Senator Bernie Sanders cast a disheartening note yesterday, even for those of us who realize that President Obama is a wolf in sheepskin. He said that as he hears it, Obama is negotiating for preservation of the National Weather Service in the great Kabuki “showdown,” the manufactured crisis over the debt ceiling. This means, he says, that he has probably already sold the farm on Medicare.
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Piece of Mindful 
More evidence that Bernie is correct:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/barack-herbert-hoover-obama/
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President Obama’s first term has been Lincolnian. Expect his second term to be Carterian in its progressive scope.
Poor Mr. de Toquarskiville:
“Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
And cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war,
For a lead role in a cage?”
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