That's the only kind of change from the incumbents that we can believe it. Get it?
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The current that runs through almost of the postings and comments on Slashdot is that music, once released, is in the public commons. It isn't. It never has been. Musicians are losing a lot of money because copyright is ignored and most need that money desperately. Grow up people. Pay for your entertainment and stop whining!
sorry, Mr. President, but you're building another nest of evil, just like Bushie did, in hiring RIAA weasels.
I'm quite partisan, so feel free to ignore this next part as you see fit, but I think Bush's neocons are somewhat more evil than the RIAA. The effects could be just as bad if not worse, as both groups have little reguard for constitutional rights, and the road to hell is paved with good intentions (or "slightly better than outright evil intentions" as the case may be.) But yeah, in principle, neocons are more evil.
I also get the impression that Obama can think for himself better than Bush could, but I don't know either enough to say for sure.
Or you wouldn't post shit like this. You claim to be liberal but believe Clinton/Mafia conspiracy theories and hate welfare? A d you think Bush's medicare scam was a benefit? Yeah, I believe that.
I don't think the problem with G.W. Bush was that he was stupid, it was that he was/is incredibly radical (he essentially chose to go to war in order to attempt to impose democracy, which is sort of difficult to do).
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
I think Obama is much better than Bush, but there's a lot of room on that scale for politicians to be corrupt and anti-freedom, as Obama is, and still be better than Bush.
"If it's real, then it gets more interesting the closer you examine it. If it's not real, just the opposite is true." -
If you had said said, here is a list of nominees withdrawn, I would not think you a troll. But you said "Obama appointees who had to resign"
Non of them were confirmed, non of them could therefore have resigned. Change that, you are at least an honest right-winger.
Just wait until they're forced to join and pay dues to the AFL-CIO.
Despite his massive dose of fail so far, Obama can get worse. I didn't think anyone could do a worse job than Bush did in his final three years, but, "Yes, we can!"
Verify that on claim for me, and I'll use all my karma to uprate you. Show me that Daschle didn't pay any taxes, because that is what the sentence you typed says.
The "Fact" is, Dashcle paid income-tax, sales-tax, property-taxes, and probably a few others. He did make a mistake in not listing a car and driver as income. A mistake that cost him a job.
But it didn't make him resign; he never had the job. It didn't make him a criminal; he re-paid the IRS and it was a civil, not a criminal, matter.
It is also important to draw a distinction between a fact, and a half-correct pseudo-fact spun for political purposes..
I mostly agree with you, I'm just saying that being better than Bush is like being taller than Mini-Me. The bar is set pretty low there.
"If it's real, then it gets more interesting the closer you examine it. If it's not real, just the opposite is true." -