[WS:] It is also "public knowledge" that Obama's trip to India has the price tag of $200 million a day plus diversion of 34 warships.
As to policy objectives and motives - taking official statements for their face value is not much more reliable than imputing those motives based on one's own attitudes. Fortunately, there are other, more reliable sources of information, such as internal documents, recorded conversations (cf. Nixon tapes) or inside leaks. None is perfect or immediately available, but they are closer to the source than guesses of people who have no way of knowing it for a fact (i.e 99+% of the public.)
Wojtek
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 7, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
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> Chuck: "In fact the Obama administration wanted to save the monied
>> interest
>> and block any liberal or progressive pressure to change the system. Obama,
>> Reid, and Pelosi conspired to frustrate any movement from the Progressive
>> Caucus or outside liberal constituencies by pretending to be chained to a
>> 2/3 majority on changing anything."
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>> [WS:] And what is the source of this information?
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> Its public knowledge--we've been hearing the 2/3 alibi for nigh on 22
> months now. And of course the save-the-monied interest started much
> earlier--with the Dumbos headed by Obama lining up behind the Bush-Paulson
> bailout and the FISB "mark to whatever you want" swindle that has kept the
> insolvent banks afloat on their sea of fraudulent (aka "toxic") assets.
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> Is it how you interpret this administration's actions, or is there a
>> reliable record that these are
>> the stated purposes of this administration's policies?
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> One must be (or pretend to be) incredibly credulous to believe that any
> President's *stated* policies have any correspondence to his real ones.
> "Honest" Abe Lincoln stated that his policy was *not* to end slavery. In
> November 1860 did anyone in the (incipiently) Confederate South believe him?
> By 1862 did anybody in the world?
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> Shane Mage
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> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
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> Herakleitos of Ephesos
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